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.
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!
'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.
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
I may be a bit on the large size with small (Spray)but I vote for Joshua Slocum’s Sailing Alone Around the World.
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.
The Curve of Time
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.
I've just finished 'North To The Night' by Alvah Simon. It ranks high on my list of favourites.
A Little Breeze to the West: Adventures of a Young Man's Single-Handed Voyage to Hawaii on His 15-ft Montgomery Sailboat
Joshua Slocum....
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!
"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
'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.
(1) Riddle of the Sands, Childers (2) Alone Against the Atlantic, Spiess (3) Tinkerbelle
Riddle of The Sands
Yeah, hard to beat Riddle.
The Riddle of the Sands
Voyages of the Damn Foole by Tom McGrath
Dark curmugeon humor illustrated with great pen and ink sketches
The boy, me and the cat. By Henry Plummer
Passage to Juneau by Jonathan Raban.
Voyage of the Liberdade