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Sailing Books
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Sailing Alone around the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 165 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.15 — 11,153 ratings — published 1899
The Long Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,258 ratings — published 1971
A Voyage for Madmen (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.33 — 6,384 ratings — published 1997
Maiden Voyage (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,316 ratings — published 1989
Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.03 — 14,567 ratings — published 1840
Sailing a Serious Ocean (CREATIVE MATH SUPPLEMENT)
by (shelved 63 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.36 — 990 ratings — published 2013
World of My Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,171 ratings — published 1969
Gipsy Moth Circles the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,353 ratings — published 1967
The Annapolis Book of Seamanship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.45 — 433 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 — 4,178 ratings — published 1972
Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.15 — 20,738 ratings — published 1986
Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
by (shelved 55 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.07 — 63,222 ratings — published 1969
Fastnet, Force 10: The Deadliest Storm in the History of Modern Sailing (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.19 — 999 ratings — published 1980
The Voyager's Handbook: The Essential Guide to Blue Water Cruising (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.43 — 252 ratings — published 1998
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.17 — 118,274 ratings — published 2000
World Cruising Routes, 5th Edition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.34 — 167 ratings — published
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.46 — 163,131 ratings — published 1959
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as sailing)
avg rating 3.56 — 613,270 ratings — published 1851
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.17 — 203,167 ratings — published 2023
Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual: How to Maintain, Repair and Improve Your Boat's Essential Systems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.51 — 326 ratings — published 1990
Heavy Weather Sailing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.34 — 226 ratings — published 1981
New Complete Sailing Manual (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.32 — 253 ratings — published 1999
An Embarrassment of Mangoes: A Caribbean Interlude (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as sailing)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,670 ratings — published 2003
Sailing Fundamentals (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as sailing)
avg rating 3.93 — 282 ratings — published 1987
The Complete Sailor: Learning the Art of Sailing (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.37 — 402 ratings — published 1995
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as sailing)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,301,748 ratings — published 1952
Flirting with Mermaids: The Unpredictable Life of a Sailboat Delivery Skipper (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.19 — 669 ratings — published 1999
Godforsaken Sea: The True Story of a Race Through the World's Most Dangerous Waters (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,206 ratings — published 1998
Storm Tactics: Modern Methods of Heaving-to for Survival in Extreme Conditions (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 34 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.33 — 330 ratings — published 2013
How to Sail Around the World : Advice and Ideas for Voyaging Under Sail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 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 — 6,076 ratings — published 1998
Kon-Tiki (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.16 — 24,997 ratings — published 1948
Swallows and Amazons (Swallows and Amazons, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.02 — 32,722 ratings — published 1930
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as sailing)
avg rating 3.99 — 76,108 ratings — published 1995
The Proving Ground : The Inside Story of the 1998 Sydney to Hobart Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,264 ratings — published 2001
Get Real, Get Gone: How to Become a Modern Sea Gypsy and Sail Away Forever (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 29 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,047 ratings — published 2015
Close to the Wind: An Extraordinary Story of Triumph Over Adversity (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.17 — 592 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 — 118,775 ratings — published 1997
True Spirit: The Aussie girl who took on the world (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,773 ratings — published 2010
Cape Horn to Starboard (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 26 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.22 — 515 ratings — published 1986
The Riddle of the Sands (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as sailing)
avg rating 3.63 — 7,675 ratings — published 1903
Treasure Island (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as sailing)
avg rating 3.85 — 537,968 ratings — published 1882
A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as sailing)
avg rating 3.84 — 25,068 ratings — published 2024
Swell: A Sailing Surfer's Voyage of Awakening (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,615 ratings — published 2018
Once Is Enough (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.16 — 391 ratings — published 1959
Cape Horn : The Logical Route (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.29 — 225 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 — 865 ratings — published 2007
Post Captain (Aubrey & Maturin, #2)
by (shelved 25 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.26 — 25,137 ratings — published 1972
Float Plan (Beck Sisters, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as sailing)
avg rating 3.94 — 34,432 ratings — published 2021
Escape from the Ordinary (Escape Series Book 1)
by (shelved 24 times as sailing)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,724 ratings — published
“Possibly a man who hates the land should dwell on shore forever. Alienation and the long voyages at sea will compel him once again to dream of it, torment him with the absurdity of longing for something that he loathes.”
― The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
― The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
“...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
