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$69.95  
240 pages, 8.5 X 11, 9781948494830
This is the revised and updated 4 th  edition of the ever-popular Pavlidis Cruising Guide to the Exuma Cays, long known as the most all-encompassing cruising guide ever written on the Exuma Cays, much of what Steve has written in The Exuma Guide is not available from any other publication....

$14.95  
hardcover, Bryony Davies, 48 pages, 9.0 x 0.3 x 12.0", 9781783127214
Each double page spread features a different group of boats and other watercraft to explore, such as helpful lifeboats, record-breaking catamarans and boats that people live on. Discover some of the more surprising things that float on water – including seaplanes and amphibious cars – as well as...

$79.95  
Hardcover, John C. Payne, 696 pages, 7.3 x 1.85 x 10.3", 9781493074198
The completely revised, expanded, and updated fourth edition of the world's most comprehensive electrical and electronics handbook for sailors Marine Electrical and Electronics Bible is a useful and thoroughly practical guide that explains in detail how to select, install, maintain, and...

$75.00  
Hardcover, Katharina Charpian, 256 pages, 10 x 12, 9783967040999

$18.00  
Paperback, Nathaniel Philbrick, 293 pages, 6 x 9, 9780141001821
A superb retelling of the tragic story surrounding the 1820 loss of the whale ship Essex, rammed and sunk by a whale in the South Pacific.

$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...

$23.95  
Paperback, 241 pages, 8.5 x 11
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$19.95  
Paperback, 200 pages, 8.5 x 11
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$22.95  
Paperback, John C. Payne, 146 pages, 9781574093599
From John C. Payne, one of the foremost international authorities on marine electrical systems and electronics, comes an easy-to-understand yet thorough treatment of marine diesel engines and the technical issues facing every boat owner. Concise, compact, and fully illustrated for easy...

$19.95  
Paperback, 201 pages, 8.5 x 11
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$25.95  
Paperback, 263 pages, 8.5 x 11
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$43.95  
Paperback, 463 pages, 8.5 x 11
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$34.95  
Susan P. Howell, 9781493069699
Praised by The Practical Sailor as "a first-class piece of work," Susan P. Howell's Practical Celestial Navigation was developed for Mystic Seaport's navigation courses. This third edition, originally published by the Seaport's Planetarium, retains the step-by-step format of the original, along...

$19.95  
Paperback, 187 pages, 8.5 x 11
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Little Toot
PGN094
$17.99  
Hardcover, Hardie Gramatky, 86 pages, 7 x 8, 9780399247132
First published in 1939, this classic story of the energetic tugboat is brought to new life in this restored edition. With the help and support of Hardie Gramatky's estate, to mark the 100th anniversary of his birth, we have used archived first editions and Hardie's original paintings to restore...

$33.95  
Paperback, 366 pages, 8.5 x 11
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$32.95  
Paperback, 356 pages, 8.5 x 11
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$22.95  
Paperback, 218 pages, 8.5 x 11
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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...

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...

$18.99  
Paperback, Jim Lynch, 272 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9781582346298
One moonlit night, thirteen-year-old Miles O'Malley, a speed-reading, Rachel Carson-obsessed insomniac out looking for tidal specimens in Puget Sound, discovers a giant squid stranded on the beach. As the first person to see a giant squid alive, he finds himself hailed as a prophet. But Miles is...

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Paperback, 218 pages, 8.5 x 11
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$39.95  
Paperback, 424 pages, 8.5 x 11
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$22.95  
Paperback, John C. Payne, 120 pages, 9781574093629
From John C. Payne, one of the foremost international authorities on marine electrical systems and electronics, comes an easy-to-understand yet thorough treatment of boat wiring and the technical issues facing every boat owner, whether sail or power. Concise, compact, and fully illustrated for...

$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.

$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...

$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...

$22.95  
M.D. Forgey, William, 9781493056637
A book to take with you when you go sailing or power-boating, in case a medical emergency or other medical problem arises. It emphasizes head trauma and management of orthopedic injuries, seasickness and issues relating to cold injuries (cockpit foot), illness after exposure after leaving a...

$29.95  
Paperback, 306 pages, 8.5 x 11
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$60.00  
hardcover, Ivor Wilkins, 445 pages, 12 x 10, 9781869621629
New Zealand has a remarkable maritime history and many of us have a close relationship with the sea that surrounds us. No sooner had the first European settlers arrived in Auckland than they held a regatta to celebrate, and the first pure racing/pleasure yachts were built from the 1880s onwards,...

