Katy Stickland chooses her pick of the latest sailing books that will keep sailors entertained
Sailing books: best new releases to read
Sailing books are an ideal gift for the sailor in your life. I read dozens of sailing books every year, but these are the ones that stood out.
Here is my list of the best books for sailors to read. I hope you enjoy them!
In My Element by Pip Hare
Pip Hare’s journey to compete in the 2020 Vendée Globe and her determination to race solo around the world, despite the odds being stacked against her, is a compelling and uplifting read (anyone who has ever seen Hare’s race videos will know what to expect).
Her brutal honesty about the mistakes she makes and the lessons learned, as well as how she manages the mental and physical grind of the race is refreshing, and a reminder to us all that we never stop learning.
The narrative is intercut with extracts from Hare’s race blog, giving a real insight into the hurdles she had to overcome to become the 79th sailor and 8th woman to finish the race.
As her IMOCA 60 was 21 years old and had no foils (unlike many of her competitors), Hare was on a rolling boat maintenance programme throughout the race to keep the IMOCA 60 racing.
Her background as a liveaboard cruiser and years of experience running low-budget race programmes meant she managed this endless maintenance cycle (actual sailing was left to the autopilot most of the time).
This story of courage and grit is inspiring, whether you are a sailor or not, and it will leave you grinning and punching the air when Hare crosses the finish line.
Buy In My Element at Waterstones
Buy In My Element at Google Play
Last Days of the Slocum Era, Volumes One and Two by Graham L Cox
For anyone like me who loves “simple” sailing, volumes one and two of the Last Days of the Slocum Era will not disappoint.
Part memoir, part sailing history, it covers Graham L Cox’s lifelong love affair with sailing which began when he was a teenager on Durban’s International Jetty in South Africa, and the influence of the eclectic famous and not-so-famous characters he meets along the way including ocean voyagers like Dr David Lewis, Rod and Di Beech, Robin Lee Graham and Keith Kibler.
Through these encounters, his dream to build a small, seaworthy yacht to cruise the world’s oceans was firmly cemented.
Cox moves to Australia where he re-meets David Lewis, and helps him prepare Ice Bird ahead of the steel yacht’s groundbreaking voyage to Antarctica.
Cox continues on his search to find a true ocean voyaging boat, while crewing and helping to deliver yachts, including Ice Bird, and meeting more voyaging characters.
Eventually, he refits the 22ft Mushark, and at the age of 42, sets off on his first extended solo cruise.
But he still hankers after the perfect boat, preferably junk-rigged and ten years later, he buys the steel-hulled Bermudan-rigged Tom Thumb 24, Arion.
Finally, he has found the sailing life he has craved and the writing is joyous and reflective.
He converts Arion to a junk rig, delighting in the ease of handling: he has found his authentic sailing life; his authentic self.
These two volumes are destined to become classics and richly deserve a place on every sailor’s bookcase. Highly recommended.
Buy Last Days of the Slocum Era Vol 1 and 2 at Amazon
The Last Sea Dog by Jean-Luc Van Den Heede
Based around his 2018-2019 Golden Globe Race (GGR) campaign, this English translation of Jean-Luc Van Den Heede’s autobiography delves into the French sailor’s life, his early days working as a teacher, cruising with his family and racing in regattas to the start of his single-handed racing career from the Mini Transat to the Vendée Globe, and his win in the GGR at the age of 73 (his first win in a round the world yacht race).
It is an honest, very readable and absorbing account (I struggled to put it down, inhaling the words from the page!), particularly the details of his Golden Globe Race (full disclosure: I covered both the 2018 and 2022 GGR for Yachting Monthly): his preparations (Van Den Heede timed the lifespan of a gas bottle so he would bring enough bottles to always eat hot food) and the details of the voyage; how he constantly fine-tuned his Rustler 36 to ensure he could keep his lead, the pitchpole which almost cost him the race and, his loneliness at being not able to make contact with the other competitors as the fleet was so spread out.
This is an absolute page-turner.
