📚 Yachts & Yachting

Cruising under sail and power: the boats, the water, and the life afloat around them.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject yachts and yachting 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.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The boat who wouldn't float	Farley Mowat	1969	22
	World Cruising Routes	Jimmy Cornell	1987	15
	The Complete Yachtmaster	Tom Cunliffe	2008	12
	Yachtmaster for Sail and Power	Alison Noice	2010	12
	Celestial navigation for yachtsmen	Mary Blewitt	1971	10
	Yachtsman's Tidal Atlas	Michael Reeve-Fowkes	1991	10
	Law of Yachts and Yachting	Richard Coles	2012	10
	The arts of the sailor	Hervey Garrett Smith	1953	9
	Aero-hydrodynamics of sailing	Czesław A. Marchaj	1979	9
	Sailing, seamanship and yacht construction	Uffa Fox	1934	8
	East Spain pilot	Robin Brandon	1977	8
	Vinterskepp	Deborah Shapiro	1997	8
	Yachtmaster Exercises for Sail and Power	Alison Noice	2010	8
	The Compleat Cruiser	L. Francis Herreshoff	1956	7
	Celestial navigation for yachtsmen	Mary Blewitt	1964	7
	The sailing yacht	Juan Baader	1965	7
	La longue route	Bernard Moitessier	1971	7
	Practical yacht navigator	Kenneth Wilkes	1973	7
	Enterprise to Endeavour	Ian Dear	1977	7
	Illustrated Seamanship	Ivar Dedekam	2007	7
	World Voyage Planner	Jimmy Cornell	2012	7
	Yacht architecture	Dixon Kemp	1885	6
	The track of the "typhoon"	William Washburn Nutting	1921	6
	Because the Horn is there	Miles Smeeton	1970	6
	Ocean Sailing Yacht	Donald M. Street Jr.	1973	6
	Ocean yacht navigator	Kenneth Wilkes	1975	6
	Greek Waters Pilot	Rod Heikell	1985	6
	Sell up and sail	Bill Cooper	1990	6
	The Complete Yachtmaster	Tom Cunliffe	1994	6
	Principles of yacht design	Lars Larsson	1994	6

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

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