Tillerman had a great idea. He has a lot of them actually. Write a review about something. As it’s the summer, I thought you might enjoy some ideas on Summer Reading. These are all past posts. Here goes:
A review of three great books on long passages, two solo – A World of My Own by RKJ, The Last Man Across the Atlantic by Paul Heiney and Theo Dorgan’s Sailing for Home.
I also reviewed, Round the Baltic with Bobby Griff Rhys-Jones a great travelogue on crusing the Baltic Sea.
If you like mega-yachts, check out, Mine’s Bigger by David Kaplan about Maltese Falcon.
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Peter McGrath did an excellent review on Brion Toss’, Rigging Handbook. Now that’s what I call beach-reading.
And last but not least my all-time favorite sailing book A Voyage For Madmen by Peter Nichols.
I’ve read Mine’s Bigger and would recommend it, too. More than just a lot of numbers about the world’s biggest (some would say most grotesque) sailing yacht, it gives you a look into the minds of the people who must have such things. It’s really not about sailing at all. And if you’re a technogeek, the description of the engineering is kinda cool, too. He also talks about the lives of the professional crews who work on megayachts – a weird subculture of its own. If you’ve ever thought that would be a dream job, read this first.
The only one on your list I’ve read is A ‘Voyage for Madman’. It’s undoubtedly one of my favorites in the canon of sailing books. Really a must read. I’ve just finished the recent biography of Iain Oughtred by Nic Compton, also a must for those interested in small boat current design and the wooden boat revival. I am currently re-reading Slocum’s ‘Sailing Alone around the World’ and finding it much more interesting than the first read. Try it again.
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