Writing a book using info gleaned from ybw

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KellysEye said:
There is no reason somebody shouldn't write a book provided there are notes at the bottom of each page giving the number of the quote in the Appendix of all the contributors quoted. As seen in many other books.
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Er, no, completely wrong

You would need clearance from IPC Media for copyright purposes first if using a direct lifted quote from these threads.

Note that as per t's and c's anything written here is automatically copyright IPC, so it is their copyright for legal purposes i.e. it's their says if you can use it at all and you CANNOT just lift whole chunks and list where you got the stuff in an Appendix.

....and then it's the contributor's efforts too ...so for the sake of manners and "best practise" their permission also sought - and usually the condition is that the direct quote is attributed as you describe....but it is NOT a requirement.

This explains why any of the IPC magazines can print/quote threads without anyone's sayso, and frequently do. But again, they may often call and ask if "you're okay that we put in this piece you wrote" or at least, they have once or twice "run it past" me in the past, but there is technically no need.
 
I´ve written a book based on all the info gleaned from ybw.


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HOW TO SAIL AROUND THE WORLD

Ignore all that boll0x on the forums, untie a few ropes, head south and you´ll figure it out along the way. Can´t be that hard, every one else manages.
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Might have to flesh it out a bit though. Bit short.

Haven´t given away the plot, have I? ;)
 
Conachair said:
I´ve written a book based on all the info gleaned from ybw.


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HOW TO SAIL AROUND THE WORLD

Ignore all that boll0x on the forums, untie a few ropes, head south and you´ll figure it out along the way. Can´t be that hard, every one else manages.
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Might have to flesh it out a bit though. Bit short.

Haven´t given away the plot, have I? ;)
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A bit more bollox from the forums.

Don't try that if you keep your boat in Cowes.

:)
 
AndrewB said:
Chapters 3-15:

Which anchor?
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That book has already been written. :D;)

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Sidestepping the anchors.. ;)

Chapter 3
Planning.
Are you nuts?? Other than maybe which particular ocean seems interesting planning is crazy. Tis a real and constant danger that you might just be mad enough to try to stick to them. Planning should only be done retrospectively. "Oh look where we´ve ended up" :cool:
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I agree. Convincing yourself your current location was always where you intended to be anyway makes any forward planing totally redundant.

This is partly why criss-crossing the Atlantic is such an excellent idea - always plenty of targets from which to to choose and re-choose, in both directions, many hundreds of miles of nicely-spaced potentially-intended and totally reasonable destinations. There again, in the Pacific i set off for easter island and ended up in the marquesas so what the heck.

The same applies to provisioning (chapter 4?). It's awful "knowing exactly" what one will eat in advance - much better to have a nice surprise I think, bit of a game to see what if anything can be made from the remaining stuff. I tell crew that we need about a trolley-load of food person per fortnight.

Hm. Very thin book so far. I could do a chapter 5 on fun stuff/jokes to play on crew, but doesn't much apply if one is going single handed.

Fishing chapter 6, meh, sling out a line and that's that done.

hm, anything else?
 
tcm said:
Hm. Very thin book so far.
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Subtly hidden that´s the whole point ;)

I think for lots of people going cruising is a massive change of lifestyle into the largely unknown with a large investment into "having the trip of a lifetime" , there´s a strong urge to put some order on this by searching for "how it works" and "what it´s really like". But neither exist. Maybe the best skill to get a handle on is letting go and just take each day as it comes, the perfect anchorage 2 weeks ago will be a completly different experience if you go back next month, different people there etc. So give up on the planning front for starters. Same goes for passages, the weather will do what it wants, just go when you want and don´t be surprised if it´s not what the pilot charts say. (Outside hurricanes of course).

So that´s the book. There is no book. let go trying to control the future because you can´t, not the way the world works. Relax and enjoy the novelty around every corner. :)

Though there is one thread of stability though it all. Bits of your boat will break and you´ll have to fix it. :cool:
 
First draft

Buy a copy of something like Jimmy Cornell’s "World Cruising Routes" (or borrow it) and wherever you go, best is to go when it suggests to avoid nasty dangerous hurricanes. It doesn’t much matter what boat you have, but best not too small and cramped nor too £££big. It’s a good idea to have spare stuff, and lots of food, and some water in bottles, and perhaps some safety gear. Things will break of course, and to help fix it – and to keep watch at night- you might think of taking some extra crew. However, the crew will eat more food, and probably break more things than they fix, but it depends. To save money, you can stay put and its likely that fewer things will break. Or you can head off somewhere cheaper, and stay there.

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