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Things I Wish I'd Known Before I Started Sailing, Expanded and Updated by John Vigor 9781493051397
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.92With a Foreword by Don Casey, Aimed at sailboat owners of all kinds, this reference book contains 200 entries packed with solid practical advice and valuable tips. Each entry is categorized... -
Ready for Sea!: How to Outfit the Modern Cruising Sailboat and Prepare Your Vessel and Yourself for Extended Passage-Making and Living Aboard by Tor Pinney 9781574091441
Booksplease Price: £18.11Tor Pinney explains how to prepare a yacht for extended cruising as well as for living aboard. He considers the systems, equipment, and modifications that will transform a basic yacht into a... -
Oceans Are Waiting: Around the World on the Yacht Tigger by Sharon Riggle 9781574091458
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.18This is a true story of newlyweds on a four-and-a-half year circumnavigation aboard a small sailboat. Single for many years, with her children grown, Sharon Ragle found herself facing a solitary... -
Joseph Conrad: Master Mariner: The Novelist's Life at Sea, Based on a Previously Unpublished Study by Alan Villiers by Peter Villiers 9781574092448
Booksplease Price: £16.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.ReviewsConrad scholars have known for years that this study by master mariner and distinguished sea writer Alan Villiers... -
Salvage - A Personal Odyssey by Ian Tew 9781574092561
Booksplease Price: £31.03'No cure, no pay'- those are the terms under which a salvor operates, and in doing so he takes on an onerous responsibility. If he is defeated by the elements he is not paid. He receives nothing,... -
The Corvette: #5 A Nathaniel Drinkwater Novel by Richard Woodman 9781574091007
Booksplease Price: £12.37The frozen splendor of the Arctic Ocean and the absorbing drama of a nineteenth century whale hunt unfold as Drinkwater escorts a whaling fleet to Greenland and meets disaster, treachery and death... -
The Lusitania: Unravelling the Mysteries by Patrick O'Sullivan 9781574090949
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.42The sinking of the Lusitania is one of the most famous naval disasters in history.Book InformationISBN 9781574090949Author Patrick O'SullivanFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Impr -
Song of the Sirens by Ernest K. Gann
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.92"Song of the Sirens is rich in detail, colorful characters, and poignant insights. It is the story of one man's love affair with the old boats he has owned or chartered. Focusing on his favorites... -
Reed's Sextant Simplified by Dag Pike 9781574091687
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.ReviewsCapably written by experienced seaman and navigator Dag Pike, Reed's Sextant Simplified is an accessibly practical... -
Titanic Survivor: The Newly Discovered Memoirs of Violet Jessop who Survived Both the Titanic and Britannic Disasters by Violet Jessop 9781574091847
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.87Violet Jessop's life is an inspiring story of survival. Born in 1887 in Argentina, the eldest child of Irish immigrants, at the age of 21 she became the breadwinner for her widowed mother and five... -
Diver: A Royal Navy and Commercial Diver's Journey Through Life, and Around the World by Tony Groom 9781574092691
Booksplease Price: £15.17Diver is an honest, moving and sometimes hilarious account of a hair-raisingly exciting career, both in the Royal Navy and in commercial deep-sea diving-training the most unlikely of raw recruits ..... -
Cruising in Seraffyn by Lin Pardey 9780924486364
Booksplease Price: £12.10The cruising tale is full of the sights and sounds, the fragrances and native customs of foreign lands, especially Central American and the Caribbean. It is a story of a leisurely sail through the... -
Sailing to Hemingway's Cuba Dave Schaefer 9781574091106
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.92For Dave Schaefer on his 32-foot sloop Dream Weaver, the urge to see Cuba now and track down Ernest Hemingway's old haunts was too strong to resist. The voyage began on Lake Champlain near... -
There Be No Dragons: How to Cross a Big Ocean in a Small Sailboat Reese Palley 9781574091830
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30Most sailors dream of journeying to foreign ports, but many are held back by fears both real and imagined. However, as Reese Palley explains, sailing close to the shore is considerably more dangerous... -
Atlantic Crossings: A Sailor's Guide to Europe and Beyond by Les Weatheritt 9781574092318
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.92"Atlantic Crossings" deals with sailing.ReviewsThe book is well suited to new sailors as well as those wishing to explore new and different routes or brush up on their bluewater voyaging skills..... -
Sustainable Sailing: Go Green When You Cast Off by Dieter Loibner 9781574092844
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.ReviewsAs boaters, we enjoy an intimate relationship with the rivers, bays, and oceans, that ebb and flow through our... -
Master Mariner: A Life Under Way by Capt. Philip Rentell 9781906266134
Booksplease Price: £13.01From his days as a cadet on the aging training ship Worcester, Captain Philip Rentell's forty-year career has spanned the world's oceans and a huge variety of seagoing experience. He served as a... -
The Cruise of the Snark by Jack London 9780924486463
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.86In this classic by a master of the adventure story, Jack London describes his around the world attempt by sail, which was inspired by the examples of his heroes Herman Melville, Robert Louis... -
Sailing to the Reefs by Bernard Moitessier 9781574091205
Booksplease Price: £14.25Perhaps the title of this book, Bernard Moitessier's first, should have been "Sailing on the Reefs'--for that is exactly what he did, almost unbelievably, twice. After finding his beloved... -
Aluminum Boatbuilding by Ernest H. Sims 9781574091137
