The book about sailing the Northwest Passage is called "Polar Passage". There were a couple of good books about the Sydney to Hobart disaster a few years back, my favorite of those was Fatal Storm. A couple other good ones were Godforsaken Sea. Close to the Wind is about Pete Goss and is excellent, he's definitely a hero in my book.That would probably be my favorite of the ones I listed.
Todd A. Hart
p.s. The Worrell 1000 issue of Sports Illustrated was pretty good too. Just Kidding.

"I said, now, I said ,pay attention boy!"

The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea
Isak Dinesen
If a man is to be obsessed by something.... I suppose a boat is as good as anything... perhaps a bit better than most.
E. B. White