People/Books

First a book and then an article get Phyllis thinking: What does respectful voyaging mean? How do we know if we have crossed lines as travellers that we shouldn’t have crossed?

So what can we do to reverse the steady decline in offshore cruising? Here’s a book with an idea that just might help.

Managing our money and saving to go cruising is way more difficult than it was. Here’s a book recommendation to help with that.

John nostalgically buys a book written by a cook on ocean racers and Phyllis extrapolates!

Do you want to get a feel for what a long-distance offshore voyage, including heavy weather, is like? Phyllis has a reading suggestion for you. But don’t look at it as just homework! It’s also a good read.

Phyllis reviews Colin Speedie’s new book, “A Sea Monster’s Tale: In Search of the Basking Shark”. If you enjoy Colin’s writing on this site (and who doesn’t?) you won’t want to miss his book.

Lovers of Colin’s lyrical and entertaining articles have a treat coming: he has written a whole book about his decades of professional sailing and work in basking shark conservation.

Phyllis expands a bit on our (very slow) transition to part-time voyaging and discusses the upcoming very important month of December.

I just read Herb McCormick’s biography of Lin and Larry Pardey, As Long as It’s Fun. Actually, it would be more accurate to say that I devoured the book, or maybe to be more accurate still, the book consumed me for several hours. Here’s a short review.

There’s a whole genre of books and articles on how to buy a boat and go cruising on very little money. But really, how often do you meet people who have actually made it work for any length of time?

So much of what is wonderful about voyaging is the people you meet…and sometimes the art they make.