The Co-Captain's Log in the press & under your Christmas tree
The Co-Captain's Log in the press
"One of our favorite cruising books ever." -Latitude 38 magazine
"A tale that's adventurous and eminently readable." - SAIL magazine
Reviews for The Co-Captain's Log are in and I couldn't be happier if I had paid for them!
You can read both reviews below on the publications' book gift guides.
The Co-Captain's Log under the Christmas tree
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Wishing you a hopeful and joyful holiday season and an adventurous 2025!
Katherine
The Reviews
From John Riise at Latitude 38:
“It's that time of year again when we have a look at some of the sailing-oriented books released this year. As usual, we save them up for review in the December issue, so that anyone considering a book as a gift for the sailors in their lives has an idea of what's out there. This was a good year for books, so let's get right into it.
The Co-Captain's Log (Katherine González, $24.99 at cocaptainslog.com) - Today we crossed the equator! Champagne was popped, high fives were slapped, chocolate açai bits were nibbled. The only way it could have been better is if we'd actually been aboard the Pacific Seacraft 34 Ana Maria with Katherine and Andrés González. But we did the next best thing with this first "interactive" book we've ever reviewed:
We clicked on the proper QR code, registered on the website, and from there on, received daily emails chronicling Ana María's 2023 Pacific Puddle Jump. We admit to skepticism when Katherine, a regular Changes in Latitudes contributor, told us about this plan. But to experience her vision in "real time”—we love
it! It's one of the first emails we look at every morning to see how” we" are doing on the crossing, and frankly, we'll be a bit sorry when we finally "get" to Hiva Oa.
But that's just one part of this lovely book, which traces the story of Katherine and Andrés from when they first met on the ski slopes in Washington in 2016, to their arrival in New Zealand last year. (Earlier QR codes in the book will give you access to videos and more photos of their eight-year journey.) If you're more of a traditional reader, you can power through the entries for their Pacific crossing in a single sitting. But in this case - and this may be the only time we ever say this - by just reading the whole book, you would be missing a part of what makes this one of our favorite cruising books ever.”
From SAIL magazine:
"Chronicling one couple's voyage across the Pacific, The Co-Captain's Log, is a story of heart and adventure. Katherine González has inventively compiled her narrative as a multimedia experience, with plenty of maps, photos, and tables in the book itself in addition to a digital supplement where readers can sign up for daily updates from the logbook emailed to them in real time, as if they were reading the tracker reports from Ana Maria as Katherine and her husband Andrés make the crossing. Despite coming to the sailing world as the less experienced half of the couple, González writes with the salty spiritedness that immediately identifies her as a true sailor. Full of ups and downs, she has managed to tell a tale that's adventurous and eminently readable while still being packed with all the nautical details and data that sailing readers could ask for."
