Inversement, la solution la plus sûre est de répondre comme tout le monde ; ainsi, que l'on ait raison ou tort, on est assuré que les écarts de scores entre membres n'évoluent pas.

Cela ne m'étonnerait pas foncièrement qu'un tel ouvrage (adressé aux skippers amateurs, je suppose) existe. Je vote "authentique".

I ran into this book after I saw a reference to it online. Seemed like a joke at the time, until I read it. Actually, it's perfectly serious and the title is completely accurate when it gets down to reading the book. All jokes aside, it's a serious piece of work for the small boat owner / operator - especially those taking their boats into areas where large ships pass through.

This book was "written by an old captain who was tired of running over fools in their pleasure boats, and wanted to educate those same fools in a futile effort to save their lives". Very apt description. As a more or less novice to boating, it never really ocurred to me that (make that "I never thought about it") most small pleasure boats that go a reasonable distance offshore are actually far slower than large merchant ships and thus can get overtaken and rundown quite easily. Oooops. And large merchant ships might not even notice. Bigger Ooooppps.

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".

This is a must-read for anyone who encounter huge ships daily and do not want to get run over by them. I found this book extremely helpful. To this day, I have never been run over by a single huge ship!!

Ca s'appelle de l'anti-jeu ca mon cher !