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- THE SAND PEBBLES, Richard McKenna, 1962, US gunboat on the
- Yangtze River.
-
-
- MASTER OF MORGANA, Allan C. McLean, Scots salmon fisherman
- solves murder.
-
-
- BILLY BUDD, FORETOPMAN, Herman Melville.
-
-
- MOBY DICK, Herman Melville.
-
-
- OMOO, Herman Melville.
-
-
- REDBURN, Herman Melville.
-
-
- TYPEE, Herman Melville.
-
-
- WHITE-JACKET, OR, THE WORLD IN A MAN-OF-WAR, Herman
- Melville.
-
-
- CHESAPEAKE, James Michener.
-
-
- TALES OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC, James Michener, island life in WW
- II US navy.
-
-
- DARKEN SHIP, Nicholas Monsarrat, the unfinished novel.
-
-
- THE MASTER MARINER, Nicholas Monsarrat, time traveler.
-
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-
- 88
-
-
-
-
- THREE CORVETTES, Nicholas Monsarrat, 194?
-
-
- HMS MARLBOROUGH WILL ENTER HARBOR, Nicholas Monsarrat,
- 1947.
-
-
- THE CRUEL SEA, Nicholas Monsarrat, 1951, WWII convoy escort, and
- his best by far.
-
-
- GREY SEAS UNDER, Farley Mowat, non-fiction.
-
-
- THE BOAT THAT WOULDN'T FLOAT, Farley Mowat, non-fiction.
-
-
- THE SERPENT'S COIL, Farley Mowat, non-fiction.
-
-
- ANGEL DEATH, Patricia Moyes, 1980.
-
-
- MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY, Charles Nordhoff and James Norman
- Hall, see also In Search of Paradise, about Nordhoff and Hall.
-
-
- MEN AGAINST THE SEA, Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall,
- 1934.
-
-
- PITCAIRN'S ISLAND, Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, 1934.
-
-
- THE HURRICANE, Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, 1938,
- Tahiti.
-
-
- DESOLATION ISLAND, Patrick O'Brian, Aubrey/Maturin no. 5.
-
-
- H.M.S. SURPRISE, Patrick O'Brian, Aubrey/Maturin no. 3.
-
-
- MAURITIUS COMMAND, Patrick O'Brian, Aubrey/Maturin no. 4.
-
-
- NOTE ON O"BRIAN, Patrick O'Brian, arguably the top novelist of life
- under square sails.
-
-
- POST CAPTAIN, Patrick O'Brian, Aubrey/Maturin no. 2.
-
-
- THE AUBREY/MATURIN SERIES, Patrick O'Brian, British Naval
- Fiction at its best. Aubrey is a Captain in the British Navy, Maturin is
- the Ship's surgeon. Good fight scenes, excellent details on naval life and
- almost anything else ca. 1790-1815. The first volume is "Master and
- Commander.".
-
-
- THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD, Patrick O'Brian, Aubrey/Maturin
- no. 10.
-
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-
- 89
-
-
-
-
- THE FORTUNE OF WAR, Patrick O'Brian, Aubrey/Maturin no. 6.
-
-
- THE IONIAN MISSION, Patrick O'Brian, Aubrey/Maturin no. 8.
-
-
- THE LETTER OF MARQUE, Patrick O'Brian, Aubrey/Maturin no. 12.
-
-
- THE NUTMEG OF CONSOLATION, Patrick O'Brian, Aubrey/Maturin
- no. 14.
-
-
- THE REVERSE OF THE MEDAL, Patrick O'Brian, Aubrey/Maturin
- no. 11.
-
-
- THE SURGEON'S MATE, Patrick O'Brian, Aubrey/Maturin no. 7.
-
-
- THE THIRTEEN GUN SALUTE, Patrick O'Brian, Aubrey/Maturin no.
- 13.
-
-
- THE TRUELOVE, Patrick O'Brian, Aubrey/Maturin no. 15.
-
-
- THE UNKNOWN SHORE, Patrick O'Brian.
-
-
- TREASON'S HARBOR, Patrick O'Brian, Aubrey/Maturin no. 9.
-
-
- THE GOLDEN OCEAN, Patrick O'Brian, 1957.
-
-
- MASTER AND COMMANDER, Patrick O'Brian, 1969, Aubrey/Maturin
- no. 1.
-
-
- THE WINE-DARK SEA, Patrick O'Brian, 1993, Aubrey/Maturin no. 16.
-
-
- A SHORT HISTORY OF THE ROYAL NAVY: 1776 - 1816, C. Northcote
- Parkinson.
-
-
- THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HORATIO HORNBLOWER, C. Northcote
- Parkinson.
-
-
- DEVIL TO PAY, C. Northcote Parkinson, 1973, 1800-period naval action:
- 1794.
-
-
- THE FIRESHIP, C. Northcote Parkinson, 1975, 1800-period naval action:
- 1797.
-
-
- TOUCH AND GO, C. Northcote Parkinson, 1977, 1800-period naval
- action:.
-
-
- DEAD RECKONING, C. Northcote Parkinson, 1978, 1800-period naval
- action:.
-
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-
- 90
-
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-
-
- STORM FORCE 10, Harry Patterson, german armed raider trying to
- make it home in WWII.
-
-
- BLOOD OF THE ALBATROSS, Ridley Pearson.
-
-
- NOTE ON PEASE, Howard Pease, for "young" readers:.
-
-
- THE TATTOOED MAN, Howard Pease, 1926, a tale of strange
- adventures, befalling Tod Moran, <cuts> upon his first voyage from San
- Francisco to Genoa, via the Panama canal.
