I am curious, how many people would like to see OWR publish a book called, "Small Boat Adventures", with all the details that a magazine doesn't have room for. Just a thought! David Be

-- David Bean (bean2846@aol.com), March 19, 2000

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Dear David,

I don't know that OWR currently has the resources to publish such a book or what the demand for it would be, but I for one would be interested in reading a book like that. Videos would be great too!

Yours,

Andre

-- Andre de Bardelaben (www.middlepath@aol.com), March 20, 2000.

DAVID: You might try to track down on the net: CHALLENGE TO POSEIDON, Adventures in Small Craft on the Open Sea By Erroll Bruce, published by Hutchinson, London in 1956. It is sailing rather than rowing, but it covers a lot of water. Also contact for fine new editions of many of the early canoe classics. Keep pullin'

-- John Mullen (mullen@connect.net), April 06, 2000.

Dear David As a newcomer to the sport I would be very intrested in such a book. The more "how to" the better, but just reports of trips etc would certainly be of value because of their encouragement.

Tom Galyen

-- Tom Galyen (tagrev@aol.com), April 20, 2000.

A classic to check out is the late Capt. Pete Culler's of Hyannis' early book published by Intrenational Marine Publishing in the Seventy's titles "Boats, Oars, and Rowing." It's much, much more than those three subjects. In fact I beleive the day on the water he describes is the course the Cape cod Viking Rowing Club use for their "Pearl Harbor Day Row" which is a circumnavigation of Grand Island over to Cotuit and depending on the day either outside of Dead Neck on Nantucket Sound or insde back to West Bay. In the Sixties and Seventies this row could be at any time of the year, In these congested days only in the frigid winter can non Barnstable residents gain access to the

-- capt Rehab (tholepin@aol.com), January 07, 2001.