Sailing category: 730 books
by Matt Vance
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
To sail a boat is a magical, and sometimes mystical, experience. The sailor is free from the cares of life on land, entirely absorbed in the enterprise of moving a craft across the water. For the uninitiated, though, willingly putting oneself at the mercy of nature’s unpredictable forces, winds,...
by Perce Harpham
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
This book was Perce's gift to his grandchildren for his eightieth birthday.
Following his boyhood dreaming he describes his many voyages around New Zealand, to the islands of the South Pacific, solo return across the Tasman Sea and elsewhere. His observations about people, places, boats and...
by David Creamer
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
The trials and tribulations experienced while sailing two old and tired American tugboats halfway around the world. An entertaining and greatly enjoyable read.
by Kim Brown
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012
Two brave women prove that to live a real life adventure, they only need to take the first step. Giving into an urge to see the world, they take their cat and move onto a sailboat in California. After a year's preparation they set sail into the Pacific Ocean. Three months later they arrive in...
The Way of a Ship
A Square-Rigger Voyage in the Last Days of Sail
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
When, as a young man in the 1880s, Benjamin Lundy signed up for duty aboard a square-rigged commercial sailing vessel, he began a journey more exciting, and more terrifying, than he could have ever imagined: a treacherous, white-knuckle passage around that notorious "graveyard of ships,"...
Sea Fever
The True Adventures that Inspired our Greatest Maritime Authors, from Conrad to Masefield, Melville and Hemingway
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
How did a big-game fishing trip rudely interrupted by sharks inspire one of the key scenes in Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea? How did Robert Louis Stevenson's cruise to the cannibal-infested South Sea islands prove instrumental in his writing of The Beach of Falesa and The Ebb Tide? How did Masefield...
The Voyage Alone in the Yawl "Rob Roy"
From London to Paris, and by Harve across the Channel to the Isle of Wight, South Coast, &c., &c.
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2013
This edition features illustrations and linked Footnotes.
PREFACE.
In the earlier part of this voyage, and where it was most wished for, along the dangerous coast of France, fine weather came.
Next there was an amphibious interlude to the Paris Exhibition, while the Rob Roy sailed inland.
Thence...
Mischief in Patagonia
An intolerable deal of sea, one halfpennyworth of mountain
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
'So I began thinking again of those two white blanks on the map, of penguins and humming birds, of the pampas and of gauchos, in short, of Patagonia, a place where, one was told, the natives’ heads steam when they eat marmalade.'
So responded H. W. ‘Bill’ Tilman to his own realisation...
Catboats
From the Boards of the Benford Design Group
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
A collection of inventive catboat designs, this guide showcases some of America’s most charming sailboats and provides detailed commentary on the specifics of each model. Tracing the history of the catboat through stories about builders and owners, the book also offers a section on catboat sailing...
Halcyon Days
From a Dream to Reality
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2004
This book is a sailing travel-adventure demonstrating how dreams can come true for those who have the desire to accomplish, persistence, a sense of adventure and are willing to take risks in order to make their dreams come true. It is about the pleasures, responsibilities, trials and tribulations that go along with any major change in lifestyles.
At the Mercy of the Sea : The True Story of Three Sailors in a Caribbean Hurricane: The True Story of Three Sailors in a Caribbean Hurricane
The True Story of Three Sailors in a Caribbean Hurricane
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2007
“The tale of Carl Wake and the hurricane that was waiting for him goes straight to the heart of the greatest sea stories: they are not about man against the sea, but man against himself. John Kretschmer’s book is as perfectly shaped and flawlessly written as such a story can be. In addition to...
by Bob Allen
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2001
Every man's dream - to sail around the world. This is the story of one man who did it, sailing as crew on a number of boats. His adventures, misadventures, and insights into exotic cultures and the diverse personalities he meets along the way make for a fascinating read. During his 32,000 mile trip,...
The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst
Now Filmed As The Mercy
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016
'A masterpiece.' New Yorker
'Wholly riveting, brilliantly researched.' Evening Standard
'A meticulous investigation into the seeds of disaster... fascinating, uncomfortable reading.' Sunday Times
In 1968, Donald Crowhurst was trying to market a nautical navigation device he had...
Swell
Sailing the Pacific in Search of Surf and Self
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Blogger and Patagonia Ambassador Liz Clark's tale of fulfilling a universal dream -- to sail solo around the world, stopping wherever to surf, to explore, and to learn about herself and her place in the universe