Water Sports category: 1998 books
Asymmetric Sailing
Get the Most From your Boat with Tips & Advice From Expert Sailors
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2012
Learn the secrets of getting the most from your boat – whether you sail an entry level dinghy, high performance skiff, sportsboat or catamaran. Tips, advice and some great shortcuts from expert sailors in a wide range of classes gives you the inside knowledge to improve your techniques and get ahead...
by Ross Bodle
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Anyone who has dreamed of throwing off the shackles of everyday life and running away to sea will find this book invaluable. It paints a true picture of life on board - the highs and lows - and gives expert advice on avoiding the pitfalls that many novice sailors fall into.
With a foreword...
by Faith Van Rooyen
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Six months in a remote coral atoll sounds peaceful. And it was most of the time.Except for a fire on board, a visit from a North Sea rescue ship, a Hermit Crab Race Meeting, a dinghy sailing and rowing Regatta, a yacht wreck and other exciting moments.Then a two thousand mile voyage to Langkawi Island...
Coyote Lost at Sea : The Story of Mike Plant, America’s Daring Solo Circumnavigator
The Story of Mike Plant, America’s Daring Solo Circumnavigator
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
When Coyote and its skipper, Mike Plant, went missing mid-Atlantic in November 1992, the sailing world held its breath. Now, twenty years later, the story around the mystery, tragedy, and enigma is told at last
"[Plant] is as close as yachting gets to a James Dean character, going his...
by David Creamer
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
The trials and tribulations experienced while sailing two old and tired American tugboats halfway around the world. An entertaining and greatly enjoyable read.
Big Waves, Small Boat, Two Kids
A Family Sailing Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Mark and Katya bought a thirty-four-foot steel sailboat. With their two daughters, they sailed around Lake Superior, then moved aboard for a year and sailed to the Bahamas. The sailing life proved both challenging and rewarding to the extreme, and big decisions made along the way stretched them to...
Mark Spitz
The Extraordinary Life of an Olympic Champion
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Mark Spitz is arguably the most famous and successful Olympic athlete of all time because of his legendary performances at the 1972 Olympics, where he won seven gold medals while breaking seven world records. His amazing life story is told for the first time in the authorized biography Mark Spitz:...
Rowing for My Life
Two Oceans, Two Lives, One Journey
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
“A thoughtful memoir . . . Experienced sailors and thrill seekers will especially enjoy the details of the ocean adventures” (Booklist).
Kathleen Saville and her husband, Curt, had recently gotten married and were settling down in a small town in New York—when Kathleen started to realize...
Mine's Bigger
The Extraordinary Tale of the World's Greatest Sailboat and the Silicon Valley Tycoon Who Built It
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
As the dominant venture capitalist of Silicon Valley, Tom Perkins had seemingly done it all—from amassing a billion-dollar fortune to getting himself convicted of manslaughter in France. But his ultimate dream was to create the biggest, fastest, riskiest, highest-tech, most self-indulgent sailboat...
by Courtenay Latimer
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2005
Presents a voyage undertaken by twelve people on a North Sea trawler in 1959, from England to New Zealand with adventures along the way.
Amazing Diving Stories
Incredible Tales from Deep Beneath the Sea
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2012
This collection of true diving stories makes for compelling reading for all divers. Enjoy classic tales of this extreme watersport, from thrilling wreck discoveries to encounters with the bizarre and the beautiful. There are stories of death and disaster, as well as bravery and triumph. Tales of the...
by Kim Brown
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012
Two brave women prove that to live a real life adventure, they only need to take the first step. Giving into an urge to see the world, they take their cat and move onto a sailboat in California. After a year's preparation they set sail into the Pacific Ocean. Three months later they arrive in...
by John Champion
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
Tells of a sailing journey from San Diego to Australia in a 40 foot sailing boat. Covers Mexico, French Polynesia, Cook Islands, Tonga and Fiji. Also has a chapter on various events "that were too much fun," for the crew. Includes useful detail on various formalities required in the respective...
Reflections on the Neches
A Naturalist's Odyssey along the Big Thicket's Snow River
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2003
When Geraldine Watsons father was a teenager around the turn of the last century, he spent a summer floating down the Neches River, called Snow River by the Indians. Watson grew up hearing his tales of the steamboats, log rafts, and the flora and fauna of East Texas. So when she was sixty-three years...