Search results

The friendliest place on the web for anyone who enjoys boating.
If you have answers, please help by responding to the unanswered posts.
  1. J

    Book Recommendations

    I haven't read this yet, but I just ran across this book: https://smile.amazon.com/Reeds-Weather-Handbook-Frank-Singleton-ebook/dp/B00H7ZA8ZI/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1507052349&sr=8-2&keywords=Reeds+Weather+Handbook and this companion website: Frank Singleton's Weather and Sailing Pages -...
  2. J

    Book Recommendations

    It's mostly text. There are a few diagrams and a few more black & white pictures but they all were pretty clear on my Kindle Paperwhite. You can always bring up a Kindle book on a computer if you want to get a better look at something. While this is a good book it's not really a reference so you...
  3. J

    Book Recommendations

    Youtube is full of sailing vlogs. Like with anything the sailing vlogs are a mixed bag. Vlogs/blogs specific to trawlers (or at least motor vessels) are a lot fewer in number. Or at least active ones, there are a lot of them that have gone silent. Unfortunately 3@Sea are no longer...
  4. J

    Book Recommendations

    I don't have any other books to compare to, but I'm about 3/4 the way through Gene & Katie Hamilton's Coastal Cruising Under Power. I've skipped some of the bits about boat handling because I don't have a boat yet but the rest has been very helpful so far...
  5. J

    Landlubber patiently waiting until I can buy a trawler

    Hello! I don't currently own a boat, but someday I will (the fates willing of course). I'm not a complete noob - my parents owned a 30' houseboat on the Upper Mississippi and before that a 16' runabout. They sold the houseboat off though before I was able to take it out on my own though so my...
Back
Top Bottom