Sailing category: 730 books
One Wild Song
A Voyage in a Lost Son's Wake
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
When Countrywise presenter Paul Heiney's son Nicholas committed suicide aged 23, Paul and his wife, Times columnist Libby Purves, were rocked to the core. Nicholas had been a highly gifted promising young man, albeit he had struggled to keep his head above water at times as severe depression slowly...
The Weather Handbook
An Essential Guide to How Weather is Formed and Develops
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
The Weather Handbook is the essential guide to how the weather is formed, providing readers with the ability to look at the sky and interpret its signs, and combine this knowledge with information provided by professional forecasts to assess for themselves what the coming weather is likely to be.
This...
The Field Guide to Knots
How to Identify, Tie, and Untie Over 80 Essential Knots for Outdoor Pursuits
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
A Fasten-ating Guide to Knots for Every Adventure!
The perfect knot can make any job quicker, easier, and safer—whether you need to build a shelter, tether a horse, rappel down a cliff, or moor a boat. In The Field Guide to Knots, veteran outdoorsman Bob Holtzman helps you:
Select and...
Make Money With Your Captain's License
How to Get a Job or Run a Business on a Boat
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2007
A practical guide to turning your love for boating into money in the bank
You may dream of making your passion for the sport a means for a livelihood. Whether you are looking for new employment possibilities or wanting to remain active in your golden years, Captain Brown can help turn your...
Salty Dog Talk
The Nautical Origins of Everyday Expressions
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Most of us never realise how many words and expressions used in
everyday English have a nautical origin. This fascinating and charming
pocket book explains the seafaring beginnings of over 200 such phrases- colourful, bizarre and surprising - and how they came ashore.
Just a few examples are:
Chock-a-block
Chance...
First Aid Afloat
Instant Advice on Dealing with Medical Emergencies at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2010
Aimed at the novice first-aider, this book is intended to be used at the time of the accident or illness. Each topic is designed to be read at a glance: the language kept short and simple and, where appropriate, photo sequences show exactly what to do. As long as you can read, you can help. Straightforward...
by David Fairhall, Mike Peyton
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2013
Both concise and comprehensive, this out-and-out 'crammer' covers all the essentials of the RYA Day Skipper syllabus, arranged and highlighted to make revising easier and now updated and expanded for the fifth edition. Since the first edition was published, Pass Your Day Skipper has helped thousands...
by Deborah Russeff
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
You can learn a great deal from others experiences. As we went through our used sailboat buying experiences we documented every step of our long and somewhat painstaking journey along the way. Tim has over 25 years experience as a commercial crab fisherman and journeyman ship fitter and I have a talent...
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...
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...
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...
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...
High Mountains and Cold Seas
The life of H.W. ‘Bill’ Tilman: soldier, mountaineer, navigator
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Harold William ‘Bill’ Tilman (1898 –1977) was among the greatest adventurers of his time, a pioneering mountaineer and sailor who held exploration above all else.
The son of a Liverpool sugar importer, Tilman joined the army at seventeen and was twice awarded the Military Cross for bravery...