-
-
- THE JINX SHIP, Howard Pease, 1927, the dark adventure that befell Tod
- Moran when he shipped as fireman aboard the tramp steamer "Congo",
- bound out of New York for Caribbean ports.
-
-
- SHANGHAI PASSAGE, Howard Pease, 1929, being a tale of mystery and
- adventure on the high seas in which Stuart Ormsby is shanghaied aboard
- the tramp steamer "Nanking" bound for ports on the China coast.
-
-
- SECRET CARGO, Howard Pease, 1931, the story of Larry Mathews and
- his dog Sambo, forcastle mates on the tramp steamer "Creole trader"
- New Orleans to the South seas.
-
-
- THE SHIP WITHOUT A CREW, Howard Pease, 1934, the strange
- adventures of Tod Moran, third mate of the tramp steamer "Araby".
-
-
- HURRICANE WEATHER, Howard Pease, 1936.
-
-
- FOGHORNS, Howard Pease, 1937, a story of the San Francisco water
- front.
-
-
- CAPTAIN BINNACLE, Howard Pease, 1938.
-
-
- THE BLACK TANKER, Howard Pease, 1941.
-
-
- NIGHT BOAT, AND OTHER TOD MORAN MYSTERIES, Howard
- Pease, 1942.
-
-
- HEART OF DANGER, Howard Pease, 1946, a tale of adventure on land
- and sea with Tod Moran, third mate of the tramp steamer "Araby".
-
-
- BOUND FOR SINGAPORE, Howard Pease, 1948.
-
-
- WIND IN THE RIGGING, Howard Pease, 1951, an adventurous voyage of
- Tod Moran on the tramp steamer "Sumatra" New York to North Africa.
-
-
- CAPTAIN OF THE ARABY, Howard Pease, 1953, the story of a voyage.
-
-
-
- 91
-
-
-
-
- SHIPWRECK, Howard Pease, 1957, the strange adventures of Renny
- Mitchum, mess boy of the trading schooner "Samarang.".
-
-
- THE BOY, ME, AND THE CAT, Henry Plummer, Good writing about a
- long cruise on a catboat.
-
-
- THE NARRATIVE OF ARTHUR GORDON PYM OF NANTUCKET,
- E. A. Poe, ca. 1840, mutiny and murder.
-
-
- ADMIRAL, Dudley Pope.
-
-
- DRUMBEAT (RAMAGE AND THE DRUM BEAT), Dudley Pope,
- Ramage no. 2.
-
-
- GOVERNOR RAMAGE, R.N., Dudley Pope, Ramage no. 4.
-
-
- NOTE ON POPE, Dudley Pope, more Napoleonic naval action. Pope has
- also written some naval history. If someone likes Alexander Kent's books,
- he/she will no doubt like Dudley Pope's Ramage series.
-
-
- RAMAGE, Dudley Pope, Ramage no. 1.
-
-
- RAMAGE AND THE DIDO, Dudley Pope, Ramage no. ?
-
-
- RAMAGE AND THE FREEBOOTERS, Dudley Pope, Ramage no. ?
-
-
- RAMAGE AND THE GUILLOTINE, Dudley Pope, Ramage no. ?
-
-
- RAMAGE AND THE MUTINY, Dudley Pope, Ramage no. ?
-
-
- RAMAGE AND THE REBELS, Dudley Pope, Ramage no. 9.
-
-
- RAMAGE AND THE RENEGADES, Dudley Pope, Ramage no. 12.
-
-
- RAMAGE AND THE SARACENS, Dudley Pope, Ramage no. ?
-
-
- RAMAGE AT TRAFALGAR, Dudley Pope, Ramage no. ?
-
-
- RAMAGE'S CHALLENGE, Dudley Pope, Ramage no. ?
-
-
- RAMAGE'S DEVIL, Dudley Pope, Ramage no. ?
-
-
- RAMAGE'S DIAMOND, Dudley Pope, Ramage no. ?
-
-
- RAMAGE'S DIAMOND, Dudley Pope, Ramage no. ?
-
-
- RAMAGE'S PRIZE, Dudley Pope, Ramage no. 5.
-
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-
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-
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-
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- RAMAGE'S SIGNAL, Dudley Pope, Ramage no. 11.
-
-
- RAMAGE'S SIGNAL, Dudley Pope, Ramage no. ?
-
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- RAMAGE'S TRIAL, Dudley Pope, Ramage no. ?
-
-
- THE RAMAGE TOUCH, Dudley Pope, Ramage no. 10.
-
-
- THE TRITON BRIG, Dudley Pope, Ramage no. 3.
-
-
- BUCCANEER, Dudley Pope, 1984.
-
-
- CONVOY, Dudley Pope, 1987.
-
-
- BAHAMAS BLUE, D.C. Poyer.
-
-
- HATTERAS BLUE, D.C. Poyer.
-
-
- BOOK OF PIRATES, Howard Pyle, 1921.
-
-
- FOREIGN LAND, Justin Rabin, modern cruise around UK.
-
-
- HANGMAN'S BEACH, Thomas Head Raddall.
-
-
- TIDEFALL, Thomas Head Raddall.
-
-
- TUGBOAT ANNIE, Norman Reilly Raine, 1934, The Humorous
- Adventures of the tug Narcissus and her colorful captain in and around
- Puget Sound.
-
-
- CAPTAIN KIDD, Norman Reilly Raine, 1945, fiction?
-
-
- ALL WORKS, Arthur Ransome, All his books are great; the swallows and
- amazons series is a set of children's books; kids seem to like them at
- about age 7 or 8 to start with. Some of us go on reading them forever.
