Boating: Sport and leisure Books
Stackpole Books NOLS River Rescue Essential Skills for Boaters
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£8.96
University of Missouri Press The Best of Fishing Hunting Camping and Boating
Book SynopsisCharlie Farmer, provides the reader with some tips for making the most of the four major outdoor nature activities that are available in Missouri. He also shares many of the fascinating adventures he has had during a lifetime of participating in his favorite pastimes.Trade ReviewFarmer's book lives up to its title; he has done a wonderful job of distilling loads of information about the wildlife of the state and how it might be utilized by fishermen, hunters or campers, or anyone interested in the rural landscape of the state.... He is obviously a man who loves his subject-and that affection (and deep but also practical knowledge) shines through on every page.-Bruce Clayton
£14.88
Rowman & Littlefield Return to Murmansk
Book SynopsisIn 1990, Henry Swain sailed his 34-foot yacht Callisto to Murmansk. He had been there once before, 45 years earlier, on a Royal Navy warship escorting American merchant vessels supplying vital aid to the Soviets. U-boats lay in wait off the Russian coast and the Luftwaffe threatened attacks from bases in Norway.
£999.99
Imray,Laurie,Norie & Wilson Ltd Bakers Position Line Chart
Book SynopsisFor plotting a vessel's position to a tenth of a mile.
£9.00
Transworld Publishers Ltd Narrow Dog to Wigan Pier
Book SynopsisAt seventy-five, Terry and Monica Darlington had done everything they could think of doing, including starting a business and becoming athletes and running a literary society.Lately they had become boating adventurers and Terry a bestselling writer. But in their Midlands canal town in November, life was looking dull and short on surprises.Then their famous canal boat was destroyed by fire. Within a few days they had bought a new one and soon headed north in the Phyllis May 2 to Liverpool, Lancaster, the Pennines and Wigan Pier. Terry recorded the journey, and alongside it the story of his life and his marriage and his dog Jim, with his broken ear like a flat cap, and Monica's dog Jess, known with heartbreaking reason as the Flying Catastrophe.Funny, affecting and beautifully told, this is a story that brims with incident and excitement, and is full of the famous and fascinating people the Darlingtons have met - a story of an adventurous life well lived.Trade ReviewBig-hearted, ribald and rambunctious fun * SAGA magazine *Big-hearted, ribald and rambunctious fun * SAGA magazine *Full of humour...I wholeheartedly recommend this gentle tale of two pensioners and their adventures as it's great fun * SOUTH WALES ARGUS *A memorable trip...narrated in Terry's surreal style, with the whimsical humour that has proved so popular * THE GOOD BOOK GUIDE *Terry Darlington's light-hearted travelogue combines some genuinely light-hearted moments with fascinating facts * COMPASS magazine *
£11.69
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Splicing Wire and Fiber Rope
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£8.54
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Encyclopedia of Rawhide and Leather Braiding
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£25.19
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Oceanography and Seamanship
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£34.84
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Essential Seamanship Cornell Boaters Library
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£8.54
Cornell Maritime Press Inc.,U.S. Powerboat Racing on the Chesapeake
Book SynopsisThis is the first book that documents the development and history of racing activity on the bay. It focuses on the limited, inboard racing classes of the American Power Boat Association (APBA) because those craft have been the racing segment most avidly followed in the region. The drama of racing and the personalities of those involved are conveyed through the author's first-hand experiences gathered during close to thirty years of following Chesapeake Bay regattas. Particular tribute is paid to the owners, drivers, and mechanics who have risked their money, and sometimes their lives, to undertake the exciting and dangerous sport of powerboat racing, and, in so doing, to entertain the enthusiasts who follow their activities. An appendix listing of boat names, owners, and classes will surely be of interest to any racing fan.
£14.39
Schiffer Publishing Ltd The Complete Book of Anchoring and Mooring
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£21.24
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Shiphandling with Tugs
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£33.29
Schiffer Publishing Ltd The Boaters Weather Guide
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£11.39
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Making Money with Boats 2nd Edition
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£17.09
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Study Guide for Marine Fire Prevention
Book SynopsisThis study guide has been produced to modernize, streamline, and simplify the original text whilst continuing to remain USCG compliant as well as now adhering to the new STCW requirements. The long since out-of-print original text, Marine Fire Prevention, Firefighting and Fire Safety, was published over forty years ago by the Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration. Although the basic principles in marine firefighting have not changed, this study guide offers up-to-date information for a better understanding of the principles and methodologies involved. It also utilizes current-day examples, equipment, and techniques, breaking down the text into twelve easy-to-follow lessons: basic shipboard firefighting organization and safety, causes of fires and methods of prevention, theories of fire, combating fire, extinguishing agents, extinguishing appliances, fire detection systems, fixed fire extinguishing systems, safety and firefighting equipment, and respirators and the self-contained breathing apparatus. These lessons will provide students the knowledge to not only successfully fight shipboard fires, but prevent such fires and in doing so, keep his/her ship and all that ply the seas onboard safe.