Buy The Last Sea Dog at Amazon
Buy The Last Sea Dog at WH Smith
Bosun’s Bag by Tom Cunliffe
The Bosun’s Bag: A Treasury of Practical Wisdom for the Traditional Boater by Tom Cunliffe is a celebration of traditional seamanship and maintenance skills that need to be shared and passed on, and was a treat to read.
Tom Cunliffe is always entertaining, and this is a well-written and thoroughly engaging guide, perfect for owners of traditional and more modern boats.
Chapters cover navigation, maintenance, seamanship, working the ship, and miscellaneous which examines windvane self-steering gear, watchkeeping, how to light a cabin perfectly with oil lamps, weather helm, the best use for old sawdust and the like.
I have always had a soft spot for traditional boats, and I loved both the sails and rigging chapters which list the procedure for scandalising, explain a watersail, outline the problem of a crane, and how to make a baggywrinkle.
I suspect many PBO readers will find the chapter on maintenance particularly useful, given it covers how to maintain brightwork, servicing a wooden block and the importance of thinking outside the box.
The illustrations by Martyn Mackrill extoll the passions – and the hard graft – associated with these traditional skills.
Bosun’s Bag would make a perfect gift for sailors of all skill levels.
Buy Bosun’s Bag at Waterstones
Buy Bosun’s Bag at Google Play
All I Ask is a Tall Ship by Graham Lascelles
Many of us dream of building our own boat to sail around the world.
Graham Lascelles’s book, All I Ask is a Tall Ship is a fascinating insight into how he fulfilled his dream of circumnavigating via the Panama Canal with his family on his 45-tonne yacht, Global Surveyor.
The book is more than just cruising log prose; it is filled to the gunnels with insightful details from discussions on boat design including calculations, model tank testing and construction, equipment for offshore cruising, how to plan the voyage and even how to keep your yacht and crew safe.
Essential reading for anyone who is interested in following in Lascelles’s wake or even just those who want to design or build their own boat.
Buy All I Ask is a Tall Ship at Amazon
Living In The Lap of the Gods by Lynn Roach
From the start, the reader is drawn in to stow away onboard Lynn Roach’s classic Windfall yacht, Seefalke as he sails solo from his home in Wales to the Caribbean (where he gets stuck in Antigua; we’ve all been there!) and then to America.
The early chapters cover the heartache and joy of restoring the Abeking & Rasmussen boat and are also smattered with useful tips, such as using sawdust to slow down leaks.
Roach did much of the boat work himself over five years, having baulked at the cost of getting the professionals in; the job list was vast and included replacing the rotten boat frames and fitting his trusty self-steering gear, George (I wondered if it was named after Peter Woolass’s home-built self-steering system on his yacht, Stelda).
Roach’s boat repair and seamanship skills are soon tested; just eight days after leaving, he sailed through Hurricane Iris as an extratropical storm.
Seefalke began leaking badly but Roach limped on to Lisbon to make repairs; a reflection of his dogged determination reminiscent of many a solo sailor.
Much of the book is written like an extended log book with positions and observations (although there are more traditional longer-form chapters when Roach is not sailing).
The narrative is tied together nicely with the charts of his passage.
I really enjoyed this book and found it thoroughly engaging as Roach shares his passion for sailing and the adventures he had along the way
Buy Living In The Lap of the Gods at Amazon
Buy Living In The Lap of the Gods at Waterstones
Skip Novak on Sailing: Words of wisdom from 50 years afloat
Between 2014-2023, Skip Novak wrote 101 columns for PBO’s sister publication, Yachting World drawing on five decades of cruising and racing experience to share practical and thought-provoking advice about all aspects of sailing.
These columns have now been compiled into this new book – a sort of “Novak’s Bible” – which will interest both new and seasoned sailors.
As Sir Robin Knox-Johnston notes in his introduction, seamanship is not just about handling the boat and using sails; it is about intimately knowing your boat, how it works, and how to deal with repairs and emergencies, all of which are reflected in Novak’s writing.
