Category : Reading

Sea novels, recreational or technical marine books…

Reading : album “La Longue Route” by Moitessier by Melchior & Locard

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Anyone who has not read “La Longue Route” by Bernard Moitessier cannot imagine the enthusiasm that has taken hold of thousands of young people for sailing while reading it.. Three years after the events of May 1968 who saw youth violently reject the order established by their parents, this founding book — published by Arthaud editions — comes at the right time to open a door of freedom to the open sea. The time has come for “the big departure and life on the water”. For my part this book, discovered in 1973, was the trigger for my career in boating, started the same year with an internship in Ireland at the Glénans Nautical Center.

In 2025, Stéphane Melchior, Younn Locard and Joal Grange bring Moitessier’s journey to life in a superb comic book album, a treat for young people 7 down to 117 years old ! Read more …

Reading : “With the Fairies” by Sylvain Tesson

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With the Fairies

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 …

A new Expert Guide from Voiles editions & Voiliers

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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.

 

  1. Tablets and smartphones : choose your device and the essential accessories on board carefully.
  2. Navigation applications : review and detailed description according to your types of navigation, for the day, coastal, or offshore.
  3. Integration from mobile devices to on-board instruments : understand and implement.

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 …

Reading : “Clouds and other meteors” Météo-France

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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 …

Reading : "Beaufort, l’amiral du vent" by Raymond Reding

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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 …

Reading : 'Electronic charting' HS48 Voiles et Voiliers

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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 …

Reading : "Du Bon Usage des Étoiles" by Dominique Fortier

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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 …