Water Sports category: 1998 books

POCO BUENO is the story of every man's fantasy - escaping the life-numbing prison of his nine-to-five existence. Stokes is a 31-year-old executive in the lucrative Texas oil business. His marriage to the boss's daughter is on the skids and his true love, an over-restored 70-foot Hatteras fishing...

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...

Embassy Long Island Sound to Cape May, NJ covers New York Harbor to Block Island, Long Island's South Shore, the Hudson River and New Jersey's coast from Raritan Bay to Cape May. This "local's bible" is packed with detailed listings for over 1,400 marinas, local navigation advice, aerial photos, and hundreds of GPS waypoints.

Those fortunate enough to live on Roanoke Island have always depended on boats. In exploration-era sketches, Native American Algonquins were depicted in their dugout canoes. English settlers took the native concept a step further, developing kunners and, later, periaugers. Sloops and schooners made...

Boats and Boating on Cranberry Lake portrays the evolution of boating life on a lake that was barely known until the late 19th century. Illustrated here are some of the lake�s earliest guide boats and canoes, workboats and steamers, and early motor launches that brought visitors from the dock at Wanakena...

Full-time life on a narrowboat is a novelty for so many of us, and is endlessly fascinating. How do people downsize their lives and belongings into what looks like a large, crayon-coloured floating toy-box? Narrowboat Life answers all the questions we've wanted to ask about the ins and outs of liveaboard...

In the spirit of Mark Twain and Andy Rooney, the writings of John Kenneth Bruce graced the pages of Great Lakes Cruiser Magazine every month bringing humor and ‘lessons learned’ to their boating-oriented readership. The column was started as a lark and expected to run only about six months. But...

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...

Canoeing the Boundary Waters Wilderness: A Sawbill Log continues the story of wilderness canoeing begun in A Boundary Waters History: Canoeing Across Time, this time offering historical information about black bear attacks on humans, loon calls and behaviors, lightning strikes on the waters, the experience...

At the turn of the 20th century, Long Island�s North Shore, the so-called Gold Coast, was becoming the most desirable residential area in the United States. Estates belonging to American captains of finance and industry lined the bluffs and bays from the city line to Eaton�s Neck. Some of the nation�s...

I hope that you will find the information helpful, useful and profitable. The information in this ebook on various aspects of The Virgin Islands and subjects related to them and the Caribbean is organized into 15 chapters of about 500-600 words each. I hope that it will interest those...

The first complete moment-by-moment account of the largest Atlantic storm system ever recorded—a hurricane like no other The sky was lit by a full moon on October 29, 2012, but nobody on the eastern seaboard of the United States could see it. Everything had been consumed by cloud. The storm’s...

For the first time in history, the navies of every superpower on the planet have united against a common enemy – a couple of thousand rag tag underfed men and boys. Crammed together in tiny open boats,they range up to a thousand miles from their home shores. Armed with ancient AK47s and rocket propelled...

In 1939, young English naval signalman Geoffrey Holder-Jones began his career by surviving a German mine attack in the Thames estuary. World War II took him as naval officer to Iceland, the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, and the United States. Commissioned as a naval officer and given command of...