Water Sports category: 1998 books
by Roger D. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
Roger Taylor follows on from his highly praised Voyages of a Simple Sailor, taking us on three more extraordinary voyages aboard his junk-rigged Corribee Mingming. This simple, rugged 21’ yacht, developed and honed for effortless single-handed ocean sailing, goes where bigger and more sophisticated...
This Old Man and the Sea
How My Retirement Turned into a Ten-Year Sail Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2006
The sun was setting and the only place to anchor was at the entrance to a small stream. With anchor down, we jumped into a dinghy to explore the dense jungle the stream penetrated. After a hundred yards or so, we stopped the outboard. Now the fauna slowly recovered from our racket and jungle noises...
by Roger D. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
In his third book singlehanded sailor Roger D. Taylor ventures to even more remote seas aboard his tiny junk-rigged yacht Mingming. The first voyage, across the North Atlantic to Baffin Island, is curtailed when Taylor is injured in a storm in the Davis Strait. Unwilling to sail on into the ice with...
Occupation Circumnavigator: Sailing Around the World
Sailing Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2009
A hippy Sell Up and Sail , this entertaining and inspiring book is more than just a cruising narrative - it is an instructive account showing how anyone can circumnavigate (or even sail for an extended period) without huge funds. Lars Hassler originally set off intending to sail for three years, but...
Submerged
Adventures of America's Most Elite Underwater Archeology Team
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2009
Experience a kaleidoscope of real-life underwater missions, ranging from ancient ruins covered by reservoirs in the desert Southwest to a World War II submarine off the Alaskan coast; from the Isle Royale shipwrecks in the frigid Lake Superior to the USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor; from the HL Hunley,...
Diving Bali
The Underwater Jewel of Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Welltravelled divers all acknowledge that the best diving in the world is found in the warm waters of tropical Bali.
Bali is located in the famous "coral triangle," the center of the world's tropical marine diversity, and the island is blessed with a stunning variety of dive sites-shipwrecks,...
Fifty Places to Dive Before You Die
Diving Experts Share the World's Greatest Destinations
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
The earth’s oceans hold many wondrous surprisesbe they the small, colorful critters” off the coast of Papua New Guinea, opportunistic red demon squids in the Sea of Cortes, or naval wrecks in the lagoon of Bikini Atoll. In Fifty Places to Dive Before You Die Chris Santella has invited diving...
Diver’s Guide
Vancouver Island South
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1999
Greg offers guidance to over 50 dives in five areas Metchosin and Race Rocks, Victoria, Sansum Narrows, Saanich Inlet, Sidney and the Southern Gulf Islands. Diver’s Guide, Vancouver Island South is fully illustrated with Greg’s own computer-generated maps
Deep Sea Diving
Professional Secrets To Deep Sea Diver, Scuba Diving, Deep Sea Diving Suit, Deep Sea Diving Equipment, Deep Sea Diving Mask
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
An absolute beginner's guide to deep sea diving, deep sea diver, scuba diving, deep sea diving suit, deep sea diving equipment, deep sea diving mask.
by Stephen J Pavlidis
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
This edition is Part IV of The Island Hopping Digital Guide to the Windward Islands and covers St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
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...
The Island Hopping Digital Guide To The Northern Bahamas - Part IV - Eleuthera and Cat Island
Including Half Moon Cay (Little San Salvador)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
This edition is Part IV of The Island Hopping Digital Guide to the Northern Bahamas and covers Eleuthera and Cat Island, including Half Moon Cay (Little San Salvador).
The Island Hopping Digital Guides are the digital versions of the world-famous cruising guides written by Stephen J. Pavlidis....
by Stephen J Pavlidis
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
This edition is Part I of The Island Hopping Digital Guide to the Exuma Cays and covers the Northern Exumas.
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 written...
Caribbean Passagemaking
A Cruiser's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
The chain of islands from the Virgins to the southern Lesser Antilles is one of the most desirable tropical cruising grounds as well as the most accessible for North American and European sailors. The Caribbean Sea is usually benign, but the conditions are very different from your home waters—you...
Tides
The Science and Spirit of the Ocean
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
In Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White takes readers across the globe to discover the science and spirit of ocean tides. In the Arctic, White shimmies under the ice with an Inuit elder to hunt for mussels in the dark cavities left behind at low tide;...