Boating category: 581 books
Be Your Own Tactics Coach
Improve Your Technique on the Water & Sail to Win
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2011
Boatspeed is not enough – a good understanding of tactics is crucial if you want to win races. This book is a comprehensive programme to make you a tactical genius on the water. Individual chapters take you around the racecourse, from before you get on the water, through the pre-start, start, and...
Be Your Own Sailing Coach
20 Goals for Racing Success
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2008
If you want to win races you need to get organised! This unique guide shows you how to set your overall sailing goals, and breaks them down into manageable – yet stretching – mini-goals. Jon Emmett breaks racing down into 20 key skills (such as speed to windward and tactics) and, with detailed...
Asymmetric Sailing
Get the Most From your Boat with Tips & Advice From Expert Sailors
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2012
Learn the secrets of getting the most from your boat – whether you sail an entry level dinghy, high performance skiff, sportsboat or catamaran. Tips, advice and some great shortcuts from expert sailors in a wide range of classes gives you the inside knowledge to improve your techniques and get ahead...
by Ross Bodle
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Anyone who has dreamed of throwing off the shackles of everyday life and running away to sea will find this book invaluable. It paints a true picture of life on board - the highs and lows - and gives expert advice on avoiding the pitfalls that many novice sailors fall into.
With a foreword...
Coyote Lost at Sea : The Story of Mike Plant, America’s Daring Solo Circumnavigator
The Story of Mike Plant, America’s Daring Solo Circumnavigator
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
When Coyote and its skipper, Mike Plant, went missing mid-Atlantic in November 1992, the sailing world held its breath. Now, twenty years later, the story around the mystery, tragedy, and enigma is told at last
"[Plant] is as close as yachting gets to a James Dean character, going his...
Mine's Bigger
The Extraordinary Tale of the World's Greatest Sailboat and the Silicon Valley Tycoon Who Built It
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
As the dominant venture capitalist of Silicon Valley, Tom Perkins had seemingly done it all—from amassing a billion-dollar fortune to getting himself convicted of manslaughter in France. But his ultimate dream was to create the biggest, fastest, riskiest, highest-tech, most self-indulgent sailboat...
Speed Kills
Who killed the Cigarette Boat King, the fastest man on the seas?
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
A feature film, Speed Kills, starring John Travolta, based on the book, premieres in fall 2018.
"Ocean racing superstar Don Aronow loved it when writers called him a living legend. His life of adventure is well known. It is his death that baffles police.
He was afraid of nothing,...
The Pirates' Pact
The Secret Alliances Between History's Most Notorious Buccaneers and Colonial America
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2008
The Secret Alliances Between History's Most Notorious Buccaneers and Colonial America
Was classical piracy an earlier version of state-sponsored terrorism?
Here's the story of how almost every well-known buccaneer of the “Golden Age of Piracy” enjoyed active sponsorship from England's...
by John D. Whidden
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2019
**John D. Whidden started out at sea in 1834, at the age of twelve, and did not retire until 1870. **
This is his account of over a quarter-century spent on the high seas.
Orphaned at five, nothing held Whidden back from embarking on sea life seven years later. Serving as an apprentice,...
Sea Fever
The True Adventures that Inspired our Greatest Maritime Authors, from Conrad to Masefield, Melville and Hemingway
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
How did a big-game fishing trip rudely interrupted by sharks inspire one of the key scenes in Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea? How did Robert Louis Stevenson's cruise to the cannibal-infested South Sea islands prove instrumental in his writing of The Beach of Falesa and The Ebb Tide? How did Masefield...
by Mary Titcomb, A H Guernsey, H M Alden
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Three short pieces take us on a tour of mid nineteenth century Europe in a solo sail. The Cruise of the Rob Roy takes us around Europe in a one man canoe. Macgregor visits France, Germany, Switzerland along canals, rivers and lakes. The Rob Roy in the Baltic is another of MacGregor's canoe trips....
by Mr S. K. Baker
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
During their university holidays in the late 1880s, S.K. Baker and three of his University College friends clad in stripy blazers and boaters spent time sailing and camping on the River Wye. Baker, a keen artist and diarist, recorded their travels in watercolour in two small leather bound books.
The...
by Cap'n Fatty Goodlander
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2009
The Collected Fat represents the very best writing from one
of the most outrageous writers in the Caribbean. Cap’n Fatty will enthrall you with his rollicking tales of Lush Tropical Vegetables, Wonderful Waterfront Wackos, and Colorful Caribbean Characters.
A number of these stories will make you laugh. A few will touch your heart. One might change you, ever-so-slightly, forever.
by John Champion
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
These yacht races actually happened as unlikely as it may seem. There is nothing educational, serious or worthwhile in these tales but you may get a laugh from them. The first 50% is free so don't blame me if you don't like it!