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Back Under Sail
Back Under Sail
MWE001
$10.00  
Hardcover, Migael Scherer, 203 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9781571312747
An experienced sailor goes racing for the first time, searching for victory and a renewed love of life. This is a moving portrayal of a frayed life being made whole again in the comradeship of a grueling race through hauntingly beautiful surrounds.
Sailing Around the World
Sailing Around the World
SHP080
$10.00  
Hardcover, Guy Bernardin, 230 pages, 65 x 9.5, 9781574091489
The author, a French racing sailor, buys a replica of the Spray and sets off in 1995 for three years with wife and young son to retrace Slocum's circumnavigation. A fresh take on the seagoing travelogue and a story of a happy family at sea.
Blood Ransom: Stories from the Front Line in the War against Somali Piracy
Blood Ransom: Stories from the Front Line in the War against Somali Piracy
ACB132
$12.00  
Hardcover, John Boyle, 304 pages, 6 x 1.2 x 9, 9781472912671
For the first time in history, the navies of the world have united against a common enemy--a couple of thousand rag-tag, underfed men and boys in the western Indian Ocean. Crammed into open boats and armed with ancient AK-47s, they range up to a thousand miles from home shores in Somalia. No one...
Sailing Off The Anchor: Adventures of an Entrepreneur
Sailing Off The Anchor: Adventures of an Entrepreneur
CAP004
$6.00  
Paperback, Don Douglass, 286 pages, 6 x 0.6 x 9, 9781934199152
Charts are non-returnable
South From Alaska: Sailing to Australia with a baby for crew
South From Alaska: Sailing to Australia with a baby for crew
SFA001
$16.99  
Paperback, Mike Litzow, 344 pages, 6 x 9, 9780692029268
"As a sailor who raised his daughter aboard, I was touched by this book. Litzow writes from the heart."  - Fatty Goodlander   When marine biologists Mike Litzow and Alisa Abookire decide to follow their dream and sail from Alaska to Australia, they agree that they won't leave...
Harmony on the High Seas: When Your Mate Becomes Your Matey
Harmony on the High Seas: When Your Mate Becomes Your Matey
HMY002
$12.95  
Paperback, Virginia Crane Gleser, 422 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9780964724723
What is it that compels us to follow our all-consuming passions? Is it a search for that elusive, genuine happiness that uplifts the spirit and satisfies the soul? But why go cruising? For my husband Robert and I, it was the innate desire to explore our world, escape the rat race and cold...
Flirting with Mermaids: The Unpredictable Life of a Sailboat Delivery Skipper
Flirting with Mermaids: The Unpredictable Life of a Sailboat Delivery Skipper
NBN042
$16.95  
Paperback, John Kretschmer, 224 pages, 6 x 9, 9781574091649
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 Caribbean with a crew of eccentric...
Cape Horn Birthday: Record-Breaking Solo Non-Stop Circumnavigation
Cape Horn Birthday: Record-Breaking Solo Non-Stop Circumnavigation
SWP065
$26.95  
Paperback, Peter Freeman, 348 pages, 6 x 9, 9781948494045
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 way, with a compass, a sextant, books of...
The Un-Adult A-Rated Wally: 16 of Wally's Best Stories, Un-Cut, Un-Edited and Un-Usually Fun Reading
The Un-Adult A-Rated Wally: 16 of Wally's Best Stories, Un-Cut, Un-Edited and Un-Usually Fun Reading
SWP064
$19.95  
Paperback, Wally Moran, 92 pages, 6 x 9, 9781948494113
The UN-ADULT A-RATED Wally by Cruising World Magazine contributor, Wally Moran, is a collection of 16 of Wally's best stories, un-cut, un-edited and un-usually fun reading! Wally's often philosophical humor and his tongue-in-cheek outlook on life, as well as all things sailing and cruising...
Mum's Beauty
Mum's Beauty
CBJ001
$27.00  
paperback, Karen Sack, 142 pages, 8.5 x 11, 9781719272438
A young family leaves their Northern California tree farm to explore Europe by water. On this journey they discover a vast waterway system. Each family member assumes more responsibilities along the way and they all learn to live in harmony in a small space. This is a story of their sailing...
