You are in mid-flight. The seat belt sign is lit. Your watch taps your wrist and tells you to stand.
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John has bought the boat above but doesn’t know the designer and/or class. She is 18.5’ long, 6’2” beam, with a rounded stern. If you know, please email me and I’ll pass the information on.
Whatever she is, she is pretty and should sail well.
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Just over a fifth of the books I read January—June of this year have been by Patrick O’Brian. At this rate I’ll have read all the Aubrey/Maturin novels by this time next year.
FAUST Goethe
GERONTIUS James Hamilton-Paterson
THE SEA AND THE SILENCE Peter Cunningham
MOZART’S JOURNEY TO PRAGUE Eduard Mörike
GUANTANAMO DIARY Mohamedou Ould Slahi
POST CAPTAIN Patrick O’Brian
NEW YORK TIMES COMPLETE CIVIL WAR
H.M.S. SURPRISE Patrick O’Brian
VOYAGE OF THE LIBERDADE Joshua Slocum
THE HUNTERS James Salter
CONTEMPT Alberto Moravia
THE MAURITIUS COMMAND Patrick O’Brian
THE LOST CITY OF Z David Grann
SOUTH SEAS VAGABONDS John Wray
THE ART FORGER B.A. Shapiro
IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS Erik Larson
THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE Vol. 1
Edward Gibbon
DESOLATION ISLAND Patrick O’Brian
CHANCE Joseph Conrad
FIRE IN THE HOLE Elmore Leonard
THE FORTUNES OF WAR Patrick O’Brian
BANG THE DRUM SLOWLY Mark Harris
THE YEAR OF THE DEATH OF RICARDO REIS Jose Saramago
DAVID COPPERFIELD Charles Dickens
YOUNGER NEXT YEAR Crowley/Lodge
THE SURGEON’S MATE Patrick O’Brian
CONGO David Van Reybrouck
A SPORT AND A PASTIME James Salter
HEART OF DARKNESS Joseph Conrad
