Water Sports category: 1998 books
Once Upon a Gypsy Moon
An Improbable Voyage and One Man's Yearning for Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Michael Hurley watched his world unravel in the wake of infidelity, divorce and failure. In August 2009, he was short of money, out of a job, and seeking to salvage a life that had foundered. Deeply in need of perspective, he took to the open seas in a 32-foot sailboat, Gypsy Moon. The story of his...
Boat Bum
Tristan Vangogh and the Voyage of the Sabrina Ann
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2008
This is not a story about someone who grew up around boats and made a miraculous voyage across open oceans. (Think Maiden Voyage by Tania Aebie, Ballentine 1991.) Actually this is a story about an older burned out, Hollywood cab driver with no experience who didnt get into boating till he was forty five. This is the story of a dream realized and the learning experience it became.
Anchorages & Marinas from Martinique to Guadeloupe
Martinique, Dominica, Les Saintes, Marie-Galante, Guadeloupe
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
This book holds detailed descriptions of the marinas and anchorages between Guadeloupe and Martinique, including charts, original photographs and advice for visits ashore. The book covers 6 islands and 30 anchorages and marinas and as many chart extracts.
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...
Winter in Fireland
A Patagonian Sailing Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
After tough assignments as a Canadian diplomat abroad, Nicholas Coghlan and his wife Jenny unwind by sailing Bosun Bird, a 27foot sailboat, from Cape Town, South Africa, across the South Atlantic and into the stormy winter waters around Tierra del Fuego, South America. Coghlan recounts earlier adventures...
The Wave
In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
From Susan Casey, bestselling author of The Devil’s Teeth, an astonishing book about colossal, ship-swallowing rogue waves and the surfers who seek them out.
For centuries, mariners have spun tales of gargantuan waves, 100-feet high or taller. Until recently scientists dismissed these stories—waves...
Gary Jobson
An American Sailing Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
For Gary Jobson—the three-time All American sailor, America's Cup winner, Fastnet Race winner, and ESPN sailing commentator since 1985—sailing is life. In 2003, he was diagnosed with lymphoma, and here he relays the tumultuous diagnosis and treatments endured before the cancer went into remission....
Kinsale Harbour
A History
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Nestling on the River Bandon, Kinsale emerged as a settlement in the sixth century and has seen many changes. Its deep, secure harbour provided a safe anchorage and prospered during the seventeenth century’s ‘golden age of sail’, victualling ships bound for the West Indies and the American colonies,...
Mischief in Patagonia
An intolerable deal of sea, one halfpennyworth of mountain
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
'So I began thinking again of those two white blanks on the map, of penguins and humming birds, of the pampas and of gauchos, in short, of Patagonia, a place where, one was told, the natives’ heads steam when they eat marmalade.'
So responded H. W. ‘Bill’ Tilman to his own realisation...
by Kelly Watts
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2012
At 35-years old, Kelly and Paul Watts sold their home and quit their jobs to sail around the world, without any sailing experience. Two days after purchasing their forty-two-foot sloop, they got caught in a forty-knot gale off the coast of Cape Fear, NC. Their sails ripped; the engine overheated;...
by Richard Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Most people who buy a kayak, purchase a "bare boat", that is, a boat that is little more than a shell and an uncomfortable seat.
This book gives a number of ways to modify that "bare boat" by adding bulkheads and hatches, deck-lines, bungie cords and many orther items that are...
Snow Petrel
(A father-son voyage to the windiest place on the planet)
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
When Ben Tucker and his kid brother Matt decided to sail south in search of icebergs on Ben's small home-built kiwi sloop, their father Jon was allowed to come along as their cabin-boy, on a promise of good behaviour.
The unfolding adventure took them through thick pack ice to become trapped...
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.