Sailing, sailing.....
593697
Thoroughly enjoyable.  It gives the reader a feeling for what it was like to be aboard a ship in that era of the sailing ships.
4968053
I just love watching this little boat bob along in the currents.  Best of all, it let's me know when it's finally warm enough to go swimming!
1145348
Sailing lessons may be difficult to learn by reading although this book comes very close to putting you in a sailboat on an inland lake. What it does even better is review the life lessons we all should learn. Beyond mechanical issues with a boat, lessons such as sportsmanship and courtesy are more important and the ones that we share with our offspring.
Easily accomplished, this book takes you on a sentimental route through weather and water with the result a group of memories anyone would treasure.
My personal experiments with sailboats don not compare yet I much enjoyed picturing myself at the helm and executing many a gybe with style.
Enjoy!
4907350
Falling off the Wind by Richard Meibers was given to me for a free review by The Cadence Group.  This is the author's fourth novel he has written.  "Falling off the wind: a sailboat falls off the wind when it points its bow further from the eye of the wind.  The opposite of heading up into the wind. "

I have to admit I am not much of a sailboat fan or wanting to read much, although this novel was very educating in the ways of sailing.  There were many words I would look up as to understand what the writing meant.  The book talks in "Spanish" at times so if you are not aware of how to speak the language it can set you off into a different direction.

The Schooner is a sailing boat with two or more masks and 50 year old Clement Scheutz and Samantha sail the named Panacea.  It is a boat which they bought and wanted to rebuild because it is a 65 foot wooden-hulled boat built in the 1920's that was used as a British racing boat.  Not married but together is Samantha and Clement.  Samantha is much younger and after seven years on the Schooner at sea they begin to have doubts of each other's lives and the lives they chose together sailing. In order to continue to sail as they both love to do, they go to the coast of Puerto Rico and try to make money to keep sailing, eat, get supplies and continue their love of sailing.

The story takes through a love story and a horrible hurricane (Hugo) which hits Culebra bringing with it destruction no one could ever imagine.

I would recommend anyone that loves sailing, water, hurricanes, and romance lovers to pick up a copy today.
 2012 Jackie Paulson
1756748
An exciting read for a sailor, and just as I'd hoped - no endless excursions ashore or partying in quiet anchorages while neighboring boats ride their hooks. Here we have the endless sail changes, (before roller furling) plunging barometer, everything wet & cold, ongoing sea-sickness - just as a big ocean passage usually is.
The discomfort is palpable, although Sir Francis almost always understates the misery and fear, and keeps a stiff upper lip.
The nomenclature might be a little confusing for non-sailors, as this book is about SAILING, and sailboats. My wife likes to read about the socializing that sailors do, and loves visiting foreign shores. She would dislike this book.
302922
I sail and this is a very satisfying book about a sailing family and their boats.
164774
It floats  :)

Headed for warm Caribbean waters in three weeks.  Will know for sure then.

E Broadbent
Portland, OR
382849
If you enjoy sailing and mysterious.......then this is a book to read. Fast paced with lots of turns and surprises.
3708447
This is a very interesting nautical adventure book. The setting is partly in the Florida Keys but mainly in the waters and islands of the Bahamas. It is a boating adventure story with romance and cruising included. The cruising to and around the Bahama islands and the boating activity make the story realistic and interesting.
1889432
Great Storytelling! A well written book of truth and consequences, un-believable luck, fortitude and adventures while sailing all over the world. A great read for anyone, be it a traveler, sailor, adventure lover, ex-marijuana mule or even a would-be. Makes me want to go sailing, except for the sea snakes, volcanic ash, the hurricanes and the smugglin part, all too scary for me!
3108945
"Sailing the Apocalypse", is a rousing adventure filled start, to an ongoing series, thru which we'll no doubt share the adventures and trials and setbacks of the crew of willing and sometimes unwilling family members, as they seek, for various personal reasons, to go off on the time honored adventure and, a long and often held dream of many, of sailing away into the blue to faraway lands and an endless chain of tropical paradise's.

This book is just another in a series by Scott B. Williams that I have enjoyed very much. It has the same fast paced story with no dull spots or filler pages. It features interesting characters that we all know someone like them, from our regular lives. It chronicles a family lead by a curious and often wacky dreamer who sees things in the USA as going south in a hurry and therefore, wanting to take himself and his family south as well, south to the South Seas and paradise, long away from the troubles he feels and the troubles he believes are about to happen.

