Water Sports category: 1998 books
The Race
Extreme Sailing and Its Ultimate Event: Nonstop, Round-the-World, No Holds Barred
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
An invigorating behind-the-scenes look at the world of extreme sailing, The Race is also a taut, engrossing account of the first running of the competition called The Race, which began on December 31, 2000, in Barcelona and ended sixty-two days later in Marseilles. The most intense event of its kind...
Racing Rules Companion 2017-2020
The Essential Compact Guide for All Racing Sailors Who Want to Win
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
The invaluable on-the-water reference guide to the essentials of the racing rules, updated for the latest 2017-2020 Racing Rules of Sailing. Every racing sailor should have a copy! The book summarises the basic principles, definitions and rules and then covers every aspect of the race. This edition...
The Practical Encyclopedia of Boating : An A-Z Compendium of Navigation, Seamanship, Boat Maintenance, and Nautical Wisdom: An A-Z Compendium of Navigation, Seamanship, Boat Maintenance, and Nautical Wisdom
An A-Z Compendium of Navigation, Seamanship, Boat Maintenance, and Nautical Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2007
“Vigor is one of the finest boating writers of our time.”--Cruising World
“You name it, it’s in here. Covers every boating situation. This book is both informative and entertaining.”--Latitudes & Attitudes
“John Vigor is the answer guy if you’re having onboard arguments...
by Jon Emmett
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
This book will help you to succeed on the water whether your aim is Club, National, International (or even Olympic) level. With detailed analysis, challenging exercises and useful top tips throughout, everything is covered: from targets, goal setting and a winning mental attitude to boat handling,...
The Dinghy Cruising Companion
Tales and Advice from Sailing a Small Open Boat
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
'You will venture into the fringes of the wilderness with the minimum of simple gear, to live with it on its own terms. You will know that one of the sure ways to contentment in this life is a small boat, a fair wind, and a new coast to explore.'
Dinghy cruising is a wonderful way to experience...
Small Craft Advisory
A Book About the Building of a Boat
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Small Craft Advisory is an enchanting book about Louis Rubin’s obsession with boats and his years of often hilarious boating adventures.When Louis Rubin was thirteen, he built a leaky little boat and paddled it out to the edge of the ship channel in Charleston, South Carolina, where he felt the inexorable...
by Frank Bethwaite
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2013
From the author of the bestselling High Performance Sailing and Higher Performance Sailing comes the first scientific analysis of what makes fast sailors fast. Eschewing the idea that luck or innate talent are the keys to success, Frank Bethwaite shows how knowledge truly is power. Making use of video...
Marine Diesel Basics 1
Maintenance, Lay-up, winter Protection, Tropical Storage, Spring Recommission
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
Seeing is understanding! With 300+ illustrations and 222 pages this book explains:
all basic maintenance tasks of the marine diesel system - fuel, lubrication, cooling, breathing, electrical, and drive train (coupling, shaft, shaft seal, propeller)
all the tasks to winterize the complete system...
Canoe Country
The Making of Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
One of our favourite chroniclers of all things Canadian presents a rollicking, personal, photo-filled history of the relationship between a country and its canoes.
From the earliest explorers on the Columbia River in BC or the Mattawa in Ontario to a doomed expedition of voyageurs up the...
by Rod Haines
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
What is life like without arms?
Rod Haines was born in 1942, at a time when doctors freely gave advice on options of what to do with this armless baby, and whom they thought would also have limited brain function.
Rod was the middle child of five children and his childhood was full of...
by Matt Vance
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
To sail a boat is a magical, and sometimes mystical, experience. The sailor is free from the cares of life on land, entirely absorbed in the enterprise of moving a craft across the water. For the uninitiated, though, willingly putting oneself at the mercy of nature’s unpredictable forces, winds,...
Chasing the Cup
My America's Cup Journey
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Jimmy Spithill is arguably one of the world's greatest skippers: the youngest and double winner of the America's Cup, the oceanic version of Formula 1; winner of the Sydney Hobart; multiple world champion in match and fleet racing... the list goes on. And on a day off he'll paddleboard 32 miles through...
Mischief goes South
Every herring should hang by its own tail
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
‘No sea voyage can be dull for a man who has an eye for the ever-changing sea and sky, the waves, the wind and the way of a ship upon the water.’
So observes H.W. ‘Bill’ Tilman in this account of two lengthy voyages in which dull intervals were few and far between.
In 1966, after...
Fearless
One Woman, One Kayak, One Continent
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Like the instant classic The Last American Man, Fearless is the story of a remarkable individual who accepts no personal limits—including fear. Freya Hoffmeister, a forty-six-year-old former sky diver, gymnast, marksman, and Miss Germany contestant, left her twelve-year-old son behind to paddle...