Water Sports category: 1998 books
West Country Cruising Companion
A Yachtsman's Pilot and Cruising Guide to Ports and Harbours from Portland Bill to Padstow, Including the Isles of Scilly
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
First published in 1988 as West Country Cruising, Mark Fishwick's definitive sailing guide for the ever attractive coastline of Dorset, Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly combines a skilful blend of pilotage and cruising information, enhanced with full colour photography, including many additional...
The Anatomy of Sail
The Yacht Dissected and Explained
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
An encyclopedic compendium of every element of a yacht, this book contains a wealth of information for the aficionado as well as the newcomer, taking apart the sailboat to explore every part of it in depth. Gloriously illustrated with beautiful photography and explanatory diagrams, each page is packed...
The Island Hopping Digital Guide To The Virgin Islands - Part II - The British Virgin Islands
Including Tortola, Jost Van Dyke, Norman Island, Virgin Gorda, and Anegada
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
This edition is Part II of The Island Hopping Digital Guide to the Virgin Islands and covers Tortola, Jost Van Dyke, Norman Island, Virgin Gorda, and Anegada.
The Island Hopping Digital Guides are the digital versions of the world-famous cruising guides written by Stephen J. Pavlidis. Over...
Rough Weather Seamanship for Sail and Power
Design, Gear, and Tactics for Coastal and Offshore Waters
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2010
Written by an accomplished naval architect, this book shows the average boater how to safely weather the fiercest storm. Rough Weather Seamanship for Sail and Power arms readers with the knowledge they need to select and modify a boat for heavy weather; understand, track, and evade storm systems;...
Ghost Wave
The Discovery of Cortes Bank and the Biggest Wave on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
Rising from the depths of the North Pacific lies a fabled island, now submerged just 15 feet below the surface of the ocean. Rumors and warnings about Cortes Bank abound, but among big wave surfers, this legendary rock is famous for one simple (and massive) reason: this is the home of the biggest...
by Jennifer Marsh
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
Swimming Drills: The Ultimate Swimming Training Guide
This book covers several topics including:
Chapter 1: History Of Swimming Chapter 2: Breaststroke Workouts Chapter 3: Basic Swimming Strokes Chapter 4: Breaststroke Kick Chapter 5: Exhaling While Swimming Chapter 6: Butterfly...
Surfing Indonesia
A Search for the World's Most Perfect Waves
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Surfing Indonesia: A Search for the World's Most Perfect Waves is a guidebook to surfing at some of the most incredible surfing destinations in the world.
Explore the history of Indonesia surfing and gain some insight from surfers alike. Surfing Indonesia takes you on a safari, an ultimate...
Let's dive
Scuba diving for kids and teens
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
The companion book for the first diving course. More and more kids and teens want to learn to dive. "Let's dive" is an excellent illustrated guide. The self-explanatory step-by-step-illustrations and the easy-to-understand texts explain in clear and simple terms and in a very interesting...
by Albert Gundani
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2014
Swimming is a life saving skill, as well as a holistic and simple exercise with benefits that go beyond physical development and improved health. Swimming stimulates intelligence and extends lifespan. Swimming can prevent your child from drowning, which is a major cause of death in young children....
Ocean Crossing Wayfarer
To Iceland and Norway in a 16ft Open Dinghy
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
This classic sea story recounts Frank Dye's intrepid voyages
in his open 16ft Wayfarer dinghy to Iceland and Norway, which must rank
among the most hazardous sea adventures of our time.
Encountering the whole gamut of weather, such is Frank Dye's
seamanship that he and his crew survived gales...
by Mark Chisnell
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2011
So, you think you’d like to sail around the world?
Imagine sunsets across calm oceans, cocktails at cosy anchorages, landfalls in amazing new places....
And then imagine something else, imagine taking part in one of the planet’s last great adventures. Imagine the story of an incredible...
by Jim Carrier
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2000
"Utterly compulsive and unputdownable--the most exciting, authentic, and humanly moving of all the recent Storm books. Brilliantly paced and perfectly balanced. . . . Carrier is a marvelously trustworthy narrator. . . . A terrific book."--Jonathan Raban, author of Passage to Juneau: A Sea...
The Weather Handbook
An Essential Guide to How Weather is Formed and Develops
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
The Weather Handbook is the essential guide to how the weather is formed, providing readers with the ability to look at the sky and interpret its signs, and combine this knowledge with information provided by professional forecasts to assess for themselves what the coming weather is likely to be.
This...
Going Foreign
Cruising Abroad for the First Time
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
Many reasonably experienced coastal sailors (and motorboaters) find the
prospect of sailing their boat to the continent appealing yet daunting.
There are so many additional aspects that all need to be taken into
account and complied with that it can seem a forbidding prospect. This
highly illustrated,...