- "We didn't mean to go to sea" is one of the best. A note from (fm) says
- "The 12 Swallows & Amazons novels are best read in the order they were
- written. They are not all about sailing, but most are. Ransome is
- particularly good at the detail of sailing and at capturing the capricious
- changes in wind, waves, currents, visibility, etc., that help make sailing so
- interesting." He also notes, of another Ransome work, that: "Racundra's
- First Cruise is a very interesting reminiscence of sailing in the Baltic.".
-
-
- BIG SIX, Arthur Ransome.
-
-
- COOT CLUB, Arthur Ransome.
-
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-
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-
-
-
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- COOTS IN THE NORTH, Arthur Ransome, posthumous; incomplete.
-
-
- GREAT NORTHERN, Arthur Ransome.
-
-
- MISSEE LEE, Arthur Ransome.
-
-
- NOTE 1 ON RANSOME, Arthur Ransome, There is The Arthur
- Ransome Society TARS, for the enthusiasts. There are some non-fiction
- books about all this, too.
-
-
- NOTE 2 ON RANSOME, Arthur Ransome, nominally juvenile; will
- appeal to the traditionalist and to those who like Treasure Island.
-
-
- PETER DUCK, Arthur Ransome.
-
-
- PIGEON POST, Arthur Ransome.
-
-
- SECRET WATER, Arthur Ransome.
-
-
- SWALLOWDALE, Arthur Ransome.
-
-
- THE PICTS AND MARTYRS, Arthur Ransome.
-
-
- WE DIDN'T MEAN TO GO TO SEA, Arthur Ransome.
-
-
- WINTER HOLIDAY, Arthur Ransome, no boating but part of series.
-
-
- SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS, Arthur Ransome, 1930.
-
-
- BADGE OF HONOR, Douglas Reeman, about the Royal Marines.
-
-
- FIRST TO LAND, Douglas Reeman, about the Royal Marines.
-
-
- HIS MAJESTY'S U-BOAT, Douglas Reeman.
-
-
- IN DANGER'S HOUR, Douglas Reeman.
-
-
- IRON PIRATE, Douglas Reeman.
-
-
- NOTE ON REEMAN, Douglas Reeman, twentieth century period. see
- also "Alexander Kent".
-
-
- A PRAYER FOR THE SHIP, Douglas Reeman.
-
-
- PRIDE AND THE ANGUISH, Douglas Reeman.
-
-
- RENDEZVOUS SOUTH ATLANTIC, Douglas Reeman.
-
-
-
- 94
-
-
-
-
- SEND A GUNBOAT, Douglas Reeman.
-
-
- SURFACE WITH DARING, Douglas Reeman.
-
-
- THE GREATEST ENEMY, Douglas Reeman.
-
-
- THE HORIZON, Douglas Reeman, about the Royal Marines.
-
-
- THE LAST RAIDER, Douglas Reeman.
-
-
- THE SHIP THAT DIED OF SHAME, Douglas Reeman, set on an MTB
- used for smuggling.
-
-
- LONG VOYAGE BACK, Luke Rhinehart, escape from a nuclear
- holocaust in a trimaran.
-
-
- TALES OF THE CARIBBEAN, Garland Roark.
-
-
- WAKE OF THE RED WITCH, Garland Roark, 1946, also on video.
-
-
- THE WRECK OF THE RUNNING GALE, Garland Roark, 1953.
-
-
- THE LIVELY LADY, Kenneth Roberts, 1937, American privateers
- during the War of 1812.
-
-
- CAPTAIN CAUTION, Kenneth Roberts, 1945, American privateers
- during the Revolutionary War.
-
-
- BOON ISLAND, Kenneth Roberts, 1956, Shipwreck on a tiny rock off of
- the New England colonies.
-
-
- THE BEDFORD INCIDENT, Mark Roscovich, 1963, US destroyer plays
- nuclear chicken with a Soviet sub in the Denmark Strait.
-
-
- NOTE ON RUSSELL, Clark Russell, recommended by A. Conan Doyle.
-
-
- FLYING DUTCHMAN, OR, THE DEATH SHIP, Clark Russell, 188?
-
-
- THE MYSTERY OF THE OCEAN STAR, Clark Russell, 1891, short
- stories.
-
-
- ROUND THE GALLEY FIRE, Clark Russell, 1893.
-
-
- OCEAN FREE LANCE, Clark Russell, 1896.
-
-
- THE WRECK OF THE GROSVENOR, Clark Russell, 1899.
-
-
-
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-
-
-
-
- TALES OF OUR COAST, Clark Russell, 1901.
-
-
- THE BLACK SWAN, Rafael Sabatini.
-
-
- THE FORTUNES OF CAPTAIN BLOOD, Rafael Sabatini.
-
-
- THE SEA HAWK, Rafael Sabatini.
-
-
- CAPTAIN BLOOD, Rafael Sabatini, 1922.
-
-
- CAPTAIN BLOOD RETURNS, Rafael Sabatini, 1931.
-
-
- COLUMBUS, Rafael Sabatini, 1942.
-
-
- THE SHIPKILLER, Justin Scott, sailor vs. tanker.
-
-
- OVERBOARD, Hank Searls.
-
-
- NOTE ON SETLOWE, Richard Setlowe, modern post-cold-war thrillers
- with hi-tech navy.
-
-
- THE BRINK, Richard Setlowe.
-
-
- THE BLACK SEA, Richard Setlowe, 1991, jihad pirates, Russian liner,
- US Navy force.
-
-
- THE TRUSTEE FROM THE TOOLROOM, Nevil Shute, machinist goes
- to the South Seas to salvage a yacht and settle an estate.
