There’s nothing like a good book, whether you’re on passage or just hanging out in the cockpit at the marina. For those in search of a summer read, there are a number of great new titles to choose from.
Of course, no list of marine titles would be complete without some storms at sea, and John Kretschmer’s Sailing a Serious Ocean and Michael Tougais and Douglas Campbell’s Rescue of the Bounty are two outstanding examples of this genre.
Meanwhile, for the old salts in the audience there’s David Barrie’s Sextant: A Young Man’s Daring Sea Voyage and the Men Who Mapped the World’s Oceans; and Kings Marauder by Dewey Lambdin.
None of the above strike your fancy? Here are three other titles worth checking out:
Escape from Ensenada,
by Harris T. Vincent: a light-hearted novel about three West Coast sailors on an adventure south of the border.
$18.31 (paperback) www.harristvincent.com
Victura:
The Kennedys, a Sailboat, and the Sea, by James W. Graham: the story of four generations of the Kennedy clan and their love affair with the sloop Victura.
$22.99 www.thevictura.com
Rough Passage to London,
by Robin Lloyd: a fictionalized accounted of a real square-rigger sailor named Capt. Elisha Ely Morgan.
$18.27 (hardcover) www.robinlloyd.org
