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What's your favorite Sailing book

Mine's Sopranino by Patrick Ellam and Colin Mudie
It's a narrative about a 20 footer crossing the atlantic

How about yours???


'Racundra's First Cruise' by Arthur Ransome, the author of the enchanting
children's books about sailing - the Swallows and Amazons series.

The book details the author's experiences having a yacht built in 1921 in
Riga, Latvia, and his cruise in the Baltic to Estonia and Finland and back
to Riga.

The book is worth owning if only for the opening sentence, which I have
remembered all my adult life:
"Houses are but badly built boats so firmly aground that you cannot think of
moving them."

Best,

Q.