Water Sports category: 1998 books
Nastawgan
The Canadian North by Canoe & Snowshoe
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1987
A rich history of Canadian wilderness travel, "an utterly compelling collection," said The Globe and Mail, and "a gem -- it absolutely sparkles," according to Canadian Geographic. Declared by the Canadian Historical Association to be the best book published of its year on the regional...
Canoe Crossings
Understanding the Craft that Helped Shape British Columbia
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Often called one of the Seven Wonders of Canada, the canoe has played a particularly important role in British Columbia. This seemingly simple watercraft allowed coastal First Nations to hunt on the open ocean and early explorers to travel the province’s many waterways. Always at the crossroads...
Bend to Baja
A Biofuel Powered Surfing and Climbing Road Trip
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Bend to Baja documents a surf-inspired road trip along the West Coast of North America. In February 2005, a group of world-renowned surfers left Ventura, California, for Bend, Oregon. From Oregon, the crew worked its way south to the tip of Baja, looking for waves and traveling in a pickup truck converted...
Paddling North
A Solo Adventure Along the Inside Passage
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2013
In a tale remarkable for its quiet confidence and acute natural observation, the author of Paddling Hawaii begins with her decision, at age 60, to undertake a solo, summer-long voyage along the southeast coast of Alaska in an inflatable kayak. Paddling North is a compilation of Sutherland’s first two...
Flirting with Mermaids
The Unpredictable Life of a Sailboat Delivery Skipper
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2003
Over the course of twenty years of delivering sailboats to far-flung quaysides, John Kretschmer has had innumerable adventures, both humorous and terrifying. in Flirting with Mermaids, he recounts the most memorable of them.
He crosses the Western Caribbean with a crew of eccentric Swedes researching...
by Tom Cunliffe
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Sailing, Yachts and Yarns is a selection of British sailing legend Tom Cunliffe's most entertaining, outspoken and instructive writing from the pages of Yachting Monthly magazine. Tom's regular column for this leading sailing magazine gives him free reign to explore a wide range of topics. He has...
by H. Fiennes Speed
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2012
Excerpted from "Cruises in Small Yacht and Big Canoes", The Log of the Viper describes in vivid detail the adventures of an English gentleman sailor and his plucky companions cruising the south coast of England in 1883 in a 20 foot sailboat. This text provides a unique insight...
by Christian Beamish
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2013
Christian Beamish, a former editor at The Surfer’s Journal, envisioned a low-tech, self-reliant exploration for surf along the coast of North America, using primarily clothes and instruments available to his ancestors, and the 18-foot boat he would build by hand in his garage. How the vision met reality...
Solitaire Spirit: Three times around the world single-handed
Three Times Around the World Single-Handed
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Les Powles only had 8 hours of sailing experience when he decided to sail solo around the world. Many novices would be content to just dream of such an adventure, and maybe get as far as a solo Channel crossing a couple of years down the line. Not so Les Powles, one of the twentieth century's most...
by Martin Edge
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
“A Gigantic Whinge on the Celtic Fringe” is the story of a circumnavigation of Ireland aboard my 27ft yacht in 2011.From the Firth of Forth I went through the Caledonian Canal and round Ireland anti-clockwise, which many people consider to be the ’wrong way round’. Most, but by no means...
Lee Shore Blues
Sex, Drugs and Bluewater Sailing
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Lee Shore Blues is not your average nautical book. Peter Heiberg takes us on an irreverent charge through the highlights of his life at sea, from evading the homosexual advances of a 300-pound steward in the mid-Pacific at 19 years of age, to rebuilding and sailing a thirty-ton engineless Bristol...
by Diana Neggo
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
Ever felt like stepping off the treadmill, taking a year off work and sailing a yacht around Australia? Well, if you are reading this then it’s a good chance you have, during an occasional daydream, let go the mooring lines of work and family and quietly left the harbour to see what lies around...
Be Your Own Sailing Coach
20 Goals for Racing Success
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2008
If you want to win races you need to get organised! This unique guide shows you how to set your overall sailing goals, and breaks them down into manageable – yet stretching – mini-goals. Jon Emmett breaks racing down into 20 key skills (such as speed to windward and tactics) and, with detailed...
by Perce Harpham
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
This book was Perce's gift to his grandchildren for his eightieth birthday.
Following his boyhood dreaming he describes his many voyages around New Zealand, to the islands of the South Pacific, solo return across the Tasman Sea and elsewhere. His observations about people, places, boats and...