Sailing category: 730 books
by Adrian Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Drawn from the best of Adrian Morgan's entertaining columns musing on the world of traditional boats and the joys of building, sailing and working on them, here is his long-awaited bunkside read. Billed as a 'zen and the art of wooden boatbuilding', it will resonate with classic boat enthusiasts everywhere. Illustrated with evocative watercolour paintings by Charlotte Watters.
Doumar and the Doctor
The true story of a courageous adventurer
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
You will be challenged and inspired as you join Neville on board for this real-life, white-knuckle adventure on the high seas...
A magnifi cent account of courage and perseverance as a young doctor takes time off from his busy practice to sail a 31' yacht (single-handed much of the way) from...
The Frozen Frontier
Polar Bound through the Northwest Passage
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
The Northwest Passage proved so elusive for so long that many sailors and explorers believed it didn't actually exist. A sea route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through the Arctic archipelago, it wasn't until Roald Amundsen's 1903–06 voyage that the Northwest Passage's existence was...
Robinetta, There and Back Again, the 2013 log
Robinetta, #2
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
This is the story of a year in the life of a small old wooden gaff rigged sailing yacht. It contains details of the maintance needed to keep a 76 year old boat going, as well as what can do wrong over the course of a season, with both boat and crew. We have owned Robinetta since 2007, and this is...
The Adventures of Chas from Tas
Renegades at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Thrown into freezing Southern Ocean waters on a stormy, moonless night as a boy Chas from Tas survived and was fated to live a life of adventure as a renegade at sea.
Swearing never to take an ordinary job, it’s a promise he has kept, voyaging more miles than to the moon one and a half times and...
The Pacific Crossing Guide
RCC Pilotage Foundation with Ocean Cruising Club
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2013
The Pacific Crossing Guide is a complete reference for anyone contemplating sailing the Pacific in their own boat. From ideal timing, suitable boats, routes, methods of communication and provisioning to seasonal weather, departure and arrival ports, facilities, likely costs and dangers, the comprehensiveness...
Hidden Paths
Sailing the Backyards of the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
After finishing a circumnavigation over five years, Klaus and Maria Haeussler reentered the civil life with its struggle and routine. But they had underestimated the sustainable impact of the free life. And so it wasn’t a surprise that they were on the way again after two years on land - this time...
by Georges Leblanc
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
PUSHING THE LIMITS is a true account of the dramatic events that drastically changed my life in September 1998. That was when I attempted to qualify for the solo sailing race, “The Rum Route,” in my sailboat Thriller.
This book takes you through a solo Atlantic crossing on the open sea...
Marine Diesel Engines
Maintenance, Troubleshooting, and Repair
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
Praise for this boating classic:
“The most up-to-date and readable book we've seen on the subject.”—Sailing World
“Deserves a place on any diesel-powered boat.”—Motor Boat & Yachting
“Clear, logical, and even interesting to read.”—Cruising World
Keep your...
Where the Magic Happens
How a Young Family Changed Their Lives and Sailed Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
In June 2009, Caspar and Nichola created a plan to sail around the world with their young children. Most people thought they were crazy. But over the past seven years they've embraced every moment of this momentous chapter of their lives. Five years of planning – the vision, the values, the practicalities,...
The Complete Day Skipper
Skippering with Confidence Right From the Start
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
The Complete Day Skipper is a totally practical hands-on manual that covers the RYA Day Skipper syllabus in a way that reflects a skipper's growing experience at sea, beginning with yacht handling under power, moving on to boat husbandry and sailing skills, and from there to the realistic use of modern...
Schooner to the Southern Oceans
The Captain James Cook Bicentenary Voyage 1776-1976
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Gordon Cook set out from Plymouth with his wife Mary and their two very young children, Sue and Jon, to repeat the third and last voyage that Captain James Cook made in 1776. The bicentenaries of Captain Cook’s first two voyages in 1963 and 1969 had both passed with little or nothing to celebrate...
by Cecil Kuhne
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
“The wind was blowing at hurricane strength-sixty-five knots and over-and increasing in the gusts to eighty knots. His boat was surfing on waves as high as a sixty-foot, six-storey building. . .Each wave that struck choked and froze him, the icy water working its way down inside his survival suit.”...
by Richard Maury
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
First published in 1939, this book is a vivid account of Richard Maury’s voyage from New York to Fiji in the small, 35-foot, Nova Scotia-built schooner Cimba. When a 23-year-old Maury and a likeminded sailor filled with wanderlust set off into the winter North Atlantic on November 30, 1933, it proved...