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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
At last! A book that can help me!
I've been plagued by huge ships all my life. Ever since I can remember. This book tells you all you need to know about avoiding these everyday hazards.
Now I can come and go with complete freedom. Even my weekly shopping is a pleasure!
Published 20 months ago by Shalva Shine
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Good for what it is but lacking completeness
While this book provides an excellent guide to avoidance of collisions with Huge Ships, it was completely lacking in the area of avoiding having huge ships occur. That is to say I find it a constant problem when shipbuilding that I can't seem to build an appropriately sized ship.
My most recent contract with the local council resulted in complete disaster. I...
Published 8 months ago by D. A. Williams
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Possibly the most useful book I own, 27 Mar 2009
As I have never encountered a huge ship at all in nearly 30 years of life, some of that by the coast might I add, I can only assume that the lessons this book has taught me have been completely successful. An absolute must for anyone suffering from ship-specific megalophobia.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Good introduction but lacking detail., 27 Mar 2009
I too was plagued by Huge Ship issues in my home town of Glastonbury until I found this book.
The author is clearly an expert with regard to Huge Ship identification and avoidance but the text misses some fundamentals. For instance, if the ship is viewed on the horizon, how is one to discover whether the ship is coming towards or moving away from the observer? More diagrams would be useful.
Will the author be following up this work with a more comprehensive treatise? We can only hope.
Only four stars I'm afraid as, even after studying this tome at length, I still managed to walk into a seagoing vessel of some considerable size.
Had the text been clearer I feel sure that this incident could have been avoided.
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Good for what it is but lacking completeness, 3 Mar 2009
While this book provides an excellent guide to avoidance of collisions with Huge Ships, it was completely lacking in the area of avoiding having huge ships occur. That is to say I find it a constant problem when shipbuilding that I can't seem to build an appropriately sized ship.
My most recent contract with the local council resulted in complete disaster. I was entrusted with replacement the 8 boats for one of the town park's boating lakes but upon finishing I discovered that barely even one of my titanic vessels would fit said area. The council quickly nullified my contract and gave the task to another. I'm now left with 8 oar powered cruiseliners sitting in my dry dock.
This is what prompted me to purchase this publication and hence my disappointment. Not a single chapter features any suggestions on how to keep your shipbuilding down to an appropriate size for the task in hand. It seems that sadly I have wasted yet more time and money.
I feel perhaps I am a little unfair to complain, hence 2 stars rather than 1 but it should have been made more clear beforehand.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Beautiful poetry, helpful advice., 2 Dec 2008
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.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
Stern Theory , 8 May 2008
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.
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
At last! A book that can help me!,
I've been plagued by huge ships all my life. Ever since I can remember. This book tells you all you need to know about avoiding these everyday hazards.
Now I can come and go with complete freedom. Even my weekly shopping is a pleasure!
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87 of 97 people found the following review helpful:
Perfect for all your huge ship avoiding needs, 24 April 2001
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Before I bought this book I often found avoiding huge ships to be a constant problem. Not a week would go by without some sort unforseen collision occuring and ruining my day.Then a friend bought me this book, and it has transformed my life. I won't give too many of its insightful findings away, but one thing it taught me was to keep my eyes open for any super-tonne moving objects in my path by observing tell-tale secondary effects such as eclipsing of sunlight or other local weather effects (eg. localised protection from rain). It also taught me to try to stay clear of main shipping routes and the sea generally as this is where huge ships are said to frequent.
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