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Mainsail to the Wind
A book of sailing quotations
48° North, January 2001
Sailing & Yachting (SA), April 2000
Sailing, March 2000

Marine Diesel Engines
Maintenance and Repair Manual
NauticalReads.com, March 2008
SciTech Book News, March 2007
Soundings, January 2007
Latitudes & Attitudes, January 2007

The Marine Electrical and Electronics Bible
A Practical Handbook for Cruising Sailors
Sail, May 2007
Cruising World, September 1999
Latitudes & Attitudes, March/April 1999
Practical Sailor, December 1995
Classic Boat, July 1995
Yachting Monthly, April 1995
Soundings, March 1995

Marine Salvage
A Guide for Boaters and Divers
The ENSIGN, June 1998
Ocean Navigator, July/August 1997
Coastal Cruising, Jan./Feb. 1997

A Mariner's Miscellany
White Ensign Association, 2005/06
Cruising World, April 2006
Nauticalia, Autumn/Winter 2005
Down East Books, Holiday 2005
Royal Naval Sailing Association, Autumn 2005
Sea History, Autumn 2005
SAIL, September 2005
Good Old Boat, August 2005
A Common Reader, August 2005
Midwest Book Review, July 2005
Cruising, June 2005
Nautical Magazine, June 2005
Soundings, May 2005
Sailing (SA), April 2005
Latitudes and Attitudes, April 2005

Mariner's Book of Days
WaterCraft, November/December 2007
WaterCraft
, November/December 2006
Latitudes & Attitudes, August 2006
Sailing Magazine, December 2004
Sailing & Yachting (SA), November 2004
Good Old Boat, October 2003
Mayday!
Yachts in Distress
Dockside, March 1998
Metal Boats, 2ed
Cruising World, December 1999
Fishing Boat World, October 1996
IM, Spring 1995
Metal Corrosion in Boats
Sailing, March 2008
SciTech Book News, December 2006
Modern Boat Maintenance
The Complete Fiberglass Boat Manual
Dockside, November 1996
Yachting Monthly, June 1997
Cruising World, June 1995
The ENSIGN, July 1995
Sailing Magazine, February 1995

Moitessier
A Sailing Legend
Cruising World, May 2006
SAIL Magazine, April 2006
The Ensign, February 2006
Sailing, January 2006
The Sea Chest, 2006
Soundings, December 2005
Ocean Navigator, November/December 2005
Sailing S.A., November 2005
Latitudes & Attitudes, October 2005

Mooneshine Logs
The Eighth Sea, November 1995
Maine Sunday Telegram, September 1995
Midwest Book Review, June 1995
Motorboat Electrical and Electronics Manual
Ocean Navigator, January/February 2003
Mudlark's Ghosts
The Ensign, July/August 2008
Sailing, November 2007
Good Old Boat, October 2007
Cruising World, September 2007
Boatworks
, Fall 2007
Soundings
, April 2007
WaterCraft, January/February 2007
My First Two Thousand Years
The Autobiography of the Wandering Jew
Midwest Book Review, August 2001


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The Nathaniel Drinkwater series
The Common Reader, April 2002
Sailing, September 2001
Seaways, June 2001
New Book of SAIL Trim
Practical Boat Owner, March 1996
Yachts & Yachting, August 1995
New Plywood Boats
And a Few Others
WaterCraft, July/August 2002
Cruising, Summer 2002
Soundings, February 2002
Small Craft Advisor, November/December 2001
Good Old Boat, November/December 2001


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The Oceans Are Waiting
Around the World on the Yacht TIGGER

Sailing & Yachting, October 2004
Cruising World, June 2003
Good Old Boat Newsletter, December 2002
One Hand for Yourself, One for the Ship
The Essentials of Single-Handed Sailing
Sailing, July 1992
Soundings, April 1991
Outboard Motors
Maintenance and Repair Manual
Good Old Boat, June 2007
Latitudes & Attitudes, April 2007
Soundings, January 2007
Outward Leg
Yachts and Yachting, October 1999
Sailing Inland and Offshore, February 1999


