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by Clarence Jones
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Here's what reviewers have said about this book:
This book is full of well-illustrated ideas to make your boat safer and more comfortable. All of the projects are easy and economical to perform most with common items available at any hardware store. This is a great read for novices as well as seasoned...
by Mark Chisnell
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Are you warm, safe and dry?
Good - because the ocean can be a dangerous place and never more so than when the barometric pressure plummets and huge waves start to rise up from the deep. These five short stories - chilling, funny and scary in turns - will show you just how ugly and dangerous...
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Adrift [Movie tie-in]
A True Story of Love, Loss, and Survival at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
New York Times Bestseller
The heart-stopping memoir, soon to be a major motion picture starring Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin, and directed by Baltasar Kormákur (Everest).
“An inspirational and empowering read.”****—Shailene Woodley
Young and in love, their lives ahead...
The Art of Kayaking
Everything You Need to Know About Paddling
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
The Art of Kayaking is the distilled essence of a lifetime of kayak instruction at all skill levels around the world, with the added insights gained from years of designing kayaks, paddles, and kayaking equipment. This comprehensive kayaking manual by one of the biggest names in kayaking offers more...
Kook
What Surfing Taught Me About Love, Life, and Catching the Perfect Wave
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
Author of the New York Times bestselling novel The Dog Stars
With grit, poetry, and humor, Peter Heller, acclaimed author of The Whale Warriors recounts his remarkable journey of discovery—of surfing, an entirely new challenge; of the ocean’s beauty and power; of the strange surf subculture;...
by Gary Jobson
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2008
The official learn-to-sail manual of the American Sailing Association and the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary, with over 150 line drawings and photographs.
Written by America’s foremost instructional authority, the new edition of Sailing Fundamentals combines the training programs of...
Lost!
A Harrowing True Story of Disaster at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
From the bestselling author of Blood and Money: A haunting true story of three people locked in a fierce struggle against time and the sea—and each other.
In July 1973, Bob Tininenko; his wife, Linda; and his brother in-law, Jim Fisher, set sail from Tacoma, Washington, on a thirty-one-foot...
West of Jesus
Surfing, Science, and the Origins of Belief
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
After spending two years in bed with Lyme disease, Steven Kotler had lost everything: his health, his job, his girl, and, he was beginning to suspect, his mind. Kotler, not a religious man, suddenly found himself drawn to the sport of surfing as if it were the cornerstone of a new faith. Why, he wondered,...
Get Wet, Get Fit
The Complete Guide to Getting a Swimmer's Body
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Two-time Olympic gold medalist Megan Quann Jendrick and her husband and personal trainer offer a complete training regimen -- including a diet program -- that will enable everyone to achieve the body of their dreams through swimming.
Elite-level swimmers share a common trait -- their toned,...
Fast Track to Sailing
Learn to Sail in Three Days
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2009
The learn-to-sail book for when you are in a hurry to gain your sea legs
At the Offshore Sailing School, the Colgates have taught more than 100,000 adults how to sail. Now they are making their proven instructional methods available to you so you can fulfill your sailing dreams in little time....
Left for Dead
Surviving the Deadliest Storm in Modern Sailing History
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
In August of 1979, Nick Ward began the six-hundred-mile course of the UK's Fastnet Race with perfect weather. Within forty-eight hours, the deadliest storm in the history of modern sailing had blasted through the Irish Sea, throwing one of the world's most prestigious races into bedlam and taking...
The Blue Book of Sailing : The 22 Keys to Sailing Mastery
The 22 Keys to Sailing Mastery
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
Transform basic sailing skills into true mastery
No other sport is as complex or as gear- and technique-intensive as sailing. The details and nuances are vast, but beneath the surface are 22 elements, or core areas of knowledge. By understanding these principles you can attain true mastery: tie any knot, shape any sail, take the helm of any boat, no matter how large or unfamiliar.
Rowing the Atlantic
Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
STUCK IN A corporate job rut and faced with an unraveling marriage at the age of thirty-six, Roz Savage sat down one night and wrote two versions of her own obituary -- the one that she wanted and the one she was heading for. They were very different. She realized that if she carried on as she was,...
by Glenn Shute
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
you flick out your favourite lure into the reeds and begin to slowly retrieve the line. a ripple appears, moving fast towards the lure and then suddenly the fish strikes and you are in for the fight of your life!bass fishing has now become a world wide past time enjoyed by millions of people...