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| The Boat Who Wouldn't Float | 
| Author: Farley Mowat
Publisher: Starfire
Category: Book
List Price: $5.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 52477
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 055327788X
Dewey Decimal Number: 910.453
EAN: 9780553277883
ASIN: 055327788X
Publication Date: May 1, 1984
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Product Description
Happy Adventure was a schooner with one fatalflaw. It leaked like a sieve. So why would anyonerepeatedly expose himself and his friends to theelements of the North Atlantic in a treacherous,stubborn, uncomfortable, unfloatable boat which at lastcount, has sunk eight times? Any explanation ofthis appalling narative seems outrageously unlikely.But the story is true. All too true. And it'sdecidedly the funniest story yet from Farley Mowat,whose books have sold over a million and a halfcopies in this countryalone.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 23 more reviews...
 Mowat is terrific! May 5, 2008
If you are an out-of-doors person, love humor and rum, Mowat is your kind of read. You will love everyone of his books no matter what the title is.
Excellent book! April 15, 2008
The only thing that would have made this book better is if I could have shared it with my boat loving dad before he passed away. This book made me so nostalgic for the old tugs my dad bought and struggled with and rarely got past the breakwater at the marina with. I learned all my best cuss words on those weekends on the boats.
Mowats memoir of his time with the Happy Adventure made me laugh. Made me happy and reminded me why I only ride ferry boats and cruise ships.
I plan to read many of his other works and look forward to learning more of his adventures.
The boat that wouldn't float February 8, 2008
Great read...laughed myself nearly to death! You NUST read it if you've ever sailed a boat or visited Newfoundland or the Eastern provences.
Mowat at his best December 14, 2007
Worth reading for Mowat's explanation of the three cardinal tenets of rum drinking in Newfoundland alone.
 A Fun Maritime Romp September 5, 2006
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
This story of Farley Mowat should be read just for the fun of it. 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. 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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