Book Review

Every issue of WindCheck includes a look at a new book about sailing (or perhaps the reissue of a maritime classic) and occasionally gives a listen to the music of the sea.

Book Review

Book Review: The Complete Ocean Skipper

By Joe Cooper

Book Review: The Complete Ocean Skipper

Deep Water Voyaging, Navigation and Yacht Management By Tom Cunliffe Published by Bloomsbury Publishing, an imprint of Adlard Coles Reviewed by Cooper For aficionados of the British sailing press, the name Tom Cunliffe ought to be well known. If it isn’t, you need to change that. He is one of the masters of the sailing game. A veteran sailor having spent time in, and on, every style of boat on most oceans and worked in just about…

Book Review

How to Sail with Dogs

By Chris Szepessy

How to Sail with Dogs

100 Tips for a Pet-Friendly Voyage By Michelle Segrest Published by Navigate Content, Inc. 102 pages E-book Our friend Michelle Segrest has written the definitive work on the subject of bringing canine companions on board a sailboat. If you’re contemplating a sail with your dog, whether for an afternoon or an ocean crossing, How to Sail with Dogs is a wealth of information about everything you need to know to sail comfortably and safely with dogs. Chapters…

Book Review

Surf is Where You Find It

By Chris Szepessy

Surf is Where You Find It

The Wisdom of the Waves: Any Time, Anywhere, Any Way By Gerry Lopez Published by Patagonia 416 pages paperback $24.95 Our friends at Patagonia have released a revised third edition of what many consider the finest book ever written on the sport of surfing, penned by one of the most revered surfers of all time, the man known as “Mr. Pipeline.” Born and raised in Hawai’i, Gerry Lopez is a legendary surfer, surfboard shaper, journalist, actor, and…

Book Review

The Incredible Voyage

By Chris Szepessy

The Incredible Voyage

A Personal Odyssey By Tristan Jones Published by Sheridan House, an imprint of Globe Pequot 391 pages paperback Our friends at Sheridan House in Essex, CT have re-released one of our favorite books by long distance sailor and writer Tristan Jones for their Maritime Classics series. Originally published in 1977, The Incredible Voyage finds the author retracing the voyages of discovery made by 16th century European explorers. Determined to set “the vertical sailing record of the world”…

Book Review

Captain Hale’s Covenant: The Saga of an American Merchant Prince

By Chris Szepessy

Captain Hale’s Covenant: The Saga of an American Merchant Prince

By Thomas E. Crocker Published by McBooks Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot 429 pages $29.95 The years known as the Federal Period (1783-1822) were a time of unprecedented expansion for the fledgling United States of America, on both the largely unexplored continent and the Atlantic Ocean. As the closest American port to Europe, Portland, Maine prospered greatly from sea trade. Adam Hale, an industrious and self-made captain, had been a blockade runner during the Revolutionary War….

Book Review

Rebels at Sea

By Chris Szepessy

Rebels at Sea

Privateering in the American Revolution By Eric Jay Dolin Published by Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company The United States Navy was founded during the Revolutionary War, but the fledgling nation might not have emerged victorious – and independent – were it not for a ragtag fleet of privately owned vessels. The Continental navy, at that time comprising no more than about sixty ships, was engaged in combat with the most formidable naval…

Book Review

Capsize

By Chris Szepessy

Capsize

A novel by David Kushner Published by KDP Direct Publishing 511 pages paperback Those who make a living smuggling illegal commodities are a resourceful lot, their efforts at avoiding detection perhaps most famously portrayed in The French Connection with its Lincoln Continental and its heroin-packed rocker panels. David Kushner’s latest book takes that theme to a new level by loading six kilograms of Soviet weapons-grade plutonium (enough to build a nuclear device capable of massive destruction) into…

Book Review

An Excerpt from Can’t Sail In Jail!

By Chris Szepessy

An Excerpt from Can’t Sail In Jail!

Editor’s note: We reviewed Greg Gilmartin’s third novel in our January/February edition (windcheckmagazine.com/article/cant-sail-in-jail/), and liked it so much that we asked the author to share a piece with WindCheck readers. This passage is from Chapter 18 – Ishkoodah. It was always about the cash with Dr. Z. He grew up with enough of it to want more. He understood how it opened doors and brought things into his life. How it made life more enjoyable, created a…

Book Review

Waterborne: A Slow Trip Around A Small Planet

By Chris Szepessy

Waterborne: A Slow Trip Around A Small Planet

By Marguerite Welch Published by Seaworthy Publications, Inc.   320 pages   paperback On October 22, 1998, Marguerite & Michael Welch and their black Labrador Jack departed their hometown of Annapolis, MD aboard their 38-foot Shannon Cutter Ithaca, embarking on what they anticipated to be a three-year voyage at the most. Only vaguely thinking about the possibility of sailing the world at the time, they would eventually complete a 43,822-nautical mile circumnavigation during which they visited fifty-one countries by…

Book Review

Can’t Sail In Jail!

By Chris Szepessy

Can’t Sail In Jail!

Written and published by Greg Gilmartin 302 pages $20 “Every legend begins with a little lie, but it needs some truth if it’s gonna fly.” The characters and incidents in Greg Gilmartin’s third novel, Can’t Sail In Jail! are fictional, although readers familiar with the history of the Mystic River Mudhead Sailing Association may discover some remarkably similar people and events. In an article he wrote for WindCheck on the 40th anniversary of the club’s founding (windcheckmagazine.com/article/the_mudheads_turn_40/), Greg…

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