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Fifty Places to Sail Before You Die

Author : Chris Santella

Publisher : ABRAMS

Page : 418 pages

File Size : 27,88 MB

Release : 2012-11-16

Category : Sports & Recreation

ISBN : 161312063X

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Championship racers and professional adventurers disclose their favorite destinations in an inspiring volume of stories, travel tips, and photos. Featuring some of the best-known men and women in the sport—Tom Whidden and Gary Jobson (members of the winning 1987 America’s Cup crew), Jeff Johnstone (of J-Boats), award-winning sailing writer Lin Pardey, and many others—this is a unique full-color celebration for sailors to relive their greatest memories or plan their next big adventure. The amazingly diverse places they’ve selected include: Australia: Fremantle and Sydney Bermuda: St. George’s Harbor Brazil: Bay of Ilha Grande California: Channel Islands and San Francisco Bay Chile: Cape Horn Italy: Costa Smeralda, Sardinia Maine: Boothbay Harbor, Penobscot Bay, Southwest Harbor Florida: Biscayne Bay and Key West Scotland: Firth of Clyde South Africa: Cape Town…and dozens more For each place, the sailor recommending the venue spins an entertaining yarn about their experience there, and each description is accompanied by a “make you want to go there now” photograph. From the relative indolence of cruising the Dodecanese or the British Virgin Islands, to the white-knuckle adventure of rounding Cape Horn, to the thrill of partaking in the regatta off Newport, Fifty Places to Sail Before You Die captures the rich and varied world of recreational sailing—and may just inspire you to set sail on some new adventures of your own.



How to Sail Around the World

Author : Hal Roth

Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional

Page : 481 pages

File Size : 41,34 MB

Release : 2003-10-20

Category : Sports & Recreation

ISBN : 0071778721

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A new classic from one of the world's most respected sailing authors More than 35 years ago, Hal Roth quit his job as a journalist and went sailing. Since then, he's logged more than 200,000 sea miles. Along the way, Roth also has authored eight voyaging classics, including the 1978 bestseller After 50,000 Miles. Taking that book as its starting point, this handsome new volume incorporates the new technologies and discoveries of the last quarter century along with another 150,000 miles of experience. A compendium of mature, time-tested sea wisdom from one of the world's most respected sailing writers, How to Sail Around the World will tell the reader: How to choose and equip a sailboat for long-distance cruising, with an emphasis on simplicity and a modest budget How to plan and conduct a voyage anywhere in the world How to master the arts of navigation, anchoring, and daily life aboard in exotic places How to cope with storms at sea--the most complete and authoritative treatise on this critical topic ever published



Sailing Made Easy

Author : American Sailing

Publisher : American Sailing

Page : 126 pages

File Size : 40,66 MB

Release : 2010-01-01

Category : Sports & Recreation

ISBN : 098210250X

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Sailing Made Easy is the first step in a voyage that will last you the rest of your life. It is a gift from a group of dedicated sailing professionals who have committed their lives to sharing their art, their skill, and their passion for this wonderful activity. This book, which Sailing Magazine called "best in class" upon its release in 2010, is the most comprehensive education and boating safety learn-to-sail guide to date. It is also the official textbook for the ASA Basic Keelboat Standard (ASA 101). Incorporated in the textbook are useful illustrations and exceptional photographs of complex sailing concepts. The text’s most distinguishing feature is its user friendly "spreads" in which instructional topics are self-contained on opposing pages throughout the book. There are also chapter end quizzes and a glossary to help those new to sailing to navigate their way through the extensive nautical terminology.



Sell Up and Sail

Author : Bill Cooper

Publisher : Sheridan House, Inc.

