Savvy Summer Reading for Mexico Boaters

Recreational boaters in Mexico (yatistas) are right now preparing for whatever Summer 2024 brings us. Whether we’re planning to bash back north (next issue) or spend the summer somewhere safe down here, one of the more pleasant tasks is to load up our book shelves (or e-readers) with sufficient binge-worthy stuff to read. After I’ve spent too many hours of my night watch staring at the radar screen, making tiny incremental course adjustments, listening to VHF squawks, there’s nothing that quite so well relieves the eye strain as nicely as plugging into an audio book. I can let the wonderful voice of a professional reader calmly animate the storyline and pour it directly into my earbuds and grey matter. After stowing miles of lines and tons of fenders, after making a sail change and then switching it to a different sail, getting them all set up and pulling nicely, preparing and setting out lunch for a bunch of hungry mariners, then cleaning it all up again – after all that normal stuff I just love to bury myself away in my bunk and return to some story full of handsome heroes, dastardly villains and natural disasters narrowly averted. Such “get away” books...