Good Morning, its odd that I should find this sight, as I was doing research on sailing I happend upon you guys, but here is why.
I´ve just completed a pirate novel and its now in the hands of the publisher. while I was writing this, I often thought of putting a disclaimer in it somewhere appoligizing to the blue water sailors of the world for the fact that probably most if not all of the things I have the frigates and sloops doing in the story can´t happen or at least happen far more slowly then one would belive reading it.
I did study sailing for a bit during the writing but it´s such a vast lesson that I had to abandon it and get on with the story.
So to you the blue water sailors, I appoligize for writing about what is surely an art form with no experience on my part.
Jesse R. Deville

With so many of the nautical fiction titles out there already guilty of tresspass on the plausable - I think we are all used to it. Anyway - what fiction is there that doesn´t "push the limit" somewhat... (well OK O´Brian was pretty close...)

Personally, I like a good story, and I´m certainly willing to forgive a few leaps of the plausable in exchange for the more pleasurable :)

Let us know the title and when it´s out...