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Sailing Alone around the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 174 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.16 — 11,574 ratings — published 1899
The Long Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,453 ratings — published 1971
A Voyage for Madmen (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.34 — 6,826 ratings — published
Maiden Voyage (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,415 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 — 14,917 ratings — published 1840
Sailing a Serious Ocean (CREATIVE MATH SUPPLEMENT)
by (shelved 63 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,068 ratings — published 2013
Dove: An Extraordinary Around-the-World Adventure―The Solo Voyage of Five Years and 33,000 Miles (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.25 — 4,499 ratings — published 1972
Gipsy Moth Circles the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,376 ratings — published 1967
World of My Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,241 ratings — published 1969
The Annapolis Book of Seamanship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.45 — 434 ratings — published
Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
by (shelved 60 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.06 — 66,029 ratings — published 1969
Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.15 — 21,548 ratings — published 1986
Fastnet, Force 10: The Deadliest Storm in the History of Modern Sailing (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,037 ratings — published 1980
The Voyager's Handbook: The Essential Guide to Blue Water Cruising (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.43 — 252 ratings — published 1998
World Cruising Routes, 5th Edition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.32 — 170 ratings — published
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.47 — 180,566 ratings — published 1959
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.16 — 241,808 ratings — published 2023
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.17 — 123,454 ratings — published 2000
Heavy Weather Sailing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.35 — 237 ratings — published 1981
Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual: How to Maintain, Repair and Improve Your Boat's Essential Systems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.51 — 330 ratings — published 1990
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as sailing)
avg rating 3.57 — 636,078 ratings — published 1851
New Complete Sailing Manual (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.32 — 255 ratings — published 1999
Godforsaken Sea: The True Story of a Race Through the World's Most Dangerous Waters (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,264 ratings — published 1998
An Embarrassment of Mangoes: A Caribbean Interlude (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as sailing)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,795 ratings — published 2003
Storm Tactics: Modern Methods of Heaving-to for Survival in Extreme Conditions (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 38 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.34 — 334 ratings — published 2013
The Complete Sailor: Learning the Art of Sailing (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.37 — 411 ratings — published 1995
Sailing Fundamentals (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as sailing)
avg rating 3.93 — 281 ratings — published 1987
Flirting with Mermaids: The Unpredictable Life of a Sailboat Delivery Skipper (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.19 — 710 ratings — published 1999
A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as sailing)
avg rating 3.79 — 76,777 ratings — published 2024
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as sailing)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,378,689 ratings — published 1952
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 3.77 — 6,355 ratings — published 1998
Kon-Tiki (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.16 — 25,862 ratings — published 1948
Get Real, Get Gone: How to Become a Modern Sea Gypsy and Sail Away Forever (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,089 ratings — published 2015
Swallows and Amazons (Swallows and Amazons, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.02 — 33,247 ratings — published 1930
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as sailing)
avg rating 3.99 — 78,165 ratings — published 1995
The Proving Ground : The Inside Story of the 1998 Sydney to Hobart Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,297 ratings — published 2001
Close to the Wind: An Extraordinary Story of Triumph Over Adversity (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.19 — 622 ratings — published 1998
True Spirit: The Aussie girl who took on the world (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,886 ratings — published 2010
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.12 — 120,826 ratings — published 1997
Treasure Island (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as sailing)
avg rating 3.85 — 555,963 ratings — published 1882
Cape Horn to Starboard (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 27 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.23 — 552 ratings — published 1986
The Riddle of the Sands (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as sailing)
avg rating 3.63 — 7,896 ratings — published 1903
Swell: A Sailing Surfer's Voyage of Awakening (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.38 — 2,782 ratings — published 2018
Sailing Made Easy (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.16 — 406 ratings — published 2010
Post Captain (Aubrey & Maturin, #2)
by (shelved 26 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.26 — 26,330 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 4.39 — 525 ratings — published
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 — 409 ratings — published 1959
Cape Horn : The Logical Route (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.29 — 232 ratings — published 1967
Left for Dead: Surviving the Deadliest Storm in Modern Sailing History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.18 — 898 ratings — published 2007
“To reach a port we must set sail –
Sail, not tie at anchor
Sail, not drift.”
―
Sail, not tie at anchor
Sail, not drift.”
―
“Bad, or good, as it happens to be, that is what it is to exist! . . . It is as though I have been silent and fuddled with sleep all my life. In spite of all, I know now that at least it is better to go always towards the summer, towards those burning seas of light; to sit at night in the forecastle lost in an unfamiliar dream, when the spirit becomes filled with stars, instead of wounds, and good and compassionate and tender. To sail into an unknown spring, or receive one's baptism on storm's promontory, where the solitary albatross heels over in the gale, and at last come to land. To know the earth under one's foot and go, in wild delight, ways where there is water.”
― Ultramarine
― Ultramarine
