Winter Reading

[kokko]

My Catalina 22 users group has been posting book recommendations. I cut and paste from that list since this groups would certainly need some winter diversion as well.


Lone Voyager-Joseph E. Garland
http://www.amazon.com/review/product/06 ... ewpoints=1
Blue Latitudes- Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before-Tony Horwitz
http://www.amazon.com/review/product/03 ... ewpoints=1

I just read "Left for Dead" about the Fastnet race by Nick Hart.

"The Long Way" by Bernard Motessier and "Seaflower" ( Naval Sailing Adventure Novel ) by Julian Stockwin.

I really liked "Maiden Voyage" by Tania Aebi http://tinyurl.com/56at85

Another older story - "The Dove" by Robin Graham - http://tinyurl.com/56at85

I'm currently reading, "The Proving Ground" by G. Bruce Knecht. It recounts the ill-fated Hobart race of '98.

Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana who left Harvard in the 1830's and signed onto a merchant brig as a seaman and sailed around the Horn to California when there were only a few sparse settlements.

THE STRANGE LAST VOYAGE OF DONALD CROWHURST by Tomalin and Hall. This book, along with ADRIFT,

Cruising With Seraffyn by the Pardeys

I also really liked explorer books like Kon Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl and his later books about the Easter Islands

Has anyone mentioned Bernard Cornwell. He mostly writes historical
fiction about the 100 years war, but he's got about a half dozen modern
day swashbucklers that take place between the Caribbean and the English
Channel. They're real page turners.

I'd recommend "London Goes To Sea; Restoring and Sailing an Old Boat on a Budget" by Peter J. Baumgartner.

"Ten Hours Until Dawn" by Michael J. Tougias is a riveting read, if you want to "be here" during the Great Blizzard of '78

I'm sure this has been mentioned, but if you like reading about boat restoration, "Fix it and Sail" by Brian Gilbert is an interesting one to read. http://tinyurl.com/5fopdd

" The Voyage of the Northern Magic: A Family Odyssey " by Diane Stuemer.

[TIM WEBB]

"Godforsaken Sea" by Derek Lundy.

http://www.amazon.com/Godforsaken-Racin ... 858&sr=1-2

It's about the Vendee Globe, the world's only solo non-stop around the world race, which happens to be underway right now.

http://www.vendeeglobe.org/en/

[kokko]

Tim:

You aren't allowed to have "winter reading" becuase you don't have winter in FL

[Roger]

so does that mean that we can't have a summer read because we don't REALLY have summer.

[TIM WEBB]

Sure, we have Winter ... the other day it was so cold I had to actually put on socks!

Seriously, tho, I *did* have frost on my windshield that morning ...

[GreenLake]

Don't you rather think it's this kind of winter that requires good winter reading...

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