Seraffyn's Oriental Adventure
Seraffyn's Oriental Adventure
PDB006
$12.95  
Paperback, Lin and Larry Pardey, 256 pages, 9 x 6, 9780964603639
A tale of adventures, as two young dreamers continue their voyaging on board their self-built 24'4" cutter. They cross the exotic sea that spawned Homer's tales of Ulysses' Odyssey, then sail through the strife torn Red Sea and across the typhoon tossed waters of the Bay of Bengal. In this...
Living A Dream
Living A Dream
PAR040
$14.95  
Paperback, Suzanne Giesemann, 300 pages, 9 x 5.9, 9780939837809
On 9/11, USN Commander Suzanne Giesemann was aboard the military aircraft Speckled Trout as it flew over the just-demolished Twin Towers. As aide to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, she strode beside him through the still-smoldering Pentagon. All those lives gone in an instant, robbed...
Letters from the Sea
Letters from the Sea
PAR053
$9.95  
Paperback, Deborah Shapiro, 96 pages, 8.8 x 5.8, 9780939837038
Letters to children who have never been sailing written aboard the sailing yacht Northern Light during an 8,000 mile ocean voyage. The author describes life aboard a small sailboat in mid-ocean, close to birds, dolphins and sea life of all kinds. . Click the E-Book icon to get the Kindle version...
Log from the Sea of Cortez
Log from the Sea of Cortez
PGN037
$18.00  
Paperback, John Steinbeck, 278 pages, 6 x 9, 9780140187441
An exciting day-by-day account of Steinbeck's trip to the Gulf of CA with botanist Ed Ricketts. A wonderful combination of science, philosophy and high-spirited cruising adventure.
A Full Cup
A Full Cup
PGN105
$17.00  
Paperback, Michael D' Antonio, 400 pages, 9781594485213
The chain of islands from the Virgins through to the southern Caribbean is considered one of the most desirable tropical cruising grounds for any sailor. It can be sailed in comfort and confidence with only one language, one currency, a modicum of weather forecasting, and an ability to spot...
Getting Stoned with Savages
Getting Stoned with Savages
RAN003
$15.00  
Paperback, J. Maarten Troost, 239 pages, 5 x 8, 9780767921992
The hilarious tale of the author's time on Vanuatu, a rugged cluster of islands where the natives gorge themselves on kava and are still known to 'eat the man. '
Before the Wind PAPERBACK
Before the Wind PAPERBACK
RAN508
$16.00  
Paperback, Jim Lynch, 304 pages, 6 x 9, 9780307949356
The Johannssens are a sailing family: adventurous, fanatical, and, for now, a complete and total mess. Ruby, a prodigiously talented skipper, has taken off for Africa. Bernard is god-knows-where at sea. And at thirty-one years old, Josh Johannssen, the middle child, is fixing up an old family...
Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship
Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship
RAN496
$19.00  
Paperback, ROBERT KURSON, 304 pages, 6.4 x 1 x 9.6, 9780812973693
A thrilling new adventure of danger and deep-sea diving, historic mystery and suspense, by the author of the  New York Times  bestseller  Shadow Divers   Finding and identifying a pirate ship is the hardest thing to do under the sea. But two men—John Chatterton and John Mattera—are...
More Faster Backwards: Rebuilding David B
More Faster Backwards: Rebuilding David B
NWN001
$19.95  
Paperback, Christine K Smith, 318 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9780615540894
ON JUNE 16, 2006, the David B left Bellingham, Washington bound for Juneau, Alaska, on her maiden voyage as a passenger vessel. Eight years earlier, Christine and Jeffrey had found the David B tucked behind a breakwater on Lopez Island. The tired old wooden boat, built in 1929, was showing her...
Cape Horn: The Logical Route: 14,216 Miles Without a Port of Call
Cape Horn: The Logical Route: 14,216 Miles Without a Port of Call
SHP088
$11.50  
This is the story of Bernard and Françoise 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 their way through the Roaring Forties,...
A Speck On the Sea
A Speck On the Sea
INT164
$24.00  
Paperback, William Longyard, 363 pages, 6 x 9, 9780071440295
Looks back half a millennium to chronicle the greatest ocean voyages attempted in the littlest of boats-rowboats, canoes, and tiny sailboats like Hugo Vihlen's 6 ft. April Fool. This is history, adventure and seafaring legend of the highest order.
