The best sailing books: 25 stories inspired by the sea
The best sailing books: 25 stories inspired by the sea
A list of the best sailing books, including memoirs, novels and biographies that represent the most fascinating nautical stories that have ever been written
After I recently put together a list of the best sailing films we saw, I was asked to read a related reading. Fresh from a delivery of sailing bestsellers (and fewer bestsellers) I have put together a list of the best sailing books.
The list includes everything from epic trips, survival stories, investigative biographies and sailing manuals - with a few reference works for coffee tables.
The best sailing books
The following list is not in any specific order. If you have suggestions that you think earn a place on this list of the best sailing books, please add them to the comments below.
Alone around the world sailing by Joshua Slocum
1895 Joshua Slocum wanted to prove that a man can sail alone around the world. About 46,000 miles and three years later, he completed the first one-handed round of the world in his 34-foot session, the spray.
a voyage for Madmen by Peter Nichols
1968 nine sailors broke up for the most daring race of all time: to circle the world on their own without interruption. It was a performance that had never been done before and that would change the face of sailing forever. Ten months later, only one of the nine men would cross the finish line.
The strange last trip of the Donald Crowhurst by Nicholas Tomalin and Ron Hall
One of the best sailing books I've ever read. Donald Crowhurst was a candidate for the above race around the world. Hopelessly overwhelmed, he tried to pull one of the greatest dizziness of our time.
The Last Grain Race by Eric Newby
This was one of the first sailing books I've ever read, and it made me addicted. In 1939, a young Newbyer sailed on board the Moshulu, the largest sailing ship, which was still used as part of the so -called "Grain Race" for the transport of grain from Australia to Europe. His history of the passage has become a classic.
KON-TIKI: In a raft over the Pacific by Thor Heyerdahl
The adventure of Thor Heyerdahl and his companions on their raft over the Pacific has entered the legend as a masterpiece of endurance and courage. This is this story in Heyerdahl's own words.
The Annapolis book of the sailor's sailor's sailor Rousmaniere
Since the publication of the much -noticed first edition in 1983, this book has set standards. The Annapolis Book of Seamanship, which is used worldwide in sailing schools worldwide, covers the basic and advanced skills of modern sailing.
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a race to colorful chris ekin
Chris Eakin does the drama of the epic first golden globe race. He speaks to everyone who has touched the event: the survivors, the widow and the children of the deceased.
Adrift: 76 Days Lost at Seaby Steven Callahan
I'm in half of this gripping story and it is already one of the best sailing books I have ever read. Steven Callahan's dramatic report was on the NYT bestseller list for 36 weeks. In many ways, it is the model for the new wave of adventure books. At that time he was the only man that is known that he survived at sea for more than a month.
438 days: An extraordinary true survival story at sea of Jonathan Franklin
In 2012, Salvador Alvarenga left the coast of Mexico for a two -day fishing trip. After 14 months he was rinsed on land after being driven over 9,000 miles.
Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian
The first Aubrey/Maturin novels famous by Patrick O’Brian's famous Aubrey/Maturin novels, which many are seen as the largest series of historical novels that has ever been written. There were 20 completed - and an unfinished - in the series that plays during the Napoleonic War.
Gipsy Moth Circles the World by Francis Chichester
first published in 1967, just a few months after Chichester's historical journey was completed, the book was immediately an international bestseller. It inspired the first solo race around the world and remains a timeless testimony of the adventure spirit.
Maiden Vahn by Tania Aebi
Tania Aebi was an undemanding 18-year-old in New York City. She didn't want to go anywhere until her father offered her a challenge: choose the college or a 26-foot session. The only catch was that if she decided on the sailboat, she had to sail alone around the world. She went.
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DK Complete Sailing Manual by Steve Slight
DK is known to produce beautiful reference works, and this sailing manual is not disappointed. Now in its fourth edition, the book deals with the basics of sailing, mastery of navigation and maintaining your boat.
The Ashley book of the Knots of Clifford W. Ashley
This great, fully illustrated node book was first published in 1944 and has been reissued many times since then and put together by Geoffrey Budworth with the help of other members of the International Guild of Knot Tyers.
Swell: A Sailing Surfer’s Voyage of Awakening by Liz Clar
Clar records your solo trip in 2006 by the South Pacific in search of great surf. She tells her story in gripping details and tells stories about self -confidence, loneliness, connection to earth and surfing.
Once is enough of Miles Smeeton
This timeless classic is an exciting true history of survival against all adversities. Smeeton and his wife sailed with their 46-foot catsch Tzu Hang in the wild seases of Cape Horn and followed the traces of the old sail cliffs through the most notorious waters in the world.
Last Man Off: A true story of disasters and survival on the Antarctic of Matt K. Lewis
The waters of Antarctica, 1998. 23-year-old Lewis has just started his dream job on board a deep-sea fishing boat. A storm comes up. Since the captain is missing and the crew is forced to leave the ship, Lewis leads the flight to three life ramparts, where the struggle for survival begins.
a World of My Own: The First Nonstop Solo Round the World Voyage by Robin Knox-Johnston
1968 a tiny ketch called Suhaili slipped almost unnoticed from Falmouth. Ten and a half months later, Suhaili joyfully came back to Falmouth to a fantastic reception for Robin Knox-Johnston, who was the first person to sail non-stop around the world.
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The Proving Ground from Bruce Knecht
This is the history of the Sydney boat race to Hobart from 1998, the most dramatic in the history of the yach races. Of the 115 boats started, only 43 finished. Knecht puts these dramatic hours and the agonizing fear of those who fight for their lives in the eye of the storm.
The regattar rules of sailing for 2017-2020 from the Royal Yachting Association
The essential manual contains the updated international code and the flags of racing signals. Waterproof versions are also available.
The long way (La Longue Route) by Bernard Moitessier
The Long Way is Bernard Moitessier's own incredible story of his participation in the first Golden Globe Race, a non-stop circuit of the three great Kaps of good hope, Leeuwin and Horn.
Left for Dead: 30 Years on - The Race Is Final Over: The Untold Story of the Tragedy Fastnet Race 1979 by Nick Ward & Sinead O’Brien
The second edition is updated with a new chapter, the Nicks conclusion of the Fastnet Race 30 years after its first, unhappy attempt.
love with the view of drowning by Torre Deroche
These sometimes hilarious, often shattering and always moving memoirs play against the background of the most beautiful and remote travel destinations in the world. In equal parts of love story and travel memories, the book is funny, charming and the proof that it is worth taking risks.
two years before the Mastby Richard Henry Dana Jr.
a treatise published first in 1840, written shortly after a two -year sea voyage from 1834. To date, the book is considered a valuable historical resource that describes the California of the 1830s.
godforsaken Sea: Racing in the most dangerous waters in the world by Derek Lundy
1996 16 sailors from the Gulf of Biskaya broke up to go to the Vendee Globe-a one-hand yach race through the most triple and remote seas in the world. Only six completed the course, six others withdrew, three were torn from falling boats and one disappeared without a trace.
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