This is the true story of the first transatlantic yacht race, which was the direct result of a drunken bet made at New York’s Union Club in October 1866, with the race itself taking place in mid-to-la...
Capt. Jim Stewart has been sailing for over 30 years and has been teaching boating since 2004. An employee of SailTime on Lake Michigan since 2005, he has a Merchant Marine license and is a certified ...
When I first glanced at the title of this book, I wondered why anyone would publish yet another volume about boat improvements, but as soon as I cracked the cover of this book I found projects that I ...
Duncan Wells opens his book with the friendly advice (or warning) that all sailors should be prepared for the inevitable moment when, despite their best-laid plans, they will be called upon to sail si...
Buying, studying, and carrying this book onboard should be mandatory for anyone contemplating a long-distance voyage on any of the world’s oceans. Jimmy Cornell definitely knows his stuff. Over the pa...
At the opening of the book, Hugh MacMillan (who has been a past contributor to Good Old Boat magazine) has just gotten a reprieve from a potentially terminal cancer diagnosis, and while he relishes th...
Just as no one should read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance expecting to get step-by-step instructions on swapping out the piston rings on his Harley, this is not a book to teach how-to infor...
First published in German in 2008 as Medizinischer Ratgeber an Bord (translation: Medical Advice on Board), this handy guide covers medical issues that require more than the standard first aid taught ...
Compass opens with a cautionary tale of a modern mega-yacht nearly coming to grief because of the builder’s (and the owner’s) over-reliance on state-of-the-art electronic navigation. When ...