Book Review

If you want to build confidence and boost your self-sufficiency by learning how to find, prevent and resolve onboard electrical problems, The Boat Electrics Bible is an indispensable, comprehensive guide.

Finding North – How Navigation Makes Us Human

For those who have had that wonder, Eric Jay Dolin (Leviathan, When America First Met China) has written a thorough, yet entertaining, chronicle of the history of American lighthouses.

Likewise, says author Dag Pike, you should hire a surveyor before you write the check for a secondhand boat.

Most sailors have read Joshua Slocum’s firsthand account of the world’s first solo circumnavigation. You probably own a well-worn copy of Sailing Alone Around the World, but it’s nothing like this beautifully produced illustrated edition from Zenith Press.

After learning from books he borrowed from the library, he put theory into practice at the Royal Selangor Yacht Club in his native Malaysia.

Co-written with his longtime friend Ron Weiss, Captain Willcox’s action-packed memoir begins with an explosion aboard the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland, New Zealand in 1985.

Maritime lawyer and author Jay Jacobs has written a non-fiction courtroom drama entitled The Widow Wave, about the worst recreational boating accident in the history of San Francisco, CA.

As members of the Sunsail owners program, Nancy Kaull and Paul Jacobs of Saunderstown, RI have cruised many of the world’s finest waters together.

A Path in the Mighty Waters: Shipboard Life & Atlantic Crossings to the New World tells the story of how people experienced their crossings to North America in the eighteenth century.