Water Sports category: 1998 books

What starts as a simple fishing trip becomes a cathartic experience in the untamed wilderness of Ontario’s northwestern canoe country. A nine-day fishing trip turns into a profound life-altering event and marks the beginning of a lifelong love affair with the untamed wilderness of Canoe Country...

Ross McIntyre and his wife Jean spent 40 years together paddling the great wilderness rivers of North America. Paddle Beads is Ross’s inspirational and moving memoir of those trips and the resultant lifetime journey they took together.

Surfing has grown from a pastime enjoyed in old Polynesia to a global pursuit with legions of devoted fans, the author among them. For many, surfing is a state-of-mind, a life-style that has become a consuming passion. For others, it is a highly enjoyable weekend pastime.This concise collection...

The Psychology of Racing for Dinghies and Keelboats is an inspirational practical guide to mind training for racing sailors. Aimed at aspiring dinghy sailors as well as yacht racers, the style is light, friendly and conversational - designed to inspire, guide and promote positive analytical thinking...

Jim Landwehr and his brothers pursue their love of the outdoors by tackling some of the country's most remote terrain, the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. While encountering crazed loons, widow-making portages, and temperamental automobiles, they also discover more about each other and their long deceased...

Now, for the first time ever, and only for a limited time, you can get this value-priced, limited edition boxed set. Find Your Hobby Box Set includes three bestselling books from My Ebook Publishing House: Book #1 Everything About Scrabble First introduced to the public in the mid 1950s, Scrabble...

Recounted with his usual level of meticulous historical research, Rod weaves an easily readable account of the build-up to and implementation of Operation Desecrate 1 – the raid undertaken to destroy Japanese ships and aircraft in the lagoons of Palau. He uses his intimate knowledge of shipwrecks...

When Christopher Madsen made the snap decision—perhaps a rash decision—to buy and renovate the famous 1916 racing yacht for which this story is named, he could scarcely have imagined the consequences that were to follow. During the renovation Madsen's investigation of the original owner, New York...

For four hundred years, the journals of all the great explorers of Canada have mentioned the Deux Joachims portage and the wild Rivière du Moine as they made their way west to discover riches, routes, or souls to save. The Du Moine is the last of the ten major Quebec tributaries of the Ottawa River...

A Concise and Simple Treatise ON THE MANAGEMENT OF SMALL BOATS AND YACHTS UNDER ALL CONDITIONS, WITH EXPLANATORY CHAPTERS ON ORDINARY SEA-MANŒUVRES, AND THE USE OF SAILS, HELM, AND ANCHOR, AND ADVICE AS TO WHAT IS PROPER TO BE DONE IN DIFFERENT EMERGENCIES; SUPPLEMENTED BY A SHORT VOCABULARY OF NAUTICAL TERMS.

In May 1946 John Caldwell set out to sail from Panama to Sydney to reunite with his wife who he hadn't seen for more than a year. Eager to reach his destination and unable to secure any other form of transport, he had to resort to singlehanded seamanship. After an ignominious scene in the harbor,...

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS On this Book On Seamanship On Boats in General On One-man Boats On Sea-going Boats On Rigs On Sail as an Auxiliary On Reefing On Anchors and Anchoring On Rigging On Stranding

Kodoku is the true story of a young Japanese sailor whose fascination with the art of sailing led him on a solo trans-Pacific journey. First described in a best-selling Japanese book, then an internationally acclaimed motion picture, Kodoku is the full record of the background, conception,...