-
-
- LANDFALL: A CHANNEL STORY, Nevil Shute, 1940.
-
-
- EYE OF THE TIGER, Wilbur Smith, modern thriller.
-
-
- HUNGRY AS THE SEA, Wilbur Smith, modern thriller.
-
-
- THE DIAMOND HUNTERS, Wilbur Smith, modern thriller.
-
-
- KIDNAPPED, Robert Louis Stevenson.
-
-
- THE MASTER OF BALLANTRAE, Robert Louis Stevenson, may be his
- best book, but not so much on the sea.
-
-
- TREASURE ISLAND, Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883.
-
-
- OUTERBRIDGE REACH, Robert Stone, 1992, modern yachtsman tries
- his luck.
-
-
- ROUGH CROSSING, Stoppard, drama; liner?
-
-
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-
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-
-
- GULLIVER'S TRAVELS, Jonathan Swift, 1726.
-
-
- THE SEA LEOPARD, Craig Thomas, British nuclear sub with sonar
- "cloaking device".
-
-
- THE DEATH SHIP: THE STORY OF AN AMERICAN SAILOR,
- B. Traven, 1934, Black comedy about the black gang of a doomed
- freighter by the mysterious author of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
-
-
- KLEBER'S CONVOY, Antony Trew, U-Boats harry Murmansk bound
- convoy.
-
-
- RUNNING WILD, Antony Trew, Anti-apartheid activists escape S. Africa
- in a ketch.
-
-
- SEA FEVER, Antony Trew, single-handed round trip yacht race across
- the N. Atlantic in winter.
-
-
- THE ANTONOV PROJECT, Antony Trew, Cold War naval spy story.
-
-
- THE MOONRAKER MUTINY, Antony Trew, crew mutinies and
- abandons freighter on way to Australia.
-
-
- THE ZHUKOV BRIEFING, Antony Trew, Soviet sub runs aground off
- Norway.
-
-
- THE MANILA GALLEON, F. van Wyck Mason, fiction based on Anson's
- voyage around the world, 1740-44.
-
-
- DICK SANDS, THE BOY CAPTAIN, Jules Verne.
-
-
- THE BLOCKADE RUNNERS, Jules Verne.
-
-
- THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND, Jules Verne, desert island story.
-
-
- THE VOYAGES AND ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN HATTERAS,
- Jules Verne.
-
-
- TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA, Jules Verne, ca.
- 1870.
-
-
- THE ENGLISH CAPTAIN, Simon White, 1977, Napoleonic wars naval
- yarn.
-
-
- LEOPARD'S PREY, Leonard Wibberly, 1971, young adult; a powderboy
- and the pirates.
-
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-
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- BELOW THE HORIZON, John Wingate.
-
-
- THE SEA ABOVE THEM, John Wingate.
-
-
- "1805", Richard Woodman, Drinkwater series, 1800-period naval action.
-
-
- AN EYE OF THE FLEET, Richard Woodman, Drinkwater series,
- 1800-period naval action.
-
-
- BALTIC MISSION, Richard Woodman, Drinkwater series, 1800-period
- naval action.
-
-
- BOMB VESSEL, Richard Woodman, Drinkwater series, 1800-period
- naval action.
-
-
- A BRIG OF WAR, Richard Woodman, Drinkwater series, 1800-period
- naval action.
-
-
- ENDANGERED SPECIES, Richard Woodman.
-
-
- IN DISTANT WATERS, Richard Woodman, Drinkwater series,
- 1800-period naval action.
-
-
- A KING'S CUTTER, Richard Woodman, Drinkwater series, 1800-period
- naval action.
-
-
- A PRIVATE REVENGE, Richard Woodman, Drinkwater series,
- 1800-period naval action.
-
-
- TEA CLIPPERS, Richard Woodman.
-
-
- THE CORVETTE (IN US: ARCTIC TREACHERY), Richard Woodman,
- Drinkwater series, 1800-period naval action.
-
-
- THE DARKENING SEA, Richard Woodman.
-
-
- UNDER FALSE COLOURS, Richard Woodman, Drinkwater series,
- 1800-period naval action.
-
-
- WAGER, Richard Woodman.
-
-
- BLUE WATER GREEN SKIPPER, Stuart Woods, 1977.
-
-
- RUN BEFORE THE WIND, Stuart Woods, 1983.
-
-
- THE CAINE MUTINY, Herman Wouk, 1951.
-
-
-
- 98
-
-
-
-
- 6.6 Design, seaworthiness, arts of the sailor,
-
- boatbuilding
-
-
-
- THE ALTERNATIVE KNOT BOOK, Harry Asher, A book about new
- knots and splices that are appropriate for modern fibers and weaves of
- rope. ISBN: 0911378952. (bm).
-
-
- ASHLEY'S BOOK OF KNOTS AND FANCY ROPEWORK, Ashley,
- The definitive book on the subject.
-
-
- ANCHORING, Don Bamford, Anchoring is really a subtle and complex
- business which isn't given the attention it deserves by many people.
- While the chapter in Hiscock covers the basics quite well, this book does
- it in depth and detail.(mh).
-
-
- SEXTANT HANDBOOK, Bruce Bauer, This is about the instrument
- itself and its care. Not really necessary, but nice to have.(mh).
-
-
- VOYAGING UNDER POWER, Beebe, About design and building plus
- long range voyaging; excellent short chapter by his wife about
- provisioning and managing the galley.(tl).
-
-
- THE PROPER YACHT, Arthur Beiser, Dated and out of print, but a
- good guide to some of the older designs which are found on the used
- market.(mh).
