Water Sports category: 1998 books
by Nick Craig
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Unless you have unbeatable boatspeed, tactics are vital to winning sailboat races. Multi-champion, Nick Craig, shows you how to develop a strategy and what tactics to adopt on every leg and at every mark of the course. His first book, Helming to Win, was described as “original, thought provoking…...
by Ian Pinnell, Tim Davison
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
For most sailors, boat tuning may seem a mystery understood only by sailmakers and the like. In this book, sailor, chandler and championship winner, Ian Pinnell, unravels this daunting subject and will help improve your boatspeed as a result. Since most races are won or lost by a difference of less...
Caribbean Islands Cruising Guide
USA Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2018
This version of the popular ‘Caribbean Islands Cruising Guide’ is for sailors coming from the USA or Canada and heading into the islands for a season or longer. All the routes are geared to Southbound Yachts
The ***American Caribbean Islands Cruising Guide ***details exactly the best...
by Stephen J Pavlidis
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
This edition is Part VI of The Island Hopping Digital Guide to the Windward Islands and covers Trinidad and Tobago.
The Island Hopping Digital Guides are the digital versions of the world-famous cruising guides written by Stephen J. Pavlidis. Over the past 20 years, Stephen J. Pavlidis has...
by Stephen J Pavlidis
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
This edition is Part III of The Island Hopping Digital Guide to the Leeward Islands and covers Antigua and Barbuda in the Caribbean.
The Island Hopping Digital Guides are the digital versions of the world-famous cruising guides written by Stephen J. Pavlidis. Over the past 20 years, Stephen...
The Island Hopping Digital Guide to the Leeward Islands - Part II - Saba to Montserrat
Including Saba, St. Eustatia (Statia), St. Christopher (St Kitts), Nevis, The Kingdom of Redonda, and Montserrat
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
This edition is Part II of The Island Hopping Digital Guide to the Leeward Islands and covers the region of the Caribbean from Saba to Montserrat, including Saba, St. Eustatia (Statia), St. Christopher (St Kitts), Nevis, The Kingdom of Redonda, and Montserrat.
The Island Hopping Digital Guides...
Signalisation maritime
Balises, signaux portuaires, marée et météo
Language: French
Release Date: June 9, 2016
Pour naviguer en sécurité, c’est-à-dire pour suivre sa route en évitant les dangers et en profitant des meilleures conditions de météo et de marée, il est essentiel de bien connaître :
• le balisage en mer • le balisage des plages • les feux d’entrée de port • les signaux de marée...
Diving in Indonesia
The Ultimate Guide to the World's Best Dive Spots: Bali, Komodo, Sulawesi, Papua, and more
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Diving in Indonesia is a fully comprehensive diving guidebook for exploring the most notable areas of Indonesia.
A chapter is devoted to each of the following important regions in Indonesia for divers:
Bali
North Sulawesi
Central, South and Southeast Sulawesi
Nusa Teggara (Lombok, Komodo,...
Diving in Southeast Asia
A Guide to the Best Sites in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Well–travelled divers all acknowledge that the best diving in the world is found in the warm waters of tropical Asia.
No other region on earth presents such a rich variety of marine life, and none can boast as many different types of dive sites: tiny, isolated atolls, World War II wrecks...
Keep Australia On Your Left
A True Story of an Attempt to Circumnavigate Australia by Kayak
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
"You mad bastards. You mad bloody bastards."
The challenge? Paddle a kayak around Australia.
As Eric Stiller and Tony Brown would discover, the attempt would be a fascinating, frustrating, maddening, and at times hilarious crawl around what many consider the most beautiful...
Off the Grid
Coastal British Columbia Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2015
Cabins float in a cut-off fjord of British Columbia’s South Coast, where mountains drop into the sea and lifestyles focus on self-reliance and a different sense of purpose. Up the lake and off the grid – Canada at its best. What's it like to live in a remote setting, and how do you get started?...
Exploring Everglades National Park and the Surrounding Area
A Guide to Hiking, Biking, Paddling, and Viewing Wildlife in the Region
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
This is the ultimate guide to discovering the vast "River of Grass" ecoregion of the southern Florida mainland. Packed with photographs, maps, and informative text, this guide will help outdoor enthusiasts appreciate the landscape and varied flora and fauna of this watershed whether they have a day...
by Michael Jeneid
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Explore by kayak the lagoons, bays, rivers, and lakes of Northern California, including the Russian River, San Francisco Bay, Monterey Bay, Lake Tahoe, and Donner Lake. Author Michael Jeneid hand-picked the most scenic and enjoyable kayaking areas for both beginners and experts. With this fact-filled...
Paddling Partners
Fifty Years of Northern Canoe Travel
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2008
Carol and Bruce Hodgins began leading canoe trips in 1957 for Camp Wanapitei on Lake Temagami in Northern Ontario, initially to the great rivers of that region and on into Quebec. Their first venture north of 60 found them on the South Nahanni, soon to be followed by the Coppermine River, and by the...