What can you tell me about these Books?

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Cyric30

December 08, 2021, 10:46:10 PM
Hay Guys
I recently saved a bunch of books from going into the dumpster many where sailing related, I plan on taking a few pics of the books and posting them along.
If you guys know anything about the books please shout out something about them,

This is just the first batch of maybe 5 or 6 batches

jotruk

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December 09, 2021, 10:08:14 AM
In the last one the Blue Jackets Manul is a Navy pub. that was handed out to new seaman and you have a 1944 editions which is very good
s/v Wave Dancer
a 1979 27' Cherubini Hunter
Any sail boat regardless of size is a potential world cruiser, but a power boat is nothing more than a big expense at the next fuel dock

Tim

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December 09, 2021, 01:26:31 PM
"South Sea Tales" and "Curve of Time" are classics. "Curve of Time" chronicling Family travel in the Desolation Sound area of the PNW.  Looks like you are set for winter reading
"Mariah" Pearson Ariel #331, "Chiquita" CD Typhoon, M/V "Wild Blue" C-Dory 25

"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails."
W.A. Ward

Frank

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December 10, 2021, 05:14:13 AM
Yep... Curve of time is a west coast classic.
Cappy was an incredible women.
Widowed, she took her 5 kids up the coast every summer on a narrow 25fter.
I know those waters well and tidal rapids must be timed, water is very deep so anchorages are few and far between and then ad in her being navigator/engineer/chief cook and solo mom...all befor plotters or tidal apps.
Very good read.
God made small boats for younger boys and older men

Godot

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December 18, 2021, 06:03:00 PM
My Old Man and the Sea I /think/ is just a sailing story of a young man, maybe in his twenties, going sailing with his father for a year or two.

I read it a long time ago. I may still have a copy somewhere. My memory is fuzzy, but I recall it to be a pretty good yarn.

Shrimpy is about a trip around the world in an 18' boat by Shane Acton. I never read it but always wanted to. It's an impossible to find book now-a-days.
Adam
Bayfield 29 "Seeker"
Middle River, Chesapeake Bay

Jim_ME

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December 19, 2021, 08:45:39 PM
I had been interested in My Old Man and the Sea for years, and recently got the book (a hardcover first edition in new condition) at the local library book sale. I started to read it, but made the mistake of putting it down, and have yet to pick it back up...but expect to some time in the future... 

From the chart in the opening pages, they do quite a big loop, starting in New London Connecticut to Bermuda, and including (to mention some of the places visited) Antigua, Rio De Janeiro, around Cape Horn, Easter Island, Galapagos, through the Panama Canal, Caribbean, and up the East Coast back to New London.

They built their boat, Sparrow, themselves. At 25 feet and 7 foot beam, it seems like the ultimate SailFar boat, but unusual in its 11,000 pound displacement.

I knew of two sailors way DownEast that had each cruised on their own Laurent Giles designed Vertue for some time, before moving up to larger boats.
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