The Log from the Sea of Cortez

[Roberto]

From John Steinbeck "The Log from the Sea of Cortez"

And Man receiving back from Boat a warping of his psyche so that the sight of a boat riding in the water clenches a fist of emotion in his chest. ....His sprit and the tendrils of his feeling are so deep in a boat that the identification is complete.

Anyone relate to this? BTW, if you've never read it the book is a great read. It's been hard to find but one of the book locaters will have it.

 

[jmcdtucson]

From John Steinbeck "The Log from the Sea of Cortez"

And Man receiving back from Boat a warping of his psyche so that the sight of a boat riding in the water clenches a fist of emotion in his chest. ....His sprit and the tendrils of his feeling are so deep in a boat that the identification is complete.

Anyone relate to this? BTW, if you've never read it the book is a great read. It's been hard to find but one of the book locaters will have it.

Great book, especially the parts relating to beer. :coldone:
The library usually has it -- it's lit'rature you know.

 

[Seadweller]

From John Steinbeck "The Log from the Sea of Cortez"

And Man receiving back from Boat a warping of his psyche so that the sight of a boat riding in the water clenches a fist of emotion in his chest. ....His sprit and the tendrils of his feeling are so deep in a boat that the identification is complete.

Anyone relate to this? BTW, if you've never read it the book is a great read. It's been hard to find but one of the book locaters will have it.

Absolutely Roberto.... it was given to me by a professor from Hastings Colledge in Nebraska who bases a class about it... I carry the book with me in my boat bag and reccomend it to all.... fantastic read

 

[MIRAMAR]

His trip was in 1940 when Europe was engaged in war, my favorite paragraph is:""Let us go into the Sea of Cortez, realizing that we become forever a part of it; that our rubber boots slogging through a flat of eel-grass, that the rocks we turn over in a tide pool, make us truly and permanently a factor in the ecology of the region. We shall take something from it, but we shall leave something too." And if we seem a small factor in a huge pattern, nevertheless it is of relative importance. We take a tiny colony of soft corals from a rock in a little water world. And that isn't terribly important to the tide pool. Fifty miles away the Japanese shrimp boats are dredging with overlapping scoops, bringing up tons of shrimp, rapidly destroying the species so that it may never come back, and with the species destroying the ecological balance of the whole region. That isn't very important in the world. And thousands of miles away the great bombs are falling and the stars are not moved thereby. None of it is important or all of it is."

 

[jerry]

The page describing his dingy outboard "The Sea Cow" and it's failure to start if it wasn't sunny day and a short trip is really funny.

 

[Seadweller]

I enjoyed the part about a man can chart his course and set his bearings... but his true direction shows in the wake he leaves behind...

 

[Seadweller]

From John Steinbeck "The Log from the Sea of Cortez"

Anyone relate to this? BTW, if you've never read it the book is a great read. It's been hard to find but one of the book locaters will have it.

Just found out today that they have it available at CEDO in the giftshop... sorry I didn't get the price... but the money would be for a good cause... also this year is the 30th anniversary for CEDO, stop out and take a look around...

 

[don]

Hey Roberto,
Next time you stop by CEDO would you check the price? I'd love to get a copy, and like you said it goes to a great cause. Planning a trip the beginning of March.
Thanks,
Don

 

[bahiatrader]

I read The Log from the Sea of Cortez when I was in High School. It might be fun to read again. Back then I had a heavy old 14' wooden boat we fondly called The Sea Cow. It had a 7.5 hp. motor on it that must have weighed over 100 lb. A couple buddies of mine and I even went out over the Columbia bar in it a few times. The motor always started and I had oars. We used oars a lot to conserve precious gasoline that probably cost 22 cents a gallon.

 

[joester]

just bought and recently received a used copy from Amazon for about 9 bucks delivered.
just got thru the intro, ready to start chap 1 - looks like a good read.
decided not to wait unitl I get back to PP to start reading it.

 

[Seadweller]

Don... I just returned from CEDO and they have it in the gift shop on the back wall next to the T-Shirts on the shelf for $15.00... they also have a lot of other interesting items...

 

[cholla]

What is CEDO?