Book Review: Graveyard of the Pacific: Shipwreck and Survival on America’s Deadliest Waterway
Graveyard of the Pacific: Shipwreck and Survival on America’s Deadliest Waterway by Randall...
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Book Review: The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World’s Oceans
The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World’s Oceans by Laura Trethewey Sailors don’t...
Read MoreBook Review: Cruises with Kathleen by Donald Hamilton
Readers who enjoyed Bert Vermeer’s review of the Vancouver 27 in the September/October 2023 issue...
Read MoreBook Review: Hold Fast
This is not a sailing story. As a matter of fact, there are only three scenes that occur aboard...
Read MoreBook Review: Taken by the Wind
Memoir of a Sailor’s Voyage in a Bygone Era San Juan, Puerto Rico. My husband Tom and I and...
Read MoreBook Review: How to Build a Boat: A Father, His Daughter, and the Unsailed Sea
This first-person narrative will not, contrary to the title, actually teach you how to build a...
Read MoreBook Review: Empire of Ice and Stone, The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk
It is a tale oft told, a bright and promising voyage of brave young people who sail off to conquer...
Read MoreBook Review: Green Ghost, Blue Ocean – No Fixed Address
This is a remarkable story of one couple’s 17-year, 40,000-mile adventure that chronicles their...
Read MoreBook Review: Bargain Boats and Budget Cruising
The subtitle of this new book is enticing: “The fine art of selecting a great boat, outfitting it,...
Read MoreBook Review: A Memoir by Bruce Kirby, Designed by Mark Smith
The late Bruce Kirby was one of the most influential yacht designers of the 20th century. Though...
Read MoreBook Review: The Brendan Voyage
When Tim Severin died at 80 in December 2020, I thought, “I know that name. He wrote stories about...
Read MoreBook Review: The Boat Who Wouldn’t Float
This classic nautical book is aimed squarely at Good Old Boat readers, despite being written...
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