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  1. Top Picks: The Best Books for Sailboat Racers >> Scuttlebutt Sailing

    This book abounds with lessons on racing tactics and boat handling, sportsmanship, and is sprinkled liberally with the authors' tales of races won (and lost).

  2. 32 Best Sailing Books For Current and Future Yachtsmen

    You'll find highly respected books on racing, cruising and sailboat maintenance for your next adventure on the open seas! 1. Chapman Piloting & Seamanship 69th Edition. One of the best sailing books available, the Chapman Piloting & Seamanship 69th Edition is a comprehensive book with descriptions, illustrations, and pictures for every situation.

  3. 5 Favorite Sailing Books to Build Racing Skills

    This not a long book, but it has lots of important concepts from a winning sailor and college coach. I especially like his discussions of 1) masts and tuning, 2) the importance of balancing the boat, 3) the need to get and use a compass (although the technology discussed is out of date), and 4) making gains downwind. A Manual of Sail Trim.

  4. 25 sailing books every sailor should read

    The best sailing books are the ones that inspire you to get out there! 25 classic sailing adventure books, thrillers, and nautical novels. ... Book Award for best book of the year! Journey of A Hope Merchant - from Apartheid to the Elite World of Solo Yacht Racing. by Neal Petersen. Fiona. Wednesday 27th of March 2019. Wow this sounds ...

  5. 9 Best Sailing Books for Every Level of Experience

    If you already have a solid foundation of sailing knowledge and skills, it is time to take your sailing to the next level. The Racing Rules of Sailing: International Sailing Federation 2017-2020 Rules Book by International Sailing Federation is an important book for intermediate sailors who want to learn about racing tactics and strategies.. The book covers everything from starting tactics to ...

  6. Getting Started in Sailboat Racing, 2nd Edition

    Getting Started in Sailboat Racing, 2nd Edition [Cort, Adam, Stearns, Richard] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Getting Started in Sailboat Racing, 2nd Edition ... Amazon Book Clubs Children's Books Textbooks Textbook Rentals Best Books of the Month Best Books of 2023 Your Company Bookshelf Books › Reference ...

  7. The Best Sailing Books: 21 Top Picks

    7 - 'The Annapolis Book of Seamanship' by John Rousmaniere. This book, hailed as a "sailing bible" among the sailing community, covers all aspects of seamanship, including navigation, gear maintenance, electronic, pleasure cruising, and heavy-weather sailing. It is straightforward and is a valuable book to keep on board.

  8. Positioning: The Logic of Sailboat Racing

    Stuart Walker, a world champion celebrated for his books and columns on racing in Sailing World magazine, here takes his readers step by step through the elements that determine racing factors: wind direction, velocity, temperature, stability, current strength, and direction.. These racing factors, Dr. Walker explains, translate into boat speed, psychology, and tactics.Wind strength and wave ...

  9. Books for Sailors: Explore the Best Sailing Literature

    Books for Sailors: Discovering Literary Gems. 1. "The Annapolis Book of Seamanship" by John Rousmaniere. Considered a classic in the sailing world, "The Annapolis Book of Seamanship" serves as an authoritative guide for sailors of all levels. It covers a wide range of topics, including navigation, boat handling, safety procedures, and more.

  10. The best sailing books & cruising guides of 2021

    Best sailing books of 2021 Madhouse at the End of the World. There's a startling opening to Madhouse at the End of the World a sailing book recounting the Belgica's 1897-9 expedition to the Antarctic. Frederick Cook, a doctor, serving 14 years for fraud in Leavenworth Goal, Kansas, has finished his voluntary night duty among the inmates ...

  11. 20 Best Sailing Books of All Time

    20 Best Sailing Books of All Time - BookAuthority. The 20 best sailing books recommended by NYT bestselling author Tosca Lee, Pete Goss, Paul Nicklen, Wayne Lynch and others.

  12. Yachting Monthly Book Club: Celebrating the world's best sailing books

    Sailors' Sin Bin: New Yachting Monthly book reveals sailors' secrets. September 13, 2022. A new collection of sailors' brilliantly funny, real-life blunders, will be launched at the 2022 Southampton Boat Show, with the confessions collated from the pages of Yachting Monthly magazine. The….