£23.79
Schiffer Publishing Ltd First Aid Afloat Instructional Guide for Handling
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£20.69
Schiffer Publishing Ltd 333 Tips for Sailors
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£19.54
Schiffer Publishing Ltd SeaWise Emergency Action Guide Safety Checklists
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£34.49
Schiffer Publishing Ltd SeaWise Emergency Action Guide and Safety
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£34.49
North Star Press of Saint Cloud Inc Whats in Your Boathouse
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£17.95
Tilbury House Distr My Shenandoah
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£23.96
Mystic Seaport Museum 87 Boat Designs
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£14.24
Starpath Publications Inland and Coastal Navigation For Powerdriven and Sailing Vessels 2nd Edition
£22.50
Starpath Publications Celestial Navigation
£22.50
Rowman & Littlefield A Land So Fair and Bright The True Story of a
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAt age 16 in 1938 Hofvendahl ( Hard on the Wind ) shipped out from his native San Francisco on a merchant vessel headed north. The pay was low and the workload enormous, so he and a Danish fellow sailor jumped ship in Canada and went east, looking for work harvesting grain in the prairie provinces. They were caught by U.S. immigration authorities right after they had crossed the border, and Hofvendahl's companion was sent to New York to be deported. The author made his way to New York where he worked for awhile, then journeyed back to the Bay Area via a southern route. Along the way he learned the rules of the road, traveled with many fine companions, met several willing women and, above all, encountered kindness and generosity from people who had little to give but seemed always ready to share. A heartwarming tale. Photos not seen by PW. * Publishers Weekly *Absorbing sequel to Hofvendahl's Hard on the Wind (1983), which detailed the author's sea-faring adventures at age 15. Here, a 16-year-old Hofvendahl undertakes a rigorous odyssey across 1938 America. After jumping ship in British Columbia with a friendly Danish seaman, Hofvendahl endures a hobo journey of riding the rails, hitchhiking, and walking across Canada and the US to N.Y.C. and south to New Orleans, then through the arid Southwest to California. He survives periodic hunger and thirst, heat and cold, loneliness and risk of sudden death while matching wits with Canadian Mounties, brutal armed railroad "bulls," suspicious townspeople, and a few criminal hobos. Although at times finding temporary work as a farm laborer and as a clothes- presser in N.Y.C., Hofvendahal discovers that when his funds are spent there are always the kindness of strangers and the compassion of women. The Good Samaritan theme recurs throughout as the author in turn helps his fellows in a kind of brotherhood of the road, bonding through sharing at this time when a dollar a day and hot meals were the pay for backbreaking labor. In tight, lean prose, Hofvendahl writes evocatively of courage, hope, and the essential decency of ordinary people: in all, a gritty picture of desperate Depression days when uncounted thousands left home to seek a more hopeful life somewhere beyond the horizon. * Kirkus *Hofvendahl's travels at 16 seem right out of Woody Guthrie. When he jumped ship in 1938, he headed east through Canada, south to New Orleans via New York, and across to San Francisco. He rode the rails often, and here he tells of catching freights on the fly, of panoramas viewed from 'side-door Pullmans' or from open gondolas snaking down California peaks. There were also times without shelter, food, or water....A rare and exhilarating true-life tale * Booklist *Those who survived the Depression never forgot it. Veterans selling apples on street corners. Women taking in washing to survive. Children going without lunch. But along with the bitter memories come the sweet. It was a time when a hungry traveler appearing at the back door of a house might get a job, or at least a glass of cold water. A period when the homeless weren't seen as eyesores, but as neighbors who'd fallen on hard times. Campbell attorney Russell L. Hofvendahl remembers those times well. A San Francisco 15-year-old with a strong case of wanderlust and a pressing need of a job he worked on a four-masted schooner, a story he told in 1983's Hard on the Wind. Now, in A Land So Fair and Bright, he tells what happened when he stepped ashore. Hofvendahl liked sailing, a lot. But he didn't much like his new berth as a messman on a Swedish freighter. So, with a friend, he jumped ship in Canada in 1938 and set out to find his fortune working the wheat harvest. At $1 a day, the fortune wasn't there to be found. But what Hofvendahl did discover was life as a Knight of the Road a hobo. Riding boxcars, hitching rides and tramping on foot he crossed the continent twice. In North Dakota he bluffed his way into a job driving a team of horses and almost lost his life. In New York he found a job as a clothes presser, and a romance. Crossing the Southwest, he had to be careful to elude police, railroad thugs and violent drifters. Yet almost everywhere, he found trusting people, willing to help. This is a wonderful tale of one boy's coming of age and a country and a life that may never be again. * San Jose Mercury News *
£19.51
Rowman & Littlefield Fitting out Preparing for Sea
Book SynopsisCovers every aspect of preparing a boat for sea. Dealing with wooden and fibreglass boats, the author emphasizes the importance of maintaining a boat to face the stresses at sea. He examines repairs to hulls , decks, and fittings, how to paint and varnish, the care of wooden and alloy spars, natural and synthetic ropes, wires, sails and engines.
