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I am going on vacation for a week and looking for some boat related reading. Last time I made this request someone recommended "In Peril". The book was awesome.

I have read the following:
In Peril
Honey Lets get a Boat
Chapman Piloting
Voyaging Under Power
The Troller Yacht
Boatowner's Mechanical and Electric manual

Of coarse: Old Man and the Sea (heck I am getting married at his former house!)

Thanks for any suggestions.
 
Grey seas under!!!

The perfect storm

The Hungry Ocean

Small Craft Advisory
 
"In the Slick of the Cricket" was an interesting and quick read. It's about Mundus from Montauk and his shark fishing escapades. He was a character, but sharper than people give him credit for.
 
all the books by Randy White

The log of that sailing yacht, posted here, that was on wartime patrol out of LI was a good short read.
 
Here are some I enjoyed:

HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, POLITICS, WAR, HISTORICAL NOVELS

Dreadnought (19th cent. lead-up to WW I, development of battleships) Robert Massie
Castles of Steel (WW I battleships and battles)

The Caine Mutiny Herman Wouk

The Hunt for Red October Tom Clancy

The Riddle of the Sands (cruisers discover German pre WW II buildup) Erskine Childers

The Cruel Sea (true stories - escorting convoys during WWII) Nicholas Monsarrat

Sea of Thunder Evan Thomas

Sea of Glory Nathaniel Philbrick.

Alaska James Michener
Tales of the South Pacific

Empire of Blue Water Stephen Talty

BOATS, CRUISING, FISHING, EXPLORATION, the SEA

Jack Aubrey series (Master and Commander, etc) Patrick O’Brian
The Golden Ocean & The Unknown Shore (prior to Aubrey series)

Cochrane (the real captain who was the model for Jack Aubrey) Robert Harvey

The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway

The Sea Wolf Jack London

Alaska Blues, and others (travel and fishing in SE Alaska) Joe Upton

The Curve of Time (early power boat cruising on the BC coast) Wylie Blanchet

My Old Man and the Sea (Sailing around South America and Cape Horn) Hays & Hays

In the Heart of the Sea (Moby Dick was based on this true story) Nathaniel Philbrick

Over the Edge of the World (Magellan's Circumnavigation) Laurence Bergreen

Mutiny on the Bounty Charles Nordhoff

Endurance: true story of Ernest Shackleton’s Incredible Antarctic Voyage Alfred Lansing
(or)
South: A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage Ernest Shackleton

The Perfect Storm (sinking of the sword fishing boat Andrea Gail) Sebastian Junger

The Hungry Ocean, and others Linda Greenlaw
(stories by the real female sword boat captain involved in the Perfect Storm)

Blues John Hersey

River Horse William Least Heat Moon

Grey Seas Under (Remarkable rescues on high seas of the north Atlantic) Farley Mowat
The Boat Who Wouldn’t Float

Adrift (True story of survival raft crossing the Atlantic) Steven Callahan

Cape Horn (scary true adventure, sailing the southern ocean) Hemingway-Douglass

Cod (the fish that helped inspire discovery and exploration of N. America) Mark Kurlansky

Longitude (revolutionary improvement in navigation - invention of Chronometer) Dava Sobel

Where the Sea Breaks its Back (discovery of Alaska by Bering and Stellar) Corey Ford

Working on the Edge, & others (King Crab fishing in the Bering Sea) Spike Walker

Travels in Alaska John Muir

Heart of the Raincoast (life on the BC Coast) Morton & Proctor

Snow Falling on Cedars David Guterson

Sitka (historically-based Alaska adventure) Louis L’Amour

The Blue Bear Lynn Schooler
 
"Cod"

"Salt"

"The Big Oyster"

"The Last Fish Tale"

All by Mark Kurlansky

Oh yeah, and don't forget a prenup. :-)
 
Any Randy Wayne White books.
Any CS Forrester's Horation Hornblower series (Not to be confused with CSI Miami's Horatio Blowhard )
The Master and Commander series.

Any Clive Cussler books
 
I just finished reading "A Salty piece of Land" by Jimmy Buffett. Apparnetly it's a continuiation of one of his earlier stories.

Highly enjoyable. It made me want togo Sailing and Fly Fishing. Two things I know little about.

+1 on the Linda Greenlaw books and Master and Commander series.
 
I'm about 2/3 the way through "Term Limits" by Vince Flynn - can't put it down. It was written back in the '90's but could have been written yesterday. Here's one of the many reviews from Amazon; btw, it was Flynn's very first novel:

 
Not boating stories .... but anything by Vince Flynn is great!!! Where's Mitch Rapp when you need him!!
 
"The Last Marlin" by Fred Waitzkin.

If you have never been to Bimini, you will go after reading this one
 
"Adrift: 76 Days Lost at Sea" by Steve Callahan. Amazing tale of being lost at sea for, obviously, 76 days. Very good book.

"The Pearl in the Storm" by Tori Murden McClure. I just read this book- writtten by and about the 1st woman to row solo across the ocean. Part of it she talks about her past which was not so good but the part about her trip is just amazing- she went through 2 hurricanes in her small row boat. You'll feel like a wimp for owning a boat with an engine!

"Endless Sea" by Amyr Klink...describes his solo circumnavigation around antartica. Very good book!
 
Cofresi
By Alejandro Tapia y Rivera 1876.
Ediciones Rumbo, Barcelona, España 1967

It's a Novel about a Real Caribbean Pirate, Roberto Cofresi

LoL Too bad for you guys it's in Spanish. (Old Spanish at that)
 
Day of Confession by Allan Folsom. A real attention keeper.
 
Crunch and Des: Classic Stories of Salt Water Fishing by Phillip Wylie.

This is a collection of short stories, written I believe in the 1950's and is really enjoyable.
 
Since you included "Chapman" in your "have read list", perhaps you would like the full, unabridged version, "The American Practical Navigator"

Available in print, as well as a free PDF download.

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If you enjoy SciFi, then try the "Honor Harrington" series. Protagonist is a midshipwoman onward. We're talking space vessels here, not boats, but the it is fairly close, in practice.
 
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