The boating section of my library.

[epoxyboy]

Re: The boating section of my library.

The New Zealand Cruising Guide, John Welsford's Backyard Boatbuilder, Chris Kulczycki's New Kayak Shop, and one set of plans.
I've used/built from the first three. The plans will remain that, unless I find someone who wants to build a Welsford Penguin.

Pete

[WX]

Re: The boating section of my library.

In always wanted that edition of Ransome, they were the library books I read as a child. My set are much later paperbacks and missing a couple.

A few non fiction Ransome books here.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/601

[Peerie Maa]

Re: The boating section of my library.

I, too, have three shelves worth, plus magazines
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I still refer to them, and to my old copied of Model Shipwright.

[rbgarr]

Re: The boating section of my library.

FWIW I have every nautical book Patrick O'Brian ever wrote.

I gave my set to my son-in-law and he quotes some of the more 'nautical' lines to us every once in a while. Like this about our daughter/his wife when they had a little disagreement during Christmas at our house... an argument she won handily:

"Aye, she's a weatherly ship and breasts the seas uncommonly well!"

We all fell out laughing.

[Bernadette]

Re: The boating section of my library.

I used Hand Reef and Steer by Cunliffe when rigging Pequot for the first time. It was spot on.

[Rich Jones]

Re: The boating section of my library.

Here is my nautical library.
Fiction, non-fiction and boatbuilding.
I don't have anything on seamanship because I'm strictly a small lake boater, never a blue water sailor.
The centerpiece of my collection is, of course, Howard Chapelle's "Boatbuilding".

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