Adlard Coles imprint: 212 books
Competent Crew
For New Crew and Competent Crew Students
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013
Competent Crew covers both the shorebased and the practical aspects of the RYA Competent Crew course. It will prepare newcomers for the first time afloat by explaining basic skills and boat handling including: sail trimming and sail handling; understanding the compass; sailing a course; anchoring...
The Anatomy of Sail
The Yacht Dissected and Explained
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
An encyclopedic compendium of every element of a yacht, this book contains a wealth of information for the aficionado as well as the newcomer, taking apart the sailboat to explore every part of it in depth. Gloriously illustrated with beautiful photography and explanatory diagrams, each page is packed...
Just Sea and Sky
England to New Zealand the Hard Way
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2013
This charming account of the voyage of two men in a small boat half way
round the world from Plymouth to New Zealand in 1953 is a rare insight into a time, not long ago, when
sailors had no GPS, electronics, radio or any of the mod cons that we
take for granted today. Without lifejacket or a liferaft,...
Ocean Crossing Wayfarer
To Iceland and Norway in a 16ft Open Dinghy
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
This classic sea story recounts Frank Dye's intrepid voyages
in his open 16ft Wayfarer dinghy to Iceland and Norway, which must rank
among the most hazardous sea adventures of our time.
Encountering the whole gamut of weather, such is Frank Dye's
seamanship that he and his crew survived gales...
One Wild Song
A Voyage in a Lost Son's Wake
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
When Countrywise presenter Paul Heiney's son Nicholas committed suicide aged 23, Paul and his wife, Times columnist Libby Purves, were rocked to the core. Nicholas had been a highly gifted promising young man, albeit he had struggled to keep his head above water at times as severe depression slowly...
The Weather Handbook
An Essential Guide to How Weather is Formed and Develops
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
The Weather Handbook is the essential guide to how the weather is formed, providing readers with the ability to look at the sky and interpret its signs, and combine this knowledge with information provided by professional forecasts to assess for themselves what the coming weather is likely to be.
This...
Going Foreign
Cruising Abroad for the First Time
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
Many reasonably experienced coastal sailors (and motorboaters) find the
prospect of sailing their boat to the continent appealing yet daunting.
There are so many additional aspects that all need to be taken into
account and complied with that it can seem a forbidding prospect. This
highly illustrated,...
Salty Dog Talk
The Nautical Origins of Everyday Expressions
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Most of us never realise how many words and expressions used in
everyday English have a nautical origin. This fascinating and charming
pocket book explains the seafaring beginnings of over 200 such phrases- colourful, bizarre and surprising - and how they came ashore.
Just a few examples are:
Chock-a-block
Chance...
Yachting Monthly's Further Confessions
Yachtsmen Own Up to Their Sailing Sins
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
There were too many degrading disasters, mortifying mishaps and groan-worthy gaffes for one collection, so following on from Yachting Monthly's Confessions, here is another wonderful collection of humiliating misadventures from the enduringly popular Confessional column of Yachting Monthly magazine.
For...
A Week on the Broads
Four Victorian gents at sail on a Norfolk gaffer in 1889
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
During their university holidays in the late 1880s, S.K. Baker and three of his University College friends clad in stripy blazers and boaters spent time sailing and camping on the Norfolk Broads. Baker, a keen artist and diarist, recorded their travels in watercolour in two small leather bound books.
The...
by Mike Peyton
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
Mike Peyton is the nautical world's best known and much loved cartoonist. For years he has made his mark, contributing witty, well executed and poignantly funny cartoons to the yachting and boating press, poking fun at seafarers of all types and capturing in his distinctive cartoon style their often...
Camping by the Waterside
The Best Campsites by Water in Britain and Ireland: 2nd edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
This stylish and inspiring book contains all the information campers need to make the most of the wonderful waterside locations throughout the UK and Ireland. Covering all kinds of camping (caravan, campsite and wild), the book starts by showing how to plan your trip, what gear to take and how to...
Phoenix from the Ashes
The Boat that Rebuilt Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2012
'We didn't want to be wiping porridge off the walls - we wanted places no rougher than a farm pond. The silence in these places was complete - so much so that we found ourselves speaking in whispers.'
Many sailors dream of a quiet life living aboard a classic yacht. Few reach that dream following...
Canvas Flying, Seagulls Crying
From Scottish Lochs to Celtic Shores
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
After Justin and Linda Tyers lost everything in a devastating house fire, they rebuilt their lives by building a classic wooden yacht from scratch – starting by felling the trees. This story was told in their first book, Phoenix from the Ashes.
This sequel follows their voyage from the Scottish...