Also, on a somewhat related note, I just happened to stumble on something called the Chamblin Book Mine just up the street from my marina in Jax.
I had to leave before I bought an entire shipping container of books. I spent an hour just perusing the 'salty sea story' section. I literally bought 15 books, many of which I'd tried to find years ago, but had been all but forgotten by the internet. I picked up everything from autobiographies and memoirs written by captains of famous ocean liners, to the story of the Fastnet Race disaster, to Francis Chichester's account of Gypsy Moth's circumnavigation. I've got a stack up to my knees to get through, and I'm chuffed to bits.
I'm starting off with 'The Sway of the Grand Salon' which is a compilation of history about the human side of crossing oceans as a passenger. Less focused on the ships and their technical aspects, and more yarns about what it was like to be a person aboard.
I'm really looking forward to it.
Apologies for the thread hijack.
