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Day Skipper for Sail and Power: The Essential Manual for the RYA Day Skipper Theory and Practical Certificate 3rd edition

Whether sail or power, running a boat is challenging and rewarding, but the unique world of water and weather can be daunting.Day Skipper for Sail and Powerteaches you all you need to know to understand the challenges and command your water world. Topics...

Celestial Navigation for Yachtsmen: 13th edition

Don't leave shore without this easy-to-use celestial favorite navigation primer--it could save your life!Huge advances in electronic navigation since the original publication of Celestial Navigation have transported offshore navigators to a...

Des Pawson's Knot Craft and Rope Mats: 60 Ropework Projects Including 20 Mat Designs

This wonderful collection of Des Pawson's personal ropecraft recipes combines an extended and now full-color collection of projects from Des's popularDes Pawson's Knot Craft, together with 20 new and brilliant mat designs.Readers can learn how to make 60...

A History of Sailing in 100 Objects

The book provides a fascinating insight into the history of sailing explored through a hundred objects that have been pivotal in the development of sailing and saling boats. From the earliest water-borne craft, through magnificent Viking warships, to the...

Instant Weather Forecasting: You Can Predict the Weather

Color photographs of cloud formations and their groundbreaking explanatory text enable readers to read the sky, pick up the clues and predict what the weather will do.With its winning formula of 24 clear color photographs of cloud formations and their...

The Pacific Crossing Guide: 3rd edition

The Pacific Crossing Guide is a complete reference for anyone contemplating sailing the Pacific in their own boat. From ideal timing, suitable boats, routes, methods of communication, health, and provisioning to seasonal weather, departure and...

Splicing Modern Ropes: A Practical Handbook

The time when every vessel going to sea made use of three-strand rope has gone. Still, 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...

Blood Ransom: Stories from the Front Line in the War against Somali Piracy

For the first time in history, the navies of the world have united against a common enemy--a couple of thousand rag-tag, underfed men and boys in the western Indian Ocean. Crammed into open boats and armed with ancient AK-47s, they range up to a thousand...

Occupation Circumnavigator

A hippy Sell Up and Sail, this entertaining and inspiring book is more than just a cruising narrative – it is an instructive account showing how anyone can circumnavigate (or even sail for an extended period) without huge funds. Lars Hassler originally...

Adlard Coles Nautical Logbook

A very high quality and classy logbook. Format has lots of room for remarks and notes while retaining the usual columns and boxes to log underway data. Sturdy and practical. Very appropriate for a gift. Sewn-bound with placement ribbon.

The Night Orion Fell: A Survival Story

When Captain Larry Hills attempted to rescue his deckhand, he too was tragically caught in the lines that whipped and wrapped the two men against the net reel of the trawler like captured fish. In the moment before the deckhand’s death he was the...

Goodnight, Little Orcas

Little ones will love counting adorable orcas as they splash through their day meeting puffins, otters, belugas, seals, and other lovable friends. Then, as the sun sets and the moon begins to rise, it's time for the sleepy orcas to find their pod and...