-
-
- HIGH PERFORMANCE SAILING, Frank Bethwaite, ISBN 0 87742 419
- 4. International Marine is at PO Box 220, Camden, ME, 04843.
- Elsewhere in the world it uses ISBN 0 07 470 100 2, from McGraw Hill
- Australia Pty Ltd, 4 Barcoo Street, Roseville NSW 2069, Australia. The
- book is about 400 pages with four sections on the wind, water, boat
- development, and how to use what you have. I'm up to about page 250
- now, and Frank treats all areas of the world, and when nothing but local
- knowledge will help you (he speaks of visiting bars on the waterfront to
- talk to freight ship captains rather than local sailors :-). Good stuff...
- (ab) From further discussion of this book on the net, it would appear to
- be the very best on the subject, supported by serious research data rather
- than conjecture. (jfh).
-
-
- BOAT CANVAS FROM COVER TO COVER, Bob and Karen Lipe, A
- very basic discussion of canvas work with a series of practical projects
- from simple to complex.(mh).
-
-
- 100 SMALL BOAT RIGS, Philip C. Bolger, He's managed to take what
-
-
-
- 99
-
-
-
-
- could be a very boring topic and make it intensely lively.
-
-
- TED BREWER EXPLAINS SAILBOAT DESIGN, Ted Brewer, Good
- introduction to the technical aspects and jargon of sailing yacht design.
- No math.(mh).
-
-
- BACKYARD BOAT BUILDING, George Buehler, This is a
- no-nonsense(?) book on building stout seagoing boats. Most of it deals
- with wood construction. Buehler is a designer, builder, and cruiser who
- lives in the Pacific northwest, and his designs include power and sail
- cruisers and workboats. It includes plans for 8 boats, but it IS really
- about building in your backyard, in the tradition of Rable and Chappelle.
- 320 pg paperback, $24.95 IM 158380 (wv).
-
-
- PRECISION CRUISING, Authur F. Chace, A series of cruising stories
- which pose various problems in seamanship and piloting, along with
- proposed solutions for those problems. (mh).
-
-
- YACHT DESIGNING AND PLANNING, Howard Chapelle, WW Norton
- and Co. New York 1971. (I don't know if it's still in print). The book to
- turn to when you want lots of good useful, practical advice on yacht
- design. Not heavy on theory but has years of experience behind it.(mp).
-
-
- HEAVY WEATHER SAILING, Adlard Coles.
-
-
- HANDMADE HOUSEBOATS - INDEPENDENT LIVING AFLOAT,
- Russell Condor, Houseboats in the tradition of Whole Earth Catalog, so
- read with caution. Contains photos and drawings of some good, classic
- floating residences. 230 pg paperback, $19.95 IM 158022 (wv).
-
-
- WORLD CRUISING ROUTES, Jimmy Cornell, A route planning guide
- for world cruising with regional weather patterns, currents, etc. Highly
- recommended.(mh).
-
-
- THE YACHT NAVIGATOR'S HANDBOOK, Norman Dahl, A concise
- and very practical coverage of general navigation and piloting, the best
- overall reference on the subject I have found. The section on celestial is
- good enough to serve as a self-teaching course, although it probably isn't
- the best choice for that purpose. Highly recommended, but appears to be
- out of print. (mh).
-
-
- YACHT NAVIGATOR'S HANDBOOK, Norman Dahl, A good
- intermediate book between Chapman and Bowditch.(mh).
-
-
- SAFETY AT SEA, George Day, Covers everything from yacht design to
- abandon-ship in a broad and general way.(mh).
-
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-
- THE NATURE OF BOATS, Dave Gerr.
-
-
- HOW THINGS FLOAT, E. N. Gilbert, American Mathematical Monthly,
- March 1991 (Vol. 98, No. 3), pp. 201-216.
-
-
- SURVIVOR, Michael Greenwald, The part of it you don't want to think
- about but must. Mainly about liferaft survival, but also covers many
- other topics concerned with safety and emergencies including medical
- procedures. Highly recommended.(mh) ADVANCED FIRST AID
- AFLOAT by Peter F. Eastman, MD. Seems to be the best all around
- medical manual.(mh).
-
-
- FIBERGLASS BOATBUILDING FOR AMATEURS, Ken Hankinson,
- You can get it from Glen-L Marine (look in the classifieds of just about
- any sailing magazine). It covers pretty much all aspects of glass boat
- building. More technical, covers different resins and reinforcements,
- vacuum bagging, high tech as well as low tech, gel coats, laminating, etc.
- (mp).
-
-
- CHOICE YACHT DESIGNS, Richard Henderson, See comments on
- Beiser, The Proper Yacht.
-
-
- SAILING IN WINDY WEATHER, Richard Henderson, A good book on
- sailing in a half gale, but not a gale or a hurricane. (jfh).
-
-
- THE GOUGEON BROTHERS ON BOAT CONSTRUCTION,
- Gougeon Brothers Inc., Bay City, MI 1983. The best by far on cold
- molding. Lots of practical hints. Good safety (esp. WRT epoxy) and
- general/setup chapters. How to mix and use epoxy, how to engineer wood
- composite structures. (mp).
-
-
- DESIRABLE AND UNDESIRABLE CHARACTERISTICS OF
- OFFSHORE YACHTS, ed. John Rousmaniere, Technical, but required
- reading for anyone choosing an offshore boat. This is a series of reports
- which were inspired by the Fastnet race disaster of 1979 and sponsored by
- the Cruising Club of America.(mh).
-
-
- THE SCIENCE OF YACTS WIND AND WATER, H. F. Kay, G. T.
- Foulis and Co Ltd 1971 Has most of the formulas you need, I guess.
