Sailing category: 730 books
by David Burch
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Become an Expert Small-Craft Radar Operator
Nothing beats radar for guiding your boat through the darkest night or the thickest fog. Radar enables you to plot a fix from just a single buoy or landmark, and it is the only navigation tool that tells you not just where you are, but who else or what else...
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...
by Frank Mulville
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 1988
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 1988
The Integrity was one of the best known American sailing craft of the 1960s; built ina famous boatyard in Dartmouth, New England, not far from where Slocum built the Spray, she was the dream boat of her owner, Waldo Howland. She cruised the West Indies and crossed the Atlantic to visit Ireland and...
The Cape Horners' Club
Tales of Triumph and Disaster at the World's Most Feared Cape
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Cape Horn's fearsome reputation and the price it has extacted from those who venture there derives from a lethal contrivance of geography that unleashes the most powerful natural dynamic forces on the earth's surface. Reaching deep into the Southern Ocean, the Cape intrudes into the flow of the water...
by Michael Briant
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2018
If you are planning to live aboard your sailing boat then this book is essential reading. Written by Michael E Briant it is a complete guide to living aboard and circumnavigating the world.
Chapters:
Which Boat and What Equipment?
The Canal Route to the Sun.
The Sea...
by Rod Heikell
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
The Accidental SailorIn 1976 Rod Heikell set off in Roulette, a 20 foot boat that should probably have never left the sheltered waters of the Solent, for the Mediterranean. Via the French Canals and Biscay he somehow got to the Mediterranean and sailed to Corsica, Italy and onto Greece. It records...
The Impractical Boat Owner
Tales and Trials from Years of Floundering Afloat
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
This is a book with no practical purpose whatsoever. As any fan of Dave's would probably guess, a book by him won't make you a better sailor, and it won't provide any instruction on boat maintenance. But it will entertain – his light but observational writings tap the rich well of all those things...
Mischief among the Penguins
Hand (man) wanted for long voyage in small boat. No pay, no prospects, not much pleasure.
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
‘Hand (man) wanted for long voyage in small boat. No pay, no prospects, not much pleasure.’
So read the crew notice placed in the personal column of The Times by H.W. ‘Bill’ Tilman in the spring of 1959. This approach to selecting volunteers for a year-long voyage of 20,000 miles brought...
by Doug Sanderson
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Author Doug Sanderson takes you along on a sailing trip that spans two years. He abandons his job in Seattle and purchases a Formosa 46 in Florida. After a frantic couple of months getting the boat ready, Doug sets sail for whatever adventures await him. His trip includes Florida, The Bahamas, Turks...
Tactics Made Simple
Sailboat racing tactics explained simply
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Olympic gold medallist and multiple world champion, Paul Goodison, explains why this book is important if you want to win races. He says: “To win sailboat races you need to sail the boat fast. This comes down to hours on the water training and tuning – there are few shortcuts to hours of practising...
Sun, Wind, & Water - Part 1 of 2
The Essential Guide to the Energy-Efficient Cruising Boat
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
This is Part 1 of 2 of Sun, Wind, & Water, The Essential Guide to the Energy-Efficient Cruising Boat.
Part 1 covers the following topics:
• Main Power Plant
• Engine Alternators
• Gas & Diesel Generator Sets
• Alternative Fuels
• ...
A Strait, some Sounds, and a Sea
Robinetta, #6
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
In 2017 We took our gaff cutter Robinetta from Holyhead on Anglesey up to Scotland, (via Liverpool), then down the Welsh side of the Irish Sea to Bristol.
This book is an account of that journey, with all its attendant joys and trials, including a radio that would not stay on station, an engine...
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....
Flirting with Mermaids: The Unpredictable Life of a Sailboat Delivery Skipper
Lyons Press Maritime Classics
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Over the course of twenty years of delivering sailboats to far-flung quaysides, John Kretschmer has had innumerable adventures, both humorous and terrifying. in Flirting with Mermaids, he recounts the most memorable of them.
He crosses the Western Caribbean with a crew of eccentric Swedes researching...