Exciting parts, but poorly organized with weird sidetracks

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	• Godforsaken Sea: The True Story of a Race Through the World's Most Dangerous Waters Derek Lundy Anchor, 2000 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 64 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

This book is for everybody!

I bought this book because I'm a sailor and I like reading about sailing adventures. While I was reading this book, I began turning into a bigger sailing wimp than I was. The biggest waves I've sailed in were 12-footers in Lake Michigan during the Mac races. I couldn't imagine sailing single-handed in front of 5-story waves and Force 10 wind conditions. All this and more in a thin-skinned sixty footer with an 80-foot mast for 120 days without touching land (icebergs don't count). These guys are truly the gutsiest bunch of hardy individuals out there. Once I finished the book, I felt this strange desire to do something adventurous. Nothing like sailing around the world like these guys, but something. Maybe a long trip on my Harley, maybe even sailing in 15-footers. At the end of the book, Lundy writes that, to a person, the Globe sailors said that the experience changed the way they looked at life because they reached out beyond the circle that defined their existence. I've got news for you guys, reading about your race changed the way I looked at my life, too. Only my reach isn't as long as yours.

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Fantastic and intelligent

The first truly thoughtful book on extreme sailing; heck, on extreme sports in general. This book is NOT another addition to the genre of adventure porn, in which the reader is constantly titillated and made to feel that, vicariously, they aren't the sloppy couch potatoes that they probably are. This book approaches this sport from a philosophical and intellectual point of view, and still manages to be a seat-gripping yarn. If you need to be held by the hand and spoon-fed your books, this isn't for you. This one's for intelligent readers, only.

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impressive

From a German reader living in the South of France I read the German version. Excellent! Impressive! I'm missing, however, an index. Surprising that there is no French translation so far. When will it be available? I hope Derek Lundy will my question

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Exciting parts, but poorly organized with weird sidetracks

I enjoyed most of this book, but found myself confused for the first 2 chapters as to where it was going (the first chapters bouce all over the place). Also, the author doesn't seem to have a lot of experience with sailing, which gives him an almost ridiculous awe for these admittedly very talented sailors in the race. The author is very very repetitive about the character it takes to sail at sea for so long, etc... Unfortunately the repetitiveness and confusing interruptions of the flow of the story (sometimes up to 40 pgs long) really interfered with my enjoyment of this book which has probably about the most exciting plot you could imagine. I found myself amazed that I could spend so much time being bored while reading this book. I think the editors must have had their eyes closed while reading the draft of this one.

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One of the best books I have ever read - gripping

I am a sailor who used to race very small sail boats (16' Hobie Cats) in Lake Michigan. I thought I knew what it was like to flip over, or to experience rough, cold water, or to surf 'large' waves, but I was wrong. This book was an eye opener. I could identify with many of the challenges the competitors faced, but I was blown away with the magnitude of sailing in the Southern Ocean. These folks are either the best there is or nuts (or both)! Highly recommended!

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