Sailing category: 730 books
by Angela Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
How is it that someone who gets seasick and loves her two showers a day attempted to sail across the Pacific in a small yacht with her new husband and baby? It can be summed up in two words. Love. Adventure. Yep, there is the love of adventure, which is pretty self explanatory. And then there is love...
Racing: A Beginner's Guide
Become a Successful Competitive Sailor (For All Classes of Boat)
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2007
This book will give a flying start to your competitive sailing career. Whatever class of boat you sail and whatever your experience, these principles will ensure you are at the front of the fleet and better prepared than the opposition. The book is illustrated with stunning step-by-step photographs,...
by James G Whitelaw
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
As a young lad of only ten years old, Jim Whitelaw is taken sailing with a friend of the family. Jim is totally enthralled and from that day forward Jim decides that one day he will buy his own yacht.It is forty years later before Jim eventually keeps his promise to himself and this book reflects...
by Frank Robert Donovan
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
The story of the tall frigates spans one of the most exciting eras of American history. As the first vessels of the United States Navy, these brave sailing ships defended the interests of the new nation on waters around the world. In dramatic duels against the French, the English, the North African...
by Melanie Neale
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2012
“Boat Girl” is the heart-breaking memoir of what it’s like to grow up aboard a sailboat. Throughout the 1980’s and 90’s, Melanie’s family lived aboard a 47-foot sailboat, spending their summers along the US East Coast and their winters in the Bahamas. But the cruising life was not all...
No Return Ticket — Leg Two
Sailing in the Treacherous Roaring Forties, Redemption and Love in the Great Barrier Reef, Pirates On Deck
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Readers around the world were enthralled by the first voyage of Skip Rowland and his yacht 'Endymion'. In this second leg of No Return Ticket, Skip tells of his further adventures battling storms, a flooded river, a host of maritime dangers and narrowly avoiding capture by pirates.
This is a story of real-life adventure at sea, told by a master story teller.
by Stuart Robinson, Magda Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
In 2012 the author and his wife left their jobs and their home in Perth, Western Australia, to sail 6000 miles to a new life in Melbourne, Victoria.Their voyage took in the remote tropical top half of Australia and included long distance passages, storms, adverse weather, breakdowns, Aboriginal communities,...
Anchorages and Marinas of the Eastern Canaries
Sailing off the coasts of Lanzarote, Fuerteventura and Gran Canaria
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Updated in October 2017. This pilot-book covers 30 marinas and anchorages of the Eastern Canary Islands, with as many chartlets and original photographs. It provides up-to-date information on marinas and ressources available there, as well as some proposals to enjoy your stay on these magnificient islands.
by Roger D. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
In his fourth book, singlehanded sailor Roger D. Taylor takes us once more to the remote corners of the Arctic. Sailing his newly-created yacht Mingming II, Roger ventures into the Baring Sea and explores the islands of north-eastern Svalbard. During the 55-day voyage to waters seldom sailed in, he...
Your First Atlantic Crossing 4th edition
A Planning Guide for Passagemakers
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Answering all of the important questions, this book shows not just how to sail an ocean for the first time, but also how to enjoy it. There are insights into the social as well as nautical reality of preparing the boat, the comfort of having highly detailed plans, the inside story of life with a crew,...
East Coast Rivers Cruising Companion
A Yachtsman's Pilot and Cruising Guide to the Waters from Lowestoft to Ramsgate
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Well established as ‘the East Coast yachtsman’s bible’, this 20th edition of Jan Harber’s classic cruising companion marks the book’s 60th anniversary. Dating back to 1956 when Jack Coote, Jan’s father, produced the first black and white edition, East Coast Rivers, now extending from Lowestoft...
Gales every Weekend
Robinetta, #4
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2015
After relaunching Robinetta in April we took her north out of the Crinan canal, hoping to reach the Outer Hebrides. With gales every weekend, and locals agreeing that it was the worst summer they could remember, we still managed to get in some great sailing!
by Trevor Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
A sequel to the author’s “Sailing alone across the Atlantic (a pensioner’s tale)”. In turns fascinating, nail-biting and astonishing. A story that was fifty years in the making, filled with drama and colour, salted with dry humour and nautical jargon.An inspiring read for land lubbers and seafarers alike, and proves first and foremost, that age is no barrier to adventure.
Yacht Were You Thinking?
An A-Z of Boat Names Good and Bad
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Naming a boat is as personal as naming a baby (even if few male skippers would risk telling the wife that). The culmination of many years of dreaming and penny pinching, the purchase of a boat of any size is a huge event for any sailor, and with that comes serious naming pressure. Many boatowners...