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A must read for all sailors

Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2011 5:26 pm
by Mario G
I just finished reading Two years before the mast by Richard Henry Dana. Written in 1860 about what it was truly like on a merchant sailing ship. Being a live aboad now it put me in awe, and makes me applicate what those before me endured.

Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 3:12 am
by Chrysler20%26
My Great Grand Fother, retired off the Great Lakes, What a life of sailing he must of had back in the day of those great sailing ships.