winter reading

I just finished reading "Beautiful Swimmers" as was recommended at the beginning of this post. Fascinating book if you are interested in the life of Watermen especially crabbing. I think a trip to Crisfield Maryland for the annual Labor Day National Hard Crab Derby would be a fun time.
 
Just bringing this back to the top so Bob's recent post could get entered.

Bob's post

Today's Wall Street Journal had a book review on "Roads to Quoz" by William Least Heat Moon (William Trogdon--English, Irish, Osage Native American Descent). River Horse (when he took a C Dory 22 coast to Coast with minimal portaging) endeared him to the C Brats, and Blue Highways was a rambling about some of America's byways.

This new book covers travels in 4 sections: North East, North West, South East and South West, but starts in Arkansas and follows the Ouachita River, Over 3 years the narritative follows 16,000 miles of byways, and only ventures into one city: Baltimore MD. As usual there are colorful narritatives and interesting people.

It sounds like a good read. I'll order it, and then pass it along to other members.

If you own a C Dory and have not read "River Horse", it is a must. My Copy went with my C Dory 22 to Jeff.
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I was just cruising this thread the other day thinking I’ve got to get off the computer, back-off on NetFlix and pick up a good nautical book.
Its going to be long winter up here........
 
I'm currently reading "Pirates of the Chesapeake" by Donald Shomette. It begins in 1609 and gives a really detailed account of how the Pirate activity shaped the development along the NE coastline. It's a very detailed book that a lot of research went into it not your typical pirate novel.
 
If you're going to the Broughton Islands any time soon, Totem Poles and Tea is a great read. The author, Hughina Harold, signs on for a year at the First Nation village of Mamililacula as a school teacher and despite harrowing adventures, signs up for another year.

Wonderful stories of the area that you'll cruise on your trip to the Broughton Archipelago. Available at Amazon.com, under $20.
 
Last night I went to a talk by Michael Tougias a co-author of "The Rescue of the Bounty". Although the book does discuss the captains reason for his actions, the focus is on the Coast Guard rescue. It is amazing what the heroic Coast Guard people did to rescue 14 of the 16 Bounty crew during Superstorm Sandy. If you saw a movie of their efforts, you'd think it was fiction.

I'm going to read the book as soon as our library gets it. One of his earlier books about a Coast Guard rescue, "Their Finest Hour", has been made into a Disney IMax 3D movie to be released in January. I can't wait because the book was so good at describing the harrowing rescue efforts.

Rick from Maine
 
Since I purchased an I-Pad a year ago started buying books on Kindle. Read about 5 sailing stories,prefer true stories. Never sailed ,but always would have liked to,guess that's the reason for choosing these books. Listened to Coast to Coast the other day,it was about near death expierences,was interesting hearing from doctors and scientists that now believe in an afterlife. So I ordered a couple books on the subject,not much time for reading since im working ,but look forward to winter time reading.
 
Try "The Ship of Gold" by I forget. It is a two part story. The first is the sinking of a paddle wheeler, laden with 49er gold headed from Panama to the east coast . The second is the modern day race to find and salvage the gazillion dollars in its hold. It was a best seller for quite a while.

Just ordered "The Boat That Wouldn't Float". Sounds like a hoot.
 
I just finished this thread and actually found a couple that I hadn't read. I worked at Captain's Nautical Supplies on 2nd Ave. in Seattle, later at Fisherman's Terminal, so I got to read lots and lots of these books (and then put them back on the shelves to be sold).

I don't think that I saw Sailing Around the World Alone listed above, which I consider a must read for any boater. A book that still gives me the willies, and a must read for those who single-hand, is The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst. I've read it twice, gave it away twice, and would read it again.

It is so easy to open up a "used book" window, search for the titles listed in this thread, and have them shipped. I've got 4 books on the way. Thanks, everybody.

Mark
 
Bringing this thread back to active:

Just recently received a the book, "Crossing the Wake" by Tanya Binford, from MCP Books. It is the story of "one woman's great loop adventure". She did the Loop single handing, on a Ranger 25, in about 6 months. Easy, fun read, and educational. It is not a travel log, although it is a chronological account.

It came from a C-BRAT friend and was a real surprise, and a really perfect gift. It addressed my illusions about "running in a ditch" and has certainly peeked my interest in the Loop and particularly the Trent Severn and Canadian waterways.

Harvey
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Foggy":2e51gjwp said:
Can't go wrong with the posts on www.c-brats.com.
Sometimes you learn something, always amusing,
occasionally hilarious.
Available anytime.
No purchase necessary.

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You are right on the button with that. It's my morning coffee, my daily lunch and my evening desert, when I can.

Harvey
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Let me recommend some books by David James Duncan: The River Why, River Teeth, and My Story as Told by Water. He has written others less water-oriented, too; see his website.

I'm now reading A Sea Dog's Tale by Peter Muilenberg and will review it for The Ensign (the USPS quarterly). So far it's a fun read.
 
Ivan Doig's Sea Runners ... fictional tale of three indentured workers who escape a Russian work camp in Sitka (I think) and paddle down the Inside Passage and the outside of Vancouver Island in an open dugout canoe, eventually reaching willapa bay, circa 1790.
 
AstoriaDave":kk4oxm21 said:
Ivan Doig's Sea Runners ... fictional tale of three indentured workers who escape a Russian work camp in Sitka (I think) and paddle down the Inside Passage and the outside of Vancouver Island in an open dugout canoe, eventually reaching willapa bay, circa 1790.
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I like a lot of Doig's early works.. Winter Brothers about James Swan and the settling of thr Port Townsent area is a superb read.

I'm not sure that Sea Runners wasn't based on some type of an actual event, probably nothing like the book...

His early autobiography, This House of Sky is very good as well.
 
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