Red Sea Peril
Red Sea Peril
SHP073
$7.00  
Paperback, Shirley Billing, 254 pages, 6 x 9, 9781574091373
Records in dramatic detail the ordeal of Peter and Shirley Billing who were taken from their yacht at gunpoint in the Red Sea and only released after a month of the most extraordinary efforts by friends, family and their government.
Slow Boat From China
Slow Boat From China
SHP144
$10.00  
Paperback, Adrian Sparham, 228 pages, 6 x 9, 9781574092172
A fine cruising narrative in which a couple decide to pull out of the rat race and spend years exploring cruising destinations off the beaten path. They learn a great deal about the world and themselves.
Damn the Torpedoes!
Damn the Torpedoes!
TWE001
$6.00  
Paperback, Catherine Dook, 180 pages, 5.5 x 7.5, 9781894898065
Warm and witty tales of live aboard life and all its misadventures, joys and challenges. For the nautically committed and those who love to laugh.
Walking on Water
Walking on Water
SHP346
$9.00  
Paperback, Geoff Holt, 364 pages, 5 x 8, 9781574092769
On September 5, 1984, eighteen-year-old Geoff Holt dived into an idyllic tropical sea, and his life changed forever. A broken neck cut short a promising career as a yachtsman and left him paralyzed, with his horizons reduced to an uncertain future in a wheelchair. On September 5, 2007, after a...
Cruising Conversations with A Daring Duo!
Cruising Conversations with A Daring Duo!
SAI003
$5.00  
Paperback, Charles & Corrine Kanter, 364 pages, 6 x 9, 9780961840693
364 pages (includes 32 pages of COLOR photos) of mirth, introspection, experience, pathos and just plain lifestyle joy from two people who dared to be different and take to the sea on an '-unconventional'-sailing craft and find camaraderie, lasting friendships, and a business model that allowed...
Life at Sea Level
Life at Sea Level
SWP055
$8.00  
Paperback, Steven J. Pavlidis, 259 pages, 6 x 9, 9781892399335
Life at Sea Level is the latest work of one of America s finest travel guide authors. For nearly 20 years, Stephen J Pavlidis has been writing books about the Bahamas and the Caribbean islands. He has written 14 guides covering virtually all the geography from south Florida to Trinidad and...
Spirit of a Dream: A Sailor's Ultimate Journey Around the World Alone
Spirit of a Dream: A Sailor's Ultimate Journey Around the World Alone
SWP069
$24.95  
Paperback, Dave Rearick, 249 pages, 6 x 9, 9781948494090
On October 2, 2013, Dave Rearick began an epic solo voyage around the world. Onboard his specifically built Class 40 racing sloop appropriately named Bodacious Dream, Dave sailed from Newport, Rhode Island, sailing the length of the Atlantic Ocean to Cape Town, South Africa, 8000 miles distant....
The Great Circle Route, 2nd Edition
The Great Circle Route, 2nd Edition
PAR005
$24.95  
Paperback, G. Bickley Remmey Jr., 232 pages, 9 x 5.9, 9780939837687
This, the second edition of A Guide to Planning and Cruising the Great Circle Route Around the Eastern USA, documents a motor yacht "cruise of a lifetime", the 5,400-mile circumnavigation of the Eastern United States. Author Bick Remmey refers to this voyage as "the longest one-way inland cruise...
Rescue at the Top of the World
Rescue at the Top of the World
PAR033
$14.95  
Paperback, Shawn Shallow, 291 pages, 9 x 5.9, 9780939837656
Winter came early to the Arctic in 1897. Frigid temperatures brought pack ice that filled the waters north of the Bering Strait. As a result, virtually the entire North American whaling fleet was trapped, stranding 300 men to die of starvation and exposure. Three escaping ships raised the alarm....
All Hands on Deck: A Modern-Day High Seas Adventure to the Far Side of the World
All Hands on Deck: A Modern-Day High Seas Adventure to the Far Side of the World
HCT057
$28.00  
Hardcover, Will Sofrin, 272 pages, 6 X 9, 9781419767067
A maritime adventure memoir that follows a crew of misfits hired to sail an 18th-century warship 6,000 miles to Hollywood “Thrilling . . . this is an adventure story of the highest order.” —Nathaniel Philbrick, author of the National Book Award–winning   In the Heart of the Sea   and...
