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Title: Poorly written
Review: I had heard so much about this book that I had come to it expecting something interesting. Indeed, the story should be interesting, and I am very much interested in the sea and in weather. However, this book makes for excruciatingly painful reading. The author seems to be repeating himself in many places, while leading us on with promises that never pan out. The book is presented as "factual", but this is stretching the notion of fact a little. The few things that I know something about were presented by the author in such a way that they were only "true" in a fuzzy sort of way, and lead me doubt almost everything that he writes about. He is either a bad lier or a bad observer; in either case, he doesn't give an impression of verisimilitude. This is the Disney version of sailing in storm. I see from the dustjacket that it was originally a magazine article. It should have been left there for a better writer to tackle.
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