They banish boredom on harbour days: books and e-books about sailing. A selection:
Food for laughter
Bestselling author Steffi von Wolff spends most of her free time at the "harbour cinema" in the Danish South Sea. With her husband. And his old lady. That's the name of the ship she co-married. How she gradually realised this and what it means for her life is described by von Wolff regularly in glosses in YACHT. They have been published as a collected work.
Struggle for survival
Four men capsize on their trimaran on the way from New Zealand to Tonga and fight for survival for four months on the upside-down ship - without knowing whether they can save themselves. New German edition of the factual novel by Steven Callahan.
Southern France thriller
A wreck diver is floating dead in the water off the French coast - clearly a new case for sailing detective Roger Blanc, who is the only one who doesn't believe it was an accident. Who was the dead man who plundered sunken ships to sell the booty to rich collectors? 320 pages of Mediterranean suspense.
Cutter trip
In his children's book, Udo Hinnerkopf has the cutter Joggel Klüver sail over land because he is afraid of the dangers at sea. Sensitively and humorously told in a child-friendly way, imaginatively illustrated by Julia Gerigk - the ideal read-aloud book for children on board.
Exit
An old sailing boat and a first long summer on it - that's how it all began. Marc Bielefeld sails wherever he wants and meets people who surprise him. He tells the story of one of the last boat-building travellers in Germany, of a Frenchman who sails around the world on a tiny sports catamaran, and of a married couple who gave up everything at the age of fifty to live for sailing from then on. A book that shows that the dream of a self-determined life can become reality - inspiring, exciting and entertaining.
Great freedom
Twelve journeys by German circumnavigators are documented in "Freiheit auf Zeit - Weltumsegler erzählen", based on interviews with couples, solo sailors and a family. They are all enthusiastic sailors, but neither professionals, record chasers nor the super-rich. No bearded salt humps, no adrenaline junkies. All the crews portrayed share a passion for long-distance sailing, without necessarily having grown up at sea, let alone having been sailors from an early age. But they have all shown that a hell of a lot is possible if you just want to.
Adventure
Writer Tina Uebel sets sail on the "Santa Maria Australis" to find out where the world ends. In "Northwest Passage for Thirteen Clueless People and a Yoghurt", she describes the experiences of the three-month-long extreme voyage from the perspective of a sailing novice.
Wanderlust
There are "111 reasons to go sailing", says dramaturge and screenwriter Klaus Freund, who has been bitten by the sailing bug, in his book of the same name and tells a whole story about each of them. The result is a book for all those who love the sea and sailing boats - and anyone who doesn't yet will after reading this holiday book.
People's boat
A Folkboat, as we have known for 75 years, is almost perfect. Nicolas Thon has experienced how great moments of happiness can be with it, how deep the love for the boat, for the sea, for sailing, from the moment he laid eyes on his Paula - who taught him everything, sometimes took command herself, never bitched too much and showed him: "If the spare canister flies through the cockpit, there's definitely too much wind!
