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Plans included: Approaches to Brindisi (1:35 000) Approaches to Siracusa (1:50 000) For this 2015 edition, the amended TSS at Brindisi is now shown along with revised depths.About the AuthorImray Laurie Norie & Wilson Ltd was formed in 1904 when three...

The practical guide to celestial navigation - know what to do step by step, understand why you're doing it, and be confident that you can put it into practice when on board. Did you know that a person standing on the equator is effectively travelling...

This book is a companion to Volume 8 - General Engineering Knowledge in the "Reed's Marine Engineering Series", and is based on the DoT sylabus of Engineering Knowledge for the Class 2 and Class 1 Engineers Steam Certificates and Steam Endorsements. It...

From the Isles of Scilly to Portland Bill, this handy travel guide to the West Country ensures sailors make the most of every minute ashore. Arriving ashore somewhere new often raises many questions for even the most experienced sailor: Where are...

In Bed with the Atlantic is a travel memoir of a young woman, Kit Pascoe, as she goes from never having stepped on a yacht, to sailing over 18,000 miles - across the Atlantic, around the Caribbean and then back - in three years with her partner. At...

Tom shares a collection of his most entertaining, outspoken and instructive writing. Sailing, Yachts and Yarns is a selection of his funniest, wisest and most thought-provoking writing from the pages of Yachting Monthly. Tom's regular column for this...

"Everything creaks and bends in heavy seas - what will not bend will simply snap. So many times I wondered how much load we could carry in a powerful storm without breaking apart. If we flooded any faster I would drown in seconds." Patrick Dixon spent...

The modern racing yacht is awash with onboard instruments and electronics giving enormous amounts of data. But few people fully understand how to get the most out of all the information at their fingertips, let alone make it useful for the team to enable...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528925778Author Basil PanakisFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781871680515Author Peter BruceFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Boldre MarinePublisher Boldre Marine

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorImray Laurie Norie & Wilson Ltd was formed in 1904 when three private chart publishing firms amalgamated. Each of these London companies had a long history going...

An illustrated sailing guide for beginner and expert alike--newly updated! The Complete Guide to Sailing& Seamanship is the perfect blend of captivating sea stories and essential, basic instructional methods for anyone yearning to sail. Topics include...

Reeds Superyacht Manual, published in association with Bluewater Training, is the first and the best reference manual for everyone involved with yachts large and small, under sail or power, from deckhands to skippers and owners. There is extensive...

No Excuse to Lose is the book Dennis Conner still refers to as "the bible," He says (Time magazine, 9 February 1987), "I like to compete. I guess I don't dislike it, but my sailing is just bottom line, like adding up the score in bridge. My real interest...

Plans included: Tazacorte (1:10 000) Puerto de Santa Cruz (1:12 500) Puerto de San Sebastian de la Gomera (1:10 000) Puerto de la Estaca (1:7500) Darsena de Los Llanos (Marina Santa Cruz) (1:17 500) Darsena Pesquera (Marina Tenerife) (1:17 500) Puerto de...

This guide to celestial navigation has been popular ever since it first appeared in 1969. Revised in 1982, Celestial Navigation is a quick, easy, and thorough explanation (with realistically worked problems) of the practice of celestial navigation at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955803574Author Roger D. TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint The FitzRoy PressPublisher The FitzRoy Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955948329Author Paddy MacklinFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Podkin PressPublisher Podkin Press

The Atlantic Pilot Atlas provides a complete guide to the weather of the North and South Atlantic, the Mediterranean and the Caribbean. Now revised for the fifth edition, it includes weather forecasting, global warming and hurricane avoidance...

Going aboard a sailing yacht for the first time is an exciting experience, but it can be a bit daunting. It introduces you to many unknowns: terra firma is left behind, the boat is propelled by something you can't see (the wind), there are ropes...

Since the publication of the widely hailed first edition in 1983, THE ANNAPOLIS BOOK OF SEAMANSHIP has set the standard by which other books on sailing are measured. It is a comprehansive guide to all aspects of seamanship from the the simplest ABC's to...

