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Oooooo good list, Jeff_H

Sensible Cruising by Don Casey & Lew Hackler, a philosophical approach to sailing based on Thoreau''s ''Walden''

Longitude by Dava Sobel, a history of the search for accurate navigational methods in the 17th and 18th centuries

Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling, about a rich boy who falls off a luxury liner, is rescued by fishermen, and has to earn his keep aboard til they return to port

the Horatio Hornblower series by CS Forester, about a teenage midshipman in the English Navy during the time of the French Republic and Napleonic Wars

Ill have to second the recommendation for Shipkiller too, which was probably the first sailing adventure book I ever read

And, of course, Chapmans Piloting (which made *much* more sense to me after reading Sailing for Dummies)