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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:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 21530
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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| Customer Reviews:
 A Fun Maritime Romp September 5, 2006
1 out of 2 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.
 performance review of an Amazon on-line purchase July 17, 2006
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
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Sail Away July 5, 2006
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Find a friend with a sailboat. Get him to take you sailing. Come back and buy Mowat's book about his seemingly incredible experience and once you read it (and it reads very quickly) you will remember many similar experiences of the art of sailing. You'll laugh at certain points and say "That's what happened to us!" as if Mowat was silently behind you on the first time you took the helm and ran aground on a sandbar. If you come away with the feeling that you too must buy a boat and sail the seas, then you have been bitten twice.
Good sailing, and good reading. (And good luck)
An amusing adventure story November 30, 2004
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Maybe you've heard someone say, "We've fixed the leak and now it works fine." And you just roll your eyes. Anyway, if you've ever been on a boat, this is a story for you.
And if you've ever heard of St. Pierre and Miquelon, you may wonder just what those islands are good for. In this book we find out. You use them to smuggle alcohol! When you get caught, you just throw the stuff overboard, weighed down by bags of salt. The salt takes half a day to a day to dissolve, and then the loot surfaces and can be picked up. But by whom? By you or by the authorities? We find that out as well!
This sure was fun to read.
A Tale of Perserverance and Folly July 18, 2004
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Farley Mowat is nothing if not persistent. After purchasing the Newfoundland schooner from Hell, badly misnamed as Happy Adventure, he finds he has a boat that leaks constantly, has a compass that doesn't know where magnetic north is, hates to head West, has an engine that works when it feels like it and that is just for starters. Much of the time sailing is in the fog, both real and self imposed. Most sane men would have turned this boat into kindling, but Mowat sailors on, one harrowing experience after another with an assortment of mates and in the process tells us a funny and true story of his adventures as only he can. Written over thirty years ago, the story has lost none of its charm and interest.
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