Great book about the building of this beauty.
Mine's Bigger: The Extraordinary Tale of the World's Greatest Sailboat and the Silicon Valley Tycoon Who Built It https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000TDGGS8/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_0nQRBbEBJY9D2
I can't recommend Endurance enough. It's all about Ernest Shackleton's attempt to cross Antarctica. Amazing!
Austin County STAR Flight.
A good read by a former pilot: Life Inside Dead Man's Curve by Kevin McDonald.
The very first one was the [Batavia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batavia_(ship), which is one of the strangest and most morbidly fascinating shipwreck stories in history.
edit: Highly recommend the Peter Fitzsimmons book about the whole ordeal
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she has a book too, with a lot of the same stories as the blog. she talks a little bit about how much money she made and how much she had to pay to rent the car and whatnot.