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8:56 just don’t whistle on the elevator and you’ll be fine.

I KNEW there had to be something I would not like about this guy: A former WP editor! Mainstream news guy who has been feeding America US Gov BS for decades! So? Dual retirement? You know one from WP and the other from the CIA/NSA?

the only thing that could have made this video more boring is if you read aloud passages of your landmark thucydides translated by Robert B. Strassler

I think I may have watched this video before . It is a wonderful thought provoking video. We are about the same age . I like it all but I think every piece of tackle and hardware and every spring and wheel on that boat is way to weak for your adventures ! I think you should replace all that hardware on that boat with heaverdutyer hardware ! In your down time of course ! I really enjoy your music .

Christian where did you get that nice acrylic hatch and hatch board? that is super nice!! we need a new one also and would love to know where you got that! Your sunshade is really great... I couldnt really see how its staying up, can you give us a more detailed look at that sometime soon, it seems brilliant! Ive just seen this and notice this video is 3 years old, are you still using it?

Christian how did you clean out that initial gunky stuff inside the tank?

I appreciate your thoughts on dodger/non-dodger. Visibilty is very important to me and there isn't much room below the boom for a permanent dodger on my Southern Cross 31. I have rigged a temporary dodger for when I am at anchor using the old frame.

Whit us 👍

Love your videos. Always watch beginning to end without fast forwarding.

Since you mentioned O’Brian I will recommend (loudly, enthusiastically) the Alan Lewrie series of books by Dewey Lamdin…been through them all twice now. Very good, very accurate and in many places very funny!!

That shot of you when you were young. Damn. You look like me when I was starting out. What a handsome lad. Didn't you play keyboards on an album by Cream?

Merry Christmas from corner brook, Newfoundland, Canada,Bryce at pinchgut lake.

Thank you great recommendations

Have the book titles lazer engraved into different pieces of the teak wood trim around your sailing vessel. Allow the sailors to discover them during your journeys.

You missed “Brave or Stupid”. Best sailing book :)

Dear Sailing Santa thanks for your list. I've just forwarded it to my children with a giant "Hint." One suggestion for your list, We the Drowned by Carsten Jensen.

My new favorite u tuber .I do have Kentucky lake and retired

I could listen to Christian talk for days. A man who could make a grocery list sound riveting.

When are you sailing to Hawaii again?

I sure did enjoy this books review...thank you

I love that you mentioned Curve of Time. I discovered that book while on my first bareboat charter in the San Juan Islands. It was part of the boat's library. A great read.

HOW IS YOU DAUGHTER APPRENTICE SKIPPER ? LOVE YOUR CHANNEL

James Baldwin has a really great KZbin channel himself, Atom Voyager, where he showcases his wonderful skills in refitting and modifying various sailboats. The boat he circumnavigated on, Atom, he still has. A Pearson Triton.

Watching this video has been time well spent.

Christian.....please allow me to recommend a possibly unknown-to-you book that is guaranteed to satisfy your nautical literary thirst. Published first in 1940, HURRICAN'S WAKE, a true story by Ray Kauffman, is such a thirst quencher. In the 1930s, Mr. Kauffman and a companion traveled from the midwest down to a sleeply coastal town in Mississippi called Pascagoula. They were in search of a boatbuilder who could build a ketch in which they could sail the world. They indeed contracted with a crafty old boatbuilder by the name of Sidoine Krebs, whose family had been building boats along the bayou for more than a hundred years. The boat is built, provisioned for the voyage, and off they go around the globe. It's a ascinating story, one I believe you will thoroughly enjoy. Seventy-one years ago I was born in Pascagoula and for the past thirty-five years have docked my forty-two sailboat in the city harbor. Sincerely, I hope you'll look this book up and "take if for a sail...."

Glad to see you ARE still with us. Great music in the background. A continuing inspiration. Fair winds!

I READ " Riddle of the Sands " and also " The Strange Voyage of Donald Crowhurst " every few years . Merry Xmas .

