Water Sports category: 1998 books
Casting Off
How a City Girl Found Happiness on the High Seas
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
As a journalist for the Independent, Emma Bamford is swept along with the London rat race, lost amongst the egos of Fleet Street. Surrounded by budget cuts and bullies, the thrill of a breaking news story is no longer enough. And at 31, still struggling to get to a fourth date and surrounded by friends...
Box Wine Sailors
Misadventures of a Broke Young Couple at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
The true story of a young couple who quit their jobs and set sail for a year on the ocean with no boating experienceAmy and Jimmie were not sailors and their experience on the seas included reading a few books, watching a couple of instructional videos, and boating once a week each year. They were...
by Robert Kurson
Language: Polish
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Language: Polish
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Prawdopodobnie jest to najlepsza książka o nurkowaniu, jaką kiedykolwiek napisano; obowiązkowa pozycja na każdej marynistycznej półce. Historia dwóch przyjaciół, których determinacja i odwaga pozwoliła na wyjaśnienie jednej z ostatnich zagadek drugiej wojny światowej...
by Tom Fuller
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2017
Learn Kitesurfing Faster 2017 will give any reader a clear advantage when learning to Kitesurf.Available as Ebook or Paperback on Amazon.Clear. Short. Simple and with over 200 exclusive photos and diagrams plus exclusive contributions from 10 world Kitesurfing champions including five-time...
Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual : How to Maintain, Repair, and Improve Your Boat's Essential Systems: How to Maintain, Repair, and Improve Your Boat's Essential Systems
How to Maintain, Repair, and Improve Your Boat's Essential Systems
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2005
The boatowner's foremost troubleshooting guide, now better than ever
If it's on a boat and it has screws, wires, or moving parts, it's covered in Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual. When you leave the dock with this book aboard, you have at your fingertips the best and most comprehensive...
by Geoff Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Two veteran guides are fishing on an Algonquin summer morning when they pull Tom Thomson’s waterlogged corpse from Canoe Lake. Taking him to a remote island, they stand vigil over their friend around the clock. The events of the next twenty-four hours have fuelled the speculation and intrigue surrounding Tom’s life and untimely demise for more than a century.
Marine Diesel Engines
Maintenance, Troubleshooting, and Repair
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
Praise for this boating classic:
“The most up-to-date and readable book we've seen on the subject.”—Sailing World
“Deserves a place on any diesel-powered boat.”—Motor Boat & Yachting
“Clear, logical, and even interesting to read.”—Cruising World
Keep your...
Where the Magic Happens
How a Young Family Changed Their Lives and Sailed Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
In June 2009, Caspar and Nichola created a plan to sail around the world with their young children. Most people thought they were crazy. But over the past seven years they've embraced every moment of this momentous chapter of their lives. Five years of planning – the vision, the values, the practicalities,...
by Peter Muilenburg
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
A family with wanderlust, a sailboat to carry them across oceans, and an 11-pound dog to watch over them… These are the elements of this delightful memoir of adventurous living.
Young newlyweds Peter and Dorothy Muilenburg found their way from New Hampshire to the Virgin Islands. He had...
The Complete Day Skipper
Skippering with Confidence Right From the Start
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
The Complete Day Skipper is a totally practical hands-on manual that covers the RYA Day Skipper syllabus in a way that reflects a skipper's growing experience at sea, beginning with yacht handling under power, moving on to boat husbandry and sailing skills, and from there to the realistic use of modern...
Mostly Mischief
Including the first ascent of a mountain to start below sea level
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
'However many times it has been done, the act of casting off the warps and letting go one’s last hold of the shore at the start of a voyage has about it something solemn and irrevocable, like marriage, for better or for worse.’
Mostly Mischief’s ordinary title belies four more extraordinary...
Waypoints
Seascapes and Stories of Scotland's West Coast
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Adventure, memoir, storytelling and celebration of all things maritime meet in Waypoints, a beautifully written account of sea journeys from Scotland's west coast. In the book Ian Stephen reveals a lifetime's love affair with sailing; each voyage honours a seagoing vessel, and each adventure is accompanied...
In Mischief's Wake
In the joy of the actors lies the sense of any action. That is the explanation, that the excuse.
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
‘I felt like one who had first betrayed and then deserted a stricken friend; a friend with whom for the past fourteen years I had spent more time at sea than on land, and who, when not at sea, had seldom been out of my thoughts.’
The first of the three voyages described in In Mischief’s...
Light Airs and Yachtsman's Gales
Robinetta, #3
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
We have owned our yacht Robinetta for 7 years, and never gone far from home, but in 2014 we decided it was time she finished going round Britain.
I say finished, because after Robinetta was built at Birkenhead in 1937, she headed north, and in 1938 got to the Isle of Skye. From there she headed...