I'm in no more need to slug a selection of nautical books around on my yacht as everything I need is now on the WWW it's rather hard to let go but it has to happen soon!

Digital books are ok, you don't need a reading light, they don't weigh much, and if you go to places like Gutenberg project you can get all the old books that are out of print for free ( ie moby dick, William Dampiers journals, good Ol Joshua slocum, and all of RL Stephenson works etc, ) but there's some books that just don't work unless they're on paper, you know the ones that you keep flipping through, back some pages then forward a chapter, phil bolgers folding schooners comes straight to mind, brion toss riggers apprentice, the gaff rigg hand book, oops I'm starting to fill the boat up

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Digital books are ok, you don't need a reading light, they don't weigh much, and if you go to places like Gutenberg project you can get all the old books that are out of print for free ( ie moby dick, William Dampiers journals, good Ol Joshua slocum, and all of RL Stephenson works etc, ) but there's some books that just don't work unless they're on paper, you know the ones that you keep flipping through, back some pages then forward a chapter, phil bolgers folding schooners comes straight to mind, brion toss riggers apprentice, the gaff rigg hand book, oops I'm starting to fill the boat up

My problem is they where on my last yacht all the way to Cairns plus more. To get them back to my new yacht in South oz the transport cost is worth more than the cost of the books. I'm going to see if the local library might take them. zooming in to the group shows a lot along the lines of building boats which is past my past time!

Disleacksa spelling seams it was round in the 70s ! And now we just have upside down pics and the odd spelling mistakes!

Hello Southace

It seems such a shame to see these treasures go to the rubbish. I would gladly give them a good home here in Newcastle.

Hey Southace It would be sinfull to throw all of them neat Ol boat books to the tip ! How about I cover the cost to post a few of them, you pick what you recon to send, a bit of a book lotto, you never know it might catch on !

Drop them into the Salvation army or Vinnies. I'm always scrounging up books there.