Reading materials: What you really want!

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide
the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn
for the vast and endless sea..."
Antoine de Saint Exupery

Happy Hooking - The Art of Anchoring - 2nd Edition

by (us!) Capt. Alex Blackwell & Capt. Daria Blackwell

357 pages, many illustrations & pictures

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)

Unless you are far offshore, at some point or another you are going to need to park your boat. Just like knowing how to stop your car before you start is perhaps the most important part of driving, we feel that anchoring is perhaps the most important skill you can and should acquire in boating.

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Oyster Delight by Jonathan Mite

Penned by Alex Blackwell
with illustrations by John Joyce

The definitive guide to enjoying oysters!

110 pages, Illustrations and photos. Second expanded edition

"My motto: Eat oysters, love longer," so said Jonathan Mite.

There has never been an oyster book like this one. Guaranteed. It covers just about everything an oyster lover would care to learn about this delectable little devil. Written by a marine biologist who started an oyster hatchery in the West of Ireland and originally used a version of the cookbook to boost sales, it eventually grew to become this entertaining first edition of a most extraordinary definitive guide to everything about oysters. And it is eminently readable, not like a cookbook at all, but informative and entertaining.

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