Sailing is man’s unifying experience. It is the path toward his oneness with nature. The love of the sea is innate in every man’s soul, because it captivates him and entices him with its m...

When Englishman Geoff Holt was a young man, he was living the dream — making three transatlantic voyages and one round trip from Great Britain to the Mediterranean and back. Then, while preparin...

It is a genuine pleasure to read just about anything Dave Gerr writes. His books range from popular broad-appeal works like The Nature of Boats to very specialized books like the Propeller Handbook an...

This is a very data-rich book. It is a fine introduction to electronic charting and navigation for those new to the topic. More experienced users will find it useful as a reference book on the current...

Those of us who dabble in boats, especially sailboats it seems, have entertained the idea of a circumnavigation at one time or another. We dream of exotic ports, days spent basking on the beach of som...

Monday through Friday, each treatment passes like shimmering rollers across open water, indistinguishable, one wave in a sea of sameness…My body does not rebel nor does it rebound. I float in a windle...

Daniel Robb is a carpenter, actor, teacher, an expert on the Transcendentalists, a sailor, and shipwright. He is also a wonderfully skilled writer, all of which makes his book, Sloop, a great read. Da...

This is not a relaxing afternoon read, nor will you want to read it cover to cover. But you’ll find some chapters informative and you may end up more aware of your impact on the maritime environ...

One man, one boat, lots of ice, and lots of chutzpah. Alone Against the Arctic is the tale of Anthony Dalton’s 1984 attempt to make a solo transit of the Northwest Passage in a small inflatable....

Not found on AMAZON  If you need an appointment book to organize your life, and who doesn’t, The Mariner’s Book of Days — 2009 is worth looking at. If you’re a maritime aficionado, a...

Isn’t it funny how good moods are so often the product of what we perceive internally when we accomplish simple objectives, not of what we actually see outside? Can this be true even when it&#82...

Step back in time to a day when sailboats were simpler and our own needs for cruising comfort were more in line with camping. Talented musicians Ed and Ellen Zacko met, dropped out of the New York sym...

In 1995, a small group of historians, writers, and National Park Service workers did two things: first, they founded the United States Life-Saving Service Heritage Association, a group dedicated to pr...

Sitting in the cockpit of a sailboat watching the changing skies can be both a peaceful pastime and a perplexing one. What’s causing that cloud formation? What does it mean? What triggered that ...

Definition of a Constant Waterman: Someone who delights in the greater portion of our Earth. A harmless monomaniac with habitually wet feet, Matthew Goldman. Matthew Goldman is the Constant Waterman. ...

It’s quite possible that no one else has had a life quite so rich with adventure and exploration as Lin and Larry Pardey. These are people who are absolutely comfortable wherever they may be, wh...

Lin and Larry Pardey describe Gillian Outerbridge’s photo-packed chronicle of her journey from New York through the waterways of the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada as a heart...

 High Seas Schooner chronicles a three-week voyage from the Virgin Islands to Gloucester. With veteran crew and student navigators, the schooner Harvey Gamage brings maritime history to life. It is ed...

Mike Riley, his wife Karen, and their son, Falcon, stepped outside the mold and cruised the world. Mike has published several books while based anywhere and everywhere in the wild blue yonder. Two of ...

 Spirit Sail is about a special sailor’s vision, of seeing fundamental truths in much of what happens during his time afloat. The book’s premise is that, despite the contrast between the a...

John Karl provides the cleanest and most elegant introduction to the fundamental concepts of celestial navigation that I have read. I would even recommend this book to those who have a curiosity about...

 Six years ago, John Kretschmer and Sheridan House came out with a compilation of 40 used-boat reviews that John had written for Sailing magazine. That book, Used Boat Notebook, was (and continues to ...

As a solid fan of the “Age of Fighting Sail” stories of Patrick O’Brian, CS Forester, Alexander Kent and Julian Stockwin, I have read the names Pellew, Corbet, the Nereide, Indiamen,...

Extended worldwide ocean cruising is a dream of many sailors. Yet a very small percentage of sailors ever turn their dreams into reality. Lack of money, busy jobs, limited time, the inability to adequ...

Norman Fortier, born in 1922, was still a youngster when he became interested in photography. Drafted into the military during World War II, he became an aerial photographer and honed his photography ...

According to the back cover of Cruising Catamaran Communique, Charles E. Kanter has been a marine surveyor for over 36 years, and has been a liveaboard-cruiser for 15 of those years. So to say that he...

Author Mary McCollum lived the dream. She retired from her teaching career, sold her home and belongings and moved onboard her boat. And she sailed. Unlike many navigators who map out their route in g...

Some of the best waters for finding pacific sailfish are off the shores of Guatemala. Although this species is quite popular among sport fisherman, little is known about their feeding and group behavi...