On a motorcycle trip to The Cabot Trail on Cape Breton, Nova Scotia in the
late '90s, I was thrilled to see Farley's boat -- Happy Adventure --  AKA
The Boat Who Wouldn't Float. She was sitting on the hard, badly shored up
with a broken back, as a tourist attraction outside a restaurant.

Here's a link to a site with a photo of her there:
https://www.reddit.com/r/drydockporn/comments/4ske5e/newfoundland_jack_schooner_happy_adventure_on_the/

Richard  wrote:

> Andrew; I read that book a couple of years ago at the suggestion of
> someone on this list..love it!
>
>

> On side note. I grew up sailing on my dad’s C&C 27 in British Columbia. On
> one cruise, I read a book by Canadian author Farley Mowat called The Boat
> Who Wouldn’t Float, about a pair of fellows buying and converting a small
> fishing schooner in Newfoundland.
>
>
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