Viking
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With the long winter nights drawing on, as anyone read any good 'sailing/boating' related books over the summer that might be worth reading over the winter?
Read any good books lately?
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max
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You could always try the Aubrey/Maturin novels by Patrick O'Brien. If you like that kind of thing there are 18 of them so plenty to keep you going.
webcraft
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Joshua Slocum
Sailing Alone Around The World
Peter Nichols
A Voyage for Madmen
Total Loss (Second Edition)
Jack Coote, revised by Paul Gelder
Maiden Voyage
Tania Aebi
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Sailing Alone Around The World
Peter Nichols
A Voyage for Madmen
Total Loss (Second Edition)
Jack Coote, revised by Paul Gelder
Maiden Voyage
Tania Aebi
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DMW
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I've greatly enjoyed these this year:
The Nautical Chart by Arturo Prevez-Reverte (a first-rate thriller)
Sea Change by Peter Nichols (sailing alone across almost the whole Atlantic)
Passage to Junneau by Jonathan Raban (travelogue from Vancouver to Alaska)
Enjoy!
The Nautical Chart by Arturo Prevez-Reverte (a first-rate thriller)
Sea Change by Peter Nichols (sailing alone across almost the whole Atlantic)
Passage to Junneau by Jonathan Raban (travelogue from Vancouver to Alaska)
Enjoy!
chriscallender
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Ellen McArthur's new book is a great read - I started it when leaving Heathrow and hardly put it down till I got to Tokyo the other week.
Chris
Chris
sailbadthesinner
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Sell up and sail by Bill and Lauren Cooper. They are certainly opinionated but there is some very useful advice in there. if you want rants there's also plenty to be had.
Come on brain.get this over and i can go back to killing you with beer
Come on brain.get this over and i can go back to killing you with beer
vyv_cox
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Just reading Riddle of the Sands for the first time ever. Brilliant.
steveh
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A Voyage for Madmen is very good as is Pete Goss's book.
Viking
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Yes my favourite - I have very early edition
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Skyva_2
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Anything by Bill Tilman, sailing or mountaineering, they dont make them like that any more.
Keith
Keith
billmacfarlane
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If you're into history try England Expects by Dudley Pope. It's a very readable account of the events leading up to and including the Battle of Trafalgar.
Robin2
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Anything by Nicholas Monserrat.
His "Three Corvettes" was re-released in the shops not too long ago. It's fascinating from several perspectives as well as superbly written. I don't know if "The Master Mariner" is in print - it is also wonderful.
Also try
Sensible Cruising: The Thoreau Approach: A Philosophic and Practical Approach to Cruising by Don Casey, Lew Hackler.
Its an alternative to (or complement of) Sell Up and Sail and it will introduce you to Henry David Thoreau
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His "Three Corvettes" was re-released in the shops not too long ago. It's fascinating from several perspectives as well as superbly written. I don't know if "The Master Mariner" is in print - it is also wonderful.
Also try
Sensible Cruising: The Thoreau Approach: A Philosophic and Practical Approach to Cruising by Don Casey, Lew Hackler.
Its an alternative to (or complement of) Sell Up and Sail and it will introduce you to Henry David Thoreau
<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1>Edited by Robin2 on 30/10/2002 13:44 (server time).</FONT></P>
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I make a point of reading passages from 'The Cruel Sea' to my crew at night.
This is normally before they make me walk the plank.
This is normally before they make me walk the plank.
sailbadthesinner
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On the travelogue front
i loved McCarthy's Bar and the road to McCarthy
first one better both v good
there is a diving/ trave;logue book called netral bouyancy cannot remmeber the author. thought it was a bit crap unless you are VERY interested in diving and its history
Come on brain.get this over and i can go back to killing you with beer
i loved McCarthy's Bar and the road to McCarthy
first one better both v good
there is a diving/ trave;logue book called netral bouyancy cannot remmeber the author. thought it was a bit crap unless you are VERY interested in diving and its history
Come on brain.get this over and i can go back to killing you with beer
sailorbaz
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I'm half way through The Last Grain Race by Eric Newby - excellent read and good photos in the hardback copy.
tome
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I also read the hb version couple of months back - excellent, though arriving fresh faced on board and being told to get straight to the mast truck (and stand on it!) gave me the heebie jeebies. Couldn't put it down though I've read it before.
