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All Hands on Deck

A Modern-Day High Seas Adventure to the Far Side of the World

by Will Sofrin
Jonathan Todd Ross
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A maritime adventure memoir that follows a crew of misfits hired to sail an eighteenth-century warship six thousand miles to Hollywood
In the late 1990s, Patrick O'Brian's beloved, massively bestselling historical novel series was destined for film. With director Peter Weir and stars Russell Crowe and Paul Bettany signed on for Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, there was only one problem: The Rose, the replica
eighteenth-century warship that filmmakers bought for the production, was in Newport, Rhode Island, two oceans and thousands of miles away from Hollywood.
Enter a ragtag crew of thirty oddballs and tall-ship fanatics, including author Will Sofrin, at the time a twenty-one-year-old wooden-boat builder and yacht racer looking for some direction in his life. Together, the crew embarked on an epic adventure, racing a ticking clock and fighting against Mother
Nature, and occasionally each other, to deliver the Rose, hopefully in one piece.
All Hands on Deck is Sofrin's account of this unforgettable voyage. It's a story of reinvention, of hard work on the high seas, of love, and of survival. The crew of the Rose effectively went back in time, brought to life the old ways of a forgotten world, and barely lived to tell the tale. All Hands on Deck is a
gripping story and a must-read for fans of O'Brian's novels and the Academy Award–winning film adaptation.
This audiobook includes a supplemental PDF of maps, technical drawings, andphotographs.
This audiobook includes bonus downloadable content and an episode of The Lubber's Hole - A Patrick O'Brian Podcast featuring the author and Captain Bailey.

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  • Release date

    April 18, 2023

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781705093665
      • File size: 296361 KB
      • Duration: 10:17:25

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      February 6, 2023
      “I always knew sailing Rose to California was a special, once in a lifetime kind of experience. But it took me two decades to truly understand what I got out of it,” recollects shipwright Sofrin in this nostalgic account of sailing a replica of an 18th-century British warship from Rhode Island to California in 2002. Hired as a deck hand, 21-year-old Sofrin and his fellow crew members piloted the Rose down the Atlantic seaboard, through the Panama Canal, and up the Pacific coast to San Diego, where it would be used in the film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. From patching a leaky hull and climbing 10 stories up to secure a broken section of the mainmast, the 30-person crew had to learn the “forgotten skills” of sailing an 18th-century “tall ship” on the fly. Sofrin intersperses details of life aboard the Rose with tidbits of tall ship history and enlightening commentary on Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin novels, on which the film was based. High-spirited and finely detailed, this adventure tale will delight sailors of all stripes. Photos. Agent: Max Sinsheimer, Sinsheimer Literary.

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