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| Only So Many Tides | 
 enlarge | Author: Jon Wainwright
Creators: Alan Cameron, Walter Kemsley
Publisher: Seafarer Books
Category: Book
List Price: £9.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 684932
Media: Paperback
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.4 x 1.1
ISBN: 0953818039
Dewey Decimal Number: 797
EAN: 9780953818037
ASIN: 0953818039
Publication Date: November 1, 2001
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: All in very good condition. We post daily by Royal Mail,from Uk location, Wrapped in bubble and inserted in jiffy bag ;Priority Airmail used Worldwide on International orders
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Ideal Gift July 26, 2002
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Having spent ages trying to find a present for a sailing type I found Only So Many Tides and promptly sat down and read it myself from cover to cover. I've since bought another two as presents - the first was so thumbed I had to keep it! The book has lots of sailing (obviously) but there is also a story - not of one epic voyage - but of many incident packed 'trips'. The author even manages to make the technical bits readable - no mean feat. Only critisism is that the author, like Jack London, should have omitted the female interest. However, a very readable book and a great gift.
The Mistley Magician tells all December 17, 2001
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
An outstanding account of one man's love for his boat, and his true avocation. While variously described as an architect, etc, Jon Wainwright is perhaps best known as one of the primary leading lights of the East Coast Old Gaffers Association, and as such has a vast following (literally, as well as figuratively!) up and down the Anglian coast of Britain. His local knowledge and sailing ability in the area is second to none, and yet has always been a very quiet and modest man about his abilities and his achievements. This latest book goes far in describing how and when he managed to pick up such skills in this ultra-modern age, despite the trials and setbacks that come to all of us in time. If you have ever thought about what it might be like to start an affair with a classic wooden boat (and there is no other way to adequately describe it!), you need go no further than 'Only So Many Tides.'
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