OffCenterHarbor.com asked our guides to share their favorite books that should be in every boater’s library…
NOTE: OffCenterHarbor.com asked the Guides to suggest “Three Books That Should Be In Every Boater’s (or Boatbuilder’s) Library.” Here are Jane Ahlfeld’s recommendations:
First You Have to Row a Little Boat, by Richard Bode
Using sailing as a metaphor, this book is comprised of reflections on lessons we learn in life. During my year of cruising, I had similar thoughts about all the life lessons learned while sailing and living aboard.
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Bill Perkins says:
Navigation for the Rest of Us is a book I have learned from too . The title doesn’t fully convey the fact that the reader will be instructed by a deeply experienced professional .
Capt. Peter Reich says:
First You Have to Row is one of my favorite!
jason thatcher says:
thanks for the tip on Elements of Seamanship and Boat Navigation for the Rest of Us… lots of great information. I really admire Taylor for being able to boil down the rules of seamanship to easily remembered concepts: keep the water out, don’t hit anything.. etc.
I shared these ideas with some students in my school who are headed to Annapolis this summer… they surely have a head start on their future classmates! jt
Charles Barclay says:
Richard Bode’s earlier book Blue Sloop at Dawn covers the same 1925 Timber Point Sloop and his orphaning, time growing up with his aunt, uncle and cousin; learning to sail, and life during the later years of the great depression and World War II. Interestingly, there are differences in names and lessons in the 15 years or so between books. Both are good reads.