FILM · 2013
All Is Lost
“Robert Redford, one man, one boat, almost no dialogue - and a sailing film that respects its audience.”
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Books, films, and documentaries that taught this boat to sail. Personal notes, plain English. Every link buys the work and pays a small commission to the library.
BOOK · 2016
Alone Together
“At 71, alone from Marina del Rey to Kauai and back - 6,000 miles aboard a 32-foot Ericson named for Thelonious Monk.”
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BOOK · 1977
Blue Water, Green Skipper
“Eighteen months from dinghy sailor to the 1976 singlehanded transatlantic race - the honest anatomy of a green skipper.”
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BOOK · 2015
Bound for Distant Seas
“Alone from Florida toward Asia aboard Atom, an engineless 28-foot Pearson Triton, on almost no money at all.”
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DOCUMENTARY · 2006
Deep Water
“Donald Crowhurst's 1968 Golden Globe - and the slow private collapse of a man at sea.”
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DOCUMENTARY · 2018
Maiden
“Tracy Edwards, the first all-female Whitbread crew, and the 1989 race that broke the rules of the sport.”
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BOOK · 2021
Old Man Sailing
“Told to shield from COVID at 70+, a retired Fleet Street journalist went to sea alone instead - 3,629 miles in 42 days.”
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BOOK · 2018
Philosophy of Sailing
“5,000 miles alone around the North Pacific, with the history of philosophy for a watch mate.”
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BOOK · 2012
Sailboat Cruising (Audiotopics)
“An audio classroom for the step up from day sailing to coastal cruising - systems, navigation, rules, weather.”
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BOOK · 1900
Sailing Alone Around the World
“The first solo circumnavigation, told dry as bone and twice as honest.”
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BOOK · 2019
Sailing True North
“Ten admirals, from Themistocles to the nuclear age, read as a course in character by NATO's former Supreme Allied Commander.”
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BOOK · 2013
Sailing a Serious Ocean
“300,000 bluewater miles distilled - storm stories that double as the best heavy-weather course you can take from an armchair.”
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BOOK · 2011
Sailing, Yachts and Yarns
“Cunliffe's best Yachting Monthly columns - dockside characters from Southampton to Greenland, told by a Yachtmaster examiner who can actually write.”
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BOOK · 2018
Swell
“Captain Liz Clark leaves Santa Barbara at 26 aboard a 40-foot sailboat, chasing remote surf and a smaller, truer life.”
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BOOK · 2016
Taleisin's Tales
“First miles aboard a hand-built, engine-free wooden cutter - California to New Zealand the slow, deliberate way.”
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BOOK · 1971
The Long Way
“He was leading the first solo round-the-world race. He kept going. A book about why.”
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BOOK · 1997
The Perfect Storm
“A masterclass in reporting on the sea, by a writer who refuses to romanticize it.”
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