Since moving aboard our sailboat, my nightly bedtime reading has often alternated between two of the best boat maintenance manuals around—Nigel Calder’s Boatowner’s Mechanical and Electrical Manual and Don Casey’s Complete Illustrated Sailboat Maintenance Manual, along with some Moby Dick and Walden in there as well. Incidentally, Brion Toss’ The Complete Rigger’s Apprentice was also in this reading mix, but we’ll dedicate a future post about the incredible gifts that exist between its covers.
