Anchor down and grab your favorite adventure book while boating with Carefree Boat Club. Add these popular books to your reading list and enjoy the peace and quiet out on the water while you explore the seas in these fascinating stories. The popular saying goes, “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. A man who never reads lives only once.” Dive into a new world each month with these books that will be sure to captivate your imagination.

1. 1. Two Years Before the Mast – A Sailors Life at Sea by Richard Henry Dana Jr.
      Two Years before the Mast is Richard Henry Dana, Jr.’s memoir of a Harvard undergraduate becoming a sailor while collecting hides up and down the California coast and returning home in the treacherous dead of winter, richer for the experience. 
2. The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger 
   Based on a true story, this book follows the lives of the swordfishing crew of Andrea Gail and their family members as their worst fears are realized at sea on Halloween of 1991, when they are confronted by three raging weather fronts which unexpectedly collide to produce the greatest, fiercest storm in modern history — “The Perfect Storm.”

   

3. Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum
   Sailing Alone Around the World recounts Slocum’s wonderful adventures: hair-raising encounters with pirates off Gibraltar and savage Indians in Tierra del Fuego; raging tempests and treacherous coral reefs; flying fish for breakfast in the Pacific; and a hilarious visit with fellow explorer Henry Stanley in South Africa. A century later, Slocum’s incomparable book endures as one of the greatest narratives of adventure ever written.
4. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
   After Jim Hawkins finds the map to a mysterious treasure, he sets sail in search of the fortune. Little does he realize he’s boarded a pirate ship, and that surprises and danger await him . . . including a meeting with the unforgettable Long John Silver. Prepare yourself for a thrilling adventure with pirates, buried treasure and action aplenty.

   

5. The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
   Here Hemingway recasts, in strikingly contemporary style, the classic theme of courage in the face of defeat, of personal triumph won from loss. Written in 1952, this hugely successful novella confirmed his power and presence in the literary world and played a large part in his winning the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature.