OffCenterHarbor.com asked our guides to share their favorite books that should be in every boater’s library…
Three Books That Simply Must be Aboard
YACHT CRUISING, by Claud Worth, 1910
“It is as hard to describe the fascination of the sea as to explain the beauty of a woman, for, to each man, either it is self-evident, or no argument can help him to see it…..A love of the sea with some seems almost innate, to others it may come late in life; but no man who has loved the sea can forsake her, ever”
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Ginny Jones says:
I can still remember Claud Worth’s TERN IV when she visited Mystic Seaport Museum in the 1970’s or 80’s — what a lovely boat!
I’ve already used up my quota of books but to my right on the shelves in my office are about 1200 more good reads. Lodestar Books Compendium of Cooke: CRUISING, recently published, is a new favorite; Sterling Hayden’s WANDERER, THE GREY SEAS UNDER and THE SERPENT’S COIL by Farley Mowat, and books by Keith McLaren (A RACE FOR REAL SAILORS and LIGHT ON THE WATER). Any and all of Uffa Fox. William Snaith’s ACROSS THE WESTERN OCEAN and ON THE WIND’S WAY. AMERICAN FISHERMEN by Albert Cook Church, I could go on forever. So many books and so little time!
Clyde Davis says:
Thanks Gubby!
I’m into Worth’s book about one-hundred pages. I think I’ll never house a topmast; but we’ll pull out a canvas water carrier (with proper seams via small needle) full of other gems, with more experience on the water then even more gems. Great book to grow into!
C Douglas Walling says:
Ahoy , Sailors , would you recommend a way to get these “Good Reads” , inexpensively , here in Singapore ,,,, I am starving for good reads , since my last good read was “A Sack of Shakings” , from Frank Bullen , found at a used book store in NZ .
David Tew says:
My favorites:
Nevlle Chute’s “Trustee from the Toolroom”
M. Wylie Blanchett’s “The Curve of Time”
Sam Llewellyn’s “The Shadow in the Sands”
Ellen Massey Leonard says:
I can’t help but second your recommendation of Nevil Shute’s Trustee from the Toolroom. (Shute is one of my top-ten authors!) It’s also worth checking out Miles and Beryl Smeeton’s books (Once is Enough, Sunrise to Windward, Winter Shoes in Springtime) and their biography High Endeavours–Miles and Beryl were the inspiration for Shute’s premise.