If you have ever lived full time on a boat as I have, or if you dream of doing so, you'll get a kick out of the problems that the poor planning and the under developed seamanship that overtakes the crew in this first installment, bring to the story.

But good news awaits the reader .. they are ready to pick up the pieces and start over more or less, and do better, and have many an adventure yet to come.

A new character that I identify with strongly .. an "island time" dude, comes in to the story towards the end, and I hope we'll hear more from him in part 2.

I have read many books by Scott B. Williams and I have enjoyed them all, fiction especially, and non-fiction as well. Scott is a gifted writer and knows his boats and seamanship. Again in this book, the boat itself is another of the "characters" that fill the story, as well it should. Boats are characters, and do have "personality", and once out on the high seas they do, as noted in this book and other's by Scott .. they come alive in a manner that can only be fully appreciated by experiencing it.

But in the meantime, we can all, this reviewer included, .. we can enjoy a great read and all the day dreams it will bring to our minds while we labor away up here on the "hard".

Cool drifting's mon !
80155
There is a bit of slowness in the beginning and being an American I had to adjust a little to the British words. It took me a while to get into the book while the author built the characters. By the end of the book I can see why that time was spent and it was well invested. Once the race starts its a book that I found hard to put down. I like books about sailing and it had plenty of that, but it also had adventure, intrigue, betrayal, all of the classic stuff. this thing is out there for cheap on the kindle edition. Buy it..you will not regret it.
3204577
I couldn't put this book down!  What an adventure!  Anyone that loves the ocean, fishing, sailing or adventure will enjoy it.  High points (for the reader) are a sailfish bill puncture to the author's son's foot, the loss of the auto pilot and it's reconstruction, both on the long crossing from the Galapagos to the Marquesas. Oh, the fire in the bilge pump was interesting, as was the birth of a humpback whale at a mooring site in the South Pacific...  I occasionally needed a sailing dictionary, but otherwise enjoyed every word.  A personal view of the dangers, challenges and joys of crusing.
3845832
Thoroughly enjoyed the book.  Nice semi-documentory of their first year living aboard a sailboat.  Having taught sailing on a small lake in upstate NY in my teens, i always wondered what it would be like to live the life of a sailor.  This book gives a nice view into that life.  I have to say i felt inadequately prepared...Charles' skills and experience were advanced and that is sobering if you want to "try" this adventure.  Some day....
1240542
An account of a round the world voyage by sailboat.  Not as interesting as many others I've read, but if you are looking to do same, then lot's of ideas for you.  The writing is a little flat.  I imagine that the voyage itself was fabulous.
1327249
And some folks thought 'twas a dream they'd dreamed
Of sailing that beautiful sea

Who hasn't daydreamed about chucking it all and sailing away on a boat to warmer climes, "far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife"?  John and Jane Grimsrud did just that.  During five years while working full-time, they attended maritime and vo-tech classes and built a 46-foot ferrocement sailboat in their back yard.  Whatever didn't fit in the boat, they sold.  Their first days on the water gave them plenty of reasons to second-guess their decision - 80 knot winds, boat plowing into seas up to the mast, smashing into a tug, a life-threatening injury.  But they persevered, and thrived.

Travels of Dursmirg is a 3-volume set that chronicles the challenges and joys of life on a sailboat.  You'll travel the Golden Isles, the Indian River Lagoon and the Florida Keys.  You'll meet the members of the sailing community - some pleasant, some rogues, all interesting.  If you've dreamed of escaping the conventional by living on a sailboat but never got the chance, Travels of Dursmirg is your opportunity to experience this life vicariously.  Grab a beer (or homemade sassafras wine), hop in a hammock, and be transported to a different existence.
3265248
Peter Muilenburg has found a true "voice" in this little bear-like dog for a compelling adventure in sailing. Santos is a great vehicle to discuss the everyday details of sailing and as a travelogue to far-flung, out of the way places most people never visit. This would be a great read for sailors, travelers and animal lovers alike. No book is perfect, and if you there is a drawback, it is that the author can get over-sentimental. But perhaps that is a better way to lean than matter of fact. In all, though, a well-spent time.