zen's picks

[Zen]

Since there was posting on Medical stuff:
Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook (Paperback)
by David Werner, Carol Thuman, Jane Maxwell

also :
A barefoot doctors guide. This is a handbook for chinese village ( trained and untrained) doctors

____Sailing

I just got a copy of Sensible Crusing: The Thoreau Approach.
I just peeped through it, look great. I got some good ideas just leafing through...

back issues of GOOD Old Boat on CD

Practical Seamanship: Essential Skills for the modern Sailor
..by Dashew

____Sci Fi:

DUNE

____historical fiction:

Musashi

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I'll add later...

[CapnK]

Ooh, good ones, Zen!

[Zen]

Just happend across a great book from TIME-LIfe Library of Boating.

They had a set on boating I just pickup one from the used book store. I love those places!

This book from the series is called "Offshore".

Contents

The challenge of blue water
Strategies for ocean voyaging
Signposts in the heavens
Racing: the cutting edge ( did not care about that)

This small but info packed book as stuff on preparing your boat ( based on a 31 ft Islander)
food, water, equipment. Modifcations that were done.

it has world current charts, world wind flow charts, how to do stelluar (sp) navigation, using a sextent. Amazing amount of stuff.

Under Withstanding the Sea's Malice:
how some people survived after getting hit by a Shark which broke a hole into a wood hull, How another survived after being hit by 3 whales, another of the Ketch Tzu Hang being flipped in hurricane force winds and everthing being ripped off the decks.

Tools of the Ancient wayfinders,

How new boats are designed and tested,

If you ever come across this in a used book store, buy IT !!!

I got this for 5.00 bucks.

another of Zen's picks

[Zen]

For those of you who do not live in Ca. I do not know how far this mag goes out. We have here a free monthly publication called Latitute 38. It has all kinds of stuff on sailing . Crusing, racing, sales, events,  boat sales, parts, repairs, trips to mexico, etc. This month they have a articule about 12 volts system and something about green lights on the sea, maybe what starcest saw.
If you would like to check it out. I'll send you one. Since it is a free mag no cost but the postage. Drop me a note. The folks I met in Japan from the netherlands, had heard of it. I took them a few old copies as a gift, they loved it.

[captedteach]

They also have a website www.latitude38.com and you can subscribe to 'lectronic latitude'

[Zen]

World Cruising Routes
by Jimmy Cornell,


Editorial Reviews

Book Description
This newly updated, comprehensive cruising guide to all the world's oceans is a valuable reference for cruising sailors and armchair dreamers. More than 500 sailing routes are detailed, including 40 new routes to such high-latitude destinations as Scandinavia, Iceland, Greenland, Alaska, and Antarctica. The book includes 150 pages of two-color maps, updated GPS coordinates for navigation, and route-by-route descriptions of weather and hazards.

From the Back Cover

World Cruising Routes is a comprehensive guide to nearly 1000 sailing routes covering all the oceans of the world, from the tropical South Seas to the high latitudes of the Arctic and Antarctic. The book is geared specifically to the needs of cruising sailors and contains essential information on winds, currents, regional and seasonal weather as well as valuable suggestions concerning optimum times for individual routes. Most of the materials was gathered during the author's two circumnavigations and supplemented by sailors taking part in Jimmy Cornell's offshore rallies.

All the necessary information for planning a voyage in any of the world's oceans has been brought together here in a single volume. This thoroughly revised new edition features new data collected by the author on his recent voyage from Antarctica to Alaska via Tahiti and Hawaii.

To simplify the planning of individual routes, some 6000 essential waypoints are listed, and specific routing suggestions given to maximize the chances of encountering favorable conditions en route. Because cruising boats now venture further afield, main ports of entry as well as essential landfall information are given with each route to assist the planning of passages from beginning to end.

The continuing success of World Cruising Routes is due not only to its unparalleled value as an excellent aid to route planning, but equally to its lasting appeal to those who are not yet ready to leave on an offshore voyage and who find, in its pages, a ready source of pleasant dreams of voyages to come.

A companion volume to World Cruising Routes is World Cruising Handbook, a comprehensive cruising guide to over 180 countries around the world.

