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Sailing Books
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Sailing Alone around the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 169 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.16 — 11,295 ratings — published 1899
The Long Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,333 ratings — published 1971
A Voyage for Madmen (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.34 — 6,518 ratings — published 1997
Maiden Voyage (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,343 ratings — published 1989
Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.03 — 14,688 ratings — published 1840
Sailing a Serious Ocean (CREATIVE MATH SUPPLEMENT)
by (shelved 63 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,023 ratings — published 2013
Gipsy Moth Circles the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,362 ratings — published 1967
World of My Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,198 ratings — published 1969
Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
by (shelved 60 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.07 — 64,216 ratings — published 1969
The Annapolis Book of Seamanship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.45 — 429 ratings — published
Dove: An Extraordinary Around-the-World Adventure―The Solo Voyage of Five Years and 33,000 Miles (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,316 ratings — published 1972
Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.15 — 21,022 ratings — published 1986
The Voyager's Handbook: The Essential Guide to Blue Water Cruising (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.43 — 251 ratings — published 1998
Fastnet, Force 10: The Deadliest Storm in the History of Modern Sailing (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,010 ratings — published 1980
World Cruising Routes, 5th Edition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.34 — 166 ratings — published
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.46 — 170,162 ratings — published 1959
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.17 — 120,142 ratings — published 2000
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.17 — 217,967 ratings — published 2023
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as sailing)
avg rating 3.57 — 621,112 ratings — published 1851
Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual: How to Maintain, Repair and Improve Your Boat's Essential Systems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.51 — 328 ratings — published 1990
Heavy Weather Sailing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.34 — 229 ratings — published 1981
New Complete Sailing Manual (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.32 — 254 ratings — published 1999
Godforsaken Sea: The True Story of a Race Through the World's Most Dangerous Waters (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,236 ratings — published 1998
An Embarrassment of Mangoes: A Caribbean Interlude (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as sailing)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,711 ratings — published 2003
Sailing Fundamentals (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as sailing)
avg rating 3.93 — 280 ratings — published 1987
The Complete Sailor: Learning the Art of Sailing (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.37 — 405 ratings — published 1995
Flirting with Mermaids: The Unpredictable Life of a Sailboat Delivery Skipper (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.19 — 687 ratings — published 1999
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as sailing)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,330,294 ratings — published 1952
Storm Tactics: Modern Methods of Heaving-to for Survival in Extreme Conditions (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 35 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.33 — 331 ratings — published 2013
How to Sail Around the World : Advice and Ideas for Voyaging Under Sail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.06 — 237 ratings — published 2003
Red Sky in Mourning: A True Story of Love, Loss, and Survival at Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as sailing)
avg rating 3.76 — 6,173 ratings — published 1998
Kon-Tiki (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.16 — 25,329 ratings — published 1948
Swallows and Amazons (Swallows and Amazons, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.02 — 32,893 ratings — published 1930
Get Real, Get Gone: How to Become a Modern Sea Gypsy and Sail Away Forever (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 30 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,056 ratings — published 2015
The Proving Ground : The Inside Story of the 1998 Sydney to Hobart Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,280 ratings — published 2001
A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as sailing)
avg rating 3.83 — 46,679 ratings — published 2024
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as sailing)
avg rating 3.99 — 76,479 ratings — published 1995
Close to the Wind: An Extraordinary Story of Triumph Over Adversity (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.18 — 606 ratings — published 1998
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.12 — 119,556 ratings — published 1997
Treasure Island (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as sailing)
avg rating 3.85 — 545,308 ratings — published 1882
Cape Horn to Starboard (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 27 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.22 — 527 ratings — published 1986
True Spirit: The Aussie girl who took on the world (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,824 ratings — published 2010
The Riddle of the Sands (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as sailing)
avg rating 3.63 — 7,800 ratings — published 1903
Post Captain (Aubrey & Maturin, #2)
by (shelved 27 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.26 — 25,554 ratings — published 1972
Sailing to the Edge of Time: The Promise, the Challenges, and the Freedom of Ocean Voyaging (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.40 — 495 ratings — published
Swell: A Sailing Surfer's Voyage of Awakening (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.38 — 2,675 ratings — published 2018
Sailing Made Easy (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.17 — 391 ratings — published 2010
Once Is Enough: A Classic Non-Fiction Adventure of Sailing, Survival, and Wanderlust (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.16 — 399 ratings — published 1959
Cape Horn : The Logical Route (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.29 — 226 ratings — published 1967
Left for Dead: Surviving the Deadliest Storm in Modern Sailing History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.17 — 878 ratings — published 2007
“She found out that having something to do prevented you from feeling seasick, and that even a job like scrubbing a deck could be satisfying, if it was done in a seamanlike way. She was very taken with this notion, and later on she folded the blankets on her bunk in a seamanlike way, and put her possessions in the closet in a seamanlike way, and used 'stow' instead of 'tidy' for the process of doing so. After two days at sea, Lyra decided that this was the life for her.”
― The Golden Compass
― The Golden Compass
“...this beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this was so beautiful it stopped my breath...”
― Caught by the Sea
― Caught by the Sea