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Pacific Crossing Guide
Latitudes & Attitudes, May/June 1998
48° North, May 1998
Ocean Navigator, March/April 1998
The Perfect First Mate
A Woman's Guide to Recreational Boating
Boating World, January 2001
Latitudes & Attitudes, November 2000
The Ensign, October 2000
Sailing (South Africa), February 2000
The Physics of Sailing Explained
Cruising, Winter 2004
Choice, April 2004
Sailing, April 2004
Pirates Aboard!
Midwest Book Review, December 2006
Sail Magazine, October 2006
Cruising World, September 2004
Cruising Association UK, 2004
Bookwatch, August 2004
A Private Revenge
The Nathaniel Drinkwater Series, Book 9
Latitudes & Attitudes, September/October 1999


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The Quick and Easy Guide to Compass Correction
Soundings
, March 1998
Sailing, December 1997
Florida Today Newspaper, August 1997


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Race Winning Strategies
Smart Lessons with Deep Dakron
The ENSIGN, October 1997
Soundings, October 1996
SAIL, July 1996
Sailing Inland & Offshore, June 1996
Ready for Sea!
How to Outfit the Modern Cruising Sailboat
Sailing SA, August 2004
Cruising World, February 2003
SAIL, February 2003
Latitudes & Attitudes, January/February 2003
Sailing, November 2002
Soundings, November 2002
Midwest Book Review, August 2002
Red Sea Peril
Cruising World, December 2002
Good Old Boat, September/October 2002
Sailing & Yachting (SA), July 2002
Reed's Sextant Simplified
Midwest Book Review, October 2003
Rescue and Recovery
ISKRA's ordeal in the Hebrides
WoodenBoat, 1998
Cruising World, March 1998
Soundings, November 1997
Return to the Sea
Sailing & Yachting (SA), January 2006
The ENSIGN, March 2006
Sailing, April 2005
Latitudes & Attitudes, January 2005
Return to Murmansk
Lloyd's List, April 1996
Riddle of the Sands
Atlantic Boating News, January/February 2004
Cruising World, February 2002
Rough Passage
Sailing, February 2007
Sailing, December 2006
Latitudes & Attitudes, January 2006
White Ensign Association, 2005/2006
Classic Boat, November 2005
The Rudder Treasury
A Companion for Lovers of Small Craft
WaterCraft, September/October 2004
Sailing & Yachting (S.A.), June 2004
Classic Boat, March 2004
Sailing, February 2004
Cruising World, August 2003
Points East, August 2003
WoodenBoat, July/August 2003
The Rules Book
The 2005-2008 Racing Rules
Midwest Book Review, July 2005
Sailing World, June 2005
Latitudes & Attitudes, May 2005
Sailing, April 2005


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Safety Preparations for Cruising
Latitudes & Attitudes, January 2004
Dockside, October 1998
Rhode Island Boating, April 1998
Soundings, September 1997
Sailing Inland & Offshore, July 1997
Saga of a Wayward Sailor
Motorboat & Yachting (UK), December 1995
Lloyds' List, August 1995
SAIL Book of Commonsense Cruising
The ENSIGN, September 2003
WoodenBoat, November/December 2001
Sailing Today, December 2001
Nautical Magazine, October 2001
Yachting Monthly, October 2001
Sailing, August 2001
A Sail for All Seasons
Cruising and Racing Sail Tips
The ENSIGN, July 2000
Sail, Race and Win
Developing a Winning Attitude
On the Wire, March 1997
Sail Trim
Sailing, August 2006
Sailing (S.A.), November 2005
Midwest Book Review, October 2005
Latitudes & Attitudes, August 2005
Soundings, August 2005
Sailing Alone Around the World
Latitudes and Attitudes, April 2008
Sailing (S.A.), February 2007
The New Yorker, September 1998
WoodenBoat, March/April 1994
Small Boat Journal, August/September 1988
Yachting, June 1984
Sailing Among the Stars
The Story of SEA DART
WoodenBoat, March/April 2000
Wisconsin Bookwatch, January 2000
Sailing Around the World
Sailing (S.A.), January 2004
Good Old Boat Newsletter, October 2003
Latitudes & Attitudes, May/June 2003
Midwest Book Review
Sailing Big on a Small Sailboat
Cruising World, February 2008
Sailing S.A.
, August 2007
Small Craft Advisor
, October 2007
Wisconsin Bookwatch, August 2007
Soundings,
September 2007
Latitudes & Attitudes
, July 2007
The ENSIGN, March 1999
Cruising World, July 1998
Travel Books Worldwide, December 1992
Sailing Language
Sailing & Yachting (S.A.), February 2001
The Ellsworth American, November 2000
The Sailing Life
Sailing, December 2006
Latitudes & Attitudes, April 2006
The Sailing Mystique
The Challenges and Rewards of a Life Under Sail
Soundings, November 1999
Sailing Inland & Offshore, April 1996
Wisconsin Bookwatch, February 1996
Sunday News Journal (Delaware), April 1995
The ENSIGN, November 1994

