What to recommend for forum members for xmas ?

[Portofino]

As per thread title .
I will open the batting with this …….
Naval architecture of planing hulls: Lord, Lindsay: Amazon.com: Books


Reason ( you can omit this ) = so we are all on the same page .
Better understanding of the thing ( Motor boat ) you are chugging around in .

 

[Yorkshire Exile]

In response to your title - "A life"

 

[Deleted member 478]

Give Portowino shore-leave until early next year

 

[LittleSister]

?

 

[Mr Googler]

200 pages of many fascinating things.

Reason…..you’ll be asleep by page 2…….unless you are reading it as part of a motorboat book club….bookmarks in a bowl sort of thing.…..then you’ll be in an argument by page 2

 

[Portofino]

That’s the spirit Mr G .

Blimey some pretty scrooge esq seemingly bitter + twisted earlier responses .

What ever happened to “ the season of goodwill “ ?

 

[benjenbav]

As per thread title .
I will open the batting with this …….
Naval architecture of planing hulls: Lord, Lindsay: Amazon.com: Books


Reason ( you can omit this ) = so we are all on the same page .
Better understanding of the thing ( Motor boat ) you are chugging around in .

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Happy Christmas P, and may 2023 bring you more deep-vee pleasure. That book’s an undoubted classic, but using it as a sunscreen for your sensitive bits doesn’t count as reading it.

 

[Mr Googler]

Happy Christmas P, and may 2023 bring you more deep-vee pleasure. That book’s an undoubted classic, but using it as a sunscreen for your sensitive bits doesn’t count as reading it.

He’s using a different book for that

 

[paradave]

If we had a secret Santa and I got a particular member, I think I’d get this.

 

[Poignard]

9780743495738: The Colonel of Tamarkan: Philip Toosey and the Bridge on the River Kwai - Summers, Julie: 074349573X - AbeBooks

Man Behind the Bridge

 

[Mr Googler]

If we had a secret Santa and I got a particular member, I think I’d get this.

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Looks a lot like the Sunseeker logo too! ?

 

[Bigplumbs]

A better forum with more members

 

[Mr Googler]

A better forum with more members

 

[bowler]

This is a great read. Well, I thought so.

https://www.amazon.com › Storm-P...
Storm Passage: Alone Around Cape Horn: Chiles, Webb

 

[Mr Googler]

This is the worst book club ever ??

 

[Bigplumbs]

This is the worst book club ever ??

Plus one to that..... A mate of mine once recommended a book called Outsweeps about Mine sweepers........ I gave that a miss