• Sailing Books

    I am asked from time to time to recommend a sailing book, so here is a short list of books on my shelf (to be expanded later). I am not including specialized topics (such as celestial navigation), history books and travelogues (with one important exception below).

  • The Coast of Summer

    Sailing people who live in houses often envy those who live on boats. But those who dwell afloat all year around miss one great thing: the annual pleasure of throwing off a land-based existence in exchange (however briefly) for a seagoing life that will rock them with different demands and buoy them with different delights.