Boaty books - a pair of highly recommended yarns

[Firefly625]

as an obsessive reader of boaty books just thought I would recommend a pair that I read on while on holiday, well in fact both I read in a day as I literately couldn't put them down and I had a particularly stress less few days where my number one priority was sitting in the cockpit reading....

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hell-High-Water-900-Mile-OGroats/dp/0091959748

&
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Left-Dead-...UTF8&qid=1537863742&sr=1-1&keywords=nick+ward

neither that new, the latter I knew the story first hand as I knew Nick from when he had the chandlery in Mercury but never got round to buying his book.. the first book you might think its about swimming... well yes it is, but the guy needed a support boat, so £4k later he bought one off ebay... and the fact that got where it did I found almost more incredible than the swim.

 

[mersey]

I've read Left for Dead, would also recommend it.

 

[burgundyben]

I used to love sitting in Playtime's cockpit reading a book, little chance of that with 3 year old running amok.

Best book I ever bought from the secondhand bookshop in the alleyway is Charles Lindberg's account of his flight from New York to Paris, I'll drop it off next time your here.

RKJ's A World of my own is very good too.

Aside from my meagre effort, Charles Lawrence has published some interesting ones, the recent Marathon Race book and Hurry West both good.

 

[ari]

Australia The Hard Way - David Pyle (if you can find one for sensible money).

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Australia-Hard-Way-David-Pyle/dp/0340105100

Chap sailed his Drascombe Lugger (an 18ft open day boat) to Australia!

 

[Firefly625]

I used to love sitting in Playtime's cockpit reading a book, little chance of that with 3 year old running amok.

Best book I ever bought from the secondhand bookshop in the alleyway is Charles Lindberg's account of his flight from New York to Paris, I'll drop it off next time your here.

RKJ's A World of my own is very good too.

Aside from my meagre effort, Charles Lawrence has published some interesting ones, the recent Marathon Race book and Hurry West both good.

time will come Ben... my daughter (now nearly 16) is a book worm as is SWMBO so if I'm not cleaning something I can read without getting harassed. I think just about every circumnavigation book ever published I have got and read..some really obscure ones and RKJ a world of my own still stands up as one of the best (which it should) .
Also I do love a rowing book too, across oceans stuff... have a bit of a fascination with that.
The Francis Chichester books on his flying adventures Ride on the Wind and Solo to Sydney are great... many I have picked up in the old book shop in Yarmouth.

Have not read Charles Lindberg book so would enjoy that.

 

[Firefly625]

Australia The Hard Way - David Pyle (if you can find one for sensible money).

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Australia-Hard-Way-David-Pyle/dp/0340105100

Chap sailed his Drascombe Lugger (an 18ft open day boat) to Australia!

like the sound of that... the hunt is on. (for less than the £95 in World of Books!)

 

[Whitelighter]

Since this is a thread, I highly recommend ‘narrow dog to Carcassonne’

 

[mcanderson]

Since this is a thread, I highly recommend ‘narrow dog to Carcassonne’

Me too. I would give the one set in America a miss. Jim is the real star!

 

[Firefly625]

Since this is a thread, I highly recommend ‘narrow dog to Carcassonne’

got it & read it. Indeed v good. He used to work in marketing co with a friend of mine..

 

[burgundyben]

Likewise, someone on Scuttlebutt reccomended Narrow Dog, its a good read.

 

[Switch]

The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monserat (made into a film in the 1950's). A fantastic read, probably my favourite book of all time - I must have read it several times over the years, It never loses its appeal.