My Collection

[Ralph Erickson]

I love stories of the sea, and have a fair collection of sailing/nautical related books on my bookshelf that I've read over the years.  Some have been fairly popular and well known, others not well known but enjoyable just the same:

Close To The Wind/Pete Goss
My Old Man And The Sea/Hays & Hays
In The Heart Of The Sea/Nathaniel Philbrick
Red Sky In Mourning/Tami Ashcraft
Sailing Alone Around The World/Slocum
Airborne/William F. Buckley Jr.
Atlantic High/William F. Buckley Jr.
Rescue In The Pacific/Farrington
The Raft/Robert Trumbull
On Board With Bradley/Dick Bradley
Mayday Mayday Mayday/Charles Coleman
The Perfect Storm/Sebastion Junger
The Ship & The Storm/Jim Carier
Adrift/Steve Calahan
Daring The Sea/David Shaw
The Proving Ground/G.Bruce Knecht
The Greatest Sailing Stories Ever Told/Christopher Caswell
Before The Wind/David Gowdey
Gently With The Tides/Michael Frankel
Someday Isle/Linda Redihalgh

I'm presently reading the Ted Bell series that started with Hawke, then came Assasins, then Pirates, and then Spy. (I'm presently reading Pirates). It's pretty nautically based, and very good if you like adventure on the high seas and elsewhere.

I subscribe to Latitudes & Attitudes magazine, Living Aboard magazine, and Sail magazine, however, don't always have time to read them every month!

Ralph

[idouglas]

If you ask me, the best two magazines out there for our type of boats (older pocket cruisers) are:  SMALL CRAFT ADVISOR and GOOD OLD BOAT.  They are published every two months, and I usually read each cover to cover by the end of the first month.

idouglas