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With all the good sailing yarns out there to read, I just can't get excited
about Patrick O'Brian. I am looking forward to seeing the movie, but mostly
just
to see the sailing scenes.

Despite that the entire movie takes place on baord ship, with a stop in Brazil
and in the Galapagos, there is not that much sailing. The storm scene is
pretty good. But I can think of at least two vividly painted scene in the
books that shoukld have made it into the film. One was when Surprise was
making her easting down with days and days of fair strong wind and the whole
crew just relaxed silently into the joy of sailing. A second was the
destruction of the Dutch warship that pooped in following seas when a luck
shot from Surprise's stern chasers took out her forestay. But there was also
so much in the books aboyut politics, spycraft (the escape as dancing bears),
finance and so much more not even hinted at in the picture, which must have
been later than the original book since Aubrey sports two epaulets.