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Nautical Books
Our Favorite Reading List
(see also NE list, Maine list, and children's books, book reviews)
Top of the list
- Happy Hooking - the art of Anchoring - essential addition to every boat library (we had to list this...). Happy Hooking is a very readable book loaded with valuable information on anchoring tackle, anchoring technique, tying up and rafting, anchoring etiquette, as well as the occasional anecdote - simply stated a must have! (if we don't say so ourselves)
General Reference
- Nathanial Bowditch -The American Practical Navigator (2005) The book is available, free on Wiki Source. if you would like to have the entire book in pdf format, let us know.
- Chapman’s Piloting Seamanship & Boat Handling (general information about everything)
- Reed’s Nautical Almanac. Annual editions. (Tide tables, currents, piloting)
- Annapolis Book of Sailing and Seamanship. (John Rousmaniere)
- Royce’s Sailing Illustrated.
- Heavy Weather Sailing.
- Practical Navigation.
- The Practical Encyclopedia of Sailing: The Complete Guide to Sailing and Racing Dinghies, Catamarans and Cruisers by Jeremy Evans
Essential Cruising Adventures
- Tristan Jones
- Joshua Slocum
- Bernard Moitessier
- Sir Francis Chichester
- Sir Robin Knox Johnston
Boating Novels and Stories
- Joseph Conrad. Lord Jim and numerous others by the world’s most noted seafaring author (and my great uncle).
- Patrick O’Brien. Master and Commander and many others.
- Earnest Hemmingway. The Old Man and the Sea.
- Julian Stockwin. Quarterdeck - A Kydd Sea Adventure (the fifth in the series) Stockwin's ability to portray life on ship and ashore in in the British naval empire is directly related to his life-long service in the Navy, beginning at the age of 15 and ending with his retirement with the rank of Lieutenant Commander.
- Roger L. Johnson. Dead Man’s Chest - The Sequel to Treasure Island! If you like reading Patrick O’Brian, you’ll love Dead Man’s Chest.
- Beyond the Edge of the Sea : Sailing With Jason and the Argonauts, Ulysses, the Vikings, and Other Explorers of the Ancient World by Mauricio Obregon
- Schooner Passage : Sailing Ships and the Lake Michigan Frontier (Great Lakes Books) by Theodore J. Karamanski
- Samoa Under the Sailing Gods by Newton A. Rowe
- Sailing Ships by Colin Mudie
- The Sailing Navy 1775-1854 (U.S. Navy Warship Series) by Paul H. Silverstone
Sailing Anecdotes and Quotes
- A sailor’s guide to life. Randy Deering.
- The quotable sailor. Christopher Caswell.
Cruising Guidebooks
Essential Racing Guides
- Team Racing for Sailboats by Steve Tylecote.
Coffee Table Books
- Lines: A Half-Century of Yacht Designs by Sparkman & Stephens 1930-1980 by Olin J., II Stephens.
A must have for owners of S&S design boats and enthusiasts. - "J Class" Pricey, but will grace sailing enthusiast's coffee tables and libraries for generations. Go to www.yachting-heritage.com.
- The World’s Best Sailboats. Ference Mate.
- The American Sailboat. Gregory O. Jones
- New England. Carol M. Highsmith and Ted Landphair.
- An America’s Cup Treasury: The lost Levick photographs, 1893-1937. Gary Jobson (editor)
- The America ’s Cup. Olin Stephens.
- Lines. Olin Stephens.
- Enterprise to Endeavor. The J Class Yachts. Ian Dear.
- The Story of America’s Cup 1851-2000 (Revised edition) Tim Thompson.
- The America’s Cup. Dennis Connor and Michael Levitt.
- Sailing Thoroughbreds by Beken of Cowes, et al.
- Legendary Yachts. Gilles Martin-Raget.
- Lost Islands. The story of islands that have vanaished from nautical charts. Henry Strommel.
- The Blue Planet. Andrew Byatt, et al.
- Wild Ocean by Sylvia Earle, marine biologist extraordinaire!
- Yachting’s Golden Age by Ed Holm lovingly captures the first great era of large yachts under sail.
- Sails & Sailing surveys the achievement of America’s first family of yachting photographers - The Rosenfeld Collection
(Reproductions of images from the Rosenfeld Collection may be ordered from the collection through its website: www.mysticseaport.org/navigate/pop.page.html.)
- The Last of the Wind Ships by Alan Villiers gathers the best work of one of the 20th century’s finest seafaring photographer-writers.
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