Review: A good cruise thru So. Florida
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 9, 2011
Enjoyable reading, enjoyable trip down memory lane so to speak..Red Right Returning, Star Island, So. Beach, Governors Cut, Port Everglades, Las Olas City Docks..A fun but bloody romp through Lauderdale, Miami Beach and sailing a 45' Cutter from Lauderdale to Honduras in several days..?! Well, nothing EVER goes that smoothly when one is BOUND for where-ever.. I know, the knockdown is not smooth sailing but only serves to bolster my point.. Real sailors know.. we say we are "BOUND for...." because we rarely get where we want to go as smoothly as Kyle and Tasha do..SO, aside from the poetic license given and granted, this is a fun read.. well worth the paltry cost..Where is the mention for "Sailorman" in Lauderdale..? How about the Dania cut off canal..? Monkeys in the trees at the boat yards there..?I know these waters because I saild my Irwin 65, hull# 104, there and to the Bahamas and Ft. Jefferson.. And it is NEVER as smooth sailing as the pair of main characters have.. never.. Also, I take exception for the license to fudge.. a 45' sailboat, with a waterline of what..? 37 feet.. and thus a hull speed of err, ohh, i'm guessing here, 6 knots.. they can not get up to 9 knots with a waterline of 36 odd feet..Buy the book and have a nice time..  :-)(a little bit of a messy review, so i'll re-edit it later.. want pix of my Irwin 65, just ask)