Books on
Blue Water Sailing
Books featured in Blue Water Sailing Magazine or in
The Cruising Compass are available at Amazon.com.
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Recommended Reading:
Fiberglass Boat Repairs Illustrated, Cosmetic and Structural Repairs for Sail-and Powerboat Hulls and Decks, by Roger Marshall.
Check out this new book and it just may change your mind about making that next fiberglass repair a DYI job and save you from having to call in the professionals.
Fiberglass Boat Repairs Illustrated is a comprehensive guide to making repairs to a fiberglass boat and how to finish and paint those repairs. Written by Roger Marshall, winner of numerous awards for marine technical and magazine, discusses such topics as:
1. How a fiberglass boat is built, identifying hull damage
2. Materials, tools and basic techniques; gelcoat restoration;
3. Making minor repairs
4. Making major repairs
5. Hull, keel and rudder fairing
6. Identifying and making osmosis repairs and
7. Finishing and painting a repair job.
Click HERE to purchase your copy!
50 Places to Sail Before You Die
Chris Santella assembles a crew of the world’s greatest championship racers and professional adventurers and persuades them to disclose their favorite destinations around the globe. Interviews with Tom Whidden and Gary Jobson (members of the winning 1987 America’s Cup crew), Jeff Johnstone (of J-Boats), award-winning sailing writer Lin Pardy, and many others.
Do Dolphins Ever Sleep?
As seen in The Cruising Compass' Mindbenders! Get yourself a copy of this fascinating book for your cruising library!
Featured in The CC's Boat Rat's Tip of the Week: Issue #155.
If you love your iPhone then you’ll want to read iPhone: The Missing Manual by David Pogue (the New York Times computer columnist). Pogue Press/O’Reilly 2008, 2nd edition. ($24.99).
David shares all the inside info that will be your guide to unlocking the iPhone’s potential. It’s fun and full of useful tips, shortcuts and workarounds. Don’t leave the dock without this guide.
Cookbooks featured in the Cruising Compass' For the Hungry Crew...
If you love to spend time on your boat but not in your galley, The Yachting Gourmet is for you! This collection of 400 recipes uses a unique preparation process, so you can have wonderful gourmet meals, easily prepared on board.
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Potlucks are one of the best ways for cruisers to meet and socialize. In fact, there's practically a natural "law" of cruising: "Wherefore two or more cruising boats are gathered together, there shall be potluck!" Cruisers have been sharing their favorite potluck recipes for years and the Seven Seas Cruising Association wants to share them with you! You'll want to surely have Seven Seas Potluck Favorites - A Cookbook by Cruisers for Cruisers - in your galley. Order at www.ssca.org.
