FOUR GUYS, A DOG, AND A BOAT… ... and 26,000 miles of high seas between Hong Kong and Miami. THE YEAR WAS 1960. William Holden was the latest cinema heartthrob and his movie “The World of Suzie Wong” was all the rage. It was also the year four young men hatched a plan to sail halfway around the world. Never mind that they weren’t sailors or that one of them couldn’t swim. These four young men jumped at the chance to prove something to the world and to themselves. Armed with not much more t...

Volume 2 of Island Sailing is NOT all rum and Bananas is loaded with 37 funny stories of our sailing adventures onboard our second sailboat named Wild Thing. Join us as we try to escape the real world of Texas to sail 1200 miles upwind to the Bahamas, sail to the Chesapeake Bay, then turn around and sail to the Caribbean to live the dream of island sailing. Only to find out that living the dream means working on the sailboat in St Somewhere. It is not all rum and bananas. The stories are f...

Have you ever thought about quitting your job, buying a sailboat and sailing away to an island paradise? I did it and found out that Island Sailing is Not All Rum and Bananas. This book contains funny stories that all started with my first midlife crisis that I had when I turned 30, quit my job and sailed off to the Bahamas on a 36 foot Leaky Teaky sailboat named the Oh Kay. This book contains 22 fun to read sea tales and color pictures about exploding toilets, sharks, flaming alcohol stov...

The hilarious story of an airline pilot and his pretty flight attendant wife who sail to a small Bahamian island and decide to move there full time to "live the dream life". It turns out that living the dream life in the Caribbean involves drinking rum, sailing, sex, running drugs, infidelity, lying, cheating, divorce, arrest, midlife crisis, weddings and courtroom drama. You will meet an assortment of quirky, funny characters who's hijinks generate laugh out loud moments . It is a fast pa...

“Many brave hearts are asleep in the deep, so beware, beware,” goes the chorus of an old sailors’ sing-along that celebrates the allure and danger of the seafaring life. But make no mistake–there truly is much to beware for those who are drawn to risk their lives and seek their fortunes upon the waves. And perhaps none take more chances than the men and women who brave the tempestuous, bountiful waters of the Bering Sea. Season after season, they bond and battle with its icy depths, determ...

“It was the best of dreams, it was the worst of dreams, it was an age of consulting the nautical experts, it was the age of landlubber foolishness, it was the epoch of determination, it was the epoch of despair, it was the season of hurricanes, it was a spring of beachcombing…”If you dream about chucking it all away and sailing toward an island life, read this firstRenee and Michael didn’t have any boating experience and when their...

A single-handed voyage on a small sailboat from Key West Florida to Isla Mujeres, Mexico.

Learn what it takes to cross an ocean from a veteran sailorIn Sailing a Serious Ocean, author John Kretschmer uses his experiences and stories to show you what you will need to across an ocean or go around the world, in fair weather or foul. His true accounts of storms and other challenges at sea makes exciting reading and shows not only how sailboats should be handled when the chips are down, but how you should handle yourself. Learning how these boats re...

I was singing when I went below at 4 a.m. after my two-hour turn at the wheel. I stowed a large chunk of "Best Irish Fruit Cake" and flopped down on the settee to catch a nap until 6. By this time hours at the wheel and the effects of the sun and wind of the previous days' sailing had begun to tell. It was only minutes after my head touch the settee that I was a sleep.A crash somewhere about me brought me to half consciousness. Seconds later there was a more violent crack. The whole...

Lee Shore Blues is not your average nautical book. Peter Heiberg takes us on an irreverent charge through the highlights of his life at sea, from evading the homosexual advances of a 300-pound steward in the mid-Pacific at 19 years of age, to rebuilding and sailing a thirty-ton engineless Bristol Channel pilot cutter from the UK to Canada’s west coast. After commercial fishing in the Queen Charlotte Islands, skippering a tug boat on the Inside Passage, and captaining a cruise ship...

The bestselling author's sequel to The Hungry Ocean--a fast-paced account of her return to swordfishingLinda Greenlaw hadn't been bluewater fishing for ten years- not since the events chronicled in the books The Perfect Storm and The Hungry Ocean-but when her lobster traps aren't paying off, her truck is on its last gasp, and the bills are piling up, she decides to take a friend up on his offer and captain a boat for a season of swordfish...

*Another such wave could easily be the end of us. I had to do something, fix something, save the boat, save myself.But what?*Gary Paulsen takes readers along on his maiden voyage, proving that ignorance can be bliss. Also really stupid and incredibly dangerous. He tells of boats that have owned him—good, bad, and beloved—and how they got him through terrifying storms that he survived by sheer luck. His spare prose conjures up shark surprises and killer waves as well as moon...