In order:
"The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst " ... read this I don't
know how many times, and still find it riveting ... by Nicholas
Tomalin and Ron Hall

You may be interested in these recent photos of his boat, Teignmouth
Electron. It's really fallen apart in the last 8 years. Some of these
photos are only a month old:

http://www.teignmouthelectron.org/view.php?v=thefuture

John.

"Close to the Wind" by Pete Goss- It is about the 1996-97 Vende Globe
Single-Handed Non-Stop Round-the-World Race.


"The Smolenski's" wrote in message ...
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???


smo

On 14 Feb 2004 18:09:10 -0600, "The Smolenski's"
wrote:

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???


smo



Sailing Alone Around the World, Joshua Slocum

The autobiographical story of the first man to sail single handed
around the world.

Slocum Around the world alone.
God father of solo sailors

--
ooooO
( ) Allan
\ (
(__) The Netherlands
Better to be thought a fool,
than open my mouth and remove all doubt

Saga of Cimba is my favorite. It's not the story that I like so much, it's
the wonderful way in which Maury describes the joys of being at sea that I
love.


"Qwerty" wrote in message
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"DirtCrashr" wrote in message
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the Swallows and Amazons series.

Wow! I read those when I was a kid, overseas, almost forty years ago
-- it suddenly comes back. I think that's when I first wished to go
sailing.
I remember the idea of lights in-line, guiding a boat into a harbor at
night. My brother and I used to make maps of imaginary harbors with
rocks and secretive "light-lines" that would enable passage.
Our land-based adventures as kids of that age group were pretty
similar.

-keith
mtn. view

There must be many of my generation (don't ask) who's first stirrings of
wanting to sail and go to sea were stimulated, even initiated by Arthur
Ransome and those books; I know I was. I introduced my children to them
but
somehow, it didn't work with them - a bit dated perhaps if the original
urge
isn't there, and a character called 'Titty' didn't help. They are based on
the east coast of England and the north west lake district where he
eventually retired to.

He led an interesting life, was in Russia as a correspondent for the
Manchester Guardian at the time of the Bolshevik revolution; interviewed
Lenin; married Trotsky's secretary. After he died she went back to Russia,
a
very old lady, and found, after a lifetime of living in England and only
speaking English that she could no longer remember how to speak Russian.

Q.

I really enjoyed that one too. What an amazing story. That picture of
Raphael standing on his submerged hull is absolutely amazing.

"Rob" wrote in message
m...
"Close to the Wind" by Pete Goss- It is about the 1996-97 Vende Globe
Single-Handed Non-Stop Round-the-World Race.


"The Smolenski's" wrote in message
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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???


smo

Ok. Somebody has to mention "The Incredible Voyage" by Tristan Jones. It's
such a good blend of a lifetime of accurate cruising observations and a wee
bit of imagination that few know where one leaves off and the other begins.
It launched me into reading all of his books. One can smell the sea and
shore in some passages.



"Larry Tate" wrote in message
news:7YoYb.50740$_44.48536@attbi_s52...
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???

Very easily 'Riddle of the Sands', by Erskine Childers. It's about a chap
sailing around the Baltic with a college friend who uncover a sinister
German plot. Aside from being a great sailing narrative, written around
1900, it is also credited as being one of the precursors to the modern
espionage thrillers.

--LT

Buried At Sea by Paul Garrison

"The Smolenski's" wrote in message
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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???


smo

Shipkiller by Justin Scott. Great story! Novel.


"John Smith" wrote in message
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Buried At Sea by Paul Garrison

"The Smolenski's" wrote in message
...
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???


smo

I don't know if it is the right title, but "a father, a son and the sea"
from Daniel and David Hays is realy great!!!!

Dieter