Sailing Tall
Around the World on the Square-rigged PASSAT (1946-1948)
Sailing, April 2006
Cruising, Fall 2004
Royal Navy Sailing Association, 2004
Lloyd's List, July 2, 2004
Nautical Almanac, June 2004
Shipping Today & Yesterday, May 2004

Sailing to Hemingway's Cuba
Sailing, January 2002
Offshore Magazine, May 2001
The ENSIGN, April 2001
Islands Magazine, April 2001
Cruising World, March 2001
Boat/U.S. Magazine, November 2000
Living Aboard, November 2000
Coastal Cruising, September 2000

Sailing to the Reefs
Latitudes & Attitudes, April 2004
Sailing, December 2001
The Charleston Daily News, May 2001
The Sailor's Weather Guide, 2E
Latitudes & Attitudes, July 2006
The Ensign, December 2004
Sailing & Yachting (SA), October 2003
Cruising, Winter 1999
Soundings, June 1996
Cruising World, March 1996
Sailing Inland & Offshore, February 1996
Sailpower
Midwest Book Review, October 2004
Sails Full and By
Soundings, May 1996
The ENSIGN, April 1996
Sailing Inland & Offshore, March 1996
Practical Sailor, December 1995
Cruising World, October 1995
SAIL, September 1995
Salty Dog Talk
Soundings, January 2008
Yachting
, August 1985
Sailing Magazine, January 1985
Seattle Times, 1984
Salvage
Reference & Research Book News, March 2008
Soundings, March 2008
Schooner INTEGRITY
Lloyd's List, September 1992
The Sea Never Changes
Sailing Inland & Offshore, May 1995
Time-Colonist, February 1994
Soundings, January 1993
Wisconsin Bookwatch, August 1992
Sea Poems
Latitudes & Attitudes, December 2005
The Nautical Magazine, November 2005
The Sea Survival Manual
Latitudes & Attitudes, January 2006
Ocean Navigator, November/December 2005
Soundings, December 2005
Bookwatch, December 2005
The Sea Vagabond's World
Caribbean Compass, June 2000
Classic Boat, May 2000
Sailing Inland & Offshore, December 1998
Blue Water Sailing, November/December 1998
SEA WOLF of the Confederacy
The Daring Civil War Raids of Naval Lt. Charles W. Read Library Journal, January 2004
Seagulls in My Soup
Further Adventures of a Wayward Sailor
Classic Boat, May 2000
Yachting Monthly, April 2000
Sailing, September 1993
WoodenBoat, March/April 1992
Dow Jones News/Retrieval
Seasoned by Salt
A Voyage in Search of the Caribbean
NauticalReads.com, June 2008
The Midwest Book Review
, February 2008
Latitudes & Attitudes
, March 2006
The Ensign, September/October 2005
Blue Water Sailing, February 2004
Yachting, February 2004

Sell Up and Sail, 5E
The ENSIGN, January/February 2007
California Bookwatch, October 2006
Latitudes & Attitudes, May 2006
Soundings, March 2006

