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  • For Love and the Sea For Love and the Sea
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    For Love and the Sea

    In 1960, 18-year-old Jutta Townes leaves her German coal-mining town and migrates to Australia looking for freedom. She meets a lanky Australian engineer with a yen to sail around the world, and together they buy a traditional wooden yacht and grab...
    $38.00

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  • Essex and Suffolk Boatyards and Boat Builders Essex and Suffolk Boatyards and Boat Builders
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    Essex and Suffolk Boatyards and Boat Builders

    In running Marine Traders Yacht Brokers from 1973 to 2000, Mike Davies visited and got to know boatyards and boat builders all over the East Coast. This book is a fascinating record of all the yards and the people he met during his 27 years in the...
    $31.00

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  • In a Cloud of Sails In a Cloud of Sails
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    In a Cloud of Sails

    Would you sail the vast Pacific in a three-masted ship built in North Vancouver? This is the true story of Canada's forgotten Lady of the Sea, the Monte Cristo. Young sailors who jumped at the chance in 1970 to sail to Tahiti met Marlon Brando and...
    $34.00

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  • 12 Jahre Bootseigner einer Dehler 31 12 Jahre Bootseigner einer Dehler 31
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    12 Jahre Bootseigner einer Dehler 31

    Dieses Buch richtet sich an alle, die sich mit der Anschaffung eines eigenen Segelbootes beschäftigen. Es soll die Entscheidung dadurch erleichtern, dass durch eine Fülle von Erfahrungen, auch Fehlern, im Verlauf von 12 Jahren als Bootseigner die Pros...
    $38.00

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  • The Fifinella Log The Fifinella Log
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    The Fifinella Log

    The Fifinella Log tells my true story of sailing around the world in a thirty-foot boat for four-and-a-half years. It describes terrible storms and three hurricanes encountered during the voyage, one of which in the Bay of Plenty off the north coast of...
    $117.00

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  • Close to the Surface Close to the Surface
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    Close to the Surface

    For years, Bryan and Bethany Lee dreamed of traveling by sailboat in the Pacific Ocean. They spent a decade preparing along with their two young children, and finally, when their kids were in middle school, they crossed the Columbia River Bar and headed...
    $49.00

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    A Woman's Guide to the Sailing Lifestyle

    A chance sailing trip with a friend from work led me to wonder if I could learn to sail. After all, I'm a woman, and the sailing world seems to favor men. I am not athletic; I didn't grow up in a family where we learned about boating; I would be starting...
    $49.00

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    Cape Horn Birthday

    Cape Horn Birthday documents the extraordinary non-stop round-the-world journey of a lone sailor and his thirty-two-foot sloop. GPS did not exist when Peter Freeman set sail from Victoria, British Columbia, in 1984. Peter navigated the old-fashioned...
    $45.00

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  • Ned Myers; Or, a Life Before the Mast, Volume 1 Ned Myers; Or, a Life Before the Mast, Volume 1
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    Ned Myers; Or, a Life Before the Mast, Volume 1

    This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor...
    $56.00

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  • Of Foreign Build Of Foreign Build
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    Of Foreign Build

    Jackie ran away to the other side of the world cradling a heart-wrenching bereavement.Facing a new culture, new husband, and no friends, she began living life as a cruiser with zero knowledge of boats.Crashing within the first twenty-four hours, Jackie...
    $39.00

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  • Pacific Crossing Notes Pacific Crossing Notes
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    Pacific Crossing Notes

    Sail away on the voyage of a lifetime with the help of this practical & informative guide.Pacific Crossing Notes covers everything from preparation, weather, and safety to detailed information on the island groups of the Coconut Milk Run: the...
    $55.00

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  • Facing Fear Head On Facing Fear Head On
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    Facing Fear Head On

    A collection of inspirational and practical stories from women on the water.Gasp, cry and laugh out loud as forty-six women from around the globe reveal their deepest fears and coping strategies while voyaging on (and in) the world's waterways...
    $25.00

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  • Understanding Weather Understanding Weather
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    Understanding Weather

    Weather - we can't avoid it.Good or bad it's always with us but with study and observation we can better prepare and, at times, choose the conditions we'd like to tackle. It can be a complex subject, so we have provided the basic study of weather from...
    $54.00

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  • Secrets of the Viking Navigators Secrets of the Viking Navigators
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    Secrets of the Viking Navigators

    Most navigators have heard of Viking sunstones, but few realize they are more than legend. Leif Karlsen has brought them to life. He shows us how they work—now, and a thousand years ago—and what it was that led the Viking navigators to...
    $52.00

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  • Portney's Ponderables Portney's Ponderables
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    Portney's Ponderables

