Favorite Sailing Book?
With the holiday season coming up, we asked a few friends what books they’d recommend about sailing that influenced their
THOUGHTS ON SMALL BOAT RACING By C. Stanley Ogilvy
I got this book on my twelfth
birthday. It not only taught me a lot about being a better sailor and racer, it also showed me how to use telling stories to make a point.
Gary Jobson
National Sailing Hall of Fame Author/Sailing Commentator
lives, and/or really captured the joy, the dream, and experiences of voyaging, racing or cruising a boat under sail. It is quite an interesting cross section of books, spanning centuries.
Richard Hazelton INTO THE LIGHT
A Family’s Epic Journey by Dave and Jaja Martin
One of my favorites is a book by my boyhood friend and his wife who, after a circumnavigation on a Cal 25, having a couple kids on the way, refit a 33-footer and, now with three kids, set off to sail north of the Arctic Circle. It truly shows where an adventurous spirit and determination can take you.
Brian Watkins 48° North Top 25 #1
What’s Your
COD THE WAY OF A SHIP
A Square-Rigger Voyage in the Last Days of Sail by Derek Lundy
There are lots of books on sailing voyages, but this one not only recounts a square-rigger’s treacherous passage around Cape Horn in the 1800’s, but does so in a riveting style, a real page turner.
Warren Miller Ski Movie Mogul J/24 Sailor
A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky
Of course my favorite right now is “One Island, One Ocean,” the story of the Around the Americas voyage, written by Herb McCormick with photographs by David Thoreson. But in all my reading, a book that I think really captures what changed the world of sail, is “Cod.” This story tells the tales of the unsung sailors who designed fast, functional ships to sail across oceans to the fishing grounds.
David Rockfeller Jr. Sailors for the Sea
DOVE
by Robin L. Graham Derek L. T. Gill
This book tells the story of one of the consummate adventures of a youth just doing it. Setting out at 16, Robin begins a solo circumnavigation, and after a 33,000 mile odyssey, returns home with a family. One of the first books I had my son read.
Ann Christiansen North Sails
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