Sailing / yachting Books

Sidebar Sidebar Sidebar
  • Buckrammer's Tales Buckrammer's Tales
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Buckrammer's Tales

    Buckrammer's Tales In the Fall of 2003, Catboat Summers, a collection of boating memoirs hit bookseller's shelves. It quickly became a bestseller among nautical books, praised by reviewers and readers alike. This new compilation continues in the same...
    $36.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Image coming soon
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Reeds Eastern Almanac 2024

    The Reeds Eastern Almanac is the complete guide for North Sea mariners, offering ready access to essential navigation information by virtue of its clear layout and user friendly format, covering the UK east coast from Ramsgate to Cape Wrath including the...
    $115.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • LYON AROUND IN THE AMERICAS LYON AROUND IN THE AMERICAS
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    LYON AROUND IN THE AMERICAS

    I shut the door to the old Buick, shouldered the sail bag, and turned towards the harbor. I was eleven years old, dressed in my blue denims, hat, jacket, and pants to match. The tide was in, and the day was clear, and already a slight breeze was stirring...
    $89.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Sailing and Social Class Sailing and Social Class
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Sailing and Social Class

    This book explores the sociology of sailing and yachting. Drawing on original research, and employing a theoretical framework based on the work of Pierre Bourdieu, the book argues that sailing is, still, an upper-middle-class activity that has much to...
    $373.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Crossings in Realitas Crossings in Realitas
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Crossings in Realitas

    Crossings in Realitas, is a 16-year tale of family cruising. The story is, like the Mitchell’s boats, a no-nonsense and honest look at life.Four years cruising around the world during the 1970s (Two in a Top Hat) and the addition to the family of...
    $40.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Well it Seemed Like a Good Idea Well it Seemed Like a Good Idea
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Well it Seemed Like a Good Idea

    In June 2016 Hugh Pilsworth left Melbourne on board his Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 49 BlueFlyer to embark on a world circumnavigation. Over a two-year period he was to visit more than 30 countries and islands and cover 30,000 sea miles.Hugh's journey was...
    $28.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • A Sailing Catamaran Building Adventure A Sailing Catamaran Building Adventure
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    A Sailing Catamaran Building Adventure

    Two Books in ONE: 'A Sailing Catamaran Building Project' and 'Desalinator or Watermaking'. The same content in one volume.The building adventure that many just dream. The trials and tribulations of an amateur boatbuilder, the build process and challenges...
    $30.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Hawaii by Sextant Hawaii by Sextant
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Hawaii by Sextant

    In the spirit of early Bowditch editions, we offer navigation details of a full ocean passage as an excellent way to learn the ropes of practical celestial navigation. With your own tables and plotting sheets, you can analyze 224 timed sextant sights of...
    $52.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Big Waves, Small Boat, Two Kids Big Waves, Small Boat, Two Kids
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Big Waves, Small Boat, Two Kids

    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...
    $23.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Die 7 Leben des F.J.S. Die 7 Leben des F.J.S.
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Die 7 Leben des F.J.S.

    Felix J.Schwarz, geb.1927 in der CSR, zeichnet in diesem Buch seine ungewöhnliche Lebensgeschichte auf. Im Verlauf seines fast 100-jährigen Lebens durchlebte er im Krieg als Soldat, aber auch danach im Zivilleben, u.a.auf seiner Einhand-Weltumseglung...
    $46.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Ein Sommer mit Sourire Ein Sommer mit Sourire
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Ein Sommer mit Sourire

    Ein Einblick in die Zeit meines Beginns in der Jugoslawischen Adria und wie sich die Zeiten verändert haben, aber auch da schon genug Probleme mit Boot und Crew waren, obwohl zu diesen Zeiten 1982 bis 1984 die Freiheit noch besser war als später mit den...
    $53.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Spanish Pieces of Eight Spanish Pieces of Eight
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Spanish Pieces of Eight

    A riveting story of family, foreign waters, and a fortune beyond your wildest dreams...Hours before undoing a complicated and family-busting competition for a vast treasure trove of Spanish gold, Richard Dennison dies-leaving his spoiled children to...
    $30.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Small-Boat Sailing - An Explanation of the Management of Small Yachts, Half-Decked and Open Sailing-Boats of Various Rigs, Sailing on Sea and on River; Cruising, Etc. Small-Boat Sailing - An Explanation of the Management of Small Yachts, Half-Decked and Open Sailing-Boats of Various Rigs, Sailing on Sea and on River; Cruising, Etc.
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Small-Boat Sailing - An Explanation of the Management of Small Yachts, Half-Decked and Open Sailing-Boats of Various Rigs, Sailing on Sea and on River; Cruising, Etc.

