Boating category: 581 books
by Nic Compton
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2013
Why will a sailor never go to sea on Friday 13th?
Why are boats always referred to as 'she'?
How do you navigate the ocean without a compass?
Does the Bermuda Triangle really exist?
Why do sailors wear earrings?
Did Blackbeard actually exist?
Did Nelson really say 'Kiss me, Hardy'?
What's the correct...
Marine Diesel Basics 1
Maintenance, Lay-up, winter Protection, Tropical Storage, Spring Recommission
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
Seeing is understanding! With 300+ illustrations and 222 pages this book explains:
all basic maintenance tasks of the marine diesel system - fuel, lubrication, cooling, breathing, electrical, and drive train (coupling, shaft, shaft seal, propeller)
all the tasks to winterize the complete system...
by Roger Oliver
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
This book, based on a highly successful series of articles in Practical Boat Owner magazine, is a detailed practical guide to sailing around the UK - all by means of day sails.
Roger
Oliver, a passionate sailor, explains his in-depth passage planning,
boat preparations, weather checks and log-keeping,...
Building Chris-Craft
Inside the Factories
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2010
For more than half a century, Chris-Craft reigned supreme in the world of motorboating. This market dominance was due in no small part to the design and construction techniques employed in the company’s studios and on its factory floors.
Building Chris-Craft examines the company’s design...
by John Champion
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
The book details some boat systems such as windlasses and anchoring rode. Compares the options available and the benefits of horizontal and vertical windlasses. Explains what to consider when shopping for a windlass and how to calculate what size to buy. Chapter 2 deals with best installation practice....
Yachting Monthly's Confessions
Yachtsmen Own Up to Their Sailing Sins
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
This is a wonderful cherry-picked collection of humiliating misadventures from the enduringly popular Confessional column of Yachting Monthly magazine.
For over 25 years, yachtsmen have clamoured to tell the world
about their most embarrassing exploits and their most shameful
blunders, and...
The Knot Bible
The Complete Guide to Knots and Their Uses
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
The complete and definitive bible of knots for seafarers.
Featuring all the knots, hitches, bends, splices, whipping and decorative knotwork that you would find on a boat, this comprehensive bible of knots will help those who go to sea master every knot they will need.
Over 200 knots...
Ashanti Sails South
Tales and Tips from Our Cruising Adventure - Canada to Florida and the Bahamas
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2016
ABOUT THE BOOK:
After three decades of hard work Carola and Elmar, her husband and captain, are about to fulfil their lifelong dream: To sail south on Ashanti, their CS 36T sailboat. Despite their misgivings of abandoning house and family, and whether their boat and 33-year marriage will survive...
by Alastair Buchan
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Planning and carrying out a successful, safe and enjoyable passage is a real art, and this book covers the whole process, from planning before setting off to fine tuning once underway.
This book shows how planning is about making the most of your time, your crew, and giving you the confidence...
Fifty Places to Sail Before You Die
Sailing Experts Share the World's Greatest Destinations
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
Landlubbers joke that sailors are always wanting to head off to the ends of the earth, but Chris Santella takes that life-changing desire very seriously. In this, the third installment in his immensely successful Fifty Places” series, Santella assembles a crew of the world’s greatest championship...
The Last Voyageur
Amos Burg and the Rivers of the West
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Boatman's Quarterly review: "It will keep you on the edge of your easy chair. You'll want to read this Amos Burg book by Vince Welch more than once, that's for sure."CLICK HERE to download the first 45 pages from, The Last Voyageur(Provide us with a little information and we'll send your...
Solitaire Spirit: Three times around the world single-handed
Three Times Around the World Single-Handed
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Les Powles only had 8 hours of sailing experience when he decided to sail solo around the world. Many novices would be content to just dream of such an adventure, and maybe get as far as a solo Channel crossing a couple of years down the line. Not so Les Powles, one of the twentieth century's most...
Lee Shore Blues
Sex, Drugs and Bluewater Sailing
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Lee Shore Blues is not your average nautical book. Peter Heiberg takes us on an irreverent charge through the highlights of his life at sea, from evading the homosexual advances of a 300-pound steward in the mid-Pacific at 19 years of age, to rebuilding and sailing a thirty-ton engineless Bristol...
by Matt Vance
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
To sail a boat is a magical, and sometimes mystical, experience. The sailor is free from the cares of life on land, entirely absorbed in the enterprise of moving a craft across the water. For the uninitiated, though, willingly putting oneself at the mercy of nature’s unpredictable forces, winds,...