Sadly, I am mostly an armchair sailor these days. My son won’t sail and our weekends our mostly taken up with his football (US variety not limey variety). That said I try to read a lot about sailing. There are so many books on sailing that it’s sometimes hard to know where to start.
If you haven’t already heard of it, I strongly recommend Library Thing. It’s a communal book site using social tags (a del.icio.us-like thingy) where users share, rate and tag books they like. You can even swap books.
Their sailing section has over 1,400 books tagged.
Great place to start an early Xmas wishlist.