Dave Zobel's Bent Book of Boatspeak: How to Sound Like a Sailor and Know Just Enough to Be Dangerous

by Dave Zobel and John Dusenberry

The primary objective of this tongue-in-cheek nautical dictionary is to amuse and then to inform. All nautical terminology is grouped into hard things, soft things, wrinkly things, damp things, soggy... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 007135817X
• ISBN13: 9780071358170
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: International Marine Publishing
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Review of Dave Zobel's Bent Book of Boatspeak

This award winning(winner of Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest 2004) writer's wit, humor, and charm takes the reader through a hilarious overview of the "dangers" and simply the humor in boating. Zobel's book appeals to those involved in the sport and those who are simply looking for a good laugh. A terrific book that brings out the first laugh well before the actual intro, but in the table of contents. Well-priced and a truly worthwhile buy. I strongly recommend it.

Made even a non-sailor laugh!

This is a great book for anyone who has tried to sail, likes to sail, or like me, is a really bad sailor related to good ones! The text is hilarious, the footnotes are hilarious, the chapter headings and "poems" will make you howl. Every single page made me laugh -- and I'm famous for capsizing a sailboat in a small bay on Lake Champlain by pulling in the sheet when a brisk wind came up! The humor is top-notch -- you'll find yourself reading it aloud to anyone who will listen!

I laughed so hard that I shivered me timbers!

For anyone who's stood in a shower tearing up $100 bills ... that is, had the extreme pleasure of sailing ... this book is TOPS! I loved it!