Seajet
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Capnsensible I'm with you on this one !
Yarns are great but making out they are fact, and gaining from it, is not.
Yarns are great but making out they are fact, and gaining from it, is not.
Joker
Active member
It's not even as if he was a fairly good writer.
RichardS
N/A
Why do people revive an old thread - or why do people point out that others have revived an old thread?
Richard
Boo2
Well-known member
Why do people revive an old thread - or why do people point out that others have revived an old thread?
I meant why do people point out that other people have posted to an old thread ?
Boo2
ianabc
New member
But then there was Trueville...
Much missed by me although at Blue Moment he has posted some more.....
I always found his tales interesting and as to whether he was / or is real well that's still open.
Much missed by me although at Blue Moment he has posted some more.....
I always found his tales interesting and as to whether he was / or is real well that's still open.
webcraft
Well-known member
In the Navy I was in, it was called bull**** and he was seen for exactly what he was.
Lots of sailors I know reckon he was rubbish and as Ive spent more time at sea than he ever did I am inclined to agree
You can spend a lot of time at sea without actually being there . . . the Navy is not exactly the same as proper voyaging in small ships, although you may disagree.
I've spent less time at sea than you (almost certainly) but I may have a better idea of what being at sea is about. The Navy is nothing to do with small boat voyaging.
- W
capnsensible
Well-known member
Well as you seem to want to know, I have logged over 120 thousand miles on yachts and 20 odd thousand on motorboats.
10 trans atlantics etc, etc. Lived aboard for the last 14 years......
That is not a yarn.
I may, therefore, have a vague idea.
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Seajet
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webcraft
Well-known member
Very good. Has anyone ever told you you look a bit like Tom Cunliffe?
Have you written up any of your voyaging?
- W
Slow_boat
New member
I know a few things as a fact about Tristian Jones;
He was in Buenes Aries with Sea Dart in the 1975. I went sailing with him in Sea Dart just before she was hoisted aboard the ship I was on, back to UK.
He couldn't take his drink.
Sea Dart was impounded by customs demanding import tax/VAT at Newhaven. I still have the letter he sent me offering her for sale at £2,500.
He span a good yarn.
He had a dry sense of humour.
He was one of lifes true characters without whom the world is a lesser, duller place.
He was in Buenes Aries with Sea Dart in the 1975. I went sailing with him in Sea Dart just before she was hoisted aboard the ship I was on, back to UK.
He couldn't take his drink.
Sea Dart was impounded by customs demanding import tax/VAT at Newhaven. I still have the letter he sent me offering her for sale at £2,500.
He span a good yarn.
He had a dry sense of humour.
He was one of lifes true characters without whom the world is a lesser, duller place.
Mark-1
Well-known member
Can you scan/photograph it and post here? I'd love to see that.
capnsensible
Well-known member
Hee hee...well actually it has been mentioned, until the odd occassions I have stood next to him. He is very tall!
Apart from the odd dit on here, not really written much. Maybe, one day.........
Slow_boat
New member
NO scanner and no idea how anyway. I'll try and find it, though.
What I "was on about" is jeanes ascertain that "so I hope that this post only serves to alert the reader to the possibility that even when you are curled up with a good book, someone is having you on."
Do we really need this patronizing rubbish?Tristan Jones (as far as I can see) has been proven to be an out & out liar.
Why anyone should want to resurrect this nonsense & give us a little lecture is completely beyond me.There are honest authors out there & we are not talking about auto biographies but tales that are described as first hand accounts searush.There is one hell of a difference
webcraft
Well-known member
Have you read any of his books? That is usually a prerequisite for a literary discussion
- W
Joker
Active member
His books are fairly dreadful.
BrendanS
Well-known member
Possibly because there wasn't a book forum 10 years ago!
In fact, 10 years ago, there were only a few forums on here
webcraft
Well-known member
Mark-1
Well-known member
I haven't read any yet but, based on the below, the books look quite good:
http://www.amazon.com/Incredible-Voyage-Personal-Odyssey/dp/0924486902#reader_0924486902
I will read some TJ some day because Reese Palley rates him, and Reese Palley knows good writing.