Water Sports category: 1998 books
by Barry Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Sail your very first day on the water
Learn to Sail Today offers a uniquely fun and quick method for beginners to learn exactly what they need to enter the fun and rewarding world of sailing. Written specifically to engage and reassure the uninitiated, this sailing primer covers the essentials...
Navigation Rules and Regulations Handbook
International—Inland
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
For anyone who owns a boat, this is the handbook you need to own. Included are all of the official government rules and regulations that must be followed by anyone out on the water. This book will prepare you for head-on situations, avoiding collisions, using, distress signals, and will inform you...
Training for the Complete Rower
A Guide to Improving Performance
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
This book aims to provide and challenge coaches and rowers with best practice, advice, principles and training programmes to improve their rowing experience and performance. Regardless of whether you are looking to improve on-water performance, set an indoor rowing personal best or enhance the quality...
Paddling Long Island and New York City
The Best Sea Kayaking from Montauk to Manhasset Bay to Manhattan
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Paddling Long Island is the only book on the market to depict routes and destinations across the whole of Long Island and the New York City area. And it showcases 50 of the very best. It is a diverse selection, too. After all, according to skill level, weather, personal mood, and other factors, a...
Paddle Maryland
A Guide to Rivers, Creeks, and Water Trails
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
With the Chesapeake Bay—the largest estuary in the United States—the Potomac, Monocacy, and Patapsco Rivers, and countless streams, creeks, swamps, and marshes, Maryland is an ideal locale for people to take to the water and enjoy the natural beauty of the Free State.
In Paddle Maryland,...
The Pool Safety Resource
The Commonsense Approach to Keeping Children Safe Around Water
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
This book will help parents understand the unique risks of their own pool environment and how to build a robust system of protection.
When the Roisum family moved to Florida in 2005 they decided to install a new pool in their back yard. Everyone was excited about the aquatic fun they would...
Lifeguard Ken Tells All
Enjoy the Surf. Safely.
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
Have you ever struggled in the ocean? Things can quickly get scary in the surf, even under ideal conditions. Rip currents can emerge without warning and sweep unsuspecting bathers into deeper water. Lifeguard Ken Tells All brings simple, effective strategies to readers from the witty perspective...
by Peter Hudson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
All you need for hours of fun is a swimming pool and this book.The Best Ever Swimming Pool Games explains how to play over 60 games, which require little or no equipment. There are games for as few as two players and games for large teams.This brightly illustrated book is a great resource for families,...
Canyoning in the Alps
Graded routes in Northern Italy and Ticino, Austria, Slovenia and the Valais Alps
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
The Alps rank high among the world's foremost destinations for canyoning. This book brings together all the most celebrated descents in the Alpine regions of northern Italy and Ticino in Switzerland, including classic limestone canyons and superb granite-gneiss water sculptures. Divided into five...
by Pedro Hugo García Peláez
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Water is essential for life, in this book you can discover the process of resonance between two systems, the water and the human body.You can Lose weight and lose fat.Your skin will look better.Did you know that swim 5 or 10 minutes a day ? you can get rid of your stomach fat...
Camping by the Waterside
The Best Campsites by Water in Britain and Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
This stylish and inspiring book contains all the information campers need to make the most of the wonderful waterside locations throughout the UK and Ireland. Covering all kinds of camping (caravan, campsite and wild), the book starts by showing how to plan your trip, what gear to take and how to...
Sloop
Restoring My Family's Wooden Sailboat--An Adventure in Old-Fashioned Values
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Now in paperback, Daniel Robb’s Sloop proves he “is a craftsman… with words as well as with a hammer, as he constructs a charming tale that both details the technical nature of boatbuilding and captures the essence of the past, present, and future of a New England maritime community” (Publishers...
by Donald Bates-Brands
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
February of 2015 ranked as the third coldest recorded winter in the US. We haven’t had it this cold since 1979. A disaster for some, but for the Great South Bay Scooter Club in Bellport, NY and the Sayville Yacht Club in Blue Point, New York, it meant that this last weekend of February was a rare...
Finding Pax
Expanded edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
'The boat appeared when I didn't expect or, frankly, need her. My bucket list was empty. Life was full…But sailing towards me was a boat that would stir the waters, waking decades of loss, revealing history untold, and restoring a legacy that was lost in the wind. For her and for me, I had to wade...