I enjoy listening to you speak. I enjoy the way you methodically work through problems. Much like myself, you seem to have learned there are no shortcuts to certain mechanic problems. I have your books and have read 1 so far. I'll be reading the others next year while I'm out to sea. Starting a maritime career in January 2025 as a US merchant mariner. Hoping to spend my off time learning to sail in Guam. Have you been to Guam? What did you think of it?

Hello, have you read the book SEA OF GLORY? The U.S. Exploration Expedition if 1838-1842. Written by Nathaniel Philbrick. The same author of In the heart of the sea.

I bet Christian smells like wood and peppermint patties! 😂

Still one of my favorite videos is watching you playing jeopardy with yourself from Ca to Hawaii. Please let us know when your book is completed. Glad to hear you’re doing well. Merry Christmas!

Christian, please share your sewing machine details! Much love from the MS Gulf Coast ⛵️🏝️💚🎄

Wow I was talking about you the other day .😂 Glad to see you mate.

Thank you very much. I will recommend a beloved Chilean book. "The last cabin boy of the Baquedano" 1941 from Francisco Coloane. A classic Patagonian novel every Chilean knows, a must-read for all primary school students here. I highly recommend it. Regards from southern Chile.

Great recomendations, but better yet, great to see you post again!

Bare en kommentar; jeg liker illustrasjonene i boka «North by east» by Kent. Kanskje er den å finne på det lokale biblioteket? Men når ble den skrevet og når ble den utgitt første gang? Disse illustrasjonene har et eget grafisk og dramatisk uttrykk - sort og hvitt!?

SONG OF THE SIRENS Earnest K Gann

Awesome list. Thanks for the ideas. Great to see James Baldwin get a shoutout!

forgot .. Sailing Alone , a History by Richard J King is also a great read !! Cheers

Great to hear from you Christian ... Always a pleasure to listen to your recommendations . All the best to you, best Xmas and so on ... and big cheers from Muros !!!

Just a reminder, it’s 2024 (very soon 2025) and we’re still reading them.

When Christian speaks I listen. He is wise and a treasure.

Thank you for the video and the recommendations. Take care.

I'm looking forward to seeing or reading whatever it is you do next. I've enjoyed my audio books of "Alone Together" and "Philosophy of Sailing" at least twice each and just going for a 3rd time. Cheers

Thanks, always enjoy your videos. Ever read “Trekka Around the World” by John Guzzwell? Interesting story and John was on the Seaton yacht when she pitch poled. He filmed the experience. An interesting film, I believe, available on KZbin. John is not with us anymore but his boat was on my dock for a few years. SV Brooklyn Salish Sea.

Ah you are making sails. Soon to make way. FYI: Another nice addition to the Aubrey-Maturin series, Lobscouse and Spotted Dog: Which It's a Gastronomic Companion to the Aubrey/Maturin Novels. I have an occasional gathering with those who have finished the entire series, I prepare meals from the cookbook, toast Patty O’Brian with Pusser’s, and finish with spotted Dick. Then the main course, watching “Master and Commander” over really good speakers and a big OLED screen. Especially good show with a few rounds of Pusser’s.

Ah you are making sails. Soon to make way. FYI: Another nice addition to the Aubrey-Maturin series, Lobscouse and Spotted Dog: Which It's a Gastronomic Companion to the Aubrey/Maturin Novels. I have an occasional gathering with those who have finished the entire series, I prepare meals from the cookbook, toast Patty O’Brian with Pusser’s, and finish with spotted Dick. Then the main course, watching “Master and Commander” over really good speakers and a big OLED screen. Especially good show with a few rounds of Pusser’s.

Thank you for this excellent bibliography, and shopping list! Ever read Coot Club, a delightful novel of children’s sailing adventures on England’s Norfolk rivers, by Arthur Ransome? I read it as a boy, 50 years ago, as I was learning to sail.

You gonna play jazz, play it nice and loud.