Tom Janecek writes: “The copy of Boatbuilding is the house copy. My copy in the shop is full of sawdust, epoxy, and pencil marks and annotations. The chapter on lofting got me started in boat building.
It’s hard to beat Chichester for sheer adventure!”
Rich Roberts warns that a “complete stack would likely tumble to the floor before I could take the photo…” but his abbreviated stack includes a few favorites.
The Curve of Time has certainly been endorsed by our reader book stacks! We used to sell the very useful Best Anchorages of the Inside Passage.
Paddling the Columbia is one we should own. We’ve found that with our shallow-draft boats we typically get more relevant information from kayak and paddling guides than from big boat cruising resources.
Bob Cavenagh has been collecting nautical books since 1975…and it shows! We can’t capture them in a stack, but he includes one close-up that shows an extensive Bolger collection. We’d never heard of Schorpioen by Bolger. Turns out it’s a novel—and apparently plenty controversial—set in South Africa. One reviewer wrote: “Phil's at times quite unpleasant utopia set in Africa has enough challenges to upset most readers a few times…”
Not surprisingly there are several Dynamite Payson titles as well, including Go Build Your Own Boat.
Ants Uiga offers up this salty stack. He writes:
The Doing of the Thing - One chapter describes a 1939 crossing from west coast to East coast by water, more than half a century before River Horse in the opposite direction.
Shupton’s Fancy - for the fly fisherman
Sailing to Freedom - leaving Estonia during WWII, starting in 1945 (my parents and older sister were born in Estonia, but not part of this voyage).
N by E - sailing to Greenland in a 33 foot sailboat with fabulous Rockwell Kent illustrations starting in 1929
Up My Particular Creek - Valentine Howells sailed the inaugural OSTAR (singlehanded transatlantic race) in a EIRA, a folkboat and subsequent races also.
Ice Bird - David Lewis was also an early OSTAR sailor, but sails first solo passage to Antarctica in 1972.
The rest are more familiar to most sailors and readers. •SCA•
At least one more batch of book stacks soon…—Eds
Does Bob C need someone to dust his bookshelf’s from time to time?
Darn you Josh! Now I had to order another book for my personal library (The Curve of Time). You realize that you are an enabler, right? This is the third book since you started this silly book stack business. I hope you're satisfied!