Our friend Scott Marckx sent this photo above, and scrolling the titles you can practically smell the cool salt air! He writes:
“Missing from this stack is one of my favorite books that I loaned out: Open Boat Cruising by John Glasspool.
The first story in The Call of the Coast, "A Cruise on Puget Sound" by Ezra Meeker, is worth getting that book for.
There's a story in On the River where they talk about the stones tinkling on the bottom when they are swimming and the description is magical.
Bijaboji is a peek at the Inside Passage in the 1930s from a very small boat and very competent skipper.
One Inch above the Water by Jim Payne starts out: At age 57, I ran away from home. ... inside me was a boy that needed to come out. This latter-day youthful rebellion played itself out in long distance solo kayak trips along the waterways of America.
Full Moon and Flood Tide is beautiful and tells stories of the Broughton archipelago.”
Rusty Knorr’s collected stack has some real gems. Designer Phil Bolger figures prominently, but also note SCA Editor-at-Large Larry Brown’s wonderful Sailing on a Micro-Budget. A revised later edition was called Frugal Yachting.
This big stack is particularly small-boat centered, with Dick Herman’s A Boat Called SCAMP, and Mike Mann’s telling of his passage to Hawaii aboard his Montgomery 15, A Little Breeze to the West.
And we love our copy of Bruce Bingham’s (Flicka designer) The Sailor’s Sketchbook, with it’s many tips and tricks and gorgeous drawings.
Charlie Nichols offers us this fun view into his reading room. His book stack leans to the hands-on and technical, with author names like Herreshoff, Calder, and Perry. Gaff Rig by John Leather is a must for fans of the type. There’s The Sailor’s Sketchbook again—great minds and all that.
We haven’t read Bull Canyon, but it looks interesting, a memoir from Lin Pardey. “Bull Canyon is the story of two dreamers and schemers who have taken life by the horns and bring the reader along for the wild and joyous ride.”
Charlie notes the big folder on the bottom of his stack is a copy of the log from his Falmouth 30 Cutter MINKE, wirtten by the original owner / builder. Charlie is slowing transcribing it into a Doc file.
He also wanted to make sure we saw the lazy brown dog in his “camo gear” blending into his chair! Geez, who gives a dog his own chair? •SCA•
More of your book stacks soon!