Recommendations for Yachty Kindle/EBooks to Read Please

[Baggywrinkles1]

If you want something a bit different try The Odysseus Code available on Amazon Kindle. It follows the journeys of Homer's hero Odysseus as a nautical passage plan using the numbers and wind directions given by Homer (that's as in ancient Greek, not the one on the telly) and follows the route on ancient maps. Some surprising results that make you think.

 

[alahol2]

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), Jerome K. Jerome still makes me chuckle. Free, I think on Gutenberg.

 

[oldvarnish]

If you like autobiographical books.

I would suggest

"The boat who wouldn't float" by Farley Mowat.

I toughly enjoyed this book when I was a youngster. So much so I bought it again recently and re read on my boat..

Its about buying and living aboard an old Fishing Schooner around the coast of Newfoundland in the fifties and sixties. I found it to be a humorous and respectful look at life in Newfound Land. Not all Newfound Landers agree.

He is probably not well known in the UK as a writer or as a sailor.

He died a couple of weeks ago - read his obituary. I shall re-visit his books (and there are lots of them)

 

[laika]

I notice that the only one of moitessier's books which seems to be available on kindle is the english translation of "La Longue Route", "The Long Way". If you've not read that then do, although I think the translation could have been better.