Rather than running the columns chronologically, they are grouped into topics ranging from design and maintenance, safety at sea and the benefits (or not) of technology, to ocean racing, expedition sailing and cruising, learning to sail and stories from back in the day, including Novak’s reunion with the Drum crew, 30 years after the keel fell off during the Fastnet Race, just weeks before the start of the 1985 Whitbread Round the World Race.
This format works well, as the reader does not have to read the book from cover to cover; instead, you can just dip in and out to read and absorb nuggets of wisdom from this most self-sufficient of sailors (Novak has spent decades sailing in the Southern Ocean, where help is not to hand).
Novak’s collection of columns is sure to delight PBO readers!
Buy Skip Novak on Sailing from Amazon
Buy Skip Novak on Sailing from Waterstones
Buy Skip Novak on Sailing from WH Smith
Wind, Tide & Oar: Encounters with engineless sailing
The act of sailing has always inspired stories; hardly surprising given that the women and men who take to the water are pitting themselves against the elements and must learn to work attuned to nature.
The essays and poetry in this slim volume, compiled by Dutch publisher, Elte Rauch, were written to accompany the release of the film Wind, Tide & Oar: Encounters with Engineless Sailing by Huw Wahl, but can equally be read as a standalone.
The authors include filmmakers, cargo boat skippers, sailors and boat owners who all embrace the romance of sailing under sail alone, but with a healthy dose of realism.
Like the excellent Marine Quarterly, each chapter is illustrated with a charming drawing and the writing is entertaining and absorbing.
I was particularly drawn to the chapter written by Richard Tichenor of the Sea-Change Sailing Trust, which owns and runs the Thames sailing barge, Blue Mermaid.
He writes: “To sail without an engine is to work in harmony with nature, to rewild the soul at sea. Irrelevant issues are stripped away”; this resonated with me and I suspect it will resonate with many PBO readers, given many of us sail to escape the every day.
Psychologist and sailor Mike Jackson also delves into the freedom and sense of release sailing brings, while Jude Brickhill, marine journalist and co-owner of a 1911 engineless Looe mackerel drifter, Guide Me, explores how sailing without an engine sharpens your seamanship skills; with no “comforting reassurance” of an engine, you must learn patience, to trust your judgement, focus on the task at hand, but still be aware of your surroundings and the need to work as a team.
Reading this collection of essays and poems leaves you with much to ponder and an overwhelming desire to get on the water, cut the engine, and enjoy bonding with nature
Buy Wind, Tide & Oar at Amazon
Buy Wind, Tide & Oar at WH Smith
Buy Wind, Tide & Oar at Waterstones
The Half Bird by Susan Smillie
From the moment I picked up The Half Bird, I couldn’t put it down and found I had to ration myself, reading a few chapters a day so I could really savour every word.
Susan Smillie’s writing captivated me (few books do that), as she shared her odyssey, sailing her Nicholson 26, Isean from the UK to Greece.
With little solo experience, she initially planned to sail around Britain, but instead, chose to turn left at Land’s End and sail to France, down the Atlantic coast of Europe and into the Mediterranean.
Most of her voyage is solo, and as she sails further south, she develops an affinity for life at sea, one that many sailors will recognise.
Her words knit a narrative of adventure, loss, joy, and, ultimately, freedom and a richer life.
It is a love story between a woman and her boat, and how Susan finds strength and courage through sailing.
Sam Smillie (Susan’s dad) comments that coming to the end of a book can be like “losing a friend”, and while reading the last few pages of The Half Bird, I was reminded of this, so absorbing and subtly life-affirming were the words on the page.
Once I finished it, I wanted to start reading it all over again.
Buy The Half Bird at Waterstones
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The Proa: The outrigger boat from past to present by Othmar Karschulin and Manfred Meier
Although multihulls have been around for centuries, it was only relatively recently that they became commonplace outside of the Pacific, thanks to the likes of James Wharram.
But one, the proa, with its asymmetrical main hull and outrigger, numerous rig variants and high speeds, still falls into the niche category and draws praise and suspicion from sailors alike (I hadn’t realised that the design is banned by the World Sailing Federation, which is why you never see this unique multihull on the start line of any mainstream yacht race).
