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Mariner's Book of Days 2006 Peter Spectre

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Buy this once, and you will end up buying it every year after. Apart from being a diary, it has great snippets and quotes.

A Mariner's Miscellany Peter Spectre

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The kind of book to keep by your bedside or in the loo, for sea lore, useful rules of thumb, or eternal truths such as “the English sailors are generally savages”. (Spanish ambassador to Henry VII).

The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea Peter Kemp (ed)

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Not so much a mine, more a bottomless pit of information. You go to look up one word, and then spend hours browsing. Only to be opened at weekends.

The Unlikely Voyage of Jack De Crow A.J. McKinnon

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Unlikely isn't the half of it - a pith helmeted schoolmaster gets onto a Mirror dinghy for a fortnights cruise and ends up in the Black Sea about a year later. Well written and very funny.

Only So Many Tides Jon Wainwright

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Jon Wainwright has done as much for East Coast Gaffers as anyone. This is his saga - and whilst it may in places need a good edit, it is a fine book.

Topsail and Battleaxe Tom Cunliffe

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Cunliffe in fine form again, this time taking the Viking route to "Vinland", also known as the USA.

The Magic of the Swatchways Maurice Griffiths

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Good gentle warm your toes in front of a fire stuff.

Latitude Hooks and Azimuth Rings: How to Build and Use 18 Traditional Navigational Instruments Dennis Fisher

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This is great fun, especially for kids on a cruise. And it is a useful reminder of life before GPS

Sailing Just for Fun Charles Stock

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I hope Charles Stock won't mind me describing both him and his book as idiosyncratic. A refreshing review of what you can do with a modest boat - and it is a lot.

Letters from High Latitudes Lord Dufferin

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One of those stoic pioneer cruisers, this book is a triumph of understatement.

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