More Nautical Book Stacks
Reader Dan Taylor sends these two salty stacks. The top shelf reads like a course on Polynesian sailing. East is a Big Bird (Navigation and Logi on Puluwat Atoll) looks quite interesting and Hawaiki Rising is one we’ve not seen.
Contributor, Jennifer Silva Redmond writes: “We have a small boat, so it's a small stack. But there's a wealth of info here. And some poetic prose.”
Indeed! I just quoted from Sterling Hayden’s amazing Wanderer in a recent article. The rest of the stack is the sort of practical advice you’d want at hand when cruising or living aboard.
Sailing Simple columnists, Dave and Anke Zeiger sent us a shot of their lovely nautical stack. A couple that caught my eye are The Packraft Handbook (been plottoing some potential hike-in adventures) and Sailing the Farm, a guide to homesteading on the ocean.
Dave says there are also a bunch of books that are chronically out on loan:
Eric Sloane's Weather Book
Living Off The Sea by Charlie White
Indian Fishing Methods by Hilary Stewart
Boats With an Open Mind by Phil Bolger
Practical Junk Rig by Hasler and McLeod
The Chinese Sailing Rig: Design and Build Your Own by Derek Van Loan
Beuhler's Backyard Boatbuilding by George Beuhler
Thanks for sending your stacks! Happy reading. •SCA•
A note on The Shadow in the Sands by Sam Llewellyn… It is a sequel to The Riddle of the Sands, which recently came up in an SCA comment thread. If you like the one, you’ll like the other.
To us, one of the most valuable books in the stack is The Practical Piilot: coastal navigation by eye, intuition and common sense by Leonard Eyges (the title is illegible in the pic). His techniques are developed for small boats, and we use them far more often than any of the standard navigational techniques.
I have the same book on boat building from Sam Rabl! I was wondering if I had the only copy…