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« on: December 05, 2006, 01:16:22 PM »
Last night I was showing a fellow liveaboard my copy of Brion Toss' "The Complete Riggers Apprentice", and while doing so I realized that this was a book that will _always_ be aboard my boat. Besides being eminently readable, it is also an invaluable reference, and that earns it a place in my traveling library.

There are a few books I have like this, and many more that I hold in high regard but will have to leave behind (like Casey's "This Old Boat"), due to a lack of storage space for them. I just plain read too fast to keep with me every book I read and like, unless I were to scale up to a vessel in the 120 foot range. Smiley

Some that stay will be fiction, or tales, others spiritual/philisophical, others for reference like the above. I'd be interested to see which books are going to go on trips with others here. Might be fascinating, and might lead me to a book or two that I should have, but don't yet...

Offhand, I can think of these books of my own which are "go-ers":

Toss' "The Complete Rigger's Apprentice"
Lechter's "Self-steering for Sailing Craft"
Bannerots "Cruisers Handbook of Fishing"
Richards "Princess"
Bachs "Illusions" and "Jonathan Livingston Seagull"
Probably a copy of Chapmans.
Herd's "The Cruising Cook"
The Tao, and a Bible

There are a few more, I know, so I'll add them later... Smiley
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« Reply #1 on: December 05, 2006, 01:50:44 PM »
Quote from: CapnK on December 05, 2006, 01:16:22 PM

Lechters "Self Steering"


Well, if I *HAD* Lechter's book, it would probably be on my go-list.
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« Reply #2 on: December 05, 2006, 01:56:46 PM »
Quote from: Captain Smollett on December 05, 2006, 01:50:44 PM
Quote from: CapnK on December 05, 2006, 01:16:22 PM

Lechters "Self Steering"


Well, if I *HAD* Lechter's book, it would probably be on my go-list.

Forget it, John. This copy is *mine*... Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy
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« Reply #3 on: December 05, 2006, 05:46:33 PM »
22 copies of "Self Steering for Sailing Craft" available on Amazon from 9.99 up right now.

No excuse to NOT have one. Our copy lives aboard Tehani always.
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« Reply #4 on: December 05, 2006, 05:57:13 PM »
Quote from: CharlieJ on December 05, 2006, 05:46:33 PM

22 copies of "Self Steering for Sailing Craft" available on Amazon from 9.99 up right now.


Uh, make that 21 copies.   Wink

For the record, I have checked on Amazon periodically, and have never had the right timing or something.  Each time, it's been unavailable.  I've been looking for buy it for several years.
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« Reply #5 on: December 05, 2006, 08:07:47 PM »
20 copies... Cheesy
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« Reply #6 on: December 05, 2006, 08:09:28 PM »
excellent!
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« Reply #7 on: December 05, 2006, 08:49:56 PM »
It is up to $12 now... still better then the $20 or so I saw last time I watched it on ebay.
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« Reply #8 on: December 05, 2006, 10:36:46 PM »
Just wondering if it would be worth contacting the publisher about doing another printing of Lechter's book.  It is obviously very much in demand and hard to get. 

Thoughts?
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« Reply #9 on: December 06, 2006, 06:05:38 PM »
GRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, I just a notice from Amazon, that the seller is out of that book , after listed they had it!!
 Angry Angry
only the 12.00 and up ones can be had!
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« Reply #10 on: December 06, 2006, 09:59:38 PM »
Quote from: Zen on December 06, 2006, 06:05:38 PM
GRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, I just a notice from Amazon, that the seller is out of that book , after listed they had it!!
 Angry Angry
only the 12.00 and up ones can be had!

  Well..... I think John bought one (He musta got the $9 one) I paid $12 for my copy.....

  Might wanna grab that other $12 copy, I think I read they were listed as high as $45.....  Shocked

Act now!  Limited time offer.... and all that....  Grin
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