NOW FREE - Left on Read: Master and Commander

I was waiting to listen to this until after I finished reading it & I just finished the book this morning, time to have my happy feelings about this book confirmed yay (Also, over the summer I developed an intense interest in sailing ships. Last week I got diagnosed with autism. These two facts are unrelated)

Late to the party here, but your pronunciation of 'Maturin' is the correct one (speaking as a quasi-Gothicist academic, it's the accepted pronunciation of the surname of Charles Maturin, the author of 'Melmoth the Wanderer').

She in naval chat rooms posting fleet

Thanks for unlocking these two episodes! I've been putting off listening to them I knew that once I did, subscribing to the $10 tier would become unavoidable! One thought that occurred to me upon listening to these episodes is how the HMS Surprise is such a contrast to Jack. It's consistently described as being sleek, elegant, graceful, fast, and nimble, the exact opposite to Jack's oafishness. Jack is always described as being incredibly large, both in height and width, but the Surprise is small, even by the standards of the time. There's almost childlike and innocent about it. It's a ship that excels at sailing, like a yacht that happens to be a warship too, although that might be going to far, considering how often the Surprise can come out on top, even when it's outclassed. It's an avatar for the way Jack transforms while at sea. When he's commanding it, the good-natured oaf turns into something graceful and sleek, not to mention deadly

Sounds like the opposite of Tom Clancy

Fuck yeah

Your enthusiasm is contagious :)

So I might just read this because it sounds super similar to the Temeraire series in style but without dragons. Never thought it'd be a genre I'd look into without dragons being involved but here we are. Thanks autism.

at about 6 minutes riley says, reffering to the sophie "is it a brig with a quaterdeck rigged like a sloop?" - a brig can only be rigged as a brig because the word brig describes the sail plan. she is a brig-rigged sloop-of-war, the word sloop here being purely a military designation.

wait i literally just watched this movie, like this was posted while i was watching the movie. what a ... Surprise

Because of y’all I’ve made it to “Yellow Admiral”. I resent this path because Naval Exploits hold little regard in my heart. Yet Patrick O’Brian is such a good writer anyone who reads for employment needs to see what he’s about. Per O’Brian - Bernard Cornwell’s “Last Kingdom” is good historical fiction as well.