These Are a Few of Our Favorite Things

 22 Jan 23:

We like boats and we like trains. We especially like old boats and old trains back in days of steam power. Here's a photo from a while back of the steamboat MEMPHIS waiting to take Southern Railway train passengers across the Elizabeth River, back and forth between Portsmouth VA and Norfolk. 

For those who didn't know it, Norfolk is an island, even modern day we must take a bridge, tunnel or boat to get from the mainland. The good tug MEMPHIS alternated between passenger runs and moving train car barges across the river. 

FMI: Southern Railway

Sailing Library

When you're not sailing, you could be reading about sailing :) I am developing a list of interesting and useful sailing books, most can be found on Worldcat, the world's largest online catalog. Do a search for your title then enter your zipcode to check out the "Find a copy in the library" locator. Remember your library can also probably get your book through Inter Library Loan (ILL). Also, most state funded college libraries are open to the public. Worldcat also has a "Buy it" link in case you want to purchase the book through Amazon, Barnes and Noble, etc...

Our Short List:
The open boat: across the Pacific by Webb Chiles

The Sunfish Bible by Will White

Montgomery and the Portsmouth by Fred Blackburn Rogers

See my complete sailing list on Worldcat