Just finished Tristan Jones' Ice. Good read but a bit of a mix of sailing and Norse/Celtic history, perhaps not as good as his other writings. Read Close to the wind by Pete Goss also and found it inspiring.
Just finished Tristan Jones' Ice. Good read but a bit of a mix of sailing and Norse/Celtic history, perhaps not as good as his other writings. Read Close to the wind by Pete Goss also and found it inspiring.
cgull
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Moby Dick
Dont read sex books
Its not about sex its about Whales
Dont like the Welsh either
Dont read sex books
Its not about sex its about Whales
Dont like the Welsh either
Peppermint
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So many
Anything by JDS I've just finished "A Funny Old Life" which is quite bitter sweet.
There is an anthology of good stuff is " Down the Wind" edited by Jack Coote out of print I think. Worth searching for 2nd hand.
A superb insite into singlehanding is "The Godforsaken Sea" by Derek Lundy
Admiral Lord Cochrane "The Autobiography of a Seaman" Is a biography of the most contraversial admiral of the Napoleonic era. You couldn't invent the stuff this guy got up to. The style is a little heavy but WOW! did he live.
Bernard Cornwell & Sam Llewellyn vie for the place as "The Dick Francis of the Sea" good salty potboilers.
Anything by JDS I've just finished "A Funny Old Life" which is quite bitter sweet.
There is an anthology of good stuff is " Down the Wind" edited by Jack Coote out of print I think. Worth searching for 2nd hand.
A superb insite into singlehanding is "The Godforsaken Sea" by Derek Lundy
Admiral Lord Cochrane "The Autobiography of a Seaman" Is a biography of the most contraversial admiral of the Napoleonic era. You couldn't invent the stuff this guy got up to. The style is a little heavy but WOW! did he live.
Bernard Cornwell & Sam Llewellyn vie for the place as "The Dick Francis of the Sea" good salty potboilers.
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I am now re-reading the entire Aubrey/Maturin historical navel novels by Patrick O'brian - they are superb - evocative, funny and illuminating. They make you want to join Jack Aubrey as he steps from his cabin onto the quarterdeck just as a load of spindrift comes flying back down the ship.
Libby Purves' One Summers Grace is pretty good (sailing around GB)
Lin and Larry Pardy's "Cruising in Serrafin" is excellent.
Geoff W
Libby Purves' One Summers Grace is pretty good (sailing around GB)
Lin and Larry Pardy's "Cruising in Serrafin" is excellent.
Geoff W
Jeremy_W
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Re: A Voyage For Madmen
I found this book interesting, but flawed. Like the English Civil War in "1066 and all that" the author finds the losers "Wrong But Wromantic" and the winner "Right But Repulsive". The book's great on Chay Blyth, Bill King, Nigel Tetley, storm survival techniques ....
But dislike of Robin Knox-Johnston oozes out of every page: Diet - dull; Patriotism - Out of Date; Reading List - unrelentingly stolid stuff; Mental State - NOT "distressingly normal"; after the race - a life of fame and wealth (shurely shome mishtake?). Even RKJ donating his winnings (£5K then, worth nearer £100K today) to Crowhurst's widow isn't valued. It's a truly strange book where the victor is the villain.
I found this book interesting, but flawed. Like the English Civil War in "1066 and all that" the author finds the losers "Wrong But Wromantic" and the winner "Right But Repulsive". The book's great on Chay Blyth, Bill King, Nigel Tetley, storm survival techniques ....
But dislike of Robin Knox-Johnston oozes out of every page: Diet - dull; Patriotism - Out of Date; Reading List - unrelentingly stolid stuff; Mental State - NOT "distressingly normal"; after the race - a life of fame and wealth (shurely shome mishtake?). Even RKJ donating his winnings (£5K then, worth nearer £100K today) to Crowhurst's widow isn't valued. It's a truly strange book where the victor is the villain.