    Originally published in 1905. This is a fascinating read for any sailing enthusiast or historian, but also contains much information that is still useful and practical today. Contents Include; I. The selection of a boat, II. The effect of the wind on a...
    $56.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Sail This Way Sail This Way
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Sail This Way

    Straight-forward advice on offshore and ocean cruising under sail, based on fifty years and over 50,000 miles of experience.Sail This Way is as much about the ethos of ocean sailing as the technicalities. The book gets straight to the point and explores...
    $26.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Motor Boats - Construction and Operation - An Illustrated Manual for Motor Boat, Launch and Yacht Owners, Operator's of Marine Gasolene Engines, and Amateur Boat-Builders Motor Boats - Construction and Operation - An Illustrated Manual for Motor Boat, Launch and Yacht Owners, Operator's of Marine Gasolene Engines, and Amateur Boat-Builders
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Motor Boats - Construction and Operation - An Illustrated Manual for Motor Boat, Launch and Yacht Owners, Operator's of Marine Gasolene Engines, and Amateur Boat-Builders

    This vintage book is an illustrated manual for motor boat, launch and yacht owners; operators of marine gasoline engines, and amateur boat-builders. It is a comprehensive guide to the design, construction, installation and operation of maritime motors,...
    $72.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors - Tales of 1812 Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors - Tales of 1812
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors - Tales of 1812

    This vintage book is authentic tales of nineteenth-century seafaring adventures and experiences. These exciting stories will appeal to those with an interest in maritime history and would prove invaluable for research purposes. Contents include: "Allen,...
    $42.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Navigation Rules Navigation Rules
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Navigation Rules

    This book contains a complete copy of the Inland and International Navigation Rules as presented by the United States Coast Guard.
    $41.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • SAILING DRAFT HORSE ADVENTURE SAILING DRAFT HORSE ADVENTURE
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    SAILING DRAFT HORSE ADVENTURE

    This is my story of our maiden voyage sailing the Draft Horse, a 25' sailboat from St. Paul Minnesota to the Bahamas, with my husband, Larry, and our 15 year old daughter, Janel.  Many times I saw and felt God's presence and hand of protection on us...
    $48.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Pocket Cruising and Micro Adventures Pocket Cruising and Micro Adventures
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Pocket Cruising and Micro Adventures

    This is the book about the biggest sailing experiences in the smallest sailing craft. With their shallow draft and easy handling, the smallest "pocket cruisers" give access to coastal experiences inaccessible for bigger sailboats.It has never been easier...
    $50.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • MSY Manuda Saison 1998 - 1999 MSY Manuda Saison 1998 - 1999
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    MSY Manuda Saison 1998 - 1999

    Ein muß für alle die wissen wollen was es heißt ein Boot jedes Jahr für die Saison und für den Clubbetrieb her zu richten.Für diejenigen, die vor haben einmal das Fahrtensegeln anzustreben, oder auch nur ein Boot zu kaufen. Es zeigt die ungeschminkte...
    $73.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Yachtcharter - Käpt'n auf Zeit Yachtcharter - Käpt'n auf Zeit
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Yachtcharter - Käpt'n auf Zeit

    Dieser Ratgeber behandelt in 138 Themenblöcken auf 196 Seiten alles, was mit Segeltörns auf Charteryachten von Bedeutung ist. Hierbei werden finanzielle, administrative und versicherungstechnische Aspekte ebenso ausführlich behandelt wie die...
    $42.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • It's Funny But It's True It's Funny But It's True
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    It's Funny But It's True

    Dave and Colette Murray were newcomers to sailing and boating when they bought their first boat in 1986 and began sailing on Lake Windermere. They were absolute novices and had never been in a boat. After a few years, Dave wanted to put his newly learned...
    $29.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Cold Oceans Cold Oceans
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Cold Oceans

    Cold Oceans recounts Jon Turk's expeditions to some of the most inhospitable regions on earth. Even after being shipwrecked off Cape Horn, stopped by ice in the Northwest Passage, and beaten back by Arctic blizzards, Turk has followed an irresistible...
    $37.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Von Sternen und Seegurken Von Sternen und Seegurken
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Von Sternen und Seegurken

    Fremde Länder, idyllische Ankerbuchten, rauschende Segelfahrten, Freiheit und ganz viel Genuss - davon träumen Corina und Michael, als sie 2013 mit ihren fünf Kindern zwischen zwei und neun Jahren auf eine alte Stahlyacht nach Portugal ziehen...
    $54.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Cast Off Your Bow Lines Cast Off Your Bow Lines
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Cast Off Your Bow Lines

    <p>A true story about living the dream, seizing the day, and pioneering a path into new horizons. Later in life, John and Lyza fall in love with a classic ketch, establish a charter business on the mystic BC coast, and sail out of their...
    $27.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Der Beginn mit Manuda Der Beginn mit Manuda
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Der Beginn mit Manuda

    Ein muß für alle die wissen wollen was es heißt ein Boot auf einer Werft in Malta für den Clubbetrieb her zu richten.Für diejenigen, die vor haben einmal das Fahrtensegeln anzustreben, oder auch nur ein Boot zu kaufen. Es zeigt die ungeschminkte Wahrheit...
    $63.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • A Cruising Guide to the Leeward Islands A Cruising Guide to the Leeward Islands
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    A Cruising Guide to the Leeward Islands

