John are you calling me a liar. Here is proof, I'm not. I think
you owe me an apology.

I figured out Tristan Jones was a bull****ter long ago. You can
check my Amazon.Com review of 7 Aug 2000.

Look up the following:
One Hand for Yourself One for the Ship: The Essentials of Single
Handed Sailing by Tristan Jones on Amazon.com.

My review was published 32 months before the book you mentioned
Wayward Sailor by Anthony Dalton, was published on April 22, 2003

A copy of my review follows. I was the only one saying the guy
was a fraud, of many reviews.
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MY REVIEW
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I stopped buying Tristan Jones books because I felt there was
little substance to them and some fabrication added to help sell
them to the publishers. All the books are skimpy fast reads. I
hope my opinion is changed, but I'm unwilling to invest in any
more of them to find out.

He has a some of good advice for sailors at sea. However, I
have to say, that like most of his books I take what he writes
with a grain of salt. And, some of what he recommends, I
doubt he ever did himself.

That is not to say his advice is bad, just not practical in some
cases. I doubt many seaman would follow all of his advice.

For example, he recommends that single handed sailor drag a
line behind the boat hooked up to a trip wire arrangement to
heave the boat to. Great advice. I doubt anyone follows it or
that Tristan Jones did so. That doesn't mean it is not good
advice. This sort of thinking is smart thinking, planning ahead
for an emergency.

Likewise his advice for having a triangular patch of canvas
ready and rigged on the bow with control lines all set ready
to cover a hole below the waterline should the unlike event
happen that one gets holed below the waterline. This is just
something that would get in the way, foul up something else
on the boat and cause more trouble than it's worth. I think a
better idea is have one ready to go and practice rigging it.

Perhaps these ideas may make sense when you are sitting at
a typewriter trying to put enough substance in a book so you
can sell it to a publisher. This is my impression of Tristan Jones.

If you get something out of a book like this, you got something
that may give you an idea that will save your boat or yourself.

I gave it 3 stars because I felt it was like some of his other
books, short books made in an attempt to make money to
fund his roving lifestyle as a wandering seaman.

Hey he pulled it off.

Maybe you can too! Bring a laptop if you go cruising, there
is bound to be a story in it.
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Link to my review:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...m_cr_dp_2_1/00
2-5919338-6697627?v=glance&s=books&vi=customer-reviews&me=ATVPDKIKX0DER
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John Cairns wrote

"Bart Senior" wrote.

That was when I realized, Jones was starving and desparately trying
to impress his uninformed editors enough to get published, so he
could eat. He was not writing worthwhile books.

Of course you must have read by now that Tristan was a fraud, his entire
life story was a work of fiction, even his name.

http://tinylink.com/?MpHaSQE6hm

John Cairns