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The club has a lending library which is available to all members, instructors and campers. There are over 180 volumes in the collection with topics of Adventure, Racing, Biography, Survival, Nautical Fiction, Education and Boat Maintenance. There are also a few cruising guides and chart kits. Here are some examples of our great offerings:

All at Sea on Land
Cork Boat
Gib's Odyssey
Great Voyages in Small Boats
Logs of the Dead Pirates Society
Maiden Voyage
Pacific Odyssey
Racing Through Paradise
River-Horse
Rowboat in a Hurricane
Rowing to Latitude
Sea Shepherd
Voyage Alone in Yawl Rob Roy
Voyage of Commitment

The Perfect Storm
The Ship and the Storm

I've Been Around
My Old Man and the Sea
Taking the Helm
The Teacher Was the Sea
The Log from the Sea of Cortez

A World of My Own
Airborne
Gypsey Moth Circles the World
Sailing Alone Around the World
The Impossible Voyage
Voyage of the Liberdade

Circumnavigators Handbook
Comfortable cruising N/c america
Cruising
Cruising in Seraffyn
Fair Winds & Far Places
50 Places to Sail Before You Die
Ocean Cruising Survey
The Capable Cruiser (2)
The Inland Sea
The Intricate Art of Living Afloat
The Voyage of the Yankee Lady
The Wheeling Stars
Two on A Big Ocean
Women at the Helm
Honey, Let's Get a Boat
Innocents Afloat
Sensible Cruising
The Sailing Mystique
Just Cruising (Europe to Australia)

Dark Noon
Isaac's Storm (1900 Hurricane)
Sudden Sea ('38 Hurricane)
Ten Degrees of Reckoning
The Terrible Hours
Total Loss

Atlantic
A Wind to Shake the World
America Rides and Liners
Halsey's Typhoon (2)
Harbors of Long Island and nearby waters 1954 edition
Images of Block Island
In the Heart of the Sea (2 )
Rounding the Horn
Titanic
Toy Boats
West Coast Windjammers
Women Sailors & Sailors' Women
The Mystique of Tall Ships
Watermen

Holding Back the Tide (montauk)
Men's Lives
The Hungry Ocean
The Lobster Chronicles
The Wave

Advanced Racing Tactics (2)
Comeback-America's Cup
Godforsaken Sea (Hardback)
Godforsaken Sea (Paperback)
Making Waves
On the Wind's Way
One Watch at a Time (Whitbread)
Performance Racing Technique
Racing
Sailing Smart
To the Third Power
Winning in One Designs
Out There (BOC Challenge)

A Voyage for Madmen
Fastnet, Force 10
Knockdown-'88 sydney to hobart
Proving Ground
Rescue in the Pacific

Death Roll
Blood Orange
Plum Island
Still Summer
Post Captain (2)
H.M.S. Surprise
Desolation Island
The Fortune of War
The Surgeon's Mate
Harbors and High Seas-Geographical Guide to Patrick O'Brian Novels

Adrift
Albatross
Almost Too Late
Capsize!
Capsized
Dark Wind
Let Me Survive
Our Last Chance
Red Sky in Mourning
Staying Alive
Stories of Castaways +Cannibals
Survive the Savage Sea
The Art of Survival
Fatal Forecast
438 Days At Sea
Rough Water
A Storm Too Soon

The Big Book of Sailing
New Ocean Thoroughbreds
BOATS
Mainsail to the Wind

Advanced Racing Tactics (2)
Best Boats to Build or Buy
Best of Sail Trim
Better Sailing; Error Analysis
Chapman Piloting/Seamanship
Comp. Book Boat Electronics (2)
Cruising Under Sail (2 copies)
Dutton's Navigating + Piloting
Elements of Seamanship
Emergency Navigation
Heavy Weather Sailing
Intn'l Maritime Dictionary
Maintenance
Marine Diesel Engines
Ocean Sailing
Offshore Sailing
Offshore Yachts
Optimum Sailboat
Piloting and Dead Reckoning
Psychology of Sailing
Race to Win
Sail Power
Sailing in the Fog
Sailing Fundamentals
Sailing at Night
Sail Magazine Book of Sailing
Salty Words
Seaworthiness
Sensible Cruising:Thoreau App.
Singlehanded Sailing
Start Sailing Right
Singlehanding
Start Sailing Right (2) 1997
The Boat
The Boating Bible
The Finely Fitted Yacht Vo.1+2
The Ocean Sailing Yacht Vo. 1+2
The Self-Sufficient Sailor
Ultra Light Boatbuilding
Your Boat and the Law
Seamanship
Sailing in Windy Weather

Skipper's Instant Helper

The Age of Sail- Master Shipbuilders
From a Bare Hull
Ultra Light Boatbuilding
Boatbuilding w/ Aluminum
Boatbuilding
Steel Boatbuilding
Small Craft Advisory

Waterway Guides:

Sailboat Chartering (1993)
2009 Superyacht Services Guide to the USA
2007 Superyacht Services Guide to the Caribbean

PRACTICAL SAILOR LIBRARY:

Kay Cottee
John Pollack
Walter G. Bradley
Davison/Lewis/Lindeman
Randall Peffer
Tania Aebi
Gwenda Cornell
Wm. F. Buckley, Jr
Wm Least Heat-Moon
Julie Angus
Jill Fredston
Paul Watson
John MacGregor
Raymond Triplett