Othmar Karschulin and Manfred Meier’s new book is very much a manifesto for the proa, recording the fascinating history of this ancient outrigger craft, explaining the shunting process (how the boat sails), discussing the development of the design, with details on stability, the rudder system, and water ballast, and dispelling the misconceptions of the Pacific proa, most notably that there is a danger of capsize.
The testaments from proa builders and sailors are informative, with easy-to-read technical information on each design, details of the build, changes and improvements made along the way and sailing behaviour and optimisation.
A must-read for anyone interested in boat design.
Buy The Proa: The outrigger boat from past to present at Amazon
My Way Around the World by Saša Fegić
“The only way to really learn how to sail is to go out and do it,” writes Saša Fegić.
And that is exactly what this remarkable Croatian sailor has done throughout his life, culminating in sailing around the world via the three Great Capes.
My Way Around the World is the story of a boy who falls in love with sailing and spends decades honing his skills in seamanship and boat craft by working as a paid deckhand, charter and delivery skipper, sailing school operator and boatbuilder.
He then buys his dream boat, HIR 3, which he spends months renovating, before sailing her along the route of the great Clipper ships.
It is a voyage many of us are not brave enough to do, but Saša’s desire to see the Southern Royal Albatross, experience the Roaring Forties, visit Yacht Club Micalvi in Chile and round Cape Horn pushes him at every turn, and the result is a compelling story of adventure and determination.
My Way Around the World is reminiscent of the records of sailing voyages penned by the likes of Sir Francis Chichester and Naomi James; engaging, well written and rich with knowledge, Saša draws the reader in at every word. Highly recommended.
Buy My Way Around the World at Amazon
Knowledge 2.0 – Staying Afloat in the Information Age by Mark Chisnell
What can yacht racing and sailing teach us about ourselves and the way we react and think?
Mark Chisnell’s fascinating book uses racing and sailing triumphs and tragedies – such as the 1979 Fastnet Race, Beryl and Miles Smeeton’s infamous rounding of Cape Horn, the 2017-18 Ocean Race, the 2000–2001 Vendée Globe, and Sir Ben Ainslie’s fourth gold medal win – to analyse human behaviour, decision making and problem solving, offering insight into the best way we can use the knowledge we have to react to a given situation.
Chisnell’s background is in sailing and more recently, America’s Cup racing, and he believes yacht racing is “a perfect microcosm” for how we process and deal with knowledge.
Chisnell’s skill is in dissecting each of these incidents, drawing out the truths, and then analysing these truths from different perspectives, giving us lessons that can be applied to how we process knowledge in our everyday lives.
An insightful read for sailors and non-sailors alike.
Knowledge 2.0 – Staying Afloat in the Information Age is published by Rhyme and Reason Books.
Cargo of Hope by Shane Granger
This is a heartwarming and humbling read.
Vega is a 130-year-old 55-ton wooden commercial sailing vessel owned by seasoned sailor Shane Granger and his partner, Meggi.
They and Vega’s volunteer crew spend their lives delivering medical and educational supplies to remote communities in eastern Indonesia and East Timor.
The book is made up of tales of their voyages and their captivating, beautifully descriptive experiences living alongside the communities they help, intermingled with the Nordic history of Vega, and how the devastating 2004 tsunami in South East Asia led to the ship becoming a beacon of hope for so many through their now annual Mission of Mercy voyage, to deliver aid.
Many PBO readers will be interested in how Shane and Meggi maintain the ship on a ‘microscopic budget’ as well as Shane’s views on seamanship, but ultimately, this is a tale of human endeavour and high seas adventure for the benefit of others.
Cargo of Hope is published by Lyons Press.
Buy Cargo of Hope at Foyles (UK)
Buy Cargo of Hope at Waterstones (UK)
A Voyage Around Britain In A Small Yacht by Mark Evans
Mark Evans wanted what many sailors want; time to explore new cruising grounds.
He had to wait for retirement until he could achieve his aim of sailing around Britain clockwise, via Cape Wrath in his Twister 28.