    "Navigation puzzles, controversies, historical problems, and other ponderables demystified by an expert navigator and writer. Joe Portney is a US Naval Academy graduate and Air Force navigator who has participated in three historic flights over the North...
    $18.00

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  • Long Standing Ambition Long Standing Ambition
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    Long Standing Ambition

    If your life unravelled would you sink or swim?Jono Dunnett hit rock bottom. Then he launched into stormy waters to follow his dream - by his own estimation a foolish ambition – to windsurf round Britain.This powerful account charts the highs and...
    $32.00

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  • Hear the Ocean Sing Hear the Ocean Sing
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    Hear the Ocean Sing

    In Hear the Ocean Sing, the final volume of Jan Mitchell’s cruising memoirs, she takes the reader to sea with her and husband Ian. Despite experiencing a dismasting, they also wonder at the beauties of the ocean, its creatures and the pristine...
    $40.00

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  • Blue Water Warriors Blue Water Warriors
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    Blue Water Warriors

    Blue Water Warriors tells the story of the early Sydney to Hobart yacht races. Drawing on log books and memories of the navigator on a legendary competing yacht, a living part of Australia’s maritime history. The Mistral II’s crew...
    $62.00

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  • GPS Backup with a Mark 3 Sextant GPS Backup with a Mark 3 Sextant
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    GPS Backup with a Mark 3 Sextant

    No power, and batteries used up? This book and an inexpensive Mark 3 sextant lets you carry on. Alternatively, if you want to learn a basic celestial navigation position fix for any reason with minimum investment, this book shows how to do that...
    $31.00

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  • Navigation Workbook 18465 Tr Navigation Workbook 18465 Tr
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    Navigation Workbook 18465 Tr

    This book provides over 500 exercises with answers covering all aspects of small-craft navigation. These are practical problems that all navigators should know how to solve. Topics include: Piloting , Chart reading and plotting , Voyage planning, Dead...
    $24.00

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  • Change of Course Change of Course
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    Change of Course

    In her mid 30s and trying to make sense of her floundering relationship, Regina is restless. Throwing caution into the wind, she books herself a one-way ticket to the Caribbean and joins the crew of a small, vintage racing yacht to satisfy her...
    $38.00

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    As Wild as the Wind

    A wild adventure sailing a tiny Sunfish sailboat from Miami to Boston, involving over 300 coastline characters of all walks of life, a 110-day sea saga. James Lee Meadows' Screwy Sea Saga Featuring A Wild Cast Of Over 300 Coastline Characters.
    $28.00

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  • A Voyage for Madmen A Voyage for Madmen
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    A Voyage for Madmen

    "An extraordinary story of bravery and insanity on the high seas. . . . One of the most gripping sea stories I have ever read." -- Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect StormIn the tradition of Into Thin Air and The Perfect Storm, comes a breathtaking...
    $30.00

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  • Leinen los - Segel hoch - Poseidon wir kommen Leinen los - Segel hoch - Poseidon wir kommen
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    Leinen los - Segel hoch - Poseidon wir kommen

    Mit einer rund 12 Meter langen Segelyacht von Kroatien nach Griechenland zu segeln ist sicher keine Heldentat. Sollte auch keine werden. Ich wollte, gemeinsam mit Gerhard, einfach völlig entspannt die Schönheiten von Teilen Italiens Küste und...
    $52.00

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  • The Vivette Voyages The Vivette Voyages
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    The Vivette Voyages

    Two outstanding sailing adventures in one special editionThe author of this book, Keble Chatterton was a well known and prolific writer on the history of the age of sail. He was of course an experienced seaman, but this book concerns his person...
    $44.00

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  • A Sailor's Logbook A Sailor's Logbook
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    A Sailor's Logbook

    In this firsthand account of life aboard the ships of the Great Lakes, Mark Thompson weaves together the threads of a story that relives a centuries-old tradition. Thompson began his logbook after he reported for duty aboard the Calcite II at Fraser...
    $49.00

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  • The Adventures of Chas from Tas The Adventures of Chas from Tas
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    The Adventures of Chas from Tas

    Thrown into freezing Southern Ocean waters on a stormy, moonless night as a boy Chas from Tas survived and was fated to live a life of adventure as a renegade at sea.Swearing never to take an ordinary job, it’s a promise he has kept, voyaging more...
    $39.00

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  • Black-Sailed Traders Black-Sailed Traders
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    Black-Sailed Traders

    D Day - June 6 1944Roy Clark in command of tank landing craft, LCT 770, landed on the beach at Arromanches-les-Bains to discharge tanks and troops; he noticed in the dunes a yellow flower growing and said to himself “these grow in my native Norfolk...
    $67.00

