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The use of flags afloat and in most maritime situations is of interest and relevance to anyone going to sea whether for commerce or pleasure. This handy pocket-sized guide, now revised for its second edition, is the perfect on-board reference to the maritime flags of the world and their usage....

Carefully selecting the best articles from our collection of classic magazines we have compiled a series of informative publications on the subject of sport. The titles in this range include 'Correct Technique for the Great Sport of Golf,' 'A Traditional Guide to Swimming and Diving,' 'The Gentleman's...

A less common way of tying a bowline knot without taking the rabbit around the tree and back in the hole.

In the spring and summer of 2007, off the coast of Valencia, the 32nd challenge for the America's Cup was sailed; possibly yachting's oldest continuously contested trophy, and often referred to in the purple press as 'Yachting's Holy Grail'. It attracted yachts from all over the world with the 12...

There are selections from the front page of the Nassau Tribune, immediately following Hurricane Andrew, an article about falling overboard from a yacht in a snow storm in Cruising World, and an essay in The Concord Review of History (published when the author was 18), the Bahamas Historical Society...

A pocket database containing everything a busy skipper needs to know but might find hard to remember. It is easy to take for granted how much a skipper needs to know : Navigation, how to pilot the boat into a new harbour, using the radio, checking the engine, keeping an eye out for things that need...

The time when every vessel going to sea made use of 3-strand rope has gone. Splicing that type of rope and cord is relatively straightforward. Nowadays the most common type of rope used on board yachts, dinghies, motorboats, working boats and ferries is braided rope. Few people have the knowledge...

The book visits the ports and marinas between Gibraltar and Port Napoleon all the way along the Costa del Sol. It has port plans, descriptions, indication of cost, and what sort of place it is. Tells you about the hazards and best routes as well as information about the area. If...

If you are currently or planning to sail in the Mediterranean then this book will show you the best routes to the islands, how to do it in both the fastest and easiest way plus details of all the ports and marinas you will visit together with their mooring price in high summer! Includes distance tables,...

C'est un sillage fabuleux qu'aura tracé Alacaluf. Une grande boucle, avec un passage obligé sur la terre de ses ancêtres, aux confins de la Patagonie. Et, pour le lecteur, c'est un livre en trois dimensions... Subaquatique lorsqu'il plonge avec Alain, en apnée ou en scaphandre, et se fond dans...

Written between 1994 and 2009, is a memoir of global travel and an unfulfilled college crush. The book follows the narrator out of school and across the Pacific. At only 23 he has command of a 68-foot Burmese-teak ketch built in Scotland thrust upon him. The owner is on a voyage home to his death,...

Drei Beaufort: Ist purer Spaß. Vier Beaufort: Ist Freude. Fünf Beaufort: Ist Freude. Mit Bangen gemischt. Sechs Beaufort: Ist Bangen. Mit Freude gemischt. Sieben Beaufort: Ist Bangen. Acht Beaufort: Ist Angst. Neun Beaufort: 'Where is my Mommy?' Die Beaufort-Einteilung nach der gefühlten Windwahrnehmung...

Die nasse deutsche Grenze – wer kennt sie schon? Anders als bei Mauer und Stacheldraht gab es über sie bisher keine Dokumentation. Westsegler fürchteten den unsichtbaren Todesstreifen. Ihnen schien das Feuer von Kap Arkona wie Licht von einem fremden, gefährlichen Stern. Ostsegler wurden mit...

You have now sailed thousands of miles with us aboard the good ship Osprey. That 41 foot sloop has carried us half way across the mighty South Pacific Ocean; where we have been met by severe storms with giant seas of fifty feet, to peaceful waters where we have anchored in magnificent lagoons with...