Sebastian Junger
Jim Carrier

Tania Abbi
David + Daniel Hays
Dawn Riley
Michael S. Kaye
John Steinbeck

Robin Knox-Johnson
Wm. F. Buckley, Jr.
Sir Francis Chichester
Joshua Slocum
Chay Blyth
Joshua Slocum

Steve + Linda Dashew
Lisa Copeland

Time/ Life

Lin & Larry Pardy
Zane B. Mann
Chris Santella
Jimmy Cornell
Lin + Larry Pardy
Morton M. Hunt
Clare Allard
Judith Silva
Bill King
Hal Roth
Jeannine Talley
Ron & Eva Stob
Ken Textor
Don Casey& Lew Hackler
Bill Robinson
Lisa Copeland

Tom Clavin
Erik Larson
R.A. Scotti
Hester Rumberg
Peter Maas
Jack Coote

Simon Winchester
Everett S. Allen
A.C. Harding
Drury/Clavin

Nathaniel Philbrick

Dallas Murphy
Thomas E. Bonsall
Milet/Forbes
Jim Gibbs
David Cordingly
Cy & Pat Liberman
Randall Peffer

Joan Powers Porco
Peter Matthiesson
Linda Greenlaw
Linda Greenlaw
Susan Casey

Stuart Walker
Dennis Conner
Derek Lundy
Derek Lundy
Anna Seaton Huntington
William Snaith
Skip Novak
Bill Gladstone
Time/ Life
Buddy Melges
Paul C. Larsen
Dave Perry
Day & McCormick

Peter Nichols
John Rousmaniere
Martin Dugard
G. Bruce Knecht
Tony Farrington

Sam Llewellyn
Sam Llewellyn
Nelson DeMille
Jacquelyn Mitchard
Patrick O'Brian
Patrick O'Brian
Patrick O'Brian
Patrick O'Brian
Patrick O'Brian

Steven Callahan
Deborah Scaling Kiley
Elmo Wortman
Nicolas Angel
Jeannine Talley
Gordon Chaplin
Louise Longo
Bill and Simonne Butler
Tami Oldhan Ashcraft
Maurice & Maralyn Bailey
Nate Hardcastle
Dougal Robertson
C.C. Troebst
Michael Tougias
Jonathan Franklin
Stories of Survival
Michael Tougias

Grube/Richter
Photos
David Seybold
William Galvani

Stuart Walker
Ferenc Mate
Charles Mason
Richard Henderson

Ernest Zadig
Eric Hiscock

Roger Taylor
David Burch
K. Adlard Coles

Time/Life
Nigel Calder
Rob James
Bill Seifert
Tech. Com. Cruising club
Ronald Florence
HH Shufeldt
Michael Stadler
Roger Marshall
Wallace Ross
Roger Duncan
Gary Jobson
Richard Henderson
Peter Johnson
Robt. Hendrickson
C.A. Marchaj
Casey/Huckler
Richard Henderson
US Sailing
Tony Meisel
US Sailing
Time/Life
Jim Murrant
Ferenc Mate
Donald Street Jr.
Lin + Larry Pardy
Thomas Hill
Martin Norris
Robin Knox-Johnston
Richard Henderson

Ernest Zadig

Stanley Spicer
Ferenc Mate
Thomas Hill
Stephen F. Pollard
David G. Brown
Thomas E. Colvin
Louis D. Rubin, Jr

REFERENCE SECTION

Great Lakes 2008
St. Lawrence River to Quebec 2003

Ross & Duffy

Commissioning & Decommissioning
Maintenance & Repairs
DIY Improvement Projects
Outfitting
Buying and Selling

Adventure
Adventure
Adventure
Adventure
Adventure
Adventure
Adventure
Adventure
Adventure
Adventure
Adventure
Adventure
Adventure
Adventure

Adventure/Disaster
Adventure/Disaster

Biographical
Biographical
Biographical
Biographical
Biographical

Biographical/ History
Biographical/ Narrative
Biographical/History
Biographical/ History
Biographical/ History
Biographical/ History

Cruising
Cruising

Cruising
Cruising
Cruising
Cruising
Cruising
Cruising
Cruising
Cruising
Cruising
Cruising
Cruising
Cruising
Cruising
Cruising
Cruising
Cruising
Cruising

Disaster; Local Author
Disaster
Disaster
Disaster/Survival
Disaster/Survival
Disaster

History
History/ Disaster
History
History/Disaster
History

History
History
History
History
Pictorial History
History
History
History
History

Local Author
Local Author
Misc
Misc
Misc

Racing
Racing
Racing
Racing
Racing
Racing
Racing
Racing
Racing
Racing
Racing
Racing
Racing

Racing/ Disaster
Racing/Disaster
Racing/Disaster
Racing/Disaster
Racing/Disaster

Sailing Novel
Sailing Novel
Sailing Novel
Sailing Novel
Sailing Novel
Sailing Novel
Sailing Novel
Sailing Novel
Sailing Novel

Survival
Survival
Survival
Survival
Survival
Survival
Disaster/Survival
Survival
Survival
Survival
Survival
Survival
Survival
Survival
Survival
Survival
Survival

Sailing Anthology
Sailing Anthology
Sailing Anthology
Sailing Quotations

Educational
Educational
Educational
Educational
Educational
Educational
Educational
Educational
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Educational
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Educational
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Educational
Educational
Educational
Educational
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Educational
Educational
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Educational
Educational

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