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Freshwater Heritage
A History of Sail on the Great Lakes, 1670-1918
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2007
Freshwater Heritage: A History of Sail on the Great Lakes, 1670-1918 represents the culmination of a lifelong passion for sailing and for the history of sail as it applies to Canada. Author/sailor/boat builder Don Bamford takes us deep into the psyche of sailing as it applies to historical events...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
--Mark Twain
It’s telling that Mark Twain chose...
by Soren Krause
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2012
Your comprehensive reference for sailboat racing
Paul Elvstrom Explains the Racing Rules of Sailing has accompanied sailors to regattas since 1965. This new edition of the book--known to all simply as “Elvstrom” and famous for its plastic boats and wind arrows-- incorporates the complete...
Day Sailing Round Ireland
Robinetta, #5
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Circumnavigating Ireland is hardly an unusual thing. Yachts do it every year, many of them in the Biannual Volvo Round Ireland race. In 2016 63 yachts took part in this, travelling 704 nm non-stop. The fastest (a multi-hull) got round in under 39 hours with the first monohull managing it in just over...
Teach Dinghy Sailing
Learn to Communicate Effectively & Get Your Students Sailing!
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2008
Whether drifting in Optimists or skimming the water in a catamaran, the principles of instruction are the same and the major difficulty is communicating knowledge. This is a step-by-step course in how to teach beginners to sail safely and effectively. It takes you through the basics of teaching someone...
Sailing's Strangest Tales
Extraordinary but true stories from over nine hundred years of sailing
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
This fascinating collection of entertaining stories from the seven seas reveals unusual and bizarre sailing trips, vessels and characters, and recounts perilous journeys in freak weather and other legendary tales.
Within these pages you’ll find stories of pirates holding ships to ransom and...
Ate the Dog Yesterday
Maritime Casualties, Calamities and Catastrophes
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
The constant dangers that deep-sea sailing ships and sailors of the late 19th century and early 20th centuries faced were numerous and this book recounts the true-life dramas of their perils and misfortunes – the battles that they waged, and all too often lost – against the hazards of the sea....
by Bob Orrell
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
To celebrate 60 years of sailing Scottish waters, the author single-handedly sailed Halcyon, a 32ft wooden yawl, from Fairlie on the Clyde, round the Mull of Kintyre by way of numerous inner islands to Barra in the Outer Hebrides and to the Atlantic side of the islands, not often visited by cruising...
Second Wind
A Sunfish Sailor, an Island, and the Voyage That Brought a Family Together
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
**A charming memoir of midlife by the bestselling author of Mayflower and In the Hurricane's Eye, recounting his attempt to recapture a national sailing championship he'd won at twenty-two.
“There had been something elemental and all consuming about a Sunfish. Nothing could compare to the...
Quality Time?
Celebrating 50 years of sailing & the life of 'The world's greatest yachting cartoonist'
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Published to celebrate the life of Mike Peyton, ‘the world’s greatest yachting cartoonist’, this second edition features personal tributes from some 12 other successful and well-known sailors (including Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, Sir Ben Ainslie and Tom Cunliffe). They all recognise Mike’s observational...
Sailing a Serious Ocean : Sailboats, Storms, Stories and Lessons Learned from 30 Years at Sea
Sailboats, Storms, Stories and Lessons Learned from 30 Years at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Learn what it takes to cross an ocean from a veteran sailor
In Sailing a Serious Ocean, author John Kretschmer uses his experiences and stories to show you what you will need to across an ocean or go around the world, in fair weather or foul. His true accounts of storms and other challenges...
Winging It
ORACLE TEAM USA's Incredible Comeback to Defend the America's Cup
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
"The design and tactical battles that led to the most exciting America’s Cup in history are laid out in meticulous detail in Winging It: Oracle Team USA’s Incredible Comeback to Defend The America’s Cup. Written by three veteran sailing journalists, Winging It provides an insider’s look...
by Geoff Titterton
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
It was 1987 when the idea of sailing away into the sunset became a lot more than just a dream. I had spent my whole career enjoying my work as a TV cameraman, lighting director, and technical coordinator with BBC. During that time, I raised a family and saw Lucy and Chris grow into two fine adults....
by Robin Knox-Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2010
One of Britain’s greatest living sailors shares a collection of distilled wisdom, acute observation and fascinating anecdotes. _x000D_This book is a collection of provoking, insightful and perceptive pieces of writing by Robin Knox-Johnston. His forthright and compelling views are based on a wealth...