Small Craft Advisory

by Louis D. Rubin Jr.

Book Overview

Small Craft Advisory is an enchanting book about Louis Rubin's obsession with boats and his years of often hilarious boating adventures. When Louis Rubin was thirteen, he built a leaky little boat and paddled it out to the edge of the ship channel in Charleston, South Carolina, where he felt the inexorable pull of the water. Fifty years and dozens of boats later--sailboats, powerboats, inboards and outboards--the pull is as strong as ever. In the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871135337
• ISBN13: 9780871135339
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful and inspiring tale

It's easy to love this book, whether you're even a casual boater or a landlubber. Mr. Rubin gives some great insights into his life and the reasons why one makes the choices they make. I read the opening about him building the small boat as a child to my wife, who absolutely was entranced by the images. Even though I live near one of the Great Lakes instead of the Atlantic Ocean, "messing about in boats" is one of the greatest joys in life, which the author has aptly demonstrated in this book.

A rambling memoir of the pains and perils of owning a boat

I picked up Rubin's little classic at a remainder table, thinking to peruse it when I ran out of other reading material. Shame on me. This is an intensly personal and delightful little book. Not for the non nautical, neither is it for the practical. If I could I would drop Mr. Rubin a short note with one word. "Thanks."J.A.Schroeder Seattle, WA