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10-10-2020, 18:26
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: PNW
Boat: C&C 37, 1985
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Re: Suggestions for good sailing fiction
Passage to Juneau, Jonathon Raban. Non-fiction but a literary odyssey.
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10-10-2020, 18:39
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Join Date: Dec 2016
Location: Somewhere in French Polynesia
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Re: Suggestions for good sailing fiction
'Tales of the South Pacific' by jack london
an oldie but a goodie...
cheers,
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11-10-2020, 00:48
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Location: Melbourne, Australia
Boat: Swarbrick S-80
Posts: 899
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Re: Suggestions for good sailing fiction
FYI Jack London books are available on Project Gutenberg as a (legally) free download.
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11-10-2020, 01:16
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Re: Suggestions for good sailing fiction
Read this a few years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it....
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It was the largest moving object on the face of the earth, but for Carolyn and Peter Hardin it was a towering wall of steel bursting out of a squall at full speed, bearing down on their ketch Siren. In a few dramatic moments, Siren was shattered by the indifferent juggernaut. Struggling for his life, Peter Hardin felt the hand of his wife being torn from his grip as the huge white letters on the supertankers stern - Leviathan - steamed away.Thus begins an odyssey of revenge that embraces the distant waters of the world, from the titanic storms of the South Atlantic to the oil-slicked reaches of the Persian Gulf. Now back in print for the first time in twenty-five years, The Shipkiller is the story of one man determined to win at sea the justice he has been denied on land.
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11-10-2020, 02:53
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Lower Chesapeake Bay Area
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Re: Suggestions for good sailing fiction
Before the Wind by Jim Lynch is a good one and covers all the sailboat crazies at a boatyard in Seattle and a sailing family that used to build boats and race them
Many of the stories are similar to those we see on CF with folks totally new to sailing with plans to sail around the would on the wrong type boat and others
https://www.amazon.com/Before-Wind-N.../dp/0307949354
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11-10-2020, 04:28
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Re: Suggestions for good sailing fiction
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Originally Posted by Triumphant
Sam Llewellyn
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Definitely.
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11-10-2020, 06:48
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Panschwitz, Germany
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Re: Suggestions for good sailing fiction
That was an awesome book to read when I sailed from Hamburg (D) to Harlingen (NL).
Great story to read and even better than the movies.
All happened right where I was sailing through the "Waddenzee".
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Originally Posted by StuM
Have you read "The Riddle of the Sands" ?
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11-10-2020, 06:49
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Location: Panschwitz, Germany
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Re: Suggestions for good sailing fiction
Awesome cover too!
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Originally Posted by IslandHopper
Read this a few years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it....
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12-10-2020, 19:37
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Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: Gympie
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Re: Suggestions for good sailing fiction
I have just finished reading "The Scoop" by Terence J Quinn. It's an excellent modern sailing yarn. The author seems to have a fair idea about boats.
Cheers
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12-10-2020, 21:02
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Re: Suggestions for good sailing fiction
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Originally Posted by Fore and Aft
I have just finished reading "The Scoop" by Terence J Quinn. It's an excellent modern sailing yarn. The author seems to have a fair idea about boats.
Cheers
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hmmm...i've just found another of his on kindle - "Dead in the Water". only $0.71 so i'm not very hopeful but i'll let you know what i think after reading it
cheers,
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12-10-2020, 21:18
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Re: Suggestions for good sailing fiction
I love the classics. Robinson Crusoe is one of my favorite.
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13-10-2020, 03:03
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Location: Gympie
Boat: Volkscruiser
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Re: Suggestions for good sailing fiction
ChrisR The Scoop has a definite Aussie feel to it. I paid $3 for it in an op shop which was well worth it.
The Shoestring sailors by Ross Norgrove is my all time favourite fiction book. Teenagers restoring an old yacht, sailing, drinking, partying and chasing Sheila's what's not to love about that yarn. I loved that book so much I emulated my whole teenage years on it
Cheers
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13-10-2020, 13:48
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Noank, Ct. USA
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Re: Suggestions for good sailing fiction
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Awesome cover too!
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It’s what nightmares are made of when offshore. It is truly an awesome cover.
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13-10-2020, 14:10
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#29
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 2,768
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Re: Suggestions for good sailing fiction
I woud get books set in the desert or jungle or outer space for mind variety. lol
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13-10-2020, 14:17
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Location: Cowichan Bay, BC (Maple Bay Marina)
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Re: Suggestions for good sailing fiction
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Originally Posted by geoleo
I woud get books set in ..... outer space for mind variety. lol
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Now I'm down to my last book in the series
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Honor Harrington Series by David Weber, Baen books.
Over 25 well written books, sci fi future history, about a NAVAL officer. The boats are simply spaceships! Great adventure, great politics & intrigue and spy-stuff, long long story arcs with great side plots. Been writing them for over 25 years.
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