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Nautical Book Club
November 3, 2016 | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
An event every month that begins at 7:00pm on day First of the month, repeating until December 1, 2016
CYC Nautical Book Club
Come join lively, informative discussions the 1st Thursdays of the month, 7:00 pm, on books of high interest for anyone interested in boats and the water. Books are nominated and chosen by the group, with the person nominating the book becoming moderator. Meetings promise to be engaging, so feel free to participate anytime even if you haven’t read the book!
Please note that Jim Lynch, the author of Before the Wind will be speaking to the general CYC membership on Thursday, December 1, 7:00 pm about his book, details below. Be sure to mark your calendars and read the book if you can!
November/December Book: Before the Wind: A Novel by Jim Lynch
“Lynch writes about the science of sailing and the grandeur of Puget Sound with a Melville-like attention to detail, but in the very concreteness of those details a kind of poetry emerges that speaks of the transience of life in all its terrible beauty and exhilarating terror.”—Booklist
“Not just any writer could weave a story about sailing, speed dating, dysfunctional family dynamics and Albert Einstein into an emotionally resonant novel, but Jim Lynch is the man for it.”—Seattle Times
Presentation by Author Jim Lynch, Thursday, December 1, 2016, 7:00pm
December/January Book: The Curve of Time by M. Wylie Blanchet with introduction by Timothy Egan. A classic memoir of a woman and her children who explored the coastal waters of the Pacific Northwest.
Meeting to discuss The Curve of Time: Thursday, January 5, 2017, 7:00pm
January Book: The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain’s Journey by Linda Greenlaw.
Linda Greenlaw offers an adventure-soaked tale of her own, complete with danger, humor, and characters so colorful they seem to have been ripped from the pages of Moby Dick. “A beautiful book . . . a story of triumph, of a woman not only making it but succeeding at the highest level in one of the most male-dominated and most dangerous professions.” — Douglas Whynott, The New York Times Book Review
Tentative discussion date: February 2, 2017, at 6:00 pm (NEW TIME to accommodate NOAA speaker at 7:00 pm).
