Frank wrote:
While we're on this topic, do you (or does anyone) know of cruising
books which are NOT written by and for the Crab Crusher Mafia?

"Blue Water Handbook" by Steve Dashew... he's got a couple of other
books out too. A great cruising book ever written is 'Tinkerbelle' by
Bob Manry, not because it gives up-to-date advice but because it
describes how to overcome obstacles in practical unpretentious ways, and
because it is very inspiring.

... It seems
like every book I've ever read, even if recently published, starts with
a lengthy discussion about why you must have a boat with all the
characteristics I find unappealing (and often actually unsafe) in a
boat. In my universe, slow and unweatherly are not desirable qualities.


That's OK as long as you have plenty of baggywrinkle.



P.S. Speaking of keeping current, asbestos suits and tinfoil beanies
have been supplanted by nomex and titanium; so get with the program,
Doug! We're living in "the future," a world which is the realization of
the science-fiction books I read as a kid. it's really kinda cool.

Really? Where's the flying cars, the moon colonies, the two-way wrist
TVs? The future just hasn't been the same since they stopped putting
tail fins on cars, dammit!

DSK