Sell Your Boat in 30 Days!
Minimize Your Investment
Maximize Your Profit

Soundings, October 2004
Sailing & Yachting (S.A.), June 2004
SERAFFYN'S Mediterranean Adventure
Sailing, December 1991
The Shadow of the Eagle
Midwest Book Review, April 2002
Shipwreck
A Saga of Sea Tragedy and Sunken Treasure
The Greensboro Watchman (Alabama), May 2001
Latitudes & Attitudes, September/October 2000
Style Weekly, March 2000
Skin Diver Magazine, March 2000
Sport Diver Magazine, January/February 2000
Coin World, November 1999
Midwest Book Review, October 1999
Single-Handed Sailing
Wisconsin Bookwatch, February 1992
Soundings, September 1991
Southern Boating, July 1991
A Single Wave
Stories of Storms and Survival
Latitudes & Attitudes, July/August 2000
Cruising World, February 2000
Cruising Helmsman, December 1999
Yachting Monthly, September 1999
Sailing Inland & Offshore, September 1999
Reviewer's Bookwatch, August 1999
Ocean Navigator, July/August 1999
Kirkus Reviews, April 1999
Sir Peter Blake
An Amazing Life
Sailing, September 2005
Latitudes & Attitudes, July 2005
Soundings, June 2005

Skeletons for Sadness
Soundings, July 2008
Royal Naval Association, Winter 2007

Slow Boat From China
Sailing (S.A.), July 2007
The Ensign, May/June 2007
Sailing, December 2006
Soundings, April 2006
Latitudes & Attitudes, April 2006
Somewheres East of Suez
Classic Boat, July 2000
Something Borrowed
101 Useful Tips for Every Sailor
Caribbean Compass, January 2002
Soundings, October 1996
Sailing Inland & Offshore, May 1996
The Island, Summer 1995
Yachting Monthly, April 1995
Coastal Cruising, May/June 1996

Song of the Sirens
Soundings, February 2008
Good Old Boat
, July/August 2000

A Splendid Madness
A ManA BoatA Love Story
New England Trailer Sailors, March 2005
The Ensign, December 2004
Sailing Magazine, November 2004
Sailing SA, August 2004
Portland Sunday Herald, June 6, 2004
Hudson Valley Magazine, June 2004
ALA Booklist, May 2004
Good Old Boat, April 2004
A Steady Trade
A Boyhood at Sea
Sailing Inland & Offshore, February 1999
Survive the Savage Sea
Sailing, December 1996
The ENSIGN, June 1995
Kemper County Messenger, February 1995
Santana, December 1988
Cruising World, April 1985
SWAN The Second Voyage
The ENSIGN
Cruising World, February 1996
The Island, Summer 1995
Sunday Journal, July 1994
The Symmetry of Sailing
The Physics of Sailing for Yachtsman
Sailing, May 1997
Royal Navy Sailing Academy Journal, 1996
Sailing World, July 1989
Lloyd's List, October 1987


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Tamata and the Alliance
Midwest Book Review, November 1998
Little Ship Club, August 1996
Royal Naval Sailing Association Journal, Spring 1996
There Be No Dragons
Paperback Edition
Soundings, January 2005
Cruising (UK), Winter 2004
Sailing & Yachting SA, July 2004
The Midwest Book Review, July 2004

Things I Wish I'd Known Before I Started Sailing
The Ensign, May/June 2006
Soundings, December 2005
Bookwatch, December 2005
Latitudes & Attitudes, December 2005
Good Old Boat, October, 2005
Sailing, November 2005

A Thousand Dollar Yacht
WoodenBoat, March/April 1997
Soundings, February 1997
Lloyd's List, November 1996
The Sunday Telegraph, November 1996

Through the French Canals
Eleventh Edition
Sailing & Yachting (SA), April 2007
Midwest Book Review, December 2006
Midwest Book Review, September 2006
Latitudes & Attitudes, August 2006

