General seamanship

• Chapman's Piloting And Seamanship, Elbert S. Maloney
• The Annapolis Book of Seamanship
• Boating Etiquette, Queene Hooper Foster. A Chapman's Nautical Guide
• Knots, Brian Toss. A Chapman's Nautical Guide
• The Morrow Guide To Knots, Mario Bigon and Guido Regazzoni
• The Handbook Of Sailing, Bob Bond

Small boat sailing

• Frugal Yachting, Larry Brown
• Self-Steering for Sailing Craft by John S. Letcher
• The Wind Calls the Tune Stanley and Charles Violet Smith

Navigation

• BookletCharts from Office of Coast Survey
• Navigation Rules For International and Inland Waters, edited by David Burch
• Nautical Chart No. 1, Dept. of Commerce (NOAA) & Nat'l Geospatial-Intelegence Agency (formerly Defense Mapping Agency)

Rations

• The One Pan Gourmet, Don Jacobson

Maintenance

• This Old Boat, Don Casey
• Sail's Things That Work
• Quick And Easy Boat Maintenance, Sandy Lindsey

Entertainment

• Two Years Before The Mast, Richard Henry Dana
• Dragged Aboard, Don Casey
• Maiden Voyage, Tanya Aebi
• Following The Equator, Mark Twain
• A Key West Companion, Christopher Cox
• Captains (The Good, The Bad, and the Ridiculous), Robert Brewer
• Ship's Log, Henry Beard & Roy McKie
• The Old Man And The Sea, Earnest Hemingway
• Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
• Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
• Floridays, Don Blanding
• Vagabond's House, Don Blanding
• Mostly California, Don Blanding