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Learn the Nautical Rules of the Road
The Essential Guide to the COLREGs
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Collisions are expensive! Learning, understanding and remembering the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (COLREGs) is essential for anyone venturing onto the water. Leisure boaters, as much as professional mariners, need to know the rules, and a firm understanding is required...
A Steady Trade
A Boyhood at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
A memoir of growing up in pre-World War II Wales and developing a love of sailing and adventure, by the author of The Incredible Voyage.
Tristan Jones vividly and colorfully describes his childhood as a Welsh boy growing up by the sea. The story of his boyhood in pre-World War II England is...
by Tristan Jones
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
A “unique and arresting” memoir of seafaring adventures from the small boat sailor and author of Ice! and The Incredible Voyage (Motorboat & Yachting).
Tristan Jones was one of the most acclaimed sea-faring storytellers ever. The combative Welshman was born at sea on a ship off Tristan...
Gay Head Lighthouse
The First Light on Martha's Vineyard
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Standing tall on the colorful clay cliffs of Martha's Vineyard, Gay Head Lighthouse has provided safe passage to seafarers since 1799. The steadfast tower marks a dangerous and heavily traveled passage between the island and mainland known as Devil's Bridge. Being the first lighthouse on the Vineyard,...
Au Sable Point Lighthouse
Beacon on Lake Superior's Shipwreck Coast
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Skeleton ship frames surround Au Sable Point, marking a mile-long sandstone reef that reached out into Lake Superior waiting to grab any and all ships that passed by. In an effort to end this tragic loss of lives, the Au Sable Point Lighthouse was constructed to warn mariners of its hidden reef. At the...
by Bill Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2009
Bill Johnson clearly explains what radar is, outlining what it does and doesn't do. He describes how to make simple adjustments to get a decent picture, and explores how to use the basic radar. This is followed by greater information on the various confusions and anomalies that the picture can present,...
Multihull Seamanship
An A-Z of skills for catamarans & trimarans / cruising & racing
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
This is an A-Z of seamanship skills for multihull sailors. There are many textbooks on the market which detail general seamanship principles. This is not one of them. Multihull Seamanship is about sea-going catamarans and trimarans and the skills needed to understand and enjoy them to their utmost....
Short-Handed Sailing
Sailing solo or short-handed
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
While relatively few cruise single-handed, many sail short-handed. It may be a couple sailing together or a skipper with a novice crew – he may have lots of people onboard but, in terms of the sailing, he is probably short-handed. They soon discover that there is so much more to short-handed sailing...
by Patricia Gumbrell
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Now that lighthouse automation has been completed, what of the service and dedication to duty that was unfailingly provided by keepers, their associates and their families? Last of the Line is an account of four generations of lightkeepers, the first being John Hall, the author's great-great-grandfather,...
Trammel's Trace
The First Road to Texas from the North
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Trammel’s Trace tells the story of a borderlands smuggler and an important passageway into early Texas.
Trammel’s Trace, named for Nicholas Trammell, was the first route from the United States into the northern boundaries of Spanish Texas. From the Great Bend of the Red River it intersected...
Il sogno sostenibile
Da Ponza alla Polinesia
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 19, 2018
“Non lo so, ma un giorno partirò.” Da queste parole, pronunciate quasi per difendersi dal dubbio che potesse aver ragione chi ripeteva che a trentacinque anni occorre dar conto alla concretezza della vita vera, ha preso forma quello che si sarebbe trasformato in “un giro del mondo a tappe,...
by James T. Lloyd
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
According to James Lloyd, the 1856 publisher of this guide, "The price of this volume is so small, that every man, woman and child, should have a copy for reference..." However true that may have been, they might not have wanted to refer to it while ACTUALLY RIDING ON A STEAMBOAT. The largest portion...
GMDSS
A User's Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
The Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) - the maritime equivalent to the emergency services number - provides a fast and efficient way of calling for assistance at sea, whatever the size of craft or its location.
Denise Bréhaut explains the operation of the system as a whole...
The Toronto Carrying Place
Rediscovering Toronto's Most Ancient Trail
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2015
2016 Heritage Toronto Book Award — Nominated
Buried beneath Toronto’s streets is a centuries-old trail that was once the road to wealth, adventure, or violent death for thousands of travellers. Now its route lies hidden and forgotten under sidewalks and farmland, though its influence can...