Blatant advertisement - do your Christmas shopping at Amazon

[Nick]

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A seasonal reminder that if you are thinking of doing some of your Christmas shopping at Amazon you can help BlueMoment by clicking through to Amazon from any of the links on the site. We get a modest commission on your purchase, it costs you exactly the same and you are helping to keep this site going. For your shopping convenience we have provided a new link at the top of the forum that takes you to Amazon's Christmas promotion page - happy shoppping.

(As well as books I regularly buy electronic stuff from Amazon as they are often the cheapest - especially when you take into account the free delivery (to all areas) with no minimum purchase. They also have loads of films and music, toys and home and garden stuff. Their returns system is excellent, and I have never ever had a hassle with them. Your presents can also be delivered gift-wrapped to their final destination if that suits)

[NorthUp2]

The RNLI can be assisted in a similar fashion-

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Sorry Webby, You know it's in a good cause!

[Mark]

The RNLI can be assisted in a similar fashion-

But, the RNLI is rich, and Nick is poor! (Or says he is!)

I shall be buying my pressies via Blue Moment!

[Nick]

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Thank you Markie.

There are plenty of other ways to contribute to the RNLI, but very few BlueMoment collecting tins on the bars of Scotland. Very few old ladies leave us their inheritance either, even if we offer to name a web page after them.

[aquaplane]

Ok then, I have been thinking about having a bit of a "boating library" nothing fantastic, just a few boaty books, it'll be a good thing to suggest to them folks as don't know what to buy for "the man who has everything" like as wot I have.

I have all the Arthur Ransome books, I was thinking more accounts of voyages rather than fictional stuff. Read Para Handy, but that's not fiction is it?

So what's the first 5 to get hold of (via Amazon of course)?

[Nick]

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Here's a Top 5 list from me - click any pic to go to the book (with the BM tracker built in)



Also:

Sailing Alone Around The World - Slocum
Maiden Voyage- Tania Aebi
Berserk in the Antarctic - David Mercy
Icebird - David Lewis

[Silkie]

I couldn't possibly produce a list with only five authors, never mind only five titles but as well as Moitessier and RKJ and the other fine books listed above I would have to include Hiscock, Pye, Goss, Caldwell, Chichester, Ridler, Acton, Taylor, Voss, Villiers, Guzzwell, Smeeton, Worth, Raban, Patterson, Purves, Newby..

Can't do the tracker thing but if you use the Amazon link at the top of the main forum page you can search for anything.

What was my cut to be Nick?

[sam]

Thanks Nick. I was looking at some books this afternoon and forgot to look at Amazon. Order now placed, I've saved about a tenner and Bluemoment gets its cut as well!

[puddock]

I can thoroughly recommend RKJ (A World of my own).
I came across it years ago, in a cabin offshore and it planted the seed ..................

[little boy blue]

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Thank you Markie.

There are plenty of other ways to contribute to the RNLI, but very few BlueMoment collecting tins on the bars of Scotland. Very few old ladies leave us their inheritance either, even if we offer to name a web page after them.

nick, if you want to have a bm flag day i`ve got an old collecting tinny you can borrow

[Nick]

nick, if you want to have a bm flag day i`ve got an old collecting tinny you can borrow

Miniature lapel burgees - now there's a thought. Should I give Prestige Flags a call??

[Gardenshed]

Uffa Fox's books and Sopranino by Patrick Moody. Oft overlooked but shouldn't be

[Mark]

So what's the first 5 to get hold of (via Amazon of course)?

Ok, I think you need a definitive one from each genres.

So I reckon you need:

1) Anything by HW Tillman - (Sea Adventure cruising).
2) Last Grain Race - Eric Newby - (tall ship)
3) Joshua Slocum - "Sailing Alone Around the World" - (First RTW and wonderfully written)
4) "Adrift" - By Steve Callahan - (Sea survival) - Alternatively Baileys or Robertsons
5) "A World of My Own" Robin Knox-Johnston
6) "Ice Bird" David Lewis (Cold cold cold)
7) One of anything by Moitessier (Soul sailing prose) whoever translates from the French has a woderful way with Words.
8) "Magic of the Swatchways" Maurice Griffiths

Sorry - I couldn't get it down to five! If two really have to be ditched then 8) & 2) should be the first to go!

Personally I'd avoid Sir Alec Rose and Francis Chichester. I thought both were a bit boring - a lot of lists of what they ate and drank and what sails they used. On the other hand they are pretty definitive!

[aquaplane]

Thanks for the suggestions men.

I said 5 books to get started so I have a few diesel/beer tokens left to enjoy getting to the boat and sailing, but the more the merrier in the long run.

[sawdoc]

I read and really enjoyed this book - a true tale of an epic journey in a small boat in the southern ocean. Recommended.