HN's own Paul Lutus has a great sailing book:

_whiteCaps_ • last Wednesday at 6:50 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

If you're interested in doing something like this, you could join the Vic Maui race: https://www.vicmaui.org/

js2 • last Wednesday at 8:09 PM

It's on his site as well in HTML and eBook form:

I read it years ago and still think of it from time to time. It's a great read.

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His site never gets much love from HN:

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