Sailing Memoir

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    • By: Christian Williams
    • Narrated by: Christian Williams
    • Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 17-08-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • Veteran sailor Christian Williams invites us along on a 5,000-mile voyage of discovery around the North Pacific. Funny, erudite, and at times deeply personal, Philosophy of Sailing explores who we are and how encounters with the unknown can be a path to revelation and joy....

    Non-member price: $27.99

    • By: Jerome Rand
    • Narrated by: Jerome Rand
    • Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The true account of the 2017-2018 solo nonstop circumnavigation by Jerome Rand aboard the Westsail 32 Mighty Sparrow. A testament to endurance and adventure, this memoir recounts what life is like aboard a small sailboat during a 271-day voyage around the globe, alone....

    Non-member price: $22.99

    • A History
    • By: Richard J. King
    • Narrated by: William Hope
    • Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-2023
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Richard King's enormously engaging and curious book is about the debt we owe to solo sailors: women and men, young and old, who have set out alone....

    Non-member price: $26.99

    • A Daughter's Memoir of Adventure, Sailing, and Survival
    • By: Leslie Johansen Nack
    • Narrated by: Leslie Johansen Nack
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 17-11-2016
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Obsessed with sailing, Leslie Nack's larger-than-life Norwegian father has a dream to live on a sailboat and show his three daughters the world....

    Non-member price: $27.99

    • Sailing Solo to Hawaii and Beyond
    • By: Christian Williams
    • Narrated by: Christian Williams
    • Length: 11 hrs
    • Release date: 19-08-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • Alone Together is a complete technical course in offshore sailing technique and yacht preparation, and a philosophical inquiry into what it takes to be truly alive in the 21st century....

    Non-member price: $27.99

    • A Memoir of a Young Woman’s Daring Year
    • By: Elizabeth W. Garber
    • Narrated by: Stacey Glemboski
    • Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 17-01-2023
    • Language: English
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    • In 1971, Elizabeth Garber’s domineering father announced he was sending his “problem children”—seventeen-year-old bookish Elizabeth and her fourteen-year-old brother Woodie—to a school on a sailing ship, in order to “shape up and learn to work”....

    Non-member price: $22.99

    • How His Dream of Sailing Around the World Became a Six-Year Odyssey of Adventure, Fear, Discovery and Love
    • By: Larry Jacobson
    • Narrated by: Larry Jacobson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-2012
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Larry had dreamed of sailing around the world ever since he first stepped foot into a sailboat at the age of 13. He held onto that dream for 30 years, until one day he realized that "it's now or never". He left his corporate job, trading his comfortable executive life for adventure....

    Non-member price: $26.99

    • Adventures in Sailing, Business, and Love
    • By: Pic Picot
    • Narrated by: Mark Hadlow
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 28-05-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • An engaging and very funny autobiography of a New Zealand baby boomer, Pic tells the story of a privileged teenager unimpressed by the blandishments of a convention life....

    Non-member price: $26.99

    • Leadership and Risk from TopGun to the Situation Room
    • By: Admiral Sandy Winnefeld
    • Narrated by: Sandy Winnefeld
    • Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 13-02-2024
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet
    • The author presents a behind-the-scenes look at how decisions are made at the highest levels of government regarding whether and how those forces will be used, and how they are acquired....

    Non-member price: $26.99

    • A Sailing Family Finds Their Place at the Edge (Five Oceans)
    • By: John Pennington
    • Narrated by: John A Pennington
    • Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 28-03-2025
    • Language: English
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    • A true story of poor judgment and questionable parenting, but also of friendship and adventure. A cubicle-dwelling nine-to-fiver hatches a secret plan to buy an old Dutch sailboat, fix her up, and return to the Pacific via the Northwest Passage. His wife hopes for a family.

    Non-member price: $26.99

    • By: Helen Olson
    • Narrated by: Helen Olson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 20-02-2025
    • Language: English
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    • Helen Olson and her husband, Elmer, retired in their late forties to sail the Pacific Ocean and Oceania from 1979-1989 on a fifty-foot yacht they built themselves. "Sailing Elysium" is a personal account of that ten-year adventure.

    Non-member price: $31.99

    • A Memoir of Humphrey Bogart's Passion for the Sea
    • By: Larry Dudley
    • Narrated by: Tom Lennon
    • Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-2015
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet
    • Humphrey Bogart spent some 40 weekends a year sailing his Olin Stephens designed yacht Santana....

    Non-member price: $9.99

    • By: Mary Gottschalk
    • Narrated by: Lia Frederick
    • Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 17-12-2024
    • Language: English
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    • With a destination loosely defined as the rest of the world, Mary and her husband Tom leave family, friends and successful careers for a multi-year sailing voyage.

    Non-member price: $22.99

    • By: Sam Catling
    • Narrated by: Sam Catling
    • Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 17-10-2024
    • Language: English
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    • This is a coming of age, just flown the nest, tell all comedy memoir about the ups and downs of working on-board a cruise ship as an entertainer.

    Non-member price: $22.99

    • By: Ben Harrison
    • Narrated by: Ben Harrison
    • Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 16-11-2021
    • Language: English
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    • Ben and Helen Harrison set aside their comfortable life in San Francisco and headed to Costa Rica to build a 38-foot sailboat. Then they had to get it down a mountainside to the water, and from there sail to Key West, where they now live. It was a dauntless task and a challenge....

    Non-member price: $26.99

  • Non-member price: $18.99

    • A Memoir of Youth, Love, and Fiberglass
    • By: Melanie Neale
    • Narrated by: Lia Frederick
    • Length: 9 hrs
    • Release date: 04-06-2014
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet
    • Boat Girl is the heartbreaking memoir of growing up aboard a sailboat....

    Non-member price: $26.99

    • A Look at the Reality of the Cruising Lifestyle
    • By: Bob Bitchin
    • Narrated by: Bradford Rogers
    • Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-2023
    • Language: English
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    • As founder and editor of the highly successful magazine Latitudes & Attitudes, he surveys and comments on the good and the bad, the funny and the sad, the practical and the theoretical of the sailing scene. This collection of his editorials and other writings is full of useful advice....

    Non-member price: $9.99

    • By: Sheila Hayford, George Class-Peters
    • Narrated by: Kelly Klaas
    • Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 28-05-2013
    • Language: English
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    • When he was 29 years old George set out to fulfill his mother's charge. And so it was that he was thrust into a globe trotting adventure with many twists and turns....

    Non-member price: $16.99

    • Around the World in a Sailing Boat
    • By: Major A.K. Singh
    • Narrated by: Avinash Kumar Singh
    • Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 15-10-2022
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet
    • In 1987, thirty-seven footer Trishna, crewed by army officers, became the first Indian boat to circumnavigate the globe....

    Non-member price: $26.99