- Paperback: 112 pages
- Publisher: Cornell Maritime Press; 2 edition (Mar 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0870334336
- ISBN-13: 978-0870334337
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15 x 0.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,953,872 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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33 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
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Stern Theory,
By Gordon Hawk (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: How to Avoid Huge Ships (Paperback)
Trimmer's book is deceptively simple, take his opening passage for example:
"when walking down a local thoroughfare, or perhaps on a day out to your local dock, and suddenly, seemingly from nowhere, a 40ft metallic compound hull emerges in your line of sight, it is most likely, if not definitely, going to be - a huge ship" It's theoretical groundwork like this which lacks from today's 'pick and choose' postmodern discourse. Trimmer unleashes this devastating examination with relative ease; most interestingly with chapters such as "Avoiding the ship itself: Moving Left or Right?" which comes up with a flurried and meticulous deconstruction of ethics and theoretical obstacles, for instance "is there anything on either side of the huge ship? - if so, and there is, it is probably, if not definitely, going to be - difficult to move round to that side of the huge ship". A must for those with an eye for Naval pragmatism and/or a small ship.
27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
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Beautiful poetry, helpful advice.,
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This review is from: How to Avoid Huge Ships (Paperback)
Instead of falling into the same trap that other authors of this subject fall in to, such as "stay on land" or "move out of the way", John Trimmer offers thought provoking, deep insight into the complexities of Huge Ship avoidance.
If you or anyone you love plans on setting out to sea any time soon, and are worried about encountering a huge ship - then I cannot encourage you enough to read this book.
25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
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Lonely Sailor,
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This review is from: How to Avoid Huge Ships (Paperback)
As a recently retired Captain of a Huge Ship I'd just like to say how devastating this book was to my everyday life.
Haulage on the open seas used to be a pretty lonely and boring job but I always managed to amuse myself by crashing into significantly smaller vessels than my own... Sadly however, since this book was first published, I only ever managed to crash into one or two small boats per year... catalysing my retirement from the industry.
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