-
-
- CHAPMAN'S PILOTING, SEAMANSHIP, AND SMALL BOAT
- HANDLING, Elbert S. Maloney, The bible of basic boating. Tons of good
- information, with perhaps a bit too much emphasis on flag etiquette, but
- otherwise excellent. Kept up to date by Elbert S. Maloney. (jh).
-
-
- DUTTON'S NAVIGATION AND PILOTING, Elbert S. Maloneyn, I
-
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-
-
- believe this used to be published by the Navy and used as text at
- Annapolis. (wh).
-
-
- AERO HYDRODYNAMICS OF SAILING, C. A. Marchaj, Adlard Coles
- Ltd. 1979 A complete update of the previous classic text.
-
-
- SAILING THEORY AND PRACTICE, C. A. Marchaj, Adlard Coles Ltd.
- 1964 A scientific analysis of the aerodynamic and hydrodynamic and
- other design factors wich define the yachts behaviour.
-
-
- SEAWORTHINESS: THE FORGOTTEN FACTOR, C. A. Marchaj,
- (International Marine Publishing Company of CAMDEN Maine), $34.95.
- This is the book on hull design. It is a nice melange of the artistic,
- political, academic, and technical, and Marchaj has a fine writing style.
- For boaters, all I can say is that most will find it very controversial. His
- precise and tightly argued passages on just why the modern racing yacht
- is neither seakindly nor seaworthy will have some, like myself, smugly
- nodding, and others, most racers, I guess, hopping mad.
-
-
- THE WORLD'S BEST SAILBOATS, Ferenc Mate', Even if you can't
- afford the boats in this book, it will give you some ideas of what to look
- for. Coffee-table format, glorious photography. Try not to drool on
- it.(mh).
-
-
- SURVEYING SMALL CRAFT, Ian Nicholson, How to evaluate a
- prospective purchase. Not a substitute for a professional survey, but very
- useful for preliminary work before making an offer.(mh).
-
-
- AMERICAN PRACTICAL NAVIGATOR (BOWDITCH), The
- US Hydrographic Office, (2 volumes) More than you would ever dream of
- wanting to know about navigation. Most of it is oriented towards big
- ships, but everything there is, is in there somewhere. No one will take you
- seriously unless you have Bowditch aboard.(mh).
-
-
- BUILD THE INSTANT BOATS, Hal Payson, Simple, often
- not-very-strong, boats.(jfh) Easy to build, and the ones with lots of
- curvature tend to be strong and stiff (paraphrased). (wv).
-
-
- BUILD THE NEW INSTANT BOATS, Hal Payson, See notes on previous
- book.
-
-
- FASTNET FORCE 10, John Rousmaniere, Fascinating, absolutely
- riveting book. It tells the story of the 79 Fastnet race from the
- perspective of the participants, by one of the participants. His story gives
- a different view than most of the general media reports, by somebody who
- was there.(mp).
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- THE ANNAPOLIS BOOK OF SEAMANSHIP, John Rousmaniere,
- Simon and Schuster, New York 1989. A complete and thorough guide to
- every aspect of sailboat handling by a leading expert in offshore sailing.
- Chapters include the boat and her environment, safety, navigation, and
- self-sufficiency.(mp).
-
-
- THE CRUISING NAVIGATOR, Hewett Schlereth, (4 volumes) A full
- course in basic celestial navigation plus a complete reference work on the
- subject with perpetual almanacs and sight reduction tables. No other
- references are required. As a self-teaching course, it is not perfect but it is
- very good (I learned from it). As a working reference, its only weakness is
- that it does not include the moon and planets (perpetual almanacs aren't
- practical for these bodies). Printed on waterproof paper with heavy
- covers. This set cost $100 and is now out of print. A used copy is a major
- find. Volume "00", SIGHT REDUCTION TABLES FOR SMALL BOAT
- NAVIGATION is a find in itself. This is a much more convenient set of
- tables than any of the standard sets (it is a condensed version of HO 229).
- Highly recommended.(mh).
-
-
- SKEENE'S ELEMENTS OF YACHT DESIGN., Norman Skene, An early
- classic. Also originally called "Elements of Yacht Design." Dodd, Mead
- and Co. First edition 1927, many later revisions and editions to the early
- 1950s. Out of print, first editions quite rare. A classic in the field.
-
-
- OFFSHORE CRUISING ENCYCLOPEDIA, Steve and Linda Dashew,
- Not an encyclopedia, but a tremendous collection of well informed opinion
- on every subject imaginable. Oriented towards larger (sail) boats and
- cost-no-object cruising, but it has something for everybody. Whether it is
- worth the tremendous price (about $70) is another matter.(mh).
-
-
- BOATBUILDING MANUAL, Robert Steward, The most concise book on
- wooden boat construction (including modern methods). Easy to read and
- understand. A standard reference.(mp).
-
-
- KNOTS, Brion Toss, A nice little basic introduction to the important
- knots and their use by a good writer.(mh).
-
-
- THE RIGGERS APPRENTICE, Brion Toss, The more sophisticated
- aspects of rope and lines.(mh).
-
-
- BOATBUILDING ONE-OFFS IN FIBERGLASS, Alan Vaitses, (I think
- it's now out of print). This one has so much wisdom per page it's worth
- looking for. Really a hands-on book, Vaitses made a living building glass
- boats for a long time, so he's made all the mistakes and knows what
- works and what doesn't.(mp).
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- THE OCEAN SAILING YACHT, Donald Street (2 volumes), The first
- volume is dated but covers the basics well. The second volume covers
- most of the same subjects in a more complete manner and from a more
- modern perspective. The volumes complement one another.(mh).