    With full-color aerial harbor photos and 85 full-color sketch charts, it contains extremely accurate hydrographic data based on personally conducted independent surveys by the author. A Cruising Guide to the Leeward Islands Guide, 2nd ed. also includes...
    $92.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • South! (Annotated) South! (Annotated)
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    South! (Annotated)

    The Greatest Expedition Rescue in HistoryExperience one of the most unexpected survival stories in modern history. Read the first-hand account of Sir Ernest Shackleton as he takes you through the grand trials and tribulations of being marooned in the...
    $39.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • SRC-Vokabeln mit Aussprachetipps SRC-Vokabeln mit Aussprachetipps
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    SRC-Vokabeln mit Aussprachetipps

    Antworten auf alle Fragen des SRC-Prüfungsstoffs sind klar. aber das Übersetzen der 27 Funksprüche bereitet Ihnen Sorgen? Genau hier setzt mein Kurs an und hilft Ihnen weiter.Sicher im Stoff werden Sie mit Aussprachehinweisen zu den einzelnen Vokabeln...
    $38.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Image coming soon
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Voyages on Baringo

    This book describes the sailing adventures on board yacht Baringo in Hong Kong and Asia, including Malaysia,Thailand, North Borneo and Philippines. While working in Hong Kong the author and her husband enjoyed local and offshore racing as well as...
    $76.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • One Girl One Dream
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    One Girl One Dream

    The amazing autobiographical account of the youngest ever solo circumnavigation of the Earth. First time in English! If you want to see the other side of the world, you can do two things: turn the world upside down, or travel there yourself.In 2012, at...
    $25.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Fatal Storm
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Fatal Storm

    THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Just before 1pm Boxing Day 1998, many thousands of Australians gathered - on and around Sydney Harbour, or in front of their televisions - to watch the start of an annual summer sporting tradition: the 628 nautical mile...
    $30.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Wavewalker
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Wavewalker

    THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2023‘Grippingly vivid and pacey’ THE TIMES‘A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand miles of sailing’ SIMON WINCHESTER 'An astonishing almost day-by-day...
    $25.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Sailing to Scandinavia Sailing to Scandinavia
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Sailing to Scandinavia

    Sailing is a unique way to travel. Especially when it comes to the end of the Baltic Sea. On the coast of the Bothnian Sea lies the small town of Haparanda between Sweden and Finland, the destination of this trip. With their Swedish-built Vindö 32,...
    $27.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • CIRCUNNAVEGACIÓN CIRCUNNAVEGACIÓN
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    CIRCUNNAVEGACIÓN

    Cinco años solo a bordo del S/Y ALTAIR , No para batir récords, sino para experimentar las maravillas de este mundo en lugares a los que no se puede ir en circunstancias normales. Las dificultades y los triunfos de llegar, entonces con un sextante y...
    $58.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Hard Aground, Again Hard Aground, Again
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Hard Aground, Again

    Dear POTENTIAL BOAT OWNER: I offer the below letter from a yacht broker as a warning. Boat ownership is not nearly as easy as Jimmy Buffett makes it out to be. Beer helps. Money helps more."Thank you for your recent inquiry as to the availability of the...
    $22.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Sailing the Waterways of Russia's North Sailing the Waterways of Russia's North
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Sailing the Waterways of Russia's North

    A fascinating memoir of the Baltic Millennium Rally - a sailing adventure together with Russian sailors in the summer of 2000 to celebrate the turn of the millennium. The voyage involved sailing to St Petersburg, inland to Petrozavodsk, on to the White...
    $38.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Dishonourable Discharge Dishonourable Discharge
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Dishonourable Discharge

    REVIEWS FROM THE WORLD'S PRESS'Thank God myself and my daughters never sailed on one of Mr Tickners ships.' Passenger Ship Monthly 'There are no two storey brothels in Mombasa.' Kenyan Tourist Board 'The top speed of the Woolston floating chain ferry is...
    $66.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • The 40-Knot Sailboat The 40-Knot Sailboat
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    The 40-Knot Sailboat

    The 40-Knot Sailboat is for boat designers or sailing enthusiasts looking to maximize their sailing speeds and improve handling. Although he originally published this book in 1963, Bernard Smith had such advanced thinking and technical insights that his...
    $90.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Maui Glory Days Maui Glory Days
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Maui Glory Days

    Capturing Maui's golden era of windsurfing, from the early pioneering days of Kailua to the big waves at Hookipa and Jaws, this book tells the story of the Kings and legends of the sport as it evolved from longboards to high-performances in big surf...
    $53.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Just me At sea Just me At sea
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Just me At sea

    Coastal-hopping up the east coast from Melbourne to Darwin - the "jumping off" point to cross the Indian Ocean, which must be attained before August to avoid cyclones - I write about my doubts and fears, and the crisis of confidence that almost stopped...
    $33.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Two in a Top Hat Two in a Top Hat
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Two in a Top Hat

    In February 1974, Jan and Ian Mitchell, cruising novices, set off to circumnavigate the world in their Top Hat 25 foot yacht, Caprice. Many adventures later, they returned to Sydney in November 1977, with two-year-old Jamie (born in Durban, South...
    $32.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
Sailing / yachting