Saved from an inglorious end as a garden ornament, Amulet a 26-foot wooden keel boat, amateur built in Fort William, Scotland in 1964, was restored by Cumbrian based author and charter yacht skipper, Bob Orrell. The story is a humorous account of the...

In 2020, Christiaan De Beukelaer spent 150 days covering 14,000 nautical miles aboard the schooner Avontuur, a hundred-year-old sailing vessel that transports cargo across the Atlantic Ocean. Embarking in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, he wanted to understand...

Three Sheets in the Wind brings together a glorious collection of Thelwell's sailing cartoons. Arriving on a summer weekend at any stretch of water without one's own craft behind the car or swaying proudly at its moorings is like attending a dance...

With weather conditions continually evolving, skippers need to factor forecast data into every passage plan and be prepared to modify it if the situation changes. This spiral-bound instant reference guide will help you draw the most relevant weather...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893341381Author Ray GriggFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Humanics LtdPublisher Humanics LtdWeight(grams) 262gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 10mm

Plans included: Approaches to Ponza (1:10 000) Approaches to Porto d'Ischia (1:10 000) Approaches to Sorrento (1:30 000) Approaches to Marina Grande (Capri) (1:25 000)About the AuthorImray Laurie Norie & Wilson Ltd was formed in 1904 when three...

An overview of the history of yachting in its social, cultural, political and economic contexts. Shortlisted for the Maritime Foundation's Mountbatten Award 2018 This book, by a leading expert in the field, is the first major history of yachting...

It is every sailor's goal to cross the Atlantic - but to complete an entire Atlantic circuit by sailing the tradewind circular route, with the highlight of a Carribbean cruise on the way, is the stuff that dreams are made of. This book is intended for...

Over the course of twenty years of delivering sailboats to far-flung quaysides, John Kretschmer has had innumerable adventures, both humorous and terrifying. in Flirting with Mermaids, he recounts the most memorable of them. He crosses the Western...

The invaluable on-the-water reference guide to the essentials of the racing rules, updated for the latest 2017-2020 Racing Rules of Sailing. Every racing sailor should have a copy! The book summarises the basic principles, definitions and rules and then...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906266196Author John MahonFormat PaperbackPage Count 393Imprint Sheridan HousePublisher Rowman & LittlefieldDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm

This is the story of Bernard and Francoise Moitessier's honeymoon voyage aboard Joshua, sailing from Europe to the islands of the Pacific and back by way of Cape Horn, the "logical route," because it was the fastest. Setting out from Tahiti, they make...

From humble beginnings at Fairlie, Ayrshire, in the early years of the nineteenth century, William Fife and Son grew to become one of Britain's premier yacht-building yards, attracting commissions from as far afield as America, Canada and America. By...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912724161Author Ross BobFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Boatswain BooksPublisher Boatswain BooksWeight(grams) 513gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 21mm

The ninth edition of Inland Waterways of France is the ideal guide for planning cruises in and through the most fascinating and diverse waterway network in Europe. This edition takes a new paperback format, split into three volumes. David Edwards-May...

Since the development of the International Moth into a fully foiling dinghy there has been an explosion in the popularity of the class with some of the world's top sailors competing in it and many others enjoying the exhilaration of `flying'. However...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551640587Author Ulrike KlausmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 245Imprint Black Rose BooksPublisher Black Rose BooksDimensions(mm) 8mm * 5mm * 1mm

Imray-Tetra charts for the Ionian and Aegean are widely acknowledged as the best available for the cruising sailor. They combine the latest official survey data with first-hand information gathered by Rod and Lucinda Heikell. The chart is designed to be...

To celebrate 60 years of sailing Scottish waters, the author single-handedly sailed Halcyon, a 32' wooden yawl, from Fairlie on the Clyde, round the Mull of Kintyre by way of numerous inner islands to Barra in the Outer Hebrides and to the Atlantic side...