£14.85
Rowman & Littlefield Adrift
Book SynopsisEmerging from the South American wilderness after adventures related in The Incredible Voyage, Tristan Jones finally makes it home to Britain to find his vessel, the tiny, nearly indestructible Sea Dart, impounded by customs officials because he cannot pay the tax. In his quest for the means to liberate his boat, he takes any work he can get.
£999.99
Rowman & Littlefield Chasing the Wind A Book of High Adventure
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£19.96
Rowman & Littlefield Modern Boat Maintenance the Complete Fiberglass
Book SynopsisIf you own a fiberglass sailboat or powerboat, this is the book to turn to when dealing with questions of maintenance, improvement, or repair.Trade ReviewFor those already in the frying pan of boat ownership, Modern Boat Maintenance by Bo Streiffert is chockablock full of ideas for maintaining and improving your boat. It blends minimal text with good descriptive graphics, beginning with basic fiberglass boatbuilding, which will allow owners to refit or install even major items like bulkheads. The majority of the text, however, covers common major and minor projects from replacing overhead liners and building teak gratings to troubleshooting engines and updating electrical charging equipment. * Cruising World *Modern Boat Maintenance: The Complete Fiberglass Boat Manual offers detailed information and helpful illustrations on repairs as various as replacing deck planking and windows. It is also filled with tips, from fairing keels and doing your own rigging to building storage boxes. The chapter on engines, the book's longest and most detailed chapter, has excellent labeled illustrations and various auxiliaries and their parts, such as fuel systems, ignitions and turbo chargers. This book will point do-it-yourselfers in the right direction. * Sailing *Modern Boat Maintenance covers a wide range of material in sufficient depth to be of real value. This is particularly true in its treatment of fiberglass construction methods. It's written so you can figure out what originally when into your boat and properly repair relatively minor damage. In addition, the chapters on hill, deck, superstructure and rigging all contain lots of how-to goodies on improvements and better ways to do things. It has been a while since a book of this genre has hit the market, and all in all, this is a pretty good one. So, if you're in the market for a good, basic introductory book on fiberglass maintenance, this one will fill the bill. * The Ensign *
£22.00
Rowman & Littlefield A Winter Away from Home
Book SynopsisAround the end of the sixteenth century, several expiditions tried to establish a north-east passage to Asia, but fog, pack-ice, and the confusing geography of the coast of Russia proved consistently confusing. No one pursued a north-east passage with such tenacious skill as the Dutch sailing-master William Barents.