He wanted to sail as much as possible, to feel like a ‘real sailor’, and in fact, 66% of the voyage was under sail alone.
This slim but informative volume is a tale of falling in love with sailing again, about becoming ‘one’ with your boat; it is also packed with useful tips, from passage planning to boat preparation, and appendixes listing his route and useful charts and pilot books.
Throughout his 114-day voyage, Mark learns to accept the vagaries of the weather and to enjoy a slower pace of life.
He shares the struggles and frustrations of living in such a small space, with his fiancée, Katrina, who had only just started sailing.
He is also refreshingly honest about his errors, like running aground off Pwllheli, and it is this honesty that makes Mark’s book so engaging.
Essential reading for anyone planning a similar voyage.
A Voyage Around Britain In A Small Yacht is printed by Amazon Kindle Publishing
Buy A Voyage Around Britain In A Small Yacht at Amazon
Antarctic Sketchbook by Claudia Myatt
Most of us will never experience the delights and wonder of cruising in Antarctic waters but Claudia Myatt’s Antarctic Sketchbook paints such an evocative picture that you can almost smell the ice and feel the wind of this desolate but beautifully alive landscape.
Myatt’s work is based on her time as Artist in Residence for the Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute, where she spent time on the icebreaker HMS Protector visiting the Falkland Islands, South Georgia, South Sandwich Islands, South Orkney Islands, the Antarctic Peninsula and the South Shetland Islands.
The charming sketches and paintings throughout the book are complemented by Myatt’s narrative and diary entries.
These are both factual, covering the history, geography and effects of climate change, and colourfully descriptive; her use of language is almost as vivid as the palette of her paintbox.
Must read for those like me who have always yearned to visit the remote regions of the earth.
Antarctic Sketchbook is published by Golden Duck.
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My Ship is So Small by Ann Davison
For years, Ann Davison’s classic book about her groundbreaking transatlantic voyage has only been available to those who searched in the depths of second-hand outlets.
Now, Golden Duck has re-published it to mark the 70th anniversary of Davison’s achievement and shine a light on the first woman to sail solo across the Atlantic.
It’s a real treat as Davison is a gifted author and writes poetically, candidly, and humorously about the highs and lows of her 18-month voyage aboard her 23ft Bermudan rig sloop, Felicity Ann.
It is a story of determination, courage, and the fulfilment of a promise Davison made to herself after surviving the shipwreck which killed her husband.
They’d set out to make an Atlantic crossing on their yacht Reliance which was wrecked on rocks at Portland Bill; Davison had to continue this dream alone.
My Ship is So Small shows that you are never too old to take a risk and have an adventure.
It is important that Davison’s story is made available to a wider audience, and Golden Duck should be applauded for raising her profile.
This edition also continues Felicity Ann’s story in the afterword by Captain Wayne Chimenti of the Community Boat Project in Port Townsend which now owns the boat.
Davison sold Felicity Ann five years after her trans-Atlantic voyage; the boat moved around America before it was discovered, abandoned in 2008 in Haines, Alaska.
Thankfully, a local magistrate recognised the boat’s importance and she was eventually rebuilt to her former glory; she still sails today.
My Ship is So Small is published by Golden Duck Publishing
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The Voyage of the Aegre by Nicholas Grainger
This well-written tale charts a young couple’s voyage to becoming small boat offshore adventures, akin to Roger D Taylor.
In the 1970s Julie and Nicholas Grainger sailed their 21ft wooden Shetland fishing boat from Scotland to Pago, Pago in American Samoa.
This was before modern instruments and GPS, and although the story of their time afloat, including their capsize off Tahiti which left the boat dismasted, is a gripping read about survival at sea, it is the details of the preparation of the boat that many Practical Boat Owner readers will find the most fascinating.
Nicholas and Julie both worked for John Ridgeway at his adventure school in Ardmore before leaving Scotland and based their concept of simple sailing – no electrics, toilet, shower, engine, and built-in buoyancy to make the Aegre unsinkable – on Ridgeway’s 20ft open dory, English Rose 3, which he rowed across the Atlantic with Sir Chay Blyth.