Through the Land of Fire
The Ensign, February 2006
Sailing, September 2005
Sailing (SA), May 2005
The Nautical Magazine, April 2005
Good Old Boat, April 2005
Latitudes & Attitudes, February/March 2005
Titanic Survivor
Latitudes & Attitudes, May 2005
Soundings, February 2005
Sailing (SA), January 2005
To Venture Further
Latitudes & Attitudes, September/October 2001
Latitudes & Attitudes, May/June 2001
Topsail and Battleaxe
Book-of-the-Month Club
, April 1989
Lloyd's List, October 1997
Total Loss
WoodenBoat, May/June 2002
Sailing & Yachting, April 2002
Travellers on a Trade Wind
Latitudes & Attitudes, January/February 2000
WoodenBoat, January/February 1999
Sailing Inland & Offshore, December 1998
Treasured Islands
Cruising the South Seas with Robert Louis Stevenson
Wisconsin Bookwatch, March 2004
Latitudes & Attitudes, July/August 2003
Sailing, February 2003
Good Old Boat, May/June 2002
Midwest Book Review, March 2002
The Wichita Review, February 2002
A Trimaran Sails the Seven Seas
Latitudes & Attitudes, September 2003
Midwest Book Review, May 2001
Latitudes & Attitudes

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Under False Colours
Midwest Book Review

Understanding Boat Batteries and Battery Charging
Sailing and Yachting, October 2004

Understanding Boat Communications
Soundings, December 2006
Living Aboard, July/August 2006
Latitudes & Attitudes, July 2006
Midwest Book Review, June 2006

Understanding Corrosion, Lightning Protection and Interference
Sailing (SA), April 2005
Midwest Book Review, October 2005

Understanding Boat Diesel Engines
Midwest Book Reviews, July 2005
Sailing (SA), April 2005

Understanding Boat Electronics
Soundings
, December 2006
Latitudes & Attitudes, October 2006

Understanding Boat Wiring
Sailing and Yachting, October 2004
Midwest Book Review, January 2004

Understanding Weatherfax                                   Cruising World, Sept 2006
SAIL Magazine, June 2006
Sailing, February 2006
Soundings, January 2006
Bookwatch, December 2005
Latitudes & Attitudes, December 2005
The Ensign, April 1998
SpinSheet, December 1997
Ocean Navigator, June/July 1997
Soundings, May 1997
Dockside, April 1997

Unlikely Passages
Good Old Boat, July/August 1999
Cruising World
Unlikely People
Yachting Monthly, September 1999
Latitudes & Attitudes, March/April 1999
The Unlikely Voyage of Jack De Crow
A Mirror Odyssey from North Wales to the Black Sea
Living Aboard, July/August 2006
Watercraft, March/April 2004
Sailing, December 2003
Cruising World, November 2002
Library Journal, September 2002
A Common Reader, July 2002

Uphill all the Way
Sailing Inland & Offshore, December 1998
The ENSIGN, December 1998
SAIL, September 1998
The Journal of the American Sailing Association, Spring 1998

Up the Creek
Sailing, December 2006
Soundings, March 2006

Used Boat Notebook
Latitudes & Attitudes, March 2004
Wisconsin Bookwatch, September 2002
Using GPS
The ENSIGN, March 2000
Offshore, January 2000
Sailing (S.A.)
Soundings, September 1994

Using Radar
The Charleston Daily News, September 2000


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Voyage: A Novel of 1896
Book-of-the-Month Club News, January 1977
Library Journal, January 2000
Library Journal, November 1999

Voyages of Joshua Slocum
Living Aboard, January 2004
PBO Books, April 1998
Sailing Inland & Offshore (S.A.), October 1995
Sea History, Autumn 1986

Wanderer
The Ensign, May 1999
The Times, Georgetown, SC, November 1998
Dockside CA, July 1998

The Wapping Group of Artists
Art Book News Annual, 2007
Sailing (S.A.), March 2006
Book News, February 2006
White Ensign Association, 2005/2006
WoodenBoat, December 2005

The Weather Handbook
The Ensign, October 2000
Cruising World, February 2000
Journal of the American Sailing Association, Fall 1999
Yachting Monthly, September 1999
WoodenBoat, July/August 1999
Bulletin of the AMS (American Meteorological Association), June 1999

With A Pinch of Salt
Cruising, June 2006
Latitudes & Attitudes, May 2006
Sailing (S.A.), March 2006
White Ensign Association, 2005/2006

Yarns
The Ensign, January 1999
Soundings, February 1991
Cruising World, December 1990

Your Offshore Doctor
A Manual of Medical Self-Sufficiency at Sea
Soundings, February 2001


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