Over on alt.binaries.e-book.technical newsgroup, here on usenet, someone
has posted two books in pdf format cruisers may find interesting. I
haven't seen anything of them but the title, so can't form an opinion of
their usefulness.

They were posted yesterday so just look at the last files. The subject
line starts with Where so they should be easy to find in the huge list of
books.

The two books are "Where There Is No Doctor" and "Where There Is No
Dentist", the implications of which are obvious to a cruiser who got a
toothache 280 miles from land.

Just a heads up to let you know they're there. I felt bad not posting to
this group when the book posters were in "diesel mode", even though I
didn't see any boat-specific diesel books in the lists. Keep an eye on
this e-book newsgroup. There's an amazing array of most interesting
books, manuals and other technical literature I don't think you'd ever
see in one place elsewhere. I must have a million dollars in electronic
service manuals from there, alone, even if you don't count my nuclear or
weapons library...(c;

If you like guns, they've been posting the manuals for nearly ever gun
ever produced on the planet for the last few months....look back and find
all yours. Back there a while someone went crazy posting wood shop
manuals, too. Oh, and I have the maintenance, operations and flight
manuals for your big jet airliners, in case you broke yours. Worry your
flight attendant to death. Sit there reading the flight manual for the
jet you're riding in on your laptop. Ask the captain if he used "this"
checklist before takeoff when he comes back through.

alt.binaries.e-book has all the novels for your next around-the-world
cruise, too. And you thought the boat's notebook was only for
navigation....