The United States Coast Guard has rescued more than a million people since its founding over 200 years ago. Most folks know about the Coast Guard rescue services. Boaters generally also know that the ...
The art of tying knots is many centuries old. From sailors to mountaineers, from riggers to rescue workers, knots have been intimate companions for many professions.What better way to edify this old a...
Wondering why the author’s name sounds familiar? He is the very Captain Woody whose column has graced the pages of Latitudes & Attitudes magazine each issue for 11 years now. Here he is in his own...
Those of you who have read Paul “Capt’n Pauley” Esterle’s articles in Good Old Boat and his column in Small Craft Advisor are already familiar with the kinds of things that he has develope...
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...
BY WILLIAM WINSLOW (BLURB PUBLICATIONS ; 2010; 70 PAGES; $51.95). REVIEW BY MICHAEL MAXFIELD GATESVILLE, TEXAS “You wake up to a beautiful sailing day with fleecy clouds scudding across a blue sky on...
Leight’s captain and owner describes his vessel as a wreck that leaks “like a White House aide.” She is a $400 18-foot homemade cruiser in tough shape. The crewmembers are “as green as grass.” As Davi...
My love of sailing guided me into building detailed ship models, and much of what I’ve learned along the way came by trial and error. My learning curve would have been much less steep if Fundamentals ...
Stop right there, guys! Let’s not be blowing off this book as Girl Stuff Only. The fact is that three-fourths of the folks who pre-ordered the book were men. A number of gents are buying the newly rel...
With her newest book, Bull Canyon, a Boatbuilder, a Writer and other Wildlife, Lin Pardey makes it clear why she has such a following among her sailing readers: she’s a great observer of human nature ...
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...
The subtitle pretty well sums up the “plot” of this nonfiction story except to say that the Australian teenager who sailed back into Sydney Harbour on May 15, 2010, was a girl. A young wom...
Most of the stories about adventure on the high seas — be they Hornblower, Aubrey, Amanda Garrett, or Richard Sharpe* — have several items in common: a young, smart, daring hero; an older subordinate ...
Joe Follansbee’s Fyddeye Guide to America’s Maritime History is advertised as the “most comprehensive guide to historic ships, scenic lighthouses and maritime museums.” It contains over 2,000 listings...
Nick Hayes, a market researcher, interviewed over 1,000 sailors and would-be sailors between 2003 and 2009 to gather material for this book. According to his figures, fewer than 1% of Americans are se...
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 ...
AShipShapeSailboat™ is a feature-rich software program (Mac & Windows). These features include very detailed maintenance plans as well as a records center that includes “Equipment Log”...
The short version of this review? Buy the book. It is comprehensive. Applicable. Balanced. Informative. Understandable. If you prefer further details, read on. Author Donald Launer tells readers that ...
Like angle of sail, the wind — its strength, its direction, the way it’s trending — should always be in the back of a sailor’s mind. – Adam Cort Whether you are already an experienced blue-water...
Managing the Waterway authors Mark and Diana Doyle were intercepted by inland waterway patrols for “suspicious behavior” aboard their 22-foot pilothouse C-Dory while creating this new and improved add...
Bill Hammond and Richard Cutler, the hero of his historical naval series of novels, have done it again in Bill’s second book, For Love of Country. This book begins tracking the activities of the Cutle...
(MAXING OUT MEDIA, 2008; 82 MINUTES, DVD; $19.95 PLUS $5.00 SHIPPING AND HANDLING IN THE U.S. AND CANADA; $19.95 PLUS $10.00 SHIPPING AND HANDLING INTERNATIONAL. REVIEW BY WAYNE GAGNON Maxing Out; Red...
I would recommend the book The Anti-Pirate Potato Cannon: And 101 Other Things for Young Mariners to Build, Try, and Do on the Water to kids 12 and even up to adults who have experienced or like saili...
Admittedly, I’m not what you’d call a “hands-on” kind of guy. But in the eight or so years that I’ve owned Tortuga, my 1969 Westerly Centaur, I’ve become handier than I ever thought I’d be, and I’ve e...
This is the story of pioneer charter-boat captain, Morris Nicholson, and of yacht chartering in the Caribbean since World War II. It is an incredibly rich topic, sure to attract sailors and wanna-be s...
There are those who to this day insist that the United States was born by an act of divine intervention. How else, such people argue, could a ragtag band of farmers, silversmiths and shopkeepers preva...
Why haven’t lighthouses faded into obsolescence like RACON and LORAN? Because everybody loves lighthouses, and Elinor DeWire shows us why — not just tells, but shows, with attractive full-color and ar...
J. P. White is an accomplished writer whose work has appeared in over 100 publications in the past 30 years. He also has four anthologies of poetry to his credit, the earliest in 1978, the most recent...
Sustainable Sailing is a wake-up call for the boating community of incipient disaster. Steadily eroding our watery world are pollution and disappearing resources. The disaster is an apocalyptic echo o...
“My goal . . . to help you learn to shop for food in Mexico . . .prepare delicious meals using locally available ingredients . . . learn how to adapt your own recipes to use Mexican ingredients.” R...
