Bill Seifert’s Offshore Sailing, 200 Essential Passagemaking Tips, is a great resource for anyone who appreciates good, practical ideas and solutions won from a lifetime of commissioning and sailing boats. If you are building, buying, or refitting, his description of all the details of an ideal offshore boat is especially worthwhile. You can certainly find this book on Amazon, and even do a full-text search on it’s contents, but I do love a real bookstore that caters to sailors, so if you don’t have one near you, try the Armchair Sailor, in Seattle.