Blog de Puree

Anyone who enjoys reading Blog de Puree and who is a boating or yachting enthusiast should check out my brother-in-law’s blog, Where is D.J. Today.

I was impressed with D.J.’s last blog post. His use of yachtsmen vernacular and the emotion of a captain that exuded from his post was really fantastic.

“That the sea looks like a pancake from your window doesn’t mean squat!! Even as I was depositing him [The yacht's owner] into the tender to go ashore he asked me if I was sure. “It doesn’t look so bad.” I assured him that outside it wouldn’t be pretty and that it would only be getting worse. He left and we had a washing machine ride home, surfing some large swells. Always a strange sensation and humbling when a fifty-eight ton yacht’s engines are rendered null and a swell that’s moving faster than you picks you up and pushes you forward. Great for gas mileage, not so good for the nerves.”

His last post (part of it quoted above) brought to mind two of my favorite nautical authors, C.S. Forester (Horatio Hornblower series) and Patrick O’Brian (Aubrey-Maturin series) because his use of authentic boatsman language accurately helped to paint a vivid picture of his experience. Forester’s and O’Brian’s books are laden with juicy parlance from the heyday of the age of sail and the prime of the British Navy, and a nautical enthusiast can sink one’s teeth into it.

Personally, I think he should keep all this in a journal and write a book some day. I think that yachting enthusiasts worldwide would enjoy following the story of Captain D.J.