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  • Ballad of Calypso Ballad of Calypso
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    Ballad of Calypso

    Ballad of Calypso is a true story told in a fanciful fashion, employing a 445-quatrain ballad derived directly from Calypso's logbook. The prose, cartoon illustrations and photos which are woven into the ballad places the reader at the helm of a 26'...
    $65.00

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  • For the Love of Oceans For the Love of Oceans
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    For the Love of Oceans

    When cancer takes her husband of twenty-one years, the author feels a loss of direction until she opens her eyes to new possibilities.Leaving her job and taking her recently widowed mother for a long getaway to Zihuantanejo on the Pacific coast of Mexico...
    $62.00

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  • Coastal and Deep Sea Navigation for Yachtsmen Coastal and Deep Sea Navigation for Yachtsmen
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    Coastal and Deep Sea Navigation for Yachtsmen

    This vintage book is a complete guide to sea navigation, with information on tides, using the stars, using a sextant, working out longitude and latitude, reading charts, and much more. Although navigation techniques have developed in modern times, it is...
    $36.00

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  • Camp Caribbean Camp Caribbean
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    Camp Caribbean

    As a young English teacher fresh out of college, Richard Williams is struggling in his chosen profession. Seeking adventure and escape he heads for the Caribbean as a leader on a teen sailing program. Set amongst the vivid landscape of the Virgin...
    $26.00

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  • Racing Dinghy Maintenance Racing Dinghy Maintenance
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    Racing Dinghy Maintenance

    This book is a complete and accessible handbook of dinghy maintenance, with information on surveying, checking and maintaining rope, preventing damage, repairing, varnishing, and all other related aspects. Although old, the information in this book is...
    $47.00

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  • Sailing Made Easy and Comfort in Small Craft Sailing Made Easy and Comfort in Small Craft
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    Sailing Made Easy and Comfort in Small Craft

    This vintage book is a complete guide to sailing, with chapters on cooking and housekeeping at sea. Written in simple language and profusely illustrated, this volume will be of considerable utility to modern readers wishing to learn how to sail, and...
    $36.00

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  • Racing Dinghy Handling Racing Dinghy Handling
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    Racing Dinghy Handling

    This vintage book is a complete guide to dinghy sailing, designed to teach the beginner everything from basic handling to dinghy racing. With information on topics ranging from buying a boat to managing weight distribution, this volume constitutes a...
    $35.00

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  • Navigation Workbook For Practice Underway Navigation Workbook For Practice Underway
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    Navigation Workbook For Practice Underway

    Add another dimension to your next day sail or cruise. This workbook makes it easy to add valuable training to almost any navigational observation. Even learn while at anchor. There are tons of interesting exercises to carry out just sitting in the...
    $24.00

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  • Radar Workbook Radar Workbook
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    Radar Workbook

    • For all radar users, recreational and professional.• Covers the use of radar for chart navigation, blind pilotage,and collision avoidance.This Workbook is designed to be used in classroom or online courses in radar, or for individual study outside of...
    $30.00

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  • Ormonde to Oriana Ormonde to Oriana
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    Ormonde to Oriana

    This excellent book relates the experiences of a sea-going Purser during the golden era of British passenger vessels, plying their trade between the UK, North America, Australia and the Far East. It would be of great interest to anyone with connections...
    $31.00

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  • This Old Man and the Sea This Old Man and the Sea
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    This Old Man and the Sea

    Shortly after his retirement, author Robert S. Ashton buys a 1983 Nordic 40 sailboat. He names the boat Chandelle, not realizing at the time that it will be his home for the next ten years.Along with his friends, Don, Roger, and Martha, Ashton soon joins...
    $26.00

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  • Einhand unterwegs zwischen Ems und Oder Einhand unterwegs zwischen Ems und Oder
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    Einhand unterwegs zwischen Ems und Oder

    Auch im Alter sollte es keinem Senioren, der auf eigenem Kiel so oft über Nord- und Ostsee geschippert ist, verwehrt sein, wieder an Bord zu gehen, die Segel zu setzen oder den Motor anzuwerfen. Nichts ist unmöglich, wenn auch in unserem Fall mit...
    $55.00

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  • Motorsegler Antn Motorsegler Antn
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    Motorsegler Antn

    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 und 1983 die Freiheit noch besser war als später mit den...
    $30.00

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  • Take Wing to the Baltic Take Wing to the Baltic
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    Take Wing to the Baltic

    They dreamed of escaping the rat race and cruising the world; in their late forties they made it a reality.In 1987, after their children had grown up and left home, Brian and Adela Thompson threw caution to the wind. Retiring from full-time work, they...
    $29.00

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