Scalzi pretty much nails it, why don't we have anything like this for boat stuff, and this ruined my day...
I like the point where you have something approaching a plan and you reach that head-space where it's time to actually start collecting charts and cruising guides... It's kinda like Christmas!
We're really pretty lucky these days as we have so much better access to information than we did when we were sailing Loose Moose 2 and set off with old and xeroxed copies of charts, hand drawn or traced chartlets, several years of SSCA bulletins, nearly undecipherable notes on scraps of paper of anchorages not to be missed, and a firm belief that we'd run into folks with more and better proper charts along the way (the unforeseen problem we'd never considered was that as everyone was sailing in the same direction, folks only wanted to trade charts/guides from places in our wake).
Right now, some books that are on my must get list: "Cruising the Coast of Brasil" by Marcal Ceccon, "South Atlantic Circuit"
Listening to Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66
So it goes...
