America's Great Loop, Aussie Style now#1 loopers book

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After receiving a total of five individual reviews, all with five star ratings, 'America's Great Loop, Aussie Style' about a C-Dory looper, is currently the number one book of all 54 books that have been written about this epic inland waterway journey. Four of these reviews were for the kindle version and one was for the large format printed version.

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Derrickb":34urad1w said:
After receiving a total of five individual reviews, all with five star ratings, 'America's Great Loop, Aussie Style' about a C-Dory looper, is currently the number one book of all 54 books that have been written about this epic inland waterway journey. Four of these reviews were for the kindle version and one was for the large format printed version.

https://www.amazon.com/Derrick-Baan/e/B ... sr=1-2-ent
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Reads like spam to me.
 
AstoriaDave":358snryn said:
Reads like spam to me.
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Dave, this has been posted here before. Derrick chartered the Cdory Grace Full from fellow brat Flint for this trip. If you don't trust the link you can clic on the website in his brat profile.

Derrick, I would love to read the book but am having trouble convincing myself to pay $45.00 for a paperback when as a teenager I remember buying them for 95 cents! :shock:

Regards, Rob
 
Hi Rob,

I would have loved to have a lower price but the $45 for the print version coffee table style book is Amazon's production cost rounded up to the nearest dollar. As it is a large format 10" X 8" of 360 pages with over 500 color photos it is expensive to print. The $5 kindle version is much cheaper to produce and with the same content.
The post was an update to advise brats that the book is receiving excellent reviews. Check out my personal blog Balakera.com and there is is a screenshot of a Amazon query on America's Great Loop books sorted by average reader review and 'America's Great Loop, Aussie Style' comes out on top.
Regards Derrick
 
We all love to see and read about C-Dorys so to me this is a welcome post. I am happy to be made aware of it and think it's ranking will serve owners and prospective owners well. I know many of us have enjoyed "River Horse" as well as the blogs and books of Bill and El, and others. They actually had great influence on me and ,thankfully, "Kicked me over the edge" when it came to buying a boat that at the time was over my budget by quite a bit. No regrets!
 
Get the Kindle edition, inexpensive enough! Be aware, though, you need a Kindle reader capable of rendering color photos. My old Kindle is black and white, but I got the Kindle app for my Samsung Tab4 and all was good!
 
Hi Pat!
Harvey is right, the Kindle 'Crossing the Wake' version for $5 has a lot of good info too. Her best advice in my mind was take the float plane tour of Georgian Bay to see the underwater cliffs and pinnacles. For me, the more perspectives the better. Check the U-tube of 'Potato Island channel...scary rocks everywhere at 5MPH.

My Coastal Explorer charts don't show what I want for the TSW on a 27" HD PC. For example, take the Rice Lake to Otonobee River 90 degree turn between KM 110 and 112 at bouys G433 and R434 and red flashing beacon. Garmin Canadian Lakes HD shows all that plus contour depth lines and a red dashed rec'd route for the whole waterway. CE shows absolutely nothing but a solid blue Rice Lake and spiders of connecting waterways with no labels or bouys or depths or rec'd route. (I'm OK with US CE coverage but I'll still take Garmin Vision over it any day).
What am I missing? Did you pay for or free additional chart downloads?
Happy Planning!
John
 
Regarding Derrick''s books/blog/, I can personally vouch for his integrity. I was pleased to sail with Derrick and Daveen for 4 days last summer. The information he provides is accurate and entertaining. His knowledge and experience as a worldwide skipper and sailor are amazing, having circumnavigated the entire continent of Australia, let alone the Great Loop.
He's the "real deal" and I hold our friendship in high regard.

John, I can speak for the transit Beth and I had last summer on the TSW, using the Garmin exclusively. We had no problem navigating the TSW and subsequently the Small Boat Channel in Georgian Bay using the Garmin. Also, I found the channels to be well marked and accurate. Also, there is plenty of boat traffic to follow and lend confidence in the transit. I, too, began the trip with a bit of trepidation, including the passage of locks but soon learned that this was a bit of over-kill on my part. Of course, not having reliable tools such as the Garmin, would be fool-hardy, as you so accurately point out.
Jeff
 
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