Slocum's son, Victor, has a marvellous book which adds a lot to the captain's story. Slocum doesn't really let on how world famous he was at the time of Spray, meeting heads of state and recognized like a rock star every port he came into.
I still read and reread all the wonderful books, but today they'd be making video diaries. There are so many on Youtube now it feels like the oceans are bumper-car with boats.
And they go on and on. This one is famous
http://cruisinglealea.com/
Great accomplishment, but stunningly repetitive. The reader comments are entertaining: "You don;t knowme, but I gotta say you are a boring person." And "Why do you keep interrupting your wife? Let her talk once in a while!!"
He replies: "I'm working on that."
Lots of useful stuff, but not at all thh flavor of Moitessier, deciding what the hell, just keep going across the pacific all over again....
Hi All. Although not a "sailing book", those sailing the Salish Sea, especially the Gulf Island and Desolation Sound, will probably enjoy M. Wylie Blanchet's book, THE CURVE OF TIME. Most from this area have probably already read it. To quote the publisher: "After her husband died in 1927, leaving her with five small children, everyone expected the struggles of single motherhood on a remote island to overcome M. Wylie Blanchet. Instead, this courageous woman became one of the pioneers of “family travel,” acting as both mother and captain of the twenty-five-foot boat that became her family’s home during the long Northwest summers. Blanchet’s lyrically written account reads like fantastic fiction, but her adventures are all very real. There are dangers—rough water, bad weather, wild animals—but there are also the quiet respect and deep peace of a woman teaching her children the wonder and awesome depth of the natural world."
I enjoyed it and have given it to my Daughter and Grand Daughters to read. It shows just how much technology has changed and how self-reliant our fore fathers and mothers were. I thought it was a good read, especially for the Grand Daughters, to show that women can do anything they set their minds to (something most married men already know!). Thanks. Dave
Here are a few I have read in recent years. Added the Amazon links so you can read the reviews:
Ten Degrees of Reckoning: A True Story of Survival
http://www.amazon.com/Ten-Degrees-R...&sr=8-1&keywords=10+degrees+of+reckoning+book
The Proving Ground
http://www.amazon.com/Proving-Groun...1397079977&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Proving+Ground
My Old Man and the Sea: A Father and Son Sail Around Cape Horn
http://www.amazon.com/My-Old-Man-Se...080035&sr=1-1&keywords=my+old+man+and+the+sea
Wanderer by Sterling Hayden
http://www.amazon.com/Wanderer-Ster...7&sr=1-1&keywords=wanderer+by+sterling+hayden
Two Against Cape Horn
http://www.amazon.com/Two-against-C...97080171&sr=1-1&keywords=Two+Against+the+horn
Jeff those are four I have not read and by looking at the links they all look interesting. "Wanderer" is not available at iBooks unfortunately. I started the Darwin book yesterday. It is on iBooks and like the Dana book is FREE! Must be that it's public domain. Also started "The Curve of Time" and it looks great.
Thanks