A good read. Any suggestions?

[steve yates]

Try Master Under God, and The Dark Ocean & The Light by Fred Nicholls

 

[michael_w]

Surprised no one has mentioned 'Riddle of the Sands'. Non boaty, but anything by Michael Connelly. Noir style crime novels much in the style of Raymond Chandler. A recent discovery of mine in the same vein is Ross Macdonald.

 

[Wansworth]

Surprised no one has mentioned 'Riddle of the Sands'. Non boaty, but anything by Michael Connelly. Noir style crime novels much in the style of Raymond Chandler. A recent discovery of mine in the same vein is Ross Macdonald.

Surely any yachtsman worth his salt has read the riddle…..AT LEAST THREEtimes

 

[S04]

TRUSTEE FROM THE TOOLROOM is a good read. Nevil Shute's final novel. Lots of sailing and adventure.

A book I loved as a young boy. I recently read it again but in my edition at least (1960, the year Shute died and the book published posthumously) there are a couple of bits that some sensitive readers my find difficult. Aside from the sailing adventure itself if you're at all interested in engineering then there's something in it for you.

 

[Blue_mischief]

Jonathan Raban - Coasting and Passage to Juneau. Not fiction but good reads.

 

[benjenbav]

Jonathan Raban - Coasting and Passage to Juneau. Not fiction but good reads.

I enjoyed Coasting very much. When Jonathan Raban passed away I thought I’d read it again, but it’s still in the queue.

 

[Kwik Decision]

The wreck of the Mary Deare by Hammond Innes.

Another vote for the Wreck of the Mary Deare, a griping novel, set initially on a ship, and then on a yacht. Especially recommended as Hammond Innes left his Literary Estate to support Sail Training. It is administered by ASTO, and provides grants to all the different Sail Training organisations in the UK.
I'd also recommend Wreckers Must Breath, my favourite Hammond Innes novel. Set at the outbreak of the 2nd World War, it's a superb adventure novel.

 

[chris-s]

Newby's "The Last Grain Race"?

Having just finished a book and looking for something completely different, after seeing this suggestion I’m a third of the way thru and it is surprisingly good.

 

[Poignard]

I have enjoyed many of Alan Villiers' books.



Alan Villiers - Wikipedia

 

[Wansworth]

The Ship thatwoudntFloat…Farley Mowat

 

[Bouba]

Just came across this sailing author’s obituary.....
Tim Voelcker, yachtsman, independent wine merchant and late-flourishing naval historian

 

[Scomber]

TRUSTEE FROM THE TOOLROOM is a good read. Nevil Shute's final novel. Lots of sailing and adventure.

Borrowed from library on your recommendation , really enjoying it! So, thanks.

 

[Chiara’s slave]

An off the wall suggestion, Of Whales and Men, R.B. Robertson. The author was a doctor on a Norwegian whaling ship in the Southern ocean in the 1950s. A fascinating insight into a rightfully dead industry.

 

[Wansworth]

COD…….about the CoD fishing industry,interesting but not fiction

 

[DreadShips]

Moby Dick is an absolute slog to read the first time, and one of the greatest novels ever written the second (once you know you can get through it and can relax into the prose it's an entirely different book)

Non-fiction, but Madhouse at the End of the Earth is a fantastic, fascinating look at the age of exploration. In a ship, obviously.

 

[samfieldhouse]

Are you up for some non fiction suggestions?
The Voyage of Jack de Crow is cracking; chap sails a Mirror to the Red Sea.
A Voyage for Madmen is brutal, the story of the first Golden Globe Race.
Sailing Alone Around the World is amazing, purely for the fact it was done such a long time ago.

And back on fiction; We Didn’t Mean To Go To Sea (Arthur Ransome) is a cracker. ‘Swallows and Amazons’ is probably his worst book, which is why the BBC added loads of extra plot into the recent film.
Secret Water is great whilst The Big Six is probably in my top 5 books ever, although it’s scant on the sailing.

Racundras First Cruise is AR’s nin fiction sailing book.

 

[Poignard]

Moby Dick is an absolute slog to read the first time, and one of the greatest novels ever written the second (once you know you can get through it and can relax into the prose it's an entirely different book)

I have read Moby Dick twice, listened to a good reading of it from Amazon Audible, and enjoyed the film (the one with Gregory Peck as Ahab)

Non-fiction, but Madhouse at the End of the Earth is a fantastic, fascinating look at the age of exploration. In a ship, obviously.

That looks good, I have ordered it from the library. Thanks for the recommendation,

 

[Seven Spades]

My wife was in a book group and she had to nominate a book for the following meeting and I suggested "Boldness be my friend" by Richard Pape.


Amazon.co.uk

Needless to say it was the most popular book. It is the account of an escape during the second world war written by an enlisted man not an officer. Most books written about the war were the works of officers.

 

[Boathook]

George Millar did some good books.
Isabel & the Sea - taking a boat through the French canals in 1946.
A White Boat From England- taking a sailing yacht to the Med round the outside in about 1947 ish.
Horned Pigeon - during the war his capture and escape back to UK.
Marquis - his time in the French resistance during 1944 and 1945.

Dovecote Press and Lodestar Books seem to do print run every so often or sometimes available at Wob (world of books).

 

[Jacana139]

Maurice and Maralyn by Sophie Elmhirst

The Boat They Laughed At by Max Liberson