Sailing category: 730 books
by Sara Dawn Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
"People have told us how lucky we are, to get to sail far away. My typical response is to say luck has little to do with it, that we've worked so very hard, made many difficult decisions, and given up so much for so many years to get to this place on the Earth. But on nights like this, under...
Ultimate Classic Yachts
20 of the World's Most Beautiful Classic Yachts
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Former Classic Boat editor Nic Compton has spent over 20 years sailing and photographing classic yachts, and this is the culmination of his decades-long passion - a stunning collection showcasing the 20 most beautiful and fascinating classic boats still sailing today.
They include:
Bona...
The America's Cup
History, teams and yachts
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2018
This book will take you in the sailing world and describe its competitive extremes. Never too technical to be understood, the volume will first provide you with the history of the most important competition in the sailing world. It will explain then the intricate evolution of the rules governing the...
by Richard Clover
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
The Ingenious Life of Melbourne Smith
One Man's Revival of Historic Sailing Vessels
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
In 1976 a team of hand-tool shipwrights and a blacksmith, working with raw materials on a bare public lot, re-created a fully functional Baltimore clipper. The feat was like bringing a woolly mammoth back to life. This ship, Pride of Baltimore, a topsail schooner with a sail plan of well over nine...
by Various Authors
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
This book is a collection of historical articles about yachting, with information on design, construction, maintenance, repairing, sailing, and many other related aspects. Carefully selected for a modern readership, this timeless volume will be of considerable utility to anyone with a practical interest...
The Adlard Coles Book of Mediterranean Cruising
4th edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
This is the perfect guide for anyone cruising in the Mediterranean by Rod Heikell, the acknowledged expert on Mediterranean sailing. Thoroughly updated, this new edition conveys the magic of Mediterranean cruising, as well as giving practical first-hand advice on sailing these enticing waters.
Although...
Paasch's Illustrated Marine Dictionary
Originally Published as ?From Keel to Truck?
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Captain Heinrich Paasch was the first to recognize the complexity and variety in marine vocabulary and technical terminology and the inherent need for a cohesive classification of nautical terms. Equipped with over thirty-five years of seafaring experience, including as a sailor, captain, and as a...
by Maurice Griffiths
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2020
The Magic of the Swatchways
was Maurice Griffiths' favourite book. In the words of John Leather,
'few sailing books become classics like this one', and since first
publication in 1932 it has lost none of that fresh charm which has
endeared it to so many generations of sailing.
The book tells...
Sloop
Restoring My Family's Wooden Sailboat--An Adventure in Old-Fashioned Values
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Now in paperback, Daniel Robb’s Sloop proves he “is a craftsman… with words as well as with a hammer, as he constructs a charming tale that both details the technical nature of boatbuilding and captures the essence of the past, present, and future of a New England maritime community” (Publishers...
Finding Pax
Expanded edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
'The boat appeared when I didn't expect or, frankly, need her. My bucket list was empty. Life was full…But sailing towards me was a boat that would stir the waters, waking decades of loss, revealing history untold, and restoring a legacy that was lost in the wind. For her and for me, I had to wade...
A Funny Old Life
An Anecdotal Romp Through the Sailing Career of Des Sleightholme
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Des Sleightholme, former Editor of Yachting Monthly" for many years, is well known for his irreverent outlook on the Establishment and for his unfailing eye for the funny side of things; here he takes on a hilarious anecdotal romp through his sailing life.
From childhood efforts to get afloat...
by Michael Briant
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
The passage from the UK down to the Mediterranean does not need to be like an 'outward' bound course. The book is designed to help the lightly crewed boat, with perhaps only a couple of people on board, who are without much or indeed any 'offshore’ experience, have a relaxed and enjoyable time.
If...
by Linda K Ford
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
On May 5th, 1994, at 9.30 am on a chilly, sunlit day, Ebony, a 36ft Roberts Spray, left the safety of Lyttelton Harbour in New Zealand, to venture into the unknown, where nothing would be predictable.
The voyage plan was to follow the famous trade wind route, sailing from New Zealand to England.
All...