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Sydney-Hobart
Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 11:35 pm
by Silkie
Not made for a sailing audience and using lots of library footage, CGI, re-enactments and with all the repetitions necessitated by the broadcasters' assessment of the attention span of the audience... but for all that I enjoyed this account of the 1998 race,
Hell on High Water. You can find the other parts yourselves, I'm sure, if you're interested.
Re: Sydney-Hobart
Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 11:51 pm
by Clyde_Wanderer
Read the book Fatal Storm and was hanging of the edge of the chair although the first third of the book was a little boring the rest certainly made up for it.
C_W
Re: Sydney-Hobart
Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 7:23 am
by Mark
Clyde_Wanderer wrote:Read the book Fatal Storm and was hanging of the edge of the chair although the first third of the book was a little boring the rest certainly made up for it.
C_W
Yeah, really enjoyed "Fatal Storm" and Bob Fisher's account of the '79 Fastnet which is in a similar vein. (Imaginatively titled "The Fastnet Disaster and After".) Just goes to show that he who traipses round charity shops will be rewarded.