These meticulous preparations ultimately saved the Graingers’ lives.
The Voyage of the Aegre has all the hallmarks of a sailing adventure classic. Storytelling at its finest.
The Voyage of the Aegre published by Vinycomb Press.
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Sailing Alone: A History by Richard J. King
What motivates a person to sail alone?
Richard King sets out to answer that question after his own transatlantic solo crossing in a 28.5ft Pearson Triton left him ‘paralytically rattled’, proud of his achievement and questioning why he set out in the first place (he sold the boat and has never sailed alone since).
By examining the voyages of a diverse range of sailors, including Ann Davison, Florentino Das, Sharon Sites Adams and the more well-known Ellen MacArthur, Bernard Moitessier and Joshua Slocum, and examining what they saw, King, with an academic’s skill, lays out the history and the philosophy of the men and women who broke the mould and set out to explore the seas to find what many of us crave: the meaning of existence.
Ultimately, he concludes with Ann Davison’s philosophy, that courage is to accept our lives for what they are, without resignation; each small hurdle overcome is a triumph.
Brilliantly written, I have been drawn back to Sailing Alone again and again; each new reading brings a different perspective, and has also introduced me to remarkable sailors I really should have known about.
Sailing Alone: A History is published by Particular Books.
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We Fought Them in Gunboats by Robert Hichens
The war memoir that the British authorities censored, We Fought Them in Gunboats is a warts-and-all tale about the gunboats and their crew who played a vital role in World War II.
This was a new kind of warfare, where the tactical use of the MGBs and MTBs and their high speed engines were critical in defending the convoy routes.
A dinghy and racing sailor, Robert Hichens was the first volunteer officer to command a gunboat.
He also had a love of high speed engines and didn’t hold back his criticism of the poorly trained gunboat maintenance staff, or indeed the decisions of his commanding officers.
Hichens’s own engineering knowledge helped evolve the design of the motor gunboat.
Originally published in 1944 heavily redacted due to wartime censorship, this new edition is Hichens’s words in full.
A rare breed of war diary.
We Fought Them in Gunboats is published by Golden Duck Publishing.
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Cornells’ Ocean Atlas: Pilot charts for all oceans of the world by Jimmy and Ivan Cornell
For anyone planning to sail offshore, this third edition of Cornells’ Ocean Atlas is vital reading.
Fully revised, all of the charts – of the most popular cruising routes – now reflect the latest understanding of how climate change is affecting the world’s oceans – such as the decrease in the reliability of the trade winds, as witnessed by the 2022 Golden Globe Race skippers, and the increased intensity of tropical cyclones, giving sailors a valuable safety tool when planning, preparing and sailing their passage plan.
This new edition also features monthly charts that plot the areas affected by tropical storms in every ocean.
Based on the recorded tracks of such storms over the last ten years, it clearly indicates the areas to avoid and the time of year to avoid them.
A must-have book onboard if you plan to sail any ocean.
Cornells’ Ocean Atlas is published by Cornell Sailing
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The Marine Quarterly, edited by Sam Llewellyn
The Marine Quarterly never fails to thrill when it lands on my doormat, with its eclectic stories about everything to do with the sea.
Published four times a year, each 112-page edition is brimming with insightful articles such as near misses at sea, traditional boat building, heritage craft, pioneering (and often forgotten) voyages, Naval adventure and seagoing life.
Each story has a charm all of its own, helped by the woodcut or black ink line drawings that adorn the top of each opening page and the fact the words are printed on thick, cream paper; it is a treat to hold and savour.
For those like me who consume sailing books, there is also a regular books section, where classic seafaring tales are reviewed, whetting the appetite for further reading.
Editor Sam Llewellyn, a prolific writer and Practical Boat Owner columnist, also shares his own reading recommendations, which have often led me down a rather wonderful path of nautical discovery.
The Marine Quarterly really is the gift that keeps on giving throughout the year.
Annual subscription rate £50 (UK), £64 (Europe and the rest of the world), themarinequarterly.com.
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