Fernhurst Books Limited: 83 books
by Arthur Ransome
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Most people know of Arthur Ransome, the author of the classic children’s sailing tale, Swallows & Amazons, and many other books in the same series. But besides his exciting tales of children on the water there is much more to the man. Before he wrote Swallows & Amazons, Ransome was a journalist...
by Arthur Ransome
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Racundra’s First Cruise is Arthur Ransome’s account of Racundra’s maiden voyage, which took place in August and September 1922. The cruise took him from Riga, in Latvia to Helsingfors (Helsinki) in Finland, via the Moon Sound and Reval (Tallinn) in Estonia and back. His first book on sailing,...
Learn the Nautical Rules of the Road
The Essential Guide to the COLREGs
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Collisions are expensive! Learning, understanding and remembering the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (COLREGs) is essential for anyone venturing onto the water. Leisure boaters, as much as professional mariners, need to know the rules, and a firm understanding is required...
by Tom Cunliffe
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2009
Discover what the modern yacht navigator needs to know for a stress-free voyage along the coast and out of sight of land. This book is designed to raise the game of the inshore day-sailor to fully fledged offshore navigator capable of handling any sea passage short of an ocean crossing. The book contains...
by Sara Hopkinson
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Navigators have only 2 questions: Where am I? Where do I go now? This book shows the simplest way to answer these questions. It starts from scratch, uses no jargon and features graphics instead of words wherever possible. This bestselling book has been updated to cover all modern navigation. It is...
Shark Bytes
Tales of Diving with the Bizarre and the Beautiful
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The popular image of sharks is of a dorsal fin cleaving the surface as it rushes to its next kill, but this is a limited caricature. There are over 500 species to choose from, most of whom are far more frightened of humans than vice versa. In this beautiful book, diving veteran John Bantin recounts...
Short-Handed Sailing
Sailing solo or short-handed
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
While relatively few cruise single-handed, many sail short-handed. It may be a couple sailing together or a skipper with a novice crew – he may have lots of people onboard but, in terms of the sailing, he is probably short-handed. They soon discover that there is so much more to short-handed sailing...
The Mirror Book
Mirror Sailing from Start to Finish
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
The Mirror dinghy was a significant factor in the boom of dinghy sailing in the 1960s, introducing thousands to the delights of sailing. While sailing has come a long way since then and there have been a lot of far more exotic craft launched, the Mirror remains a fantastic boat in which to learn to...
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...
The First Indian
The First Indian Solo Circumnavigation Under Sail
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
An engrossing narrative of one man’s struggle to achieve his dream against all odds, this is both a fast-paced adventure and a telling commentary on how heroes are often made despite the system they operate in, by dint of sheer perseverance and commitment to a chosen path. Above all, it’s a paean...
A Wild Call
One Man’s Voyage in Pursuit of Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Martyn Murray was finding modern life, with all its restrictions and controls, suffocating. Following years of soul-searching, his father’s death triggered him into opening the old logbooks and charts to retrace the sailing trips they had once shared together. He determined to revisit those waters...
by Chris Atkins
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
Team racing is great for fast, fun and different sailboat racing. It helps develop some key skills for future racing success. This handy companion tells you everything a sailor and coach need to know to enjoy, improve and win at team racing. It describes the most useful moves around the race course,...
Last Voyages
The Lives and Tragic Loss of Remarkable Sailors Who Never Returned
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Looking back at the lives and sailing careers of some of our lifetime’s finest yachtsmen, this collection of eleven original, moving accounts is just as much a celebration of the good – tales of hope, achievement and courageous spirit – as it is an account of their tragic final voyages. Included...
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...