Water Sports category: 1998 books
by Robin Knox-Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2008
In January 1969, aboard his home-built wooden boat Suhaili, Sir Robin Knox-Johnston became the first person every to sail solo, non-stop around the world. 25 years later, Sir Robin again completed a record-breaking circumnavigation, co-skippering Enza with Kiwi yachting legend Sir Peter Blake. His...
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...
Yachting Yarns from South Australia
Tales and History of 10 Extraordinary South Australian yachts
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
Yachting Yarns is great news for lovers of all things nautical. This captivating book with its fascinating sea stories is a must for anyone with maritime interests.
It traces the history of 10 South Australian sailing vessels, each from its construction through its life journey and...
by Peter Bruce
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2008
The seamanship classic you should have on-board when sailing in rough weather
Adlard Coles' Heavy Weather Sailing provides you with expert advice for when you venture out of sight of land, whether for racing or cruising. It gives a clear message of seamanlike design features, preparations,...
What Now Skipper?
Test Your Navigation and Seamanship Skills and Learn from Expert Answers
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2009
Following in the Yachting Monthly paperback series (Confessions, Further Confessions, etc) this book is based on a popular run of articles over the last eight years in Yachting Monthly, in which navigational and seamanship problems are posed and the highly respected author (former RYA Training Manager...
How to Sail Around the World
Advice and Ideas for Voyaging Under Sail
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2003
A new classic from one of the world's most respected sailing authors
More than 35 years ago, Hal Roth quit his job as a journalist and went sailing. Since then, he's logged more than 200,000 sea miles. Along the way, Roth also has authored eight voyaging classics, including the 1978 bestseller...
by Richard L. Tillman
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2005
CHAPTER 1. Loomings.
Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen...
Sea Of Dreams
Racing Alone Around The World In A Small Boat
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
The biennial Around Alone yacht race (now known as the 5-Oceans Challenge) is the most thrilling adventure in the world for the sailors passionate enough to undertake it. Among the competitors in 2002 was Derek Hatfield, a former fraud-squad Mountie, whose forty-foot Spirit of Canada had cost him...
Tinkerbelle
The epic story of Robert Manry's transatlantic voyage
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
There is no dream so large that it can’t fit into a tiny boat… TINKERBELLE tells the real story about a man’s boyhood dream and how he made his dream come true. This is ROBERT MANRY’S inspiring tale of how he became enchanted with the notion of sailing the high seas, and how, years later, he...
by Peter Bruce
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
For 50 years Heavy Weather Sailing has been regarded as the ultimate international authority on surviving storms at sea aboard sailing and motor vessels. The first edition was compiled by Kaines Adlard Coles himself in 1967. Since then technology may have improved, but the weather certainly hasn't....
Total Loss
Dramatic First-Hand Accounts of Yacht Losses at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
An enthralling collection of 45 dramatic stories of yachts lost at sea, *Total Loss has been a consistent bestseller since first publication. This fascinating new edition carries exciting first-hand accounts, including the tragic sinking of the yacht Ouzo, run down or swamped by a P&O ferry in...
The Complete Yachtmaster
Sailing, Seamanship and Navigation for the Modern Yacht Skipper 9th edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
The Complete Yachtmaster has been a bestseller since first publication and has established itself as the standard reference for Yachtmaster students as well as skippers of all levels of experience.
In this fully revised and up-to-date 9th edition, Tom Cunliffe brings together all the essentials...
More Yachting Yarns from South Australia
The tales and history of 10 extraordinary South Australian yachts
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2012
MORE YACHTING YARNS is great news for South Australians and lovers of all things nautical. This captivating book with its fascinating sea and river stories is a must for anyone with yachting or maritime interests. It traces the history of 10 South Australian sailing vessels from construction...
by Edward Renehan
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Now filmed as The Mercy starring Colin Firth and Rachel Weisz
Windcheck Magazine (Nov/Dec 2016): Absorbing and insightful ... utterly unforgettable.
Practical Sailor Magazine (January 2017): [DESPERATE VOYAGE] adds a new depth of storytelling to a tale of madness that many sailors...