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The Voyage of the Northern Magic
A Family Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Ever dream of selling up and running away to sea? Diane Stuemer and her husband, Herbert, were once a typical suburban couple entering middle age, with a comfortable home and three boys under twelve. A year later they had sold their business, rented out their house, and were setting out to circumnavigate...
by Don Casey
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2007
Make your boat shine again No improvement to a tired-looking boat will have a more dramatic impact than refinishing, and few tasks are easier. Here is everything you need to achieve a fabulous finish on your fiberglass boat's bottom, topsides, deck, spars, wood trim, and belowdeck surfaces while saving...
Untie the Lines
Setting Sail and Breaking Free
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
In Casting Off we met Emma Bamford. Stressed out and fed up with London life, working 80-hour weeks and with no hint of a love life, Emma suddenly decided to quit her job, pack up her life and go and live with a man she's never met, and his cat, on a yacht in Borneo. In Casting Off we followed Emma...
by Nigel Calder
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2001
The most comprehensive and helpful guide ever written for selecting and equipping a cruising sailboat
Whether you’re a coastal or offshore cruiser, you’ll find your most pressing concerns treated with the know-how that makes for skillful, confident cruising in Nigel Calder’s Cruising...
by Tony Read
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
A fascinating collection of articles by various authors, first published in 1886. Contains detailed, illustrated chapters on making and sailing a variety of boats. Contents include: Small Boats: How to Rig and Sail Them - How to Make a Boat - How to Build a Catamaran - Flat-Boating for Boys - How...
The Insider's Guide to Choosing & Buying a Yacht
Expert Advice to Help You Choose the Perfect Yacht
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2011
This book offers practical advice to ensure you choose the right yacht for your sailing needs and budget. Potential buyers are guided through every stage of the process, from deciding on hull design and accommodation to deck layout and keel shape. There is information on construction materials and...
Yacht Design According to Perry : My Boats and What Shaped Them
My Boats and What Shaped Them
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2007
A great designer offers you a virtuoso tour through the world of sailboats
Bob Perry initiated the trend toward fast voyaging sailboats with his world-famous Valiant 40, which has been in production longer than any other cruising sailboat in history. But Perry is not only a leading yacht designer--he...
The Pleasures of A Yachting Adventure
A Complete Guidebook on Yachts and Yachting Including Tips on Luxury Yachting, Yacht Chartering, Buying a Yacht Plus Information On Yachting Safety and Sea Survival So You Can Enjoy A Trouble-Free Sea Adventure Everytime
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Yachting is generally associated with luxury for the reason that a typical yacht costs close to millions each year to maintain. There is fuel to take into account, then the yacht crew and yacht engine and interior upkeep, among many other expensive essentials. However, despite the extreme luxury,...
West Country Cruising Companion
A Yachtsman's Pilot and Cruising Guide to Ports and Harbours from Portland Bill to Padstow, Including the Isles of Scilly
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
First published in 1988 as West Country Cruising, Mark Fishwick's definitive sailing guide for the ever attractive coastline of Dorset, Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly combines a skilful blend of pilotage and cruising information, enhanced with full colour photography, including many additional...
Ocean Crossing Wayfarer
To Iceland and Norway in a 16ft Open Dinghy
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
This classic sea story recounts Frank Dye's intrepid voyages
in his open 16ft Wayfarer dinghy to Iceland and Norway, which must rank
among the most hazardous sea adventures of our time.
Encountering the whole gamut of weather, such is Frank Dye's
seamanship that he and his crew survived gales...
Going Foreign
Cruising Abroad for the First Time
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
Many reasonably experienced coastal sailors (and motorboaters) find the
prospect of sailing their boat to the continent appealing yet daunting.
There are so many additional aspects that all need to be taken into
account and complied with that it can seem a forbidding prospect. This
highly illustrated,...
Ice with Everything
In climbing mountains or sailing the seas one often has to settle for less than one hoped.
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
‘For most men, as Epicurus has remarked, rest is stagnation and activity madness. Mad or not, the activity that I have been pursuing for the last twenty years takes the form of voyages to remote, mountainous regions.’
H.W. ‘Bill’ Tilman’s fourteenth book describes three more of those...
by Mike Peyton
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
Mike Peyton is the nautical world's best known and much loved cartoonist. For years he has made his mark, contributing witty, well executed and poignantly funny cartoons to the yachting and boating press, poking fun at seafarers of all types and capturing in his distinctive cartoon style their often...
Canvas Flying, Seagulls Crying
From Scottish Lochs to Celtic Shores
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
After Justin and Linda Tyers lost everything in a devastating house fire, they rebuilt their lives by building a classic wooden yacht from scratch – starting by felling the trees. This story was told in their first book, Phoenix from the Ashes.
This sequel follows their voyage from the Scottish...