Travel to Canada

The Boat Who Wouldn't Float

Format: Mass Market Paperback
Author: Farley Mowat
ReleaseDate: 01 April, 1984
Publisher: Starfire
Rating:

A Fun Maritime Romp
It tells the story of his experience in buying a fixer-upper schooner with a friend with the idea of bringing it back from Newfoundland to Ontario. This story of Farley Mowat should be read just for the fun of it. It becomes an effort that takes years and he never does quite make it to his goal.

Anybody who has ever owned a boat that seems to have a perverse streak of obstinacy will relate to this story even if it were to be stripped of the distinctive writing style. The style of the author, though, just makes it that much more delicious. He envisions his boat as a real being that has actively set out to thwart his desires. Even so, he comes to love the cantankerous old bucket. The reader will as well. It's a fun romp.
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Sail Away
Get him to take you sailing. Find a friend with a sailboat. Come back and buy Mowat's book about his seemingly incredible experience and once you read it (and it reads very quickly) you will remember many similar experiences of the art of sailing. You'll laugh at certain points and say "That's what happened to us!" as if Mowat was silently behind you on the first time you took the helm and ran aground on a sandbar. If you come away with the feeling that you too must buy a boat and sail the seas, then you have been bitten twice.
Good sailing, and good reading. (And good luck).

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