Page : 386 pages

File Size : 43,49 MB

Release : 2005-11

Category : Sailboat living

ISBN : 1574092197

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Format 6 x 9 Illus. 8 pp color section, 40 b&w photos - New edition of an international bestseller - An inspiration for many blue water cruisers - Fully updated with new material



Time of Wonder

Author : Robert McCloskey

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 34 pages

File Size : 33,83 MB

Release : 1989-06-15

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 0451481852

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Winner of the Caldecott Medal! For fans of Blueberries for Sal, One Morning in Maine, and Make way for Ducklings. "Out on the islands that poke their rocky shores above the waters of Penobscot Bay, you can watch the time of the world go by, from minute to minute, hour to hour, from day to day . . ." So begins this classic story of one summer on a Maine island from the author of One Morning in Maine and Blueberries for Sal. The spell of rain, the gulls and a foggy morning, the excitement of sailing, the quiet of the night, the sudden terror of a hurricane, and, in the end, the peace of the island as the family packs up to leave are shown in poetic language and vibrant, evocative pictures.



The Hard Way Around

Author : Geoffrey Wolff

Publisher : Vintage

Page : 242 pages

File Size : 15,30 MB

Release : 2011-11-29

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 0307745457

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In 1895 Joshua Slocum set sail from Gloucester, Massachusetts, in the Spray, a thirty-seven-foot sloop. More than three years later, he became the first man to circumnavigate the globe solo, and his account of that voyage, Sailing Alone Around the World, made him internationally famous. But scandal soon followed, and a decade later, with his finances failing, he set off alone once more—never to be seen again. In this definitive portrait of an icon of adventure, Geoffrey Wolff describes, with authority and admiration, a life that would see hurricanes, shipwrecks, pirate attacks, cholera, smallpox, and no shortage of personal tragedy.



Sailing

Author : Dave Franzel

Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield

Page : 169 pages

File Size : 49,92 MB

Release : 2018-01-15

Category : Sports & Recreation

ISBN : 1493029819

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Book Description

Quickly and easily master the sailing fundamentals you'll need to get out on the water.



The New Book of Sail Trim

Author : Ken Textor

Publisher : Sheridan House, Inc.

Page : 244 pages

File Size : 27,41 MB

Release : 1995

Category : Sports & Recreation

ISBN : 9780924486814

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Book Description

Editor Ken Textor is a writer and sailing enthusiast.



Pippa Will You Sail with Me?

Author : Anita Bijsterbosch

Publisher : Clavis

Page : 16 pages

File Size : 48,12 MB

Release : 2020-03-10

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 9781605374871

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With Clavis Music we embrace the power of reading and the power of listening. We explore a new world: that of books and the music. Will you explore it with us? PIPPA the puffin is going sailing. Maybe a friend wants to sail along . . . Pippa asks the dolphin, the penguin, the seal . . . But they're too busy to join her. And you? Will you look and listen too? A sweet and charming music book for little Arctic adventurers ages 2 and up.



A Sail of Two Idiots: 100+ Lessons and Laughs from a Non-Sailor Who Quit the Rat Race, Took the Helm, and Sailed to a New Life in the Caribbean

Author : Renee Petrillo

Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional

Page : 305 pages

File Size : 31,49 MB

Release : 2012-04-06

Category : History

ISBN : 007178246X

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“It was the best of dreams, it was the worst of dreams, it was an age of consulting the nautical experts, it was the age of landlubber foolishness, it was the epoch of determination, it was the epoch of despair, it was the season of hurricanes, it was a spring of beachcombing...” If you dream about chucking it all away and sailing toward an island life, read this first Renee and Michael didn’t have any boating experience and when their plans to remedy that fell through the two had to learn everything the hard way. Despite themselves they managed to get from Miami to Grenada, eventually dropping the anchor of their cruising catamaran at the island of their dreams. Determined to save future sailors from themselves, A Sail of Two Idiots includes lessons Renee and Michael learned and shares them with you as examples of what and what not to do. This a how-to guide wrapped in a funny story—kind of like getting your serving of vegetables from a slice of pizza. Read this and make your dream of sailing away a reality. Includes: “What Broke?” sections explores the ongoing maintenance and upkeep of a cruising multihull "Island” section provide assessments of the islands of the Caribbean