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Author : Kenneth Dodson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980-05

Away All Boats written by Kenneth Dodson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980-05 with Fiction categories.

A vivid portrayal of the officers and sailors of the fictional amphibious transport USS Belinda in the Pacific of World War II.

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Author : Kenneth Dodson
language : en
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Release Date : 1996

Away All Boats written by Kenneth Dodson and has been published by US Naval Institute Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Pacific Ocean categories.

A vivid portrayal of the officers and sailors of the fictional amphibious transport USS Belinda in the Pacific of World War II.

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Author : John N. Cole
language : en
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Release Date : 2014-01-07

Away All Boats written by John N. Cole and has been published by Henry Holt and Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-07 with Sports & Recreation categories.

High-spirited and passionate--at once a useful guide and a record of an extended love affair with small boats--Away All Boats is a blending of sparkling waterlands and vivid memories. Author of Striper and Fishing Came First, John N. Cole takes readers from the dangers of haul-seining for striped bass that challenge a wooden dory's limits in the surf to the excitement of searching the flats of the Florida Keys for tarpon and other game fish aboard a shall-draft, high-tech craft perfectly matched to the task. Evocative of nature's miracles and realities (and the foibles of men who go down to the sea in "ships"), the writing is dry and witty, tender and perceptive. Alongside the hard facts and opinions about the selection, refitting, maintenance, and use of small boats is a series of wonderful stories about the author's explorations as a bayman and fisherman in the waters of eastern Long Island, Maine, and the Florida Keys. Each boat described serves to introduce a key chapter in the author's life and his taste for adventure. John Cole's first love is the skiff, rowboat, dory, or sharpie--any relatively stable wooden boat that can be easily and efficiently rowed--but the author also takes on larger craft powered by the internal combustion engine to indicate that every boat is designed to perform a limited family of functions. The trick, as we learn in these robust pages, is to find the boat you need (not always the boat you want), and Cole offers practical advice on how to go about it. The surprise is that a good boat doesn't have to be expensive; some are even gifts from the sea. As to basic equipment, the author keeps the advice simple: a compass, charts, a tachometer, an ammeter, an understanding of local winds and tides, and, with luck, an informed "weather eye" to minimize risks in open water.

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1959

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Author : Claud Eric Hooker
language : en
Publisher: Word Assn Pub
Release Date : 2013

Away All Boats written by Claud Eric Hooker and has been published by Word Assn Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

"My country was hurt and it needed help, and there I was." Ten days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Claud Hooker enlisted in the U. S. Navy. He was just seventeen. In order to enlist at this tender age, he needed parental permission. His father gave it; his mother refused. After three months of basic training, Hooker was assigned to a landing craft attached to the USS Alcyone, a cargo attack ship that saw action in both the European and Pacific Theatres. "Away all boats" is the command that was given to make ready for an assault landing. He and his crewmates obeyed this command many times. Although Hooker claims that his job as a machinist was to "make sure the engine ran," his life was often in peril. Here are his stories, told in the kind of plain-speaking style you would expect from a self-professed "Texas country boy." Some of the stories will make you laugh, but most will make you wonder how such a young fellow was able to endure such horrors. At the age of eighty-eight, Hooker is still haunted by memories of what he saw, and yet he has said, "I would do it again if someone were threatening this country."