Books about small boat adventures

[lockwood]

Since getting my first boat last summer and now, I have read maybe 15-20 books about adventures at sea. Most of these books are great, but are written by people with 32ft+ boats who have time to travel the world. As an example, I am currently reading Sea Change by Ian Dickens; a great book but not easy for me to relate too.

Does anybody know of any good books with stories about 22fters crossing the Atlantic, or sailing the med?

 

[reginaldon]

What about Shane Acton's 'Shrimpy" & 'Shrimpy sails again' He circumnavigated in a 18' Caprice

 

[DJE]

The extreme example might be "Ocean Crossing Wayfarer" By Frank and Margaret Dye. 16ft open dinghy from Scotland to Norway and Iceland.

 

[lockwood]

Just had an idea...

Maybe PBO or sailing Today readers could start a book loan club. I have plenty of books about the boating life and would be happy for people to borrow in return for a book which they may have.

What do people think - if people think it is a good idea I can make a website where people can post details of the books they have and a 'boating library' could be born!

 

[kliever]

Alistair Buchanans "sailing an atlantic circuit" may be your cup of tea, as he includes his first voyage which was on a bilge keel hurley 18. Hope I've got the details right,
brgds
John R

 

[roam]

Lyn and Larry Pardey's series of books on Cruising in Seraffyn.

really nice adventures of couple in a 24ft home built boat (although Larry can hardly be called a DIYer!).

 

[Eccles]

What about Tristan Jones - author of 16 books - many of his voyages were in small boats.

 

[rex_seadog]

Also "Maiden Voyage" by Tania Aebi the story of a circumnavigation by an 18 year old girl in a 26ft (Contessa ?) boat.

 

[christine]

Shrimpy was a tiny boat that crossed the oceans but I can't remember the guy who wrote it. Hurley 22's also crossed oceans and have been written about. A drascombe lugger went to Australia mainly under its own steam. Joshua Slocum's boat was not so big. At least one wayfarer has been written about, (one crossed from the Solent - Calshot - to France). Margaret Dye has written lots about dinghy cruising. Erskine Childers wrote about sailing off the islands off Netherlands - Riddle of the Sands. The Dinghy Cruising Association has a library of books, of interest to dinghy cruisers and small boat owners. Ted Jones writes in their newsletter about his adventures in a 15ft Sunspot on the East Coast of England. The Trailer-Sailer Association may also have intrepid authors. Hope you can find a good source - I belonged to westminster (London) library when I started yacht cruising and they had a good stock in those days, but that was a long time ago now. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[DepSol]

Alan Priddy beating the big one

Clive Tully Confroting Poseidon

 

[paulburton44]

Frank and Margaret Dye are doing a talk for our sailing club. Open to all tickets are £2.50.
Check out our website and give the sec. a ring for tickets !!!

2nd march 7.30pm baptist church boston lincs.

www.withamsailingclub.co.uk

 

[Rabbie]

See if you can find 'The Wind Calls the Tune' by Colin Smith and Charles Violet. This was the return voyage of Nova Espero (LOA 20ft) from London to New York in 1951. Colin and his brother Stanley originally built the boat in a chapel in Nova Scotia and sailed it to Dartmouth in 1949 - as a completely open boat!. You will find you have to keep wiping the pages!. There is also loads of small boat reading here - http://cruisenews.net/discoveries2002.html

 

[flyingjunior]

Have you read Channel crossing by Sebastian Smith? it is also a brilliant book with the author buying a wayfarer and eventially crossing the channel in her and meeting some intresting charators along the way.

 

[machurley22]

[ QUOTE ]
Alistair Buchanans "sailing an atlantic circuit" may be your cup of tea, as he includes his first voyage which was on a bilge keel hurley 18. Hope I've got the details right,
brgds
John R

[/ QUOTE ]

Pretty close, but a Hurley 20 in fact, called Mintaka and she's still going strong.

Or how about "Trekka Round the World" by John Guzzwell

"Trekka Round the World is the story of John's first great voyage. He had completed his apprenticeship ... and entirely by himself built Trekka, a jewel-like twenty-foot six-inch light displacement wooden yawl designed by Laurent Giles. At the age of twenty-five he set out to see the world. The year was 1955."



Dave

 

[ruff_n_tumble]

"Sopranino" by Patrick Ellam and Colin Mudie, 1953. Sopranino was a 19' 8" fin keeler whose first shakedown cruise immediately after launching was from Lymington to Santander, then crossed the Atlantic.

 

[bob26]

I think its Buchan not Buchanan