Winter Idle Time... Books & Movies

These movies and books have been recommended by myself and others. Please feel free to e-mail additional suggestions to me at: meischa3@verizon.net

I have not seen all these movies or read all these books. If some of these do not belong in a sailing category, please let me know and I will remove it.

  • 'Twas the Night Before Christmas
  • Movies
    • "Caine Mutiny, The"
    • "Captain Ron"
    • "Captains Courageous" [Spencer Tracy version]
    • "Cutthroat Island"
    • "Dead Calm"
    • "Dove"
    • "Island, The" (Michael Caine) for nightmares
    • "Master and Commander"
    • "Mon Poulet: The Movie" [Robin Trane - a cult classic]
    • "Mutiny on the Bounty"
    • "Pirates" [Walter Mathau]
    • "Prickly Heat" the one where they are rebuilding the sailboat, or any Laurel and Hardy movie or short
    • "Treasure Island" [Wallace Berry/Jackie Cooper]
    • "White Squall"
    • "Wind" [Jennifer Grey]
  • Books
    • "500 Days, Around the World in a 12 ft. Yacht" by Serge Testa
    • "A Single Wave" by Webb Chiles
    • "A World of My Own" by Robin Knox-Johnston
    • "Alone Through the Roaring Forties" by Vito Dumas
    • "Around The World Alone" by Joshua Slokum
    • "Blown Away" by Herb Payson (for some lighter reading ;-)
    • "Blue Latitudes : Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before" by Tony Horwitz
    • "Boatowner's illustrated Handbook of wiring" by Charlie Wing
    • "The Bounty" by Caroline Alexander
    • "Breath of Angels" by John Beattie
    • "Cape Horn, One Man's Dream, One Woman's Nightmare"
    • "Close to the Wind" by Pete Goss
    • "Condominium" by John D. MacDonald
    • "Dark Wind" by Gordon Chaplin
    • "The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition" by Caroline Alexander
    • "Fastnet, Force 10: The Deadliest Storm in the History of Modern Sailing" by John Rousmaniere
    • "Fatal Storm" by Rob Mundle
    • "Fighting Finish: The Volvo Ocean Race, 2001-2002" by Gary Jobson
    • "Flirting with Mermaids" by John Kretschmer
    • "Godforsaken Sea" by Derek Lundy (had read before)
    • "The Long Way" by Bernard Moitessier
    • "Maiden Voyage" by Tania Aebi
    • "My Old Mad and the Sea", A Father and Son sail around Cape Horn by David and Daniel Hays
    • "Ocean Warriors: The Thrilling Story of the 2001/2002 Volvo Ocean Race Around the World" by Rob Mundle
    • "Once is Enough" by Miles Smeeton   $9.71 at Amazon.com
    • "Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe" by Laurence Bergreen   $18.95 at Amazon.com
    • "Perfect Storm, The" by Sebastian Junger
    • "Proving Ground, The" by G. Bruce Knecht
    • "The Race" The first nonstop round-the-world, no-holds-barred sailing competition, by Tim Zimmermann
    • "Reaching Port", about a Montana couple who build a boat in their backyard and sail it around the world. By Keith Jones
    • "Red Sky in Mourning" by Tami Oldham Ashcraft
    • "Rescue in the Pacific" by Tony Farrington
    • "Sea Change: Alone Across the Atlantic in a Wooden Boat" by Peter Nichols
    • "Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst, The" by Nicholas Tomalin and Ron Hall (finished that)
    • "Taking on the World" by Ellen MacArthur
    • "To the Great Southern Sea" by William Albert Robinson
    • "Two Years Before the Mast" by Richard Dana
    • "Voyage of the Liberdade" by Joshua Slokum
    • "Voyage of the Northern Magic" by Diane Stuemer
    • "You Can't Blow Home Again" by Herb Payson
  • Other Sources

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