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A Cruising Sailor's
Christmas Bookshelf

Give the gifts that keep on giving — books! (Or ask Santa to bring them to you.)
Here are books for some of the various cruisers in your life.

RYA Fishing Afloat, by Dick McClary ©
2009, The Royal Yachting Association. Soft
cover, 112 pages, color photos and illustrations.
ISBN 978-1906-435-028.

For the yachting fisherman (or fisherman
wannabe), RYA Fishing Afloat is the perfect
catch. Dick spends several months a year sail-
ing and fishing in the Caribbean aboard the
38-foot sloop Alacazam. The instructive mate-
rial in this book is drawn from the author’s
experience gained fishing in Europe, the
Mediterranean, and Atlantic crossing and the
Caribbean. As the book’s Introduction points
out, the basic principles have almost universal
application. For example, the same tackle
might catch a mackerel in the UK, a gilthead
bream off Greece or a mahi-mahi in the West
Indies. “It’s not where you do it but how you
do it that’s the real secret.”

This is one of the (UK) Royal Yachting
Association’s series of how-to books. It covers
every aspect of fishing from a sailing yacht
underway, adrift or at anchor. Abundant pho-
tos, diagrams and illustrations make the meth-
ods and principles described in the text easy to
digest. It tells you about the gear you'll be working with, too — reels, hooks, swivels,
knots and crimped connections — so you can set it all up properly by yourself. The
author even gives the all-important instructions on preparing your catch for the table
— after all, a cruiser’s main purpose in fishing is to eat. And if you follow the advice
in this excellent introduction to reeling in your own dinner, written especially for the
sailing fisherman (or is that the fishing sailor?), you stand a good chance of joining
the “regular catchers” club.

This book is available at boolcstores
or from www.ryaorg.uk/shop (order
code G72).

A Taste of Mustique, by Kevin
Snook with Elizabeth Penniman ©
2007, Macmillan Caribbean. Hard
cover, 194 pages, color photos. ISBN
978-1-4050-9906-6.

This book of recipes from “the island
of the rich and famous” will be uplift-
ing for any galley slave. No, it’s not all
champagne and caviar. Many recipes
highlight a variety of readily available
local ingredients that are often given a
sophisticated twist. Included are
Caribbean favorites such as roti, boi-
leen and conch fritters, plus as some
totally foreign, but good, recipes such
as a roasted artichoke and buffalo
mozzarella pizza. (If Fishing Afloat
helps you catch a yellowfin, there are
a couple of seared tuna recipes here
you'll want to try.)

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