Boat by Katherine Knight
Katherine Knight’s photography of model boats and the stories about them made for a voyage of smooth sailing and long-lasting beauty.
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Relative to Wind: On Sailing, Craft, and Community by Phoebe Wang
This is a how-to-sail (if you do well in learning by reading, with no guiding pictures), a meditation on unexpected hobbies, and a toast to community. Wang’s love of sailing is infectious — truly, I’ve sailed maybe once in my life at this point, and I at least idly considered looking up yacht clubs near me to see if any of them worked in the same way Wang’s does.
Around the World in a Dugout Canoe by John M. MacFarlane and Lynn J. Salmon
The first independent account of the remarkable voyage of the Tilikum. Anticipating fame and wealth, Captain John Voss set out from Victoria, BC, in 1901, seeking to claim the world record for the smallest vessel ever to circumnavigate the globe. For the journey, he procured an authentic dugout cedar canoe from an Indigenous village on the east coast of Vancouver Island.
Sea Trial: Sailing After My Father by Brian Harvey
After a 25-year break from boating, Brian Harvey circumnavigates Vancouver Island with his wife, his dog, and a box of documents that surfaced after his father’s death.
Adventures of a Grenfell Nurse by Rosalie M. Lombard
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]here is a meme floating around the Internet that states: “Don’t live the same year 75 times over and call it a life”. For at least two years of her substantial life (born in 1927, she is still alive as of this writing), Rosalie Lombard could not be accused of any sort of repetition as she served …