Sailing Bible 2nd ed.
Sailing Bible 2nd ed.
FFB179
$39.95  
Hardcover, Jeremy Evans, Pat Manley, Barrie Smith, 400 pages, 8 X 10, 9780228101826
"Sailing is a popular sport and this book is a very comprehensive treatment of the subject.... The volume is well illustrated with color photographs [and] this reviewer was impressed by the constant stress the authors place on safety at sea.... This title is recommended for general reference...
The Yacht Log - Book
The Yacht Log - Book
GPT281
$29.95  
Hardcover, Ken Mahler, 144 pages, 11.43 x 0.61 x 8.59", 9781493068296
The official Mystic Seaport Museum yacht log. With Yacht Log, you can preserve your sailing memories, recall the details of idyllic or stormy passages, remember cruises spent with your favorite guests, and record the important data of your vessel in one convenient location. This helpful book...
Over the Top
Over the Top
IPG032
$7.00  
Paperback, Adrian Flanagan, 402 pages, 5 x 8.25, 9780753826102
In 1975, when Adrian Flanagan was 15, he read Sir Francis Chichester's account of his record-breaking circumnavigation, and a dream began to form. Thirty years later, on October 28, 2005, Adrian set sail from the south coast of England on his quest to voyage vertically around the earth by the...
Occupation Circumnavigator
Occupation Circumnavigator
ACB104
$10.00  
Paperback, Lars Hassler, 320 pages, 6 x 95, 9781408112014
A hippy Sell Up and Sail, this entertaining and inspiring book is more than just a cruising narrative – it is an instructive account showing how anyone can circumnavigate (or even sail for an extended period) without huge funds. Lars Hassler originally set off intending to sail for three years,...
August Gale: A Father and Daughter's Journey into the Storm PAPERBACK
August Gale: A Father and Daughter's Journey into the Storm PAPERBACK
GPT154
$10.00  
Paperback, Barbara Walsh, 272 pages, 9 x 6, 9780762784905
  An award-winning journalist's voyage into her family history and her quest to face the storms she encounters there.  
Superdocious!: Racing Insights and Revelations from Legendary Olympic Sailor Rodney Pattisson
Superdocious!: Racing Insights and Revelations from Legendary Olympic Sailor Rodney Pattisson
MPS220
$5.00  
Hardcover, Rodney Pattisson, Barry Pickthall, 192 pages, 6.5 x 9.5, 9781472935595
The previously untold life story from world champion, Olympic medalist, and Britain's most successful Olympic sailor for three decades, Rodney Pattisson, with a foreword by Sir Ben Ainslie CBE. Rodney Pattisson MBE, the three-time Olympic medalist and multi-world champion, is an iconic...
Ten Years in a Twenty Foot Boat
Ten Years in a Twenty Foot Boat
CPJ002
$29.95  
paperback, Gary Sack, 262 pages, 8.5 x 11, 9781463581435
Ten Years is the love of a young man and a small boat. It is a guide to the waters of America and an instruction for the novice sailor wishing to cruise them.
Gift From the Sea: 50th-Anniversary Edition
Gift From the Sea: 50th-Anniversary Edition
RAN526
$14.00  
Hardcover, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 132 pages, 5.5 x 7, 9780679732419
In this inimitable, beloved classic—graceful, lucid and lyrical—Anne Morrow Lindbergh shares her meditations on youth and age; love and marriage; peace, solitude and contentment as she set them down during a brief vacation by the sea. Drawing inspiration from the shells on the shore, Lindbergh’s...
The Sea Takes No Prisoners: Offshore voyages in an open dinghy
The Sea Takes No Prisoners: Offshore voyages in an open dinghy
ACB156
$22.00  
Paperback, Peter Clutterbuck, 224 pages, 6 x 9, 9781472945716
This is a real-life story of small-boat adventure on the high seas, complete with extreme risk, last-minute ingenuity, and many near-misses. The Sea Takes No Prisoners  begins in the 60s, telling of the adventures of the author as a boy--a time of boarding schools, long holidays, and an...