The information in this book is continuously updated on www.noonsite.com, Jimmy Cornell's website for cruising sailors.

"A must for every circumnavigator, and fascinating armchair reading for the rest of us."--Yachting Monthly

"Ferdinand Magellan would have loved this book."--Boat/USA

"World Cruising Routes . . . might just be the most important book for long-distance voyagers to come along in decades."--Cruising World

"Guaranteed to induce itchy feet in anyone who has salt in their veins."--Cruising

"No one should think of setting off around the world without first consulting Jimmy Cornell's works."--Practical Boat Owner

" . . . remarkably detailed in its research . . . there is no doubting its value."--Yachting World

"The serious cruiser's bible . . . don't leave port without it."--Cruising

"The finest route planning guide currently available . . . an indispensable cruise planner's source book."--48 Degrees North


Essential information on all sailing routes of the world
6000 individual waypoints
Advice on route planning
Regional weather
Winds and currents

[starcrest]

I used to get lat 38 all the time.

[Zen]

I just mostly finished a very interesting unusual book. I came across it by accident and at first was planningon just selling it after I read it, I have changed my mind and will keep it inmy collection at least for now.

This book is called "The Floating Harpsicord" one Sailors Log and Manuals for solo Sailing and Solo Medicine. by Peter H. Strykers. M. D.

The short of it. This doctor, who is also a classical musican, and seems somewhat full of himself, from Holland sails solo in a race from San Francisco to Hawaii. This is not a KISS type of guy. He has a frig, coniac, a harrpsicord, and other luxuaries. He wants to go in stlye.
One of the first things to break is his refrigerator.
I was looking to read the day to day log of his trip to Hawaii which was there but full of his mussings about how to navigate, understanding logitute and latitude, how to read a sextent, why the harpsocord sound is different from the piano and it weakness, muscial scales and tones along with the sail changes and stuff he had to deal with, that kept him away from playing his harsicord as much as he wanted under sail. Oh, BTW his boat is a 40 something ketch.

The first part of the part is how to set up your boat for a ocean passage. The second part about his day to day stuff under sail. The third second deals with things a solo sailor should know about self help and medicine while under passage, with a chapter on female medicine and the solo sailor. All in all a pretty remarkable book, on things to do and things not to do as well as entertaining light reading.

I just checked the are two copies on ebay right now. one is only $2.00 plus shipping
worth it. the other is 15.00. Both hardcover.
the cheap one's number is :
Item : 4608436971   

[Zen]

I posted earlier about a medical book , where there is no doctor:
there is a on-line version for D/L - free

http://www.hesperian.org/publications_download.php#wtnd

[Frank]

great link   thanks   could come in real handy !!

[Fortis]

respectfully, to the floating doc mentioned...On a 40 foot boat, he did not have a harpsichord, he had a virginal.

(same mechanism in a "portable" version. Called avirginal because it was made to be played by young ladies of high social status....make of that what you will.

While a specially built virginal using marine safe materials is possible, I guess...a traditional unit would fairly quickly come apart at the socks...as some of them had a carcass made of paper mache to save weight. Originals actually employed pin feathers held in raw poplar mechanisms to pluck strings (which were catgut)...it does not take much imagination to work out what the damp salty environment of a boat would do to that in short order.



Alex.

[Zen]

"The Floating Virginal"

hmmmm, I think I see why he did not call it that  ;D

[CapnK]

LOL, Zen - good link, Grog! :D

(and for fortis, too, for the additional info :) )

[AdriftAtSea]

One thing that might be of interest to some of you... there's a good source for SCIFI e-books at:  Baen Web Library. 

This is really nice if you want a fair number of books, but don't want to have the space or weight that paperbacks would take up.  I have over four dozen e-books on the Palm PDA I carry, and it takes up about the space of a cassette tape.   I also have the e-books on the cheap laptop that I use as my on-board navigation/GPS programming machine.  While not as convenient or easy to read as paperbacks, it gives me a fairly wide selection of books to read, without the large amount of space needed if I had them in book form.

[Dougcan]

Yep, been there! Read most of them!  Even own hard copies of quite a few!