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Sea novels, recreational or technical marine books…
The newspaper Le Monde published in November 2024 this great study in his collection « Nature ».
Prefaced by Jean-Louis Etienne, our national explorer that we no longer present, this extremely didactic scientific work allows us to deepen our knowledge of the climate, meteorology, and disturbances they undergo.
With the Fairies
This book is not a maritime novel ! And yet it is part of a “ sailing trip » of three months which takes the author from cape to cape along a long coastal strip from Galicia to the Shetland Islands.
Meditative journey, Tesson goes in search of his Fairies, which he describes as “a quality of reality revealed by a disposition of the gaze”. Led by his companions on a sailboat 15 meters high, he will alternate the maritime stages while gaining towards the north, and hiking or cycling stops along selected promontories. Read more …
Navigate with a Digital Tablet and a Smartphone has just been published by Voiles & Voiliers, available in bookstores and specialist stores, since the Sails and Sailboats store, on FNAC Books and Amazon.
A digital version is online at Apple Books Store and also pour Kindle.
An educational step-by-step 128 pages to keep up to date with the latest developments and equip yourself wisely today (19,90 € version papier, 19,99 € sur Apple Books Store). Read more …
In an article updated in August 2020 (¹), I described nautical works in digital format that can be usefully saved on iPad in the Apple Books application. Among them, I mentioned the Météo-France books available in PDF format for free download from their documentary portal.
In the "Courses and Manuals" section of this site, a new book can be downloaded, Published in 2020, entitled " Meteorological Observations and Measurements – Volume 1 / Clouds and other meteors ”, A wealth of information about clouds, and all associated weather phenomena, which are called "meteors" (²). Read more …
It's a long time since I had made a reading note in this category. Lack of time, or lack of discovery ? I once again found a real literary enthusiasm when I read this excellent book by Raymond Reding : " Beaufort, The Admiral of the Wind ”.
Like any sailor that complies, I know the Beaufort scale since my first legs in sailing school, but, shame on me, I had never tried to find out more about this famous Francis Beaufort ! Raymond Reding, went like me through Les Glénans Sailing school, finally fills this lamentable lacuna with the greatest happiness. Read more …
Since end 2012 I found no more of maritime books causing me the overwhelming desire to share, Like the few novels described in this section " Reading ”. Today this feeling comes back to me, in a completely different vein, on reading the excellent Special issue n° 48 of Voiles et Voiliers : " Understand and use electronic charting ”. Read more …
This book, Published by Editions La Découvrance in August, takes on its full meaning as the Vendée Globe occupies the sporting news. Whether you are a fan of ocean racing, Family ocean boater, Grandpa yachtman or single coastal boater, You must read this novel. Read more …
There is a long time that I suggested you had more title under "Reading". Technical news are not so much for a few weeks, I take this opportunity to introduce you a great novel discovered thanks to the wise advice of an old friend living in Concarneau. I thank him here warmly. Read more …
Published by Alto, Quebec, in 2008, it has been re-published by La Table Ronde, Paris, in 2011. He has just won the Seafarers' Prize at the Etonnants Voyageurs Festival this summer 2011.
I read this book in June, when I learned of its presentation in Saint-Malo, and I kept the evocation of it under my belt for this section Reading, so delighted was I by the interest of the subject, the quality of the narration and the freshness of the writing.
Alas, I was preceded by Arielle Cassim who has just reported on it on his blog Seableue. I bow and invite you to go there ! Read more …
I snort, install the autopilot, Get into the boat, open the logbook. I have to force myself not to read it again, Once again, your latest annotations. On the virgin page facing them, I write : Friday 5 June 2009. Cast off Port Camargue 5 Morning hours. 15 Anemometer knots. 10 at log. Compass on 114 Degrees. Calm seas. ”
Thus begins a woman's quest to find her love who disappeared at sea somewhere in the Mediterranean, between Italy, Sicily and Tunisia. Read more …