  13. Best Books for Sailors, Sailing, and Cruising

    Take a look at Cruising World 's 2012 roundup of books to bring aboard. _ Hostage: A Year at Gunpoint with Somali Pirates _ by Paul and Rachel Chandler with Sarah Edworthy (2011; $16; Mainstream Publishing Co. ). Liveaboards Paul and Rachel Chandler, who sail a 38-footer, Lynn Rival, might as well be that cruising couple a few docks over.

  14. Books for sailors: our pick of the best new releases

    The Sea is not made of Water by Adam Nicolson, Harper Collins, £20. Buy The Sea is not made of Water at Amazon (UK) Buy The Sea is not made of Water at Amazon (US) Buy The Sea is not made of Water at Waterstones (UK) Buy The Sea is not made of Water at Audible. Continues below…. Sailing thrillers to escape with this holiday.

  15. Top 12 Sailing Books to Read in 2022

    After our list of the best sailing movies, we decided to bring you another one - The top 12 sailing books every sailor should read in 2022. List of the Top 12 Sailing Books: Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea. Red Sky in Mourning. The Lonely Sea and the Sky. The Annapolis Book of Seamanship.

  16. 89 Best Sailing Books

    89 books on the list. Sort by. Number of Articles. Layout. Sailing Alone Around the World. Joshua Slocum - Jun 01, 1999 (first published in 1899) Goodreads Rating. 4.1 (10k) Nonfiction Travel Hobbies History Action & Adventure Fiction.

  17. 18 of the Best Books on Sailing

    Best Books on Sailing Stories - Sailing Adventure Books Flirting with Mermaids: The Unpredictable Life of a Sailboat Delivery Skipper John Kretschmer. Kretschmer is a celebrity in the sailing circuit, having worked for decades as a delivery skipper and now operating a popular offshore teaching charter on his Kauffman 47 Quetzal.He's written for many major sailing magazines and has several ...

  18. Sailing Cruising (277 books)

    Feb 23, 2014 08:48PM. Jan 04, 2016 08:41PM. Jan 24, 2017 07:31AM. back to top. post a comment ». 277 books based on 193 votes: Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl, Sailing Alone around the World by Joshua Slocum, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by A...

  19. The Best Sailing Books and Magazines

    John Vigor's The Seaworthy Offshore Sailboat is the best book you can read when shopping for the right sailboat to take offshore or to learn how to upgrade your own sailboat for offshore sailing or extended cruising.; Chapman's Piloting & Seamanship for 65 editions and almost a century has been the classic tome about virtually everything related to boats - the book many older sailors grew up ...

  20. 35 Best Sailing Books: Adventures, Sailing Stories, and Guides

    The best books for sailors provide readers with an inspiring and honest look at the challenges and rewards of a life of adventure on the water. List list features everything from fictional sailing adventures to beginner sailing guides. Whether you want an inspiring account of a journey sailing around the world or a humorous look at living aboard a sailboat in the Caribbean, these sailing books ...

  21. Best sailing books: 25 tales inspired by the sea

    A list of the best sailing books including memoirs, novels and biographies, constituting the most fascinating nautical tales ever penned. ... This is the story of the 1998 Sydney to Hobart boat race, the most dramatic in yacht racing history. Of the 115 boats that started, just 43 would finish. ...

  22. The Best Boat Books and Sailing Novels to Read On Board

    We round up the best boat books and sailing novels to read at sea on a superyacht holiday. Life of Pi by Yann Martel. Martel's fantasy novel tells the story of Piscine Molitor 'Pi' Patel, adrift at sea and sharing a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger. In 2012, Life of Pi was adapted into one of the best boat movies. shop now.

  23. The Winner's Guide to Optimist Sailing

    Written by one of the best-known figures in all of sailing and a leading authority on Optimist sailing and racing, The Winner's Guide to Optimist Sailing is the ideal training manual for young skippers, their parents, and their coaches. The most comprehensive sailing guide to the International Optimist dinghy class features:

  24. Alinghi Red Bull Racing America's Cup 'BoatOne' Reveal ...

    Olaf Pignataro / Alinghi Red Bull Racing / Red Bull Content Pool. Friday evening's big reveal of The Red Bull Racing Team's "Boat One" was a doozy. At the team's base in Barcelona, a large ...