£19.96
Rowman & Littlefield The Great Cruising Cookbook
Book SynopsisHere's a book to hurl at the culinary barbarian on your crew, though it's a lot more than a simple defense against digestion...John Payne, who writes with wit and clarity, makes the business of learning to be a good sea cook much more entertaining than it might otherwise be...All in all, this is an excellent guide to the task of providing good food afloat. Payne includes a lot of basic-but-need-to-know stuff, like: what kind of fruits and vegetables keep and how long, how to (really!) catch fish, galley equipment, safety, on board gardening (sprouting), and hundreds of really excellent recipes. Living AboardTrade ReviewThe Great Cruising Cookbook by John C. Payne...is as practical an onboard cookbook as you're likely to come across. Easy, simple to follow recipes using ingredients typically found in any galley provide for hearty, satisfying meals at sea. Additionally, chapters on outfitting a galley and choosing provisions start off the book. Payne's book is chock full of recipes that include little or no meat, which certainly will please the vegetarian crew, but serves the more important and immediate purpose of reducing the reliance on refrigerated foods. How nice to have a cookbook that allows us to use what we best like to stow rice, pasta, legumes and hearty fruits and vegetables things that won't go bad the day after leaving port. Flesh eaters, however, need not worry; there are plenty of recipes for cooking meat, including such exotic and savory fare as goat stroganoff and barbequed Thai garlic chicken. And, of course, there are more seafood recipes than you can shake a chum bucket at. Go ahead and buy that fresh octopus in port, Payne will help you turn it into a dish to remember. * Sailing *Written to keep the cruiser away from a life of cans and processed food, with over 350 recipes, a worldwide provisioning guide, rough weather cooking, and a tropical fruit guide, this cookbook is the cookbook to have onboard. It addresses nutrition and provides methods for improvising and provisioning in strange places. * Latitudes & Attitudes *Every boat needs at least one good cookbook, if only as a defense against the sort of experience that befell me on a cruise several years ago. Whenever it was the crew's turn to cook, he served deviled ham and mustard sandwiches, with hot pickled okra and barbeque potato chips on the side. It was actually pretty good the first few times. Here's a book to hurl at the culinary barbarian on your crew, though it's a lot more than a simple defense against indigestion. The subject of provisioning a boat for a cruise is an important one. It's received a great deal of attention over the years, because a hungry crew is a miserable crew. Boats, with their limited or non-existent refrigeration capacities, isolation from supermarkets, and tiny galleys, impose a difficult set of problems on the ambitious meal maker. On the other hand, fresh air and exercise seem to make everything taste better than it does ashore, so there are compensations. I still buy the occasional jar of pickled okra. John Payne, who writes with wit and clarity, makes the business of learning to be a good sea cook much more entertaining than it might otherwise be. Sometimes he goes a little over the top, especially if you can't abide puns. For example, he talks about the advantages of stir-fry cooking with a wok, and then points out that in a seaway you'd have to call it 'wok and roll' cooking. All in all, this is an excellent guide to the task of providing food afloat. Payne includes a lot of basic-but-need-to-know stuff, like: what kind of fruits and vegetables keep and how long, how to (really!) catch fish, galley equipment, safety, a guide to strange tropical fruits for the temperate region sailor, onboard gardening (sprouting), and hundreds of really excellent recipes. I've tried a number of them, and I haven't hit a dud yet. In fact, I'd go so far as to recommend this cookbook to folk who never go cruising at all; it's that good. Payne even includes three recipes for okra. * Living Aboard *
£18.99
WoodenBoat Publications Planking and Fastening Woodenboat Series
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£22.46
Wooden Boat Publications Frame Stem and Keel Repair Woodenboat Series
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£21.60
Wooden Boat Publications How to Build GluedLapstrake Wooden Boats
£35.96
Wooden Boat Publications Clinker Plywood Boatbuilding Manual
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£26.96
Mystic Seaport Museum In A Class By Herself
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£37.50
Mystic Seaport Museum Building Kettenburgs
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£37.50
Mystic Seaport Museum L. Francis Herreshoff Yacht Designer
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£52.00
Mystic Seaport Museum L. Francis Herreshoff Flowering of Genius
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£56.25
Kelsey Publishing (Utah) Boaters Guide to Lake Powell
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£16.53
Sheridan House The Wapping Group of Artists Sixty Years of
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewCaptivating portrait in words, photographs, paintings, and drawings of the works and routines of a London marine artists' society founded in 1946. * Wooden Boat *...it is a book by the artists for the artists; a book that may be treasured by those with a nostalgic bent and a love of the Thames. * Sailing *
£17.24
D. H. Pascoe & Co., Inc. Marine Investigations
£35.00
Bookspecs Publishing Knowing Your Multihull
£18.68
Tin House Books River House A Memoir Tin House New Voice
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£12.54
Netcam Publishing My Electric Boats
£15.15
Seapoint Books & Media LLC Corinthian Resolve The Story of the MarionBermuda
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£32.30
Seapoint Books & Media LLC Sailor for the Wild On Maine Conservation and
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£14.24
Seapoint Books & Media LLC The Schooner Maggie B A Southern Ocean
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£28.50
