These are fiction and non fiction, technical and entertaining…..in no particular order…This first incarnation of this entry is just off the top of my head….
Cruising Handbook….
Boatowner’s Mechanical and Electrical Manual……
Marine Diesel Engines….
How to Read a Nautical Chart…..
all by Nigel Calder…basically anything by him is well worth reading
Airborne by William F. Buckley
Longitude by Dava Sobel
Seamanship Secrets by John Jamieson
The Cruiser’s Handbook of Fishing by Scott and Wendy Bannerot
Storm Tactics by Lin and Larry Pardey
Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum
Adrift by Steven Callahan
An Embarrassment of Mangoes by Ann Vanderhoof
Inspecting the Aging Sailboat by Don Casey
The Next Port by Heyward Coleman
More to come……
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