Most sailors have daydreamed about sailing away to escape life’s inevitable troubles . . . point the nose of your boat toward the horizon and keep going. Pat Henry didn’t daydream about it...
At Sea in the City is no grim tale of surviving the savage sea, but a quiet journey through the spaces and history of New York City’s archipelago. Author Dr. William Kornblum and friends sail a ...
How much time will you sacrifice by sailing at a more comfortable angle to the wind? Why does that gust of wind “come from the side” when you thought you were close-hauled? Would you like ...
BY GEORGE SNYDER (XLIBRIS CORP., 2001; 335 PAGES; $20.00) REVIEWED BY DARYL CLARK It was a long winter and an even longer spring, here in the land of Ventura . . . Minnesota, that is! Spring departed,...
The American Sailboat takes us through a literary and pictorial history of American pleasure craft. As readers, we are given a whirlwind tour of our nation’s coasts, bays and inland waters. Such...
Pull up a stool at a tiki bar and listen to Frank Papy spin a few yarns about his life and times in and around boats. If you can’t catch up with Frank in the Florida Keys, his latest book, Saili...
“It seemed a very long day confined to our room. Still no hot water. We couldn’t shower; it was too cold. We waited for someone to come and question us. Nobody did. Our imaginations ran ri...
Thirty-somethings Dave and Jaja Martin were in the midst of what they termed their “midlife cruising crisis.” They had already sailed around the world in a Cal 25, and Jaja had just given ...
Your boating library may include Chapman’s for general rules and seamanship, Eric and Susan Hiscock for practical instruction, Don Casey for maintenance, Bowditch for navigation, maybe even Tris...
If George Sigler has just one regret it is that he didn’t publish his book, Experiment in Survival, sooner. The book details the Pacific crossing that he and a friend made in a Zodiac inflatable...
From the Cockpit of the Rubaiyat is a book that speaks to the amateur sailor in those of us for whom sailing is a passion beyond logic and yet who, in all likelihood, will never venture forth upon the...
Turn your imagination on and transport yourself to 1912. You’re aboard a 24-foot 6-inch Cape Cod Catboat, named Mascot, with one other person and a real cat, named Scotty, sailing from Massachus...
In September of 1998, Hurricane Georges roared through the Caribbean Sea and continued on a course that would take it through the Florida Keys and the Gulf of Mexico. When it became evident that Georg...
Bill Burr bought a 14-year-old boat, moved aboard, and set about making it “like new.” His projects were not so much of the power tool, Sawsall, and mechanical variety, however. He didn...
Popular histories such as Dava Sobel’s Longitude illustrate the drama of Europe’s ascendancy in the Age of Discovery. Governments sponsored inventions and universities, new measurement too...
CD-ROM BY PAT AND PAUL ESTERLE (DISTRIBUTED BY CAP’N PAULEY VIDEOS; $9.95) REVIEWED BY BEN HOCKER As the owner of a 32-foot 1979 Columbia 9.6, I was interested in viewing this CD-ROM . It is aut...
Captain Bill Brogdon intended that Boat Navigation for the Rest of Us, Finding Your Way by Eye and Electronicsteach us how to safely navigate our boats without having navigation become a chore ...
Why do you like to sail? Why do people go to sea, quit their jobs, sell their homes, homeschool (boatschool) their children? We all have responses to these questions . . . but going to sea for the ...
The wise owl, Robert Louis Stevenson, and the pussycat, his wife (manipulative and ever-seasick Fanny), took some money — he had a bundle — and sailed the pea-green Pacific amidst gilt spl...
On October 31, 1999, Australian teenager Jesse Martin became the youngest sailor ever to voyage solo, non-stop and unassisted around the world. With simple language and meticulous detail, Jesse’...
What could be more illogical than a love of boats, of sailing, and of the sea? No one knows this better than Bruce Myers, a Chesapeake Bay sailor and the owner of a 1978 Cal 2-27, named Getting There....
Don’t you ever go out in that thing again!” So screeched my mother that spring day in 1949 when I first paddled my recently constructed “umbrella canoe” and returned soaked and...
Are you a sew-it-yourself boater considering a cruise through the Caribbean? Or have you always wanted a complete set of international signal flags but haven’t the money to buy them or the energ...
This is the yearly presentation of data used for astronomical navigation at sea. Except for 27 pages of ads, it contains the same data and format as the edition produced by Her Majesty’s Nautica...
Everyone talks about the rules, but nobody does anything about them. If you’re about to head to sea and you haven’t memorized all the rules, lights, sound signals, and dayshapes, you may b...
“Do you really want to build that first metal boat . . . or buy a used one and repair it?” Roger McAfee gives the would-be first-time owner, boatbuilder, or repairer of a metal boat an ins...
Part of the joy of sailing is messing about with our boats — all those little improvements that make sailing and living aboard easier, safer, and more fun. Having read a number of books containi...
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” This is a famous Helen Keller quote and also the “why” behind George Hone’s story of how he and two other men in a ...
“I enjoy adventure and new experiences on a sailboat in the Caribbean.” This mantra, or variations on it, are what keep the author going in this frank but funny recounting of a neophyte sa...
Is it cynical to place yourself voluntarily in the position of desperate men whose only thought was of reaching home safely?” An interesting question. Author Arved Fuchs asks this question sever...
