Seagulls in My Soup: Further Adventures of a Wayward Sailor3 reviews Tristan Jones Sheridan House, 1996 Pearls of Wisdom + A great salty yarn, as good as any ever before. He must have been in a great mood when he wrote this- the funniest of his books. Not so much about his sailing adventures as the array of characters he is surrounded by. Within every hilarious espisode, Jones is never without the pearls of wisdom which makes him the unique author he is. 5 stars ...             One Hand for Yourself One for the Ship: The Essentials of Single Handed Sailing10 reviews Tristan Jones Sheridan House, 1990 The wisdom of experience + Good read + Greatest non-sailor in the world. + Fantastic Stories + Buy it!             World Cruising Essentials : The Boats, Gear, and Practices That Work Best at Sea4 reviews Jimmy Cornell International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, 2003 Excellent source of information + Well worth the money!!! Cornell offers his own viewpoints as well as those of others, does a good job of labeling facts vs. options, and answers a lot of questions I had about cruising. Safety equipment, storms, piracy, dangerous areas, firearms, and communications are all covered well. Common equipment failures are ...             World Cruising Routes10 reviews Jimmy Cornell International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, 2002 World Cruising Routes + World Cruising Routes, by Jimmy Cornell + An Encyclopedia for for World Sailors + Bible of cruising             The Complete Sailor: Learning the Art of Sailing36 reviews David Seidman International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, 1995 ONE OF THE VERY BEST + A very special book - Required reading + The Complete Sailor: Learning the Art of Sailing + Great Beginner + Awesome book             Godforsaken Sea: The True Story of a Race Through the World's Most Dangerous Waters64 reviews Derek Lundy Anchor, 2000 Godforsaken Sea + A Thorough Dissection of An Amazing Race + Often thrilling, informative Godforsaken Sea is one of the best books I have ever read, particularly as I have sailed in the storm that wrecked the Fastnet race in 1995 so have some idea of what the single handed commpetors sailing round the Antartic endured.They were surfing down waves 30 meters high under full sail at 40 ...             Taking on the World : A Sailor's Extraordinary Solo Race Around the Globe6 reviews Ellen Macarthur International Marine Publishing, 2003 A Real Cinderalla Story + Pretty dang amazing and inspirational + I loved this book! + Good book. Not a great book.             Seamanship Robin Knox-Johnston, Johnson Robin Knox W. W. Norton & Company, 1987 This book explains to the reader how to go about boat handling, deck seamanship, coping with emergencies at sea, mooring and anchoring, ropes, knots and tackles, sails, spars and rigging, communications, metereology, stability and bouyancy, maintenance and ship and boat identification. The author is a Merchant Navy-trained master mariner. He was the first person to sail non stop round the world ...             Gipsy Moth Circles the World2 reviews Sir Francis Chichester International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, 2003 Sailing with a 'Smoking' Chichester's story-- of his nine-month single-handed circumnavigation of the world with just one port of call-- is laconically told. His bravery, focus and endurance was applauded by a crowd of thousands who celebrated his return to London. His worst moments were the realization that he had ...             The Lonely Sea and the Sky (Reprint)2 reviews Sir Francis Chichester Paragon House Publishers, 1990 True Adventures of One of our Greatest Navigators + Perhaps the most amazing adventure book of all This is an autobiography with adventure. It starts with the young Francis and his early life, which moves well and does not linger too much, but introduces us to his matter-of-fact style of writing. Francis tells of his major flying achievements, which are stunning considering they were done in ...             Close to the Wind18 reviews Pete Goss Da Capo Press, 2000 Heroes and Angels + "Complacency is the cancer of time." ---Sir Pete Goss One of the great books of mankind's love for his brother. The strength of that love and the power of that love proven in the ice cold seas of the roaring forties. The saved and the saviour both watched over by an angel named Tracey whose love and faith in her husband, Pete, made it all possible ...             The Cruising Guide to the New England Coast: Including the Hudson River, Long Island Sound, and the Coast of ...5 reviews Robert C. Duncan, Roger S. Duncan, ... W. W. Norton & Company, 2002 Outstanding resource + definitive! A wonderful and entertaining resource book. It is filled not only with reference information for the cruising sailor, but geography, advice, local history and accounts of sailing (mis)adventures. Well worth reading for anyone who loves the Northeast coastline - whether or not they have ever ...             Spray3 reviews Robert J. Blake Philomel, 1996 Sailing the Sea + Sailing the Sea + Review of Spray This book is a story of a great adventure. A little boy starts a lonesome journey back to his home in Maine. When he sets sail he can only think of the legend of Captain Slocum, the first man to set sail around the world and was never seen again. Later in the day his ship flips over and is ...             A World of My Own (The mariner's library)7 reviews Robin Knox-Johnston W. W. Norton & Company, 1994 Juxtaposition at Sea + Entertaining account of an important voyage A good and easy read by Robin Knox-Johnson who now helps manage the Golden Globe race of today. (2003; see Brad VanLiew's brilliant success in the Class 2 fleet in the news) Readers should also include Bernard Moitessier's `The Long Way' book of the same 1968 race. It is intensely interesting that ...             The Cure for Anything Is Salt Water: How I Threw My Life Overboard and Found Happiness at Sea15 reviews Mary South HarperCollins, 2007 the cure for anything is salt water + Would Have Loved to Make the Actual Trip + Leave your politics onshore, Mary! The Cure for Anything Is Salt Water: How I Threw My Life Overboard and Found Happiness at Sea As a reader whose only experience with boats is a few crossings on the Staten Island Ferry, I still found myself hooked from the beginning of THE CURE FOR ANYTHING IS SALT WATER. Not only because it is ...             Sea, Ice and Rock Chris Bonington, Robin Knox-Johnston Sheridan House, 1993 An account of the Greenland expedition undertaken by Bonnington and Knox-Johnston. Travelling in the famous wooden yacht "Suhaili", they pooled their mountaineering and sailing skills to navigate to, and then climb, the peaks of the uninhabited, ice-bound East Greenland coast.             Cruising the Chesapeake: A Gunkholer's Guide10 reviews William H. Shellenberger International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, 2001 The very best guide for the gunkholer + Cruising the Chesapeake: A Gunkholer's Guide + Excellent overall description of the Chesapeak + Indispensible             Before the Wind: True Stories About Sailing6 reviews David Gowdey International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, 1994 A Nice Collection of Sailing Stories + Great Selection + Sail Away The author David Gowdey presents a 282 page collection of 25 sailing stories, weather guides, interviews, and poems - all of interest to sailors or people wishing to read about sailing. The stories are not really related to one another and as such this is not a compendium of stories that teach you ...             Sailing Alone around the World (Penguin Classics)47 reviews Joshua Slocum Penguin Classics, 1999 Unbelievable story, a must read if there ever was one + A classic for good reason + Simply escape on a trip around the world This story is the greatest sailing story I have ever heard of. Joshua Slocum is so far out and such an indomitable human being that it is difficult to fathom without reading the story. This book is truly an exercise in understatement. A large society of Slocum afficianados exists now, largely in ...             The Vendee Angela Bird Malnoue Publications, 2004