Part I: CHALLENGING THE SEA
Mother Sea by Rachel Carson (from The Sea Around Us)
The Story of the Ship by Alan Villiers (from Oceans of the World)
The Sea by Jan de Hartog (from A Sailor's Life)
Landfall by Samuel Eliot Morison (from Admiral of the Ocean Sea)
The Pilot of the Pinta by Captain Joshua Slocum (from Sailing Alone Around the World)
The Great Barrier Reef by Alistair MacLean (from Captain Cook)
My Sixty-Fifth Birthday by Sir Francis Chichester (from Gypsy Moth Circles the World)
Halfway by Thor Heyerdahl (from Kon-Tiki)
Sailing on the roof of the World by Tristan Jones (from The Incredible Voyage)
Grim Landfall by David Lewis (from Icebird)
The Ultimate Storm by William A. Robinson (from To the Great Southern Sea)
Shipwreck by Hal Roth (from Two Against Cape Horn)
North Atlantic Storm by Gerry Spiess (from Alone Across the Atlantic)
Alain Colas: A Legend Lost at Sea by William Oscar Johnson (from Sports Illustrated)
An Ordeal of Grandeur by Webb Chiles (from Storm Passage)

Part II: THE GREAT RACES
1866: The Start of it All by Alfred F. Loomis (from Ocean Racing)
The America's Triumph unsigned (from the London Times)
The Fishermen's Cup Races: Last Act by Sterling Hayden (from Nautical Quarterly)
On the Starboard Tack to Bermuda by Herbert L. Stone (from The Best from Yachting)
The Southern Cross: Sydney To Hobart Race by Edward Heath (from A Course of My Life)
The Southern Ocean Racing Conference by Michael Levitt (from Nautical Quarterly)
Let de Boat Walk by Bob Payne (from Sail Magazine)
The Ultimate Marathon by Joanne A. Fishman (from The New York Times Magazine)
The Story Of Grimalkin by John Rousmaniere (from Fastnet: Force 10)
Freedom of the Dream by Roger Vaughan (from Fastnet: One Man's Voyage)

Part III: THE ART OF SAILING
The Fine Art by Joseph Conrad (from Mirror of the Sea)
Navigation by Carleton Mitchell (from Passage East)
Less Weight and More Speed by Meade Gougeon and Tyrus Knoy (from Sailboat Design)
The Aerodynamics of Sails: Nature as a Guide by Dr. Manfred Curry (from Yacht Racing)
On Sails by Ted Hood (from Racing with Cornelius Shields and the Masters)
Formula for Success by Stuart Walker (from Wind and Strategy)
Racing by Uffa Fox (from According to Uffa)
The HeaviesùNorth, Turner, Hood And Melges by Dennis Conner (from No Excuse to Lose)
Turner and Jobson in Conversation by Ted Turner and Gary Jobson (from The Racing Edge)

Part IV: BEFORE THE WIND
The Sirens by Homer (from The Odyssey)
Call Me Ishmael by Herman Melville (from Moby Dick)
Bad Prospects by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (from Two Years Before the Mast)
Sharks in the Boatyard by Jack London (from White Sails Shaking)
The Story of Sailing by James Thurber (from My World And Welcome to It)
Christmas With Cyrano by William F. Buckley, Jr. (from Airborne)
About Figaro by William Snaith (from On Wind's Way)
The Hunting Of Hewlish by Sam Nicholson (from Omni Magazine)
The Chains of Possession by Ernest K. Gann (from Song of the Sirens)

Part V: THE RECORDS