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Whether moored at their home marina, or visiting a less familiar port in a distant country, yachtsmen need to pay just as much attention to the security of their yacht as they would their home or car. By being aware of potential dangers and taking some prudent steps in advance, yachtsmen can ensure...

Unless you have unbeatable boatspeed, tactics are vital to winning sailboat races. Multi-champion, Nick Craig, shows you how to develop a strategy and what tactics to adopt on every leg and at every mark of the course. His first book, Helming to Win, was described as “original, thought provoking…...

For most sailors, boat tuning may seem a mystery understood only by sailmakers and the like. In this book, sailor, chandler and championship winner, Ian Pinnell, unravels this daunting subject and will help improve your boatspeed as a result. Since most races are won or lost by a difference of less...

A detailed planning itinerary for your voyage around the world. The routes, and the seasons clearly laid out for all to understand. So you want to sail around the world? Which way do you go? What is the "milk run" ? How? When? Where to go? What are the sailing seasons ? The...

This version of the popular ‘Caribbean Islands Cruising Guide’ is for sailors coming from the USA or Canada and heading into the islands for a season or longer.  All the routes are geared to Southbound Yachts The ***American Caribbean Islands Cruising Guide ***details exactly the best...

This edition is Part VI of The Island Hopping Digital Guide to the Windward Islands and covers Trinidad and Tobago. The Island Hopping Digital Guides are the digital versions of the world-famous cruising guides written by Stephen J. Pavlidis. Over the past 20 years, Stephen J. Pavlidis has...

This edition is Part III of The Island Hopping Digital Guide to the Leeward Islands and covers Antigua and Barbuda in the Caribbean.  The Island Hopping Digital Guides are the digital versions of the world-famous cruising guides written by Stephen J. Pavlidis.  Over the past 20 years, Stephen...

This edition is Part II of The Island Hopping Digital Guide to the Leeward Islands and covers the region of the Caribbean from Saba to Montserrat, including Saba, St. Eustatia (Statia), St. Christopher (St Kitts), Nevis, The Kingdom of Redonda, and Montserrat. The Island Hopping Digital Guides...

Pour naviguer en sécurité, c’est-à-dire pour suivre sa route en évitant les dangers et en profitant des meilleures conditions de météo et de marée, il est essentiel de bien connaître : • le balisage en mer • le balisage des plages • les feux d’entrée de port • les signaux de marée...

Cabins float in a cut-off fjord of British Columbia’s South Coast, where mountains drop into the sea and lifestyles focus on self-reliance and a different sense of purpose. Up the lake and off the grid – Canada at its best. What's it like to live in a remote setting, and how do you get started?...

A true adventure story of the author’s first sailing voyage. A novice sailor she’d never intended to make this trip. A good friend with sailing experience had planned to go but at the last minute had a family emergency. Though early spring in the far north winter weather prevailed as she and her...

Maps and descriptions for more than 200 Pennsylvania waterways. Information on minimum water levels, potential hazards, and difficulty level of each stream. Includes directions and recommendations for put-in and take-out at each site.

As the extent of the oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico from the Macondo well became evident, the Vessel of Opportunity program came to life. Thousands of local fisherman and their deckhands attended training classes along the Gulf Coast to prepare them to conduct oil clean-up on the water. Deploying...

The Farrell name is respected all along the British Columbia coast. Barrie’s father, Allen Farrell, was a much loved eccentric who created offshore sailing vessels from beachcombed lumber using only basic hand tools. Barrie built his first boat in his early teens using only a dull handsaw,...