Greatest Sailing Stories Ever Told

by Christopher Caswell
280 pp., softcover

Contributions from Ernest Shackleton, James Thurber, Ann Davison, Samuel Eliot Morison, E.B. White, Cleveland Armory, Pete Goss and more for a total of 27 short stories.

Table of Contents:

Close Encounter

The Story of Sailing

The Fisherman's Cup Races

The Making of a Yachtsman

All at Sea

Epilogue

The Boat Journey

An August Day's Sail

About Figaro

The Crystal Coast

Aloft on the Flying Cloud

The Sea and the Wind that Blows

Overwhelmed

Sailing Alone Around the World

Down Spinnaker

Rendezvous

Smith verses Lichtensteiger

Being Ashore

Captain Jim & Reynard

Yachtsman Solo

Daysail Content

Owen Chase's Narrative

Kidnapped

Hornblower & the Man who felt Queer

A Pacific Passage

Call Me Ishmael

"100 Tons of Bronze Son"

Service in the Mediterranean