World Book Day 2020

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In celebration of #WorldBookDay 2020, I am revising my list of top ten books about sailing and adding to it. What's your favourite book about sailing? The photo above is a selfie I took on an Atlantic Crossing. Flying downwind under spinnaker with our whites seahorse sigil. I'm reading a historical fiction book about Ireland as we sail home from the Caribbean. Without a library of books onboard, I would have gone stir crazy. Instead, I caught up by reading a book a day. Why is it that I can't allow myself to read at home, but read nonstop on the boat?  Does anyone else find themselves in this conundrum?

My (Revised) Top 10 Books About Sailing

- The Long Way (The Longue Route)
- Sailing Alone Around the World
- Perfect Storm
- Wanderer
- Once is Enough
- Maiden Voyage
- The Riddle of the Sands
- As long as it's fun
- A Voyage for Madmen
- Survive the Savage Sea

A few more for good measure.

- The Summer Isles by Philip Marsden
- Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
- The Curve of Time by Muriel Wylie Blanchet
- In the Heart of the Sea
- South Sea Vagabonds by Johnny Wray
- Endurance. Shackleton
- Farthest North. Nansen- The NWP. Amundsen
- The Desperate Voyage by John Caldwell!
- Two years before the mast
- We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea.
- All of Miles and Beryl Smeeton
-Ernest Gann’s SONG OF THE SIRENS
-Nevil Shute’s TRUSTEE FROM THE TOOL ROOM
-And the entire series of Patrick O’Brian’s
-And Joseph Conrad’s books are amazing!
-Bill Tilman
-Alan Villiers
-Rockwell Kent
-Sterling Hayden
-Weston Martyr
-This Thing of Darkness by Harry Thompson
- Embarrassment of Mangos
- A Voyage to the Sea by Denis Gorman

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