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Wow

If you ever wondered what it was like for all those sailors in the days of tall ships to go down at see this is the closes you will get to what it must have been like. I deeply hope that someone builds a replica of the replica bounty and makes a movie of this ordeal.

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Good.

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This is a good story, well-written and narrated. It is also stretched. You know, a one-hundred page book stretched to two-hundred pages. An enjoyable read, just be ready for a bit of repetitiveness and thinking "Get to the point!" a few times.

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The Gathering Wind

An excellent read. Never heard of the story of the second Bounty ship and the hurricane Sandy. Guess living in the west coast cut us off from many of the stories of that storm.