How to Avoid Huge Ships

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Summary: Fantastically useful!
Review: Arrgh! If only I had read this book 'fore I left part, I wouldn't be writing this review from Davey Jones's Locker! Arrgh!

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Summary: A Great Metaphor for the Lessons of Life
Review: I bought this book as a joke while attending a government management seminar at the Maritime Institute of Technology (located in Baltimore Md). I remember thinking to myself "you know life is tough, but it is even tougher when your stupid". Here is a book written by an old captain who is tired of running over fools in their pleasure boats, and wants to educate those same fools in a futile effort to save their lives. One can almost imagine a sequel written by a train engineer "How to Avoid Parking on Train Tracks". At any rate for several years now this book has graced by desk, and has served as an inspiration for more conversations than any other book I have ever owned. Remember as you go through life you need to keep a lookout for the huge juggernauts that can really ruin your day.

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Summary: Hard to put into practice
Review: I have read this book three times and I am still running into HUGE ships. I feel like I understand the concepts detailed in the book, but seem not to be able to apply them while on the water.

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Summary: What a relief!
Review: I no longer have to worry about how to avoid huge ships. It is now safe to go back in the water. Thank you for ending my huge ship collision nightmares.

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Summary: Lacking essential information
Review: This book lacks criteria for discerning between huge ships and merely really big ships. Some well-designed lists, charts or colorful pop-up sections would have been nice for readers who were unsure what size of ship they were avoiding.

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Summary: Lacking essential information
Review: This book lacks criteria for discerning between huge ships and merely really big ships. Some well-designed lists, charts or colorful pop-up sections would have been nice for readers who were unsure what size of ship they were avoiding.

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Summary: Staying Afloat, the words of a trusted mariner.
Review: Trimmer's book brings up many fine points during its unusually colorful descriptions of what I regard as, "ballast-makers", those close-calls with...huge ships. He includes the standard wave-your-flag boys attention getting techniques, but goes deeper to include a section on ramming speed.