Water Sports category: 1998 books
by Martin Edge
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
“Skagerrak and Back” is the story of my North Sea circuit aboard my 27ft yacht.In 2007 I bit the bullet and decided to head for foreign climes. We crossed the North Sea from the Firth of Forth to Norway. We skirted the coast southwards to Sweden, through the Skagerrak past Denmark and into...
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...
HANDLING STORMS AT SEA : The 5 Secrets of Heavy Weather Sailing: The 5 Secrets of Heavy Weather Sailing
The 5 Secrets of Heavy Weather Sailing
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
The definitive guide to a critical, hotly debated topic
How should a sailor cope with storms at sea? Some advocate heaving-to, others running off. Some say trail a sea anchor over the bow, others a drogue astern. The stakes in the discussion couldn’t be higher, or the consensus lower. Finally,...
High Infatuation
A Climber's Guide To Love and Gravity
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Throughout her life, Steph Davis has chosen to take risks, to trust her impulses, to make decisions based on what feels right inside--and never look back. Studying to be a concert pianist, she quit music the day she was introduced to rock climbing. Later, she abandoned the respectability of university...
by Wayne J. Lutz
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Updated 12-15-2013. River and lake paddling in a sea kayak not your typical jaunts in the Pacific Northwest. Heres proof that enchanting journeys are born in dreams of personal exploration. A Canadian paddler heads south to probe the rivers of Washington, searching for “slow pusher” rivers to propel...
by Pete Bray
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Kayak Across the Atlantic is an extraordinary first-hand account of the first ever single-handed crossing of the North Atlantic, achieved against all formidable odds. Former SAS Sergeant Pete Bray's solo unsupported voyage in a flimsy twenty-seven-foot kayak is one of the most courageous feats undertaken...
by Jake Kavanagh
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
A light-hearted look at the lock-keeper's job, be it a rural little
lock on the canals, or an ultra-modern affair at a huge marina. Jake
Kavanagh presents a humorous survey, using his inimitable cartoons and anecdotes, of the
scrapes people get into when trying to use locks. He focuses on notable
events...
by Gyula Plaganyi
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
A six week trip cheating death and tempting fate in what must surely rate as one of the most adventurous jobs in the world:An underwater Shark Wrangler!With 34 color pictures of the dives and the tuna.
Learn to Swim
Teaching You to Teach Your Child to Swim
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Benjamin Roberts is an experienced Swimming instructor, School Teacher and Lifeguard who has combined his first class knowledge of teaching beginners to swim with his professional understanding of how children learn in order to write this book which will help parents, step parents, grand parents and...
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...
Master the Art of Swimming
Raising Your Performance with the Alexander Technique
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Swimming improves your flexibility, tones your body and can help to boost your self-esteem and produce a sense of well being. It is the nation's most popular sporting activity with 11.9 million people swimming regularly. However, most people don't know how to swim properly. This book is based on a...
Going For Gold
Welsh Olympic Dreams for 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
What does it take to be the greatest? Whether it's part of a team like cyclist Geraint Thomas, who won gold in the team pursuit event in Beijing 2008, or notching up a record-beating 11 gold medals in the swimming pool for paralympic swimmer David Roberts to equal the record set by Dame Tanni Grey...
Over the Top
The First Lone Yachtsman to Sail Vertically Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Only one person has ever sailed vertically around the world - Adrian Flanagan.
Sailing horizontally is difficult enough, crossing thousands of miles of ocean only to get near land at the Capes and battle treacherous currents. However, hundreds of sailors have still managed it. Adrian became...
(Not So) Old Men and the Sea
A Toe in the Cruising Waters
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2004
" The author and his First Class Mate have provided those who may be new to boating with hundreds of tips to help make their cruising experiences safe and pleasurable "
-Jennifer Castle Field, President, Chapman School of Seamanship
"Prestegaard's writing has style and...