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If anyone enjoys reading about sailing, check Confessions of a long distance sailor. Another snapshot of the sailing world, in the eighties.

https://arachnoid.com/lutusp/sailbook.html

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Another interesting read is Sailing the Farm. More a how-to and manifesto than travelogue, it's a quick read and an underground classic among off-grid liveaboard folks. Sad about the author!

https://avoid.rocks/blog/sailing-farm/

paid but worth it: https://youtu.be/mupd3-w9qfQ?si=3-u0rz9H1tBi7Ums

the documentary about a guy who invented his own self-steering gear to travel solo back in the 70s

This book changed our lives.

(co-author of 100r.ca)

The first chapter was so simultaneously self-congratulatory and also poorly written that I just gave up.

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