-
-
- THE ART AND SCIENCE OF SAILS, Tom Whidden, Not quite so
- technically inclined is "Sail Power (The Complete Guide to Sails and Sail
- Handling)" by Wallace Ross.
-
-
-
- 6.7 Films and videos
-
-
-
- EN PLEIN SOLEIL, Alain Delon in romantic trio on classic med sail
- yacht (?1962) (tl).
-
-
- BURDEN OF DREAMS, Film, About the making of Fitzcaraldo.
-
-
- FITZCARALDO, Film, Werner Herzog, director.
-
-
- SAILING AROUND THE HORN, Captain Irving Johnson, video This is
- a fantasic videotape. You can order it from the Mystic Seaport
- bookstore/gift catalog. Here in San Francisco, they have it for sale at the
- Maritime Museum bookstore. Capt. Johnson's film documents a rounding
- of the Horn in 1929 (?) aboard the "Peking", a 4-masted barque from the
- famous Laiesz stable of giant square-riggers. Amazingly, three of them
- still survive: "Pommern" at the Mariehamn Museum in the Aland
- Islands, "Peking" at the South Street Seaport in New York and "Padua" -
- still afloat as the Soviet training ship "Kruzenshtern".
-
-
- ANAPOLIS SAILING SCHOOL, John Rousmaniere, Five or six volumes
- on various aspects of sailing. A nice hands-on approach. I've only seen a
- couple of volumes, but I learned a *lot* in those two hours.
-
-
- THE SHAPE OF SPEED, TRIM FOR SPEED, North Sails, Very good. I
- believe the latter is the newer one. It is shot on a J-35 which I crew. A
- number of the "rock stars" from North sails are on the boat in a race.
- There is dialog between the crew "Do you think we need a little more
- halyard tension?" Then they alter the halyard tension while showing the
- sail change shape. They go through basically all the controls that affect
- sail shape.(cp).
-
-
- DRUM, Video, Sail around the world with the crew of Drum, the hard
- luck maxi owned in part by rock star Simon Le Bon of Duran Duran
- fame. Great sailing footage of the 1986 Whitbread Race, good music by
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- Le Bon. One of my favorite sailing videos. (wms).
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-
-
- 6.8 Misc
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-
-
- THE OXFORD COMPANION TO SHIPS AND THE SEA, ships
- An encyclodepia of nautical history and personalities.(sm).
-
-
- THE OXFORD BOOK OF THE SEA, An anthology of maritime
- literature.(sm).
-
-
- MEALS ON KEELS, Bluewater Cruising Association, Cookbook from
- local cruising ass'n in Vancouver. (dk2).
-
-
- THE SAILING YACHT, Juan Baader, Out of print but shows up on used
- book lists occasionally. Comprehensive treatment of all aspects of sailing,
- lavishly illustrated.
-
-
- VOYAGING UNDER POWER (3RD EDITION), Robert Beebe, The
- only book I know of about long range cruising in small (50 feet/15 meters
- or less) power yachts. The author has designed and built several such
- boats and taken them all over the world. (mh).
-
-
- SELL UP AND SAIL, Bill and Laurel Cooper, This book is hard to
- describe. It begins with the question of whether you are cut out for long
- distance cruising and then proceeds to a lot of varied topics which aren't
- covered very well elsewhere. Laurel Cooper's sections on galley work and
- provisioning are among the best I have seen. Very British and sometimes
- startlingly irreverent. Useful and a good read.(mh).
-
-
- MANAGING YOUR ESCAPE, Katy Burke, How to arrange your life so
- that it does not require your presence. Oriented towards cruising but
- applicable to anyone wanting to pursue a freedom lifestyle.(mh).
-
-
- THE COMPLETE BOOK OF SAILBOAT BUYING, The editors of
- Practical Sailor, Two volumes, one covering the general subject of buying
- a boat, the other reprinting many of the PS boat review articles. The best
- general coverage of the topic. An earlier version called PRACTICAL
- BOAT BUYING is still in print. This is a single paperback volume.(mh)
- THE COMPLETE LIVE-ABOARD BOOK by Katy Burke. Every aspect
- of living aboard a boat, technical and otherwise. This is also a good guide
- to choosing a boat from the livability standpoint. Highly
- recommended.(mh).
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- COOKING ON THE GO, Janet Groene, A complete cookbook which
- does not require refrigeration. Includes extensive information on
- long-term storage of foods, as for a major passage.(mh).
-
-
- Microcruising and Microcruisers / under sail, Pete Hodgins, Not yet published,
- but written by a rec.boater; probably available from him in some
- pre-print form at aw103@freenet.carleton.ca (jfh).
-
-
- SELF-STEERING FOR SAILING CRAFT, John Jr. Letcher, Out of
- print and hard to find. Theory and practice from an accomplished
- designer and sailor.
-
-
- THE WIND COMMANDS, Harry A. Morton, A history of sea-faring
- people and vessels from polynesian canoes to clipper ships with an
- emphasis on Pacific voyages and what was needed to make them. Morton
- discusses pivotal developments in ship design, navigation, maratime
- medicine which enabled ships to cross the Pacific, as well as the culture
- and lore of the sea. I didn't care for the writing style and organization.
- The book has an excellent bibliography.
-
-
- THE CARE AND FEEDING OF THE OFFSHORE CREW, Lin Pardey,
- The domestic side of offshore boatkeeping. Covers much more than galley
- topics and tells a good cruising story along the way.(mh).
-
-
- ROYCE'S SAILING ILLUSTRATED, Royce, A compact little book with
- a lot of info in it, including descriptions and pictures of sloops, schooners,
- marconi rigs, gaff rigs, etc., in other words, a general intro to the styles of
- boats that are around (although it doesn't get into the distinctions
- between a brig and a bark, etc., but these rarely come up in day-to-day
- harbor scans).
