A to B to Sea: Our Library

The whole process has been a learning experience for both of us. Certain areas having a much greater learning curve than others! Before we bought Aquabat, we did alot of research and in the process began to build up our sailor's library! We have spent the day in the real library and when I walked in this morning, one of the books that we have in our home library caught my eye on the shelf. I went over to check it out and we are now going home with 14 books about various parts of life on the water that we haven't read before! In retrospect, probably not the best idea as we brought all of our electronics, we are on bike and I went grocery shopping as well! We will learn eventually!

We have many, many books on board for reference & leisure reading. The ones listed below are just the technical & sailing references that we depend on to function as a working vessel. The cookbooks are definitely for leisure reading as well and upon looking at this list feel as though we may have a few too many of them! But hey... we love food!

The books are listed in no particular order & I tried my best to group them into categories. A few of the books came with the boat and some have been gifted to us but the majority of them are ones that we selected to carry with us. They have all been deemed important enough to take up precious space on Batty's bookshelves! They are definitely not all essential & certain books are more useful than others. If you would like to know our opinion of any of them, please feel free to shoot us an email.

This page does contain Amazon Affiliate links. If you happen to purchase any of these books through the links below, we will receive, at no extra cost to you, a tiny kick back to help fund our travels and be ever so thankful!

Aquabat's Library

Sailing Reference

Sailing Made Easy – American Sailing Association

Cruising Fundamentals – American Sailing Association

Sailing Fundamentals – American Sailing Association

How to Trim Sails – Peter Schweer

Illustrated Sail and Rig Tuning – Ivar Dedekam

The New Complete Sailing Manual – Steve Sleight

Mechanical & Electrical

Boatowners Mechanical and ElectricalHandbook – Nigel Calder*

Marine Diesel Engines – Nigel Calder

The Essential Boat Maintenance Manual – Jeff Toghill