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Nick Giles's avatar

The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow, by A.J.MCKinnon. A very well written account of sailing a Mirror dinghy from rural England tho the Black Sea

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Jonathan Lewis's avatar

I may be a bit on the large size with small (Spray)but I vote for Joshua Slocum’s Sailing Alone Around the World.

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Jonathan Lewis's avatar

Just in case I’m kicked out with Slocum, Half Pint by Jane Foster Tucker or The Boy, Me, and the Cat by Henry Plummer.

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J Beachy's avatar

The Curve of Time

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Earl Hall's avatar

The book is “Endurance!” After losing the ship in the Antarctic ice, Shackleton’s 22 foot boat life saving voyage over 700 miles in the world’s wildest, frigid water and navigating using a sextant.

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MarvP's avatar

I've just finished 'North To The Night' by Alvah Simon. It ranks high on my list of favourites.

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John Malnor's avatar

A Little Breeze to the West: Adventures of a Young Man's Single-Handed Voyage to Hawaii on His 15-ft Montgomery Sailboat

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DAVID C. BEACH's avatar

Joshua Slocum....

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Wesley Brooks's avatar

It's "The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow" by Sandy Mackinnon, and it's not just my favorite small-boat adventure books. It's among my favorite books period. Unlike most of these books, the author is genuinely funny, the book is a story more than a timetable of dates and places, and he doesn't try to play up his toughness or independence. Mackinnon was a middle school English teacher in England who got bored one day and so he took an abandoned Mirror Dinghy from the school's sailing fleet and took it down the nearest creek, then just decided to keep going and eventually ended up rowing it across Europe to the Black Sea. The book recounts the strangest, funniest, and luckiest events from the trip, and is illustrated beautifully by the author himself. It's absolutely worth a read!

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Jim White's avatar

"The Unlikely Voyage of Jack De Crow"

From North Wales to the Black Sea in a Mirror Dingy

Interesting , humorous and just plain fun to read

Jim W

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OkieBobby's avatar

'In Shoal Waters' by A C Stock. This is Charles Stock's second book, yet it is actually more of a prequel to his very popular 'Sailing Just for Fun' the first book. He completed the second book just prior to passing away; and like fine wine, his literary work just continued to get better.

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Rob Majewski's avatar

(1) Riddle of the Sands, Childers (2) Alone Against the Atlantic, Spiess (3) Tinkerbelle

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R G Dudley's avatar

Riddle of The Sands

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Joshua Colvin's avatar

Yeah, hard to beat Riddle.

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Roger Schneider's avatar

The Riddle of the Sands

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Herb McLeod's avatar

Voyages of the Damn Foole by Tom McGrath

Dark curmugeon humor illustrated with great pen and ink sketches

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don dill's avatar

The boy, me and the cat. By Henry Plummer

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Nathan Lunstrum's avatar

Passage to Juneau by Jonathan Raban.

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aran's avatar

Voyage of the Liberdade

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