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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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 The funniest sailing book I have ever read. January 17, 1999
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The first time I read this book was on a passage aboard a thirty foot sloop. We were sailing from Baddeck on Cape Breaton Island on our way to the south coast of Newfoundland.This was in 1977. The book I believe had been relaesed not much before that time. It was as if I was reading an introduction to the Island and to the people of Newfoundland.I could not put it down. My sides ached from laughing from the beggining to the end.If you have never been to Newfoundland this book will give you inspiration to want to go there. It is a wonderful portrait of the Island and the People.
 Great Start, Poor Finish July 6, 1998
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I loved the begining of this book. It brought back memories of many of the stupid things I have done in my years of sailing. But for me the telling went on long after the story ended. I found myself skimming the last few chapters.
A great amusing nautical read... June 15, 1998
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The early episode in this wonderful book where the "Happy Adventure", under *FULL* sail, mysteriously backs all the way out of Muddy Hole Harbor, to the amusement of all, is worth the price of admission, in and of itself. "By guess and by god", this is a charming read.
Even landlubbers will laugh 'til they're seasick! May 2, 1997
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Farley Mowat has been accused of sitting in a Toronto bar while concocting these wonderfully stirring tales of the island rock, Newfoundland. Put your mind at ease, mates, and enjoy the book as a true treasure. I lived in Newfoundland for three years before discovering this book. I can heartily recommend you read it with good appetite! It is a cake mixed with truth skillfully told, covered with a frosting of humor, and served with a piquant flourish.These saltwater tales, revolving around Mowats' titanic struggle to find, refurbish and actually sail a boat determined to sink herself and all hands, are chalk full of laughs, tension, tragedy, and still more laughs. Its truths are better than any fiction.Haul up your anchor and sail away with this master storyteller as he outsalts the famed Royal Canadian Mounted Police, falls into the rummish cluthes of Screech, narrowly escapes icy death, and finds the beautiful maiden."The Boat Who Wouldn't Float" is a worthy vessel in which to sail the seas of leisure time. So fill your cup and drink deeply while the captain spins his tales
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