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £29.48An authoritative guide to designing and building aluminum alloy boats.Reviewsa "must" for anyone contemplating designing and building their own aluminum craft from passenger ferries to racing... -
Cruise of the Conrad by Alan Villiers 9781574092417
Booksplease Price: £14.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.ReviewsThis book will take you back to the end of the sailing era, with a story of the around the world voyage of the... -
The Celtic Ring by Bjorn Larsson
Booksplease Price: £13.01First published in Sweden, Bjor Larsson's thriller became a bestseller in Europe.ReviewsIn the 1990s, a sailor hands his logbook to a Swede named Ulf living on his sloop in Denmark, then disappears... -
Capt. Nat Herreshoff: The Wizard of Bristol by L. Francis Herreshoff
Booksplease Price: £26.01Nathaniel G. Herreshoff was the greatest yacht and marine designer and builder this country has ever produced. Captain Nat Herreshoff is credited with the introduction of more new devices in the... -
The Rudder Treasury: A Companion for Lovers of Small Craft by Tom Davin 9781574091601
Booksplease Price: £13.95Featuring contributions from some of the most famous and diverse figures in the history of yachting and sailing, from Thomas Fleming Day and C. Andrade Jr. to John Alden and L. Francis Herreshoff,... -
The Physics of Sailing Explained by Bryon D. Anderson 9781574091700
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.01What is the best shape for a sailboat? How does turbulence affect a sailboat's movement through the water? Why do some keels have wings? Is it true that some sailboats can sail faster upwind than... -
Understanding Boat Corrosion, Lightning Protection And Interference by John C. Payne 9781574091991
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorJohn C. Payne is a cruising sailor and professional marine electrical engineer and surveyor with a 28-year... -
Sailing Language by Elliott Dunlap Smith 9781574091175
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.79This is a useful, literate compendium of boating language and terminology.Book InformationISBN 9781574091175Author Elliott Dunlap SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint -
My First Two Thousand Years: The Autobiography of the Wandering Jew by George Sylvester Viereck 9781574091281
Booksplease Price: £16.11The Wandering Jew is a cosmic symbol-he is man, he is woman, he is sex, he is history, he is life itself.Book InformationISBN 9781574091281Author George Sylvester ViereckFormat PaperbackPage -
Understanding Boat Electronics by John C. Payne 9781574092288
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.86From John C. Payne, one of the foremost international authorities on marine electrical systems and electronics, comes a new series of easy to understand yet thorough treatments of technical issues... -
Ice Bears And Kotick Peter Webb 9781574092646
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.ReviewsFans of sailing and nautical adventuring will relish Ice Bears and Kotick, a true story of a boat journey sailing... -
Ready To Sail: A Captain's Guide to Boat Inspection and Repairs - Preparations of Boat and Crew for Offshore Passagemaking by Ed Mapes 9781574092714
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.78Licensed USCG Master Mariner and delivery captain Ed Mapes spent more than a dozen years conducting boat inspections. Seeing how ill-prepared many craft were for sailing offshore, Mapes developed his... -
Annotated Sailing Alone Around The World by Joshua Slocum 9781574092752
Booksplease Price: £15.81After an epic journey lasting over three years, Joshua Slocum succeeded in becoming the first man to sail single-handed around the world. This is his account of that voyage in the form of a magical... -
Navigation Through The Ages by Donald Launer 9781574092783
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.74Sailors have been navigating the seas for thousands of years, and navigational technology has progressed exponentially during that time. This concise yet comprehensive volume from popular Sheridan... -
All for a Bottle of Whisky by Ralph von Arnim 9781574091397
Booksplease Price: £21.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781574091397Author Ralph von ArnimFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint -
The Symmetry of Sailing: The Physics of Sailing for Yachtsman by Ross Garrett 9781574090000
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.49Here is a detailed study of the motive forces of a yacht written in clear and accessible terms. The author has the rare gift of enabling his readers to relate the nautical phenomena with which they... -
Flirting with Mermaids: The Unpredictable Life of a Sailboat Delivery Skipper by John Kretschmer 9781574091649
Booksplease Price: £15.81Over 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 Complete Book of Party Games by Alexander Van Rensselaer 9781574093186
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781574093186Author Alexander van RensselaerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320 -
A, B, Sea: A Loose-Footed Lexicon by Jack Lagan 9781574093223
Booksplease Price: £16.41A, B, Sea is an entertaining, comprehensive guide to the language and lore of 21st-century seafarers. This playful mariner's glossary of nautical terms includes definitions for and cross-references... -
The Long Way: Sheridan House Maritime Classic by Bernard Moitessier
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.79The Long Way is Bernard Moitessier's own incredible story of his participation in the first Golden Globe Race, a solo, non-stop circumnavigation rounding the three great Capes of Good Hope, Leeuwin,... -
Sutton Hoo: The Excavation of a Royal Ship-Burial by Charles Green 9781574093537
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.95Charles Green tells here the dramatic story of the initial excavation of Sutton Hoo, one of the richest archaeological finds of all time. In the Sutton Hoo burial grounds scientists unearthed a ship...