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Old 02-01-2010, 19:13   #1
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Books You Wouldn't Leave the Dock without...
Hey All! I'd be really interested in finding out what books the experienced cruiser wouldn't leave the dock without. I'll start the list:

1. Nigel Calder's Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual.

2. Jimmy Cornell's World Cruising routes.

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Beth Leonard ........Voyagers Handbook
Calders ................Cruising Handbook

Probably a West Marine catalog
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Eldridge Tides and Currents
Chart # 1
The Rules..
Calder's Electrical and Mechanical book
The Cruising Guides..to where I'm headed
My Engines, parts Manual....
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Cheque book
Crusing World Magazines.
Budget Marine / Westmarine Catalogues.
Worlds 100 Top Sex Sights.
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Crusing World Magazines.
Budget Marine / Westmarine Catalogues.
Worlds 100 Top Sex Sights.
Oh great! One book you scribble in, and three picture books...Mark, are you illiterate? You can tell us...We're here to help!
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Yachting Montly Sailpower, decribes how sails work and how to trim them in simple steps, nothing complicated all very straight forward and good descriptions with diagrams / photos. Thought I had lost it so bought another copy off Amazon. Now have a copy at home and one on the boat.

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Absolutely! left that off my list..
As well as a good 1st aid book..
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The book I'm reading and the book I'm writing.

Plus most of the above.
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Another forum I belong to is running a similar thread, but not boating related.

Here are two I stole from there. They are PDF's which would make them real simple to take along.

Where There Is No Doctor (PDF)
Where There Is No Dentist (PDF)
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Here are two I stole from there.
WOW! Great posting! Thank you for these...I had no idea you could get these online!
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I would not leave without Chapmans guide. Of course, if I take a book on my little cat, it may not come back in the same condition!
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