📚 Boats & Boating

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Small craft handled: the types of boat, their uses, and the water they are taken out on.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject boats and boating in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
American practical navigator	Nathaniel Bowditch	1802	119
Narrow boat	L. T. C. Rolt	1944	16
Men, ships, and the sea	Alan Villiers	1962	16
River-horse	William Least Heat Moon	1999	13
Boating	Walter Bradford Woodgate	1888	10
Boat	Eric Kentley	1992	10
Boatowner's mechanical and electrical manual	Nigel Calder	1990	8
Sailing for dummies	J. J. Isler	1997	8
The Barefoot Navigator	Jack Lagan	2006	8
The Compleat Cruiser	L. Francis Herreshoff	1956	7
Das Boot	Lothar Günther Buchheim	1976	7
Cruising guide to the Florida Keys	Frank Papy	1977	7
Boat data book	Ian Nicolson	1978	7
Caught by the Sea	Gary Paulsen	2001	7
The complete book of boating	Ernest A. Zadig	1972	6
The Propeller Handbook	Dave Gerr	1989	6
Dinghy Cruising	Margaret Dye	1992	6
How to design a boat	John Teale	1998	6
Advanced marine electrics and electronics troubleshooting	Edwin R. Sherman	2006	6
Reeds Marine Surveying	Thomas Ask	2007	6
Reeds Vol 6	Christopher Lavers	2013	6
The yachtsman's vade mecum	Peter Heaton	1961	5
The Big Book of Boat Canvas	Karen Lipe	1988	5
The new cold-molded boatbuilding	Reuel B. Parker	1990	5
Competent Crew	Pat Langley-Price	1991	5
The Nature of Boats	Dave Gerr	1992	5
Building Classic Small Craft	Roy ; Gardner, Derek ; Groves, John ; Hunt, Geoff ; Myers, Mark ; forewor Cross	1996	5
How to Paint Your Boat	Nigel Clegg	1997	5
Boats That Float	Abigail Richter	2001	5
The sailing boat	Henry Coleman Folkard	1863	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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