-
-
- THE ONE POT MEAL, Hannah G. Scheel., Not intended for boat use,
- but probably the most practical boat or RV cookbook around. I've used
- this since my college days. Probably out of print, but worth looking
- for.(mh).
-
-
- A FIELD GUIDE TO SAILBOATS, unknown, Or is it "a field guide to
- boats"? This little book lists about 250 types of boats, from Dyer Dhows
- up to Columbia 50s. They are mostly ones that are in current production,
- and some of them are so painful to the eye that you want to know their
- names only in order to avoid them. Each page gives a drawing of the
- boat, with arrows pointing to distinctive features, and a long paragraph of
- text describing the boat. There's also basic info like tankage, sail area,
- displacement, length overall, waterline length, etc. (jfh).
-
-
- THE YACHTING COOKBOOK, Elizabeth Wheeler and Jennifer
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-
- Trainer, The only coffee-table cookbook I know of. Contains some of the
- best recipes I have found anywhere, all easy to prepare. I use it at home
- more than on the boat. This is for coastal cruising, based on regional
- ingredients. Wheeler is a charterboat cook.(mh).
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-
-
- Here is a list of the people who contributed to the information above. The
- list is widly incomplete, because I started collecting the information (for
- myself) long before I planned to make the FAQ, and didn't attach names
- to lots of things people told me. My apologizes to those whose names I've
- omitted. I'll gladly add them if you tell me to.
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- ab bowers@tifosi.dfrf.nasa.gov Al Bowers
- ag GERMAIN@CDHF2.GSFC.NASA.GOV Andy Germain
- al lastra@cs.unc.edu Anselmo Lastra
- ay alany@tekig5.pen.tek.com Alan Yelvington
- bj wtjones@sr.hp.com Bill Jones
- bp billp@voyager.chm.clarkson.edu Bill Plunkett
- bm cfwpm@ux1.cts.eiu.edu Bill McGown
- bs bsmith@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM Brian Smith
- bt Brigitte.Torok@CCIW.ca Brigitte Torok
- cp peterson@hercules.calspan.com Chuck Peterson
- cn nolte@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu Cheryl Nolte
- cr crossle1@cc.swarthmore.edu Cindy Rossley
- da davea@hpscit.sc.hp.com Dave Angelini
- db dbyrne@ldgo.columbia.edu Deirdre Byrne
- dk1 kinzer@prcamfg.sps.mot.com Dave Kinzer
- dk2 kell@mprgate.mpr.ca Dave Kell
- dz zielke@fozzie.nrl.navy.mil David Zielke
- eb boebert@SCTC.COM Earl Boebert
- em murphy@phri.nyu.edu Ellen Murphy
- fm francis@oas.Stanford.EDU Francis Muir
- fs Finn.Stafsnes@tf.tele.no Finn Stafsnes
- gb1 Greg Bullough
- gb2 Gerard Bras
- gb3 guido@blink.att.com Guido Bertocci
- gf gregf@ptidsun18.pen.tek.com Greg (Fox?)
- gm grm@instrumental.com Greg Mansfield
- gv gvertree@indiana.edu Gina Vertrees
- hc hchan@well.sf.ca.us Hoover Chan
- hl Hal@cache.declab.usu.edu Hal Lynch
- jb bloxham@geophysics.harvard.edu Jeremy Bloxham
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- jfh jfh@cs.brown.edu John Hughes
- jz zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us Jon Zeeff
- la lance@lancea.actrix.gen.nz Lance Andrewes
- mb burati@APOLLO.HP.COM Mike Burati
- mp pedersen@halcyon.com Matt Pedersen
- mt markt@tekig1.PEN.COM Mark Tilden
- pb bennett@erich.triumf.ca Peter Bennett
- pe Peter_Engels@star9gate.mitre.org Peter Engels
- pg peter.gustafsson@gd.chalmers.se Peter Gustafsson
- ph lotus!lotatg. lotus.com!phil@uunet.UU.NET
- Phil Somebody
- pk fishmeal@netcom.com Paul Kamen
- prh prh@s3109j15.atl.hp.com Phil Haseltine
- ps Paul.Saltzman@f764.n153.z1.ship.wimsey.bc.ca
- Paul Salzman
- rb bentson@grieg.seaslug.org Randolph Bentson
- rs roy@wombat.phri.nyu.edu Roy Smith
- rs2 rstepno@eagle.wesleyan.edu Bob Stepno
- rs3 spady@bcstec.ca.boeing.com Robyn Spady
- sb steph@candide.uchicago.edu Stephen Bailey
- sb2 sblair@upurbmw.dell.com Steve Blair
- sc steve@test490.pac.sc.ti.com Steve Comen
- sm stefan@sunrise.stanford.edu Stefan Michalowski
- sm2 smorris@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu Scott Morris
- srb Scott.Richard.Berg@p4910.f349.n109.z1.fidonet.org
- Scott Richard Berg
- sja dv207@cleveland.Freenet.Edu Seth J. Alberts
- tc chatzi@beauty.asd.sgi.com Tony Chatzigianis
- tf timf@eskimo.com Timothy R. R. Flanagan
- tl tpl@ces.cwru.edu Tom Lightbody
- wc billc@netcom.com William Courington
- wh whoward@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu Will Howard
- wms wms@spin.att.com Wayne Simpson
- wo woodruff@s34.es.llnl.gov Someone Woodruff
- wv VENABLE@faculty.coe.wvu.wvnet.edu Wallace Venable
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