cambridgedon
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Reged: 10/11/2006
Posts: 120
Loc: Cambridge/Woolverstone
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Picked this up recently. It's a good read. GRJs writes well and it's a good tale. East coast connections also help.
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boatbuilder
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Reged: 05/04/2005
Posts: 1663
Loc: Millbrook, Cornwall
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Yes very good book, heard on radio today that there will be a christmas program with the people who did the thames trip sailing on his yacht.
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Searush
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Reged: 14/10/2006
Posts: 3960
Loc: k up if caught.
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Yup, another vote for that one - just need to get my copy back from daughter-in-law.
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jezjez
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Reged: 21/04/2006
Posts: 315
Loc: Deben
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Very good read. Just the trip i had wanted to make myself.
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KBT
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Reged: 22/01/2007
Posts: 1538
Loc: France
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In a minority, sorry, found it monumentally boring, when I had to read it for the lack of anything else.
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PARSONSHEATH
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Reged: 07/07/2003
Posts: 2182
Loc: Essex
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Read this post after seeing his prog on 01.01.2008, gorgeous boat.
Copy purchased from Amazon for 1p plus £2.75 postage, so even were I not to enjoy it would be no great loss, tho believe I will enjoy!
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BosunArrows
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Reged: 04/06/2001
Posts: 2892
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I am reading it now - after seeing the '3 men in another boat' series. It was interesting to note that items contained in the TV progs was 'used' from the book. IE. The rush to get to a race venue. Choosing crew 'uniform' from a discount store etc. Bit like deja-vu for me. Anyone else notice? Average read though.
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wetndry
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Reged: 07/04/2006
Posts: 22
Loc: Too far from the sea
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I thought he was unusually unpleasant about his friends. I wouldn't want to sail with GRJ if he might write about he in that way. Most travel and boaty writers are far more sympathetic to their friends' foibles.
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bikeman
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Reged: 22/11/2005
Posts: 61
Loc: Sunny Weymouth
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The book is boring and dificult to read and would you believe he had to pay his 'friends' to do the trip with him!
And he paid then differing ammounts and of course they couldn't keep it to themselves so jealousy reared its ugly head!
It's a sad reflection on our times I think, that a multi millionaire - which GRJ is - still can't rustle up some genuine mates to do the trip!
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PARSONSHEATH
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Reged: 07/07/2003
Posts: 2182
Loc: Essex
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Just finished reading it, and have to agree with the other comments, would prob not have read it were it not for his name, but the book does him no favours, and frankly disappointing.
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