Paddling North: A Solo Adventure Along the Inside Passage
Paddling North: A Solo Adventure Along the Inside Passage
IPS062
$16.95  
Paperback, Audrey Sutherland, 176 pages, 5 x 7, 9781938340758
2013 Gold Winner IBPA Ben Franklin Awards In a memoir remarkable for its quiet confidence and acute natural observation, the author of  Paddling Hawaii  and  Paddling My Own Canoe  begins with her decision, at age 60, to undertake a solo, summer-long voyage along the...
Wildly Inside: A Visual Journey Through the Inside Passage
Wildly Inside: A Visual Journey Through the Inside Passage
SMC001
$24.95  
Paperback, Susan Marie Conrad, 94 pages, 8 x 8, 9780578501352
"Wildly Inside" transports you through the Inside Passage of British Columbia and Southeast Alaska--a visual journey where you'll smell the muskiness of a whale's breath, hear the thunderous waves of a wide-awake ocean, feel the reverberations of the big ships passing by, and be totally...
Suddenly Overboard: True Stories of Sailors in Fatal Trouble
Suddenly Overboard: True Stories of Sailors in Fatal Trouble
INT460
$10.00  
Paperback, Tom Lochhaas, 9780071803311
True stories of contemporary sailing disasters that will keep you alert and careful when you are on the water. . Suddenly Overboard tells stories about sailors who experienced catastrophes when least expecting them and who were rescued, or who died, or who lived to tell the tale simply by good...
Blown Away
Blown Away
PDB018
$12.95  
Paperback, Herb Payson, 232 pages, 9 x 6, 9781929214068
Anyone crazy enough to buy a boat deserves all the headaches he gets, said Chuck. What kind of boat are you looking for? Oh, something about 35 feet. We re going to sail around the world. You poor kids, he said sympathetically. At Middle age, Herb and Nancy Payson decided they...
The Long Way
The Long Way
SHP617
$16.95  
Paperback, Bernard Moitessier, 256 pages, 6 x 9, 9781493042784
The 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, and the Horn. For seven months, the veteran seafarer battled storms, doldrums, gear-failures,...
Shakedown Cruise: Lessons and Adventures from a Cruising Veteran as He Learns the Ropes
Shakedown Cruise: Lessons and Adventures from a Cruising Veteran as He Learns the Ropes
MPS193
$19.00  
Hardcover, Nigel Caulder, 208 pages, 6.5 x 9.5, 9781472946713
Long before he was one of America's leading yachting writers, Nigel Calder was a novice cruiser with ambitions grander than his experience, setting off for a round-world-voyage. Nigel and his partner Terrie were young and foolish, with a home-built boat that was new and untested, one child...
Adrift [Movie tie-in]: A True Story of Love, Loss, and Survival at Sea
Adrift [Movie tie-in]: A True Story of Love, Loss, and Survival at Sea
HRW156
$15.99  
Paperback, Tami Oldham Ashcraft, 240 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9780062868206
New York Times   Bestseller The heart-stopping memoir, soon to be a major motion picture starring Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin, and directed by Baltasar Kormákur ( Everest ). “An inspirational and empowering read.” —Shailene Woodley Young and in love, their lives ahead of...
Blue Water Women: Making the Leap from Landlubber to a Life at Sea
Blue Water Women: Making the Leap from Landlubber to a Life at Sea
CPG001
$16.99  
Paperback, Gina De Vere, 336 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9781681571485
This book is for the young and young at heart who yearn for adventure. It is written for those women considering a life-changing direction and those seeking a career at sea.  It is not an instruction book, but you will learn from the experience of other blue water women what you need to know to...
The Sun Is a Compass: My 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds
The Sun Is a Compass: My 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds
LBC121
$18.99  
Paperback, Caroline Van Hemert, 320 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9780316414449
For fans of Cheryl Strayed, the gripping story of a biologist's human-powered journey from the Pacific Northwest to the Arctic to rediscover her love of birds, nature, and adventure.   During graduate school, as she conducted experiments on the peculiarly misshapen beaks of chickadees,...
A Voyage for Madmen
A Voyage for Madmen
HRW005
$18.99  
Paperback, Peter Nichols, 298 pages, 5.25 X 8, 9780060957032
In 1968 nine sailors set off on the first solo, nonstop circumnavigators' race-possibly the most daring competition ever held. Only one finished. This is the story of each of those sailors, the challenges and hardships they faced, the obsession that drove them.
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