Favorite boating, sailing stories

[Larry Patrick]

Read the book Adrift by Stephen Callahan, he sure was resourceful.He was adrift 63 days or somewhere around that amount of time.He believed a whale smashed into his hull during the night. Read the book years ago. With winter here thought I would ask for some favorite reading on power boating cruising or sailing, sea survival stories really anything related to the topic.

 

[tparrent]

My all time favorite survival story is Desperate Voyage bu John Caldwell. There is an interesting follow up by wife Mary Caldwell called Mary's Voyage

 

[Molly Brown]

Can't go wrong with the 20 book Capt. Jack Aubrey series by Patrick O'Brien. Incredible stories taken from accounts in the British Admiralty records back when they were a world power. The movie Master and Commander was based on one of those books. The movie could hardly do it justice. The detail of ship life really brings history of the period to life. Highly recommend it!

 

[RogerJuntunen]

How about starting with Bill and El and HALCYON DAYS? The C-Brats have some great active members who have written of their own adventures.

 

[NewMoon]

Here's a link to another discussion of recommended reading, including a long list of books I've enjoyed.

http://www.c-brats.com/viewtopic.php?t=17351&highlight=

 

[anchorout]

Molly Brown: you are dead on with the Patrick O"Brian series of books. They are good reading. But I just finished the 27th in a series by Alexander Kent books featuring Seaman/Captain/Admiral Bolitho. Stories are in the same era as O'Brain's, but, as you know O'Brian tends to blah, blah, blah a lot between action sections. Kent stories roll from start to end. If anyone out there is interested, these are soft backs, read once and I will sell the whole set at a good price.