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Fatty's Books



Cruising Boat Basics



Hints, Tips, and Tricks for a Fabulous Life Afloat





This book contains 58 years of seamanship and ship’s husbandry distilled into more than 350 readable pages.


It is chock-full of technical information gathered during three circumnavigations and a lifetime of living aboard in foreign ports.​



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Chasing The Horizon



The Life And Times Of A Modern Sea Gypsy






Chasing the Horizon is a delightfully demented Celebration of A Way of Life.


It is an outrageously funny, often touching, and continuously shocking tale of a modern sea gypsy.


Cap'n Fatty's story is too bizarre to be fiction.


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Buy, Outfit, and Sail



How to Inexpensively and Safely
Buy, Outfit, and Sail a Small Vessel
Around the World





This book aims to assist the frugal, safety-conscious sailor in the purchase and repair of a modest sailboat capable of circumnavigating.


The core premise: There is little correlation between dollars spent and pleasure received when it comes to cruising offshore. Cheaper boats can be far more seaworthy than their expensive counterparts if the skipper’s money is spent wisely.


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Storm Proofing your Boat, Gear, and Crew



Surviving a large storm aboard a small boat on a big ocean





Heavy weather management is simple—there are only two basic rules.


The prudent mariner must control his vessel’s speed and its angle to the wind and seas.


That’s it. There’s nothing complicated about these concepts.


However, storm management can—and does—get complicated fast.​


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Creative Anchoring



Everything About Anchors and Anchoring





This practical, down-to-earth, step-by-step instruction manual isn’t merely about the basic mechanics of how to anchor—but how to anchor safely, while enjoying your boat more comfortably, in a far greater number of exposed anchorages.











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Red Sea Run



Two Sailors in a Sea of Trouble Paperback





Cap'n Fatty and Carolyn, aboard their modest 38-foot sloop Wild Card, sail through pirate infested waters.












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Somali Pirates and Cruising Sailors



A Compilation & Rumination of Recent Events in the Indian Ocean that Impact on Cruising Yachtsmen





There are currently around 2,000 Somali pirates actively engaged in stealing, kidnapping, extorting, enslaving, imprisoning, torturing, terrorizing, and killing innocent sailors in the Indian Ocean.

Occasionally these pirates attack small yachts as well as large ships. This book chronicles each of these terrifying “pleasure boat” attacks.




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Cruising World Yarns





"Is there a secret to writing well? Yes. It is the truth. Whenever a paragraph sags, I simply ask myself, 'What is the truth here, Fatty? What are you really trying to say?' What I want to do is to write another good sentence."


Cruising World Yarns has 3 dozen of Cap'n Fatty's best sailing and cruising stories from the pages of Cruising World magazine.







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All At Sea Yarns





Funny and outrageous Fatty sea stories from the pages of All At Sea magazine in the Caribbean.













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Collected Fat



Vintage Cap'n Fatty





Dozens of sea stories from the most outrageous marine journalist in the Caribbean.












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St. John People



Stories about St. John residents by St. John residents





The 25th Anniversary edition of St. John People is as diverse and interesting as the rainbow-hued Virgin Island residents that populate it’s 290 pages


A ‘must-read’ for local folks, long term residents, and short-term visitors alike.







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