$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...

$35.00  
Paperback, 8.5 x 11
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$19.95  
Paperback, 166 pages, 8.5 x 11
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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...

$48.95  
Paperback, 524 pages, 8.5 x 11
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Toy Boat
PGN011
$17.99  
Hardcover, Randall de Seve & Loren Long, 48 pages, 9.75 x 9.75, 9780399243745
A wonderful story in which a little boy lets his beloved toy boat loose for adventures on its own and what adventures they are! He loves his toy boat so much that he sleeps with it and when it returns safely he knows it will always come back. Splendid illustrations.

$17.00  
Paperback, Richard Henry Dana Jr. & Gary Kinder, 516 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9780375757945
Tracing an awe-inspiring oceanic route from Boston, around Cape Horn, to the California coast, Two Years Before the Mast is both a riveting story of adventure and the most eloquent, insightful account we have of life at sea in the early nineteenth century. Richard Henry Dana is only nineteen...

$36.95  
Paperback, 368 pages, 8.5 x 11
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$18.95  
Paperback, Susan Marie Conrad, 46 pages, 11 x 8, 9781736590607
Join Kami the Kayak and her paddler Suz, along with a host of outdoor friends on a wondrous seafaring adventure to Alaska. Based on a true story! In this picture book adaptation of Susan Conrad's "Inside: One Woman's Journey Through the Inside Passage," we follow the dream of a little...

$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...

$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...

$29.95  
Paperback, 8.5 x 11
Some info may be out of date, as this is an old title we have found some remaining stock in our warehouse. Cruising Guide to San Diego Bay is a complete compilation of up-to-date sailing information about San Diego Bay and its adjacent harbors. The Guide includes current bay rules and...

Manual of Sail Trim
WWN077
$21.95  
Paperback, Stuart H. Walker, 251 pages, 5.5 x 8, 9780393032963
Tells how to trim sails for all wind and sea conditions, whether beating, reaching or running. Tells how to trim sails for mark roundings, gybing, accelerating, slowing down. Required reading for all racers, with lessons for cruisers, too.

$19.99  
Paperback, Lisa Purcell, 192 pages, 8.5 x 11, 9781510752979
A Celebration of the World's Most Beautiful Lighthouses From ancient times until the present, lighthouses have symbolized safety, homecoming, and the seafaring way of life.  Lighthouses of the World   provides gorgeous full-color photos showcasing lighthouses from around the world. From...

$29.95  
Paperback, 294 pages, 8.5 x 11
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$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...

$35.00  
Hardcover, George Anderson Chase, 304 pages, 6 x 9, 9780870336430
Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-301) and index.

$25.00  
Paperback, Duncan Wells, 160 pages, 7.5 x 9.5, 9781472962348
An indispensable myth-busting guide to the reality of navigation. All boaters, whether under sail or under power, need to be able to navigate safely on the water--both to keep themselves and their crew out of trouble and to avoid endangering others. Yet navigation has often been presented...

$19.99  
Paperback, Fred Edwards, 224 pages, 9 x 6, 9780870336270
This second edition is a comprehensive, entertaining guide to mixing boating with business. Leaping ahead of the first edition, this guide keeps up with a boating industry that has become much more regulated and competitive. It shows old salts and newcomers how to transform water-related fun...

$8.95  
Spiral-Bound, Robert Ludlow, 32 pages, 9.5 x 7.2 x 0.2, 9781846234897
This small book is intended principally as a help to leisure boaters who are not familiar with the Thames through central London. However, Part 2 may well help even the most seasoned of watermen. The length of the river covered is from Margaret Ness in the east, to Putney Bridge in the west....

$94.95  
Hardcover, RCCPF/Steve Pickard, 205 pages, 0.9 x 8.2 x 11.6, 9781846233753
This seventh edition of the RCC's South Biscay pilot covers the coasts of France and Spain from the Gironde to A Coruña in Galicia. This edition has been completely revised and updated. In line with other recent RCC editions, waypoints have been introduced to assist navigation. With new...

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.

$39.95  
Paperback, David Rainsbury, 159 pages, 7.25 x 9.75, 9780852888360
David Rainsbury's 'Fearsome Passages' is an anthology of his articles that have appeared over the last 2 years in Sailing Today magazine. 'Fearsome Passages' are notorious tidal areas, mostly on the north and west side of the British Isles and in Brittany. David describes how to tackle these...

$19.95  
Paperback, Ed Mapes, 300 pages, 6 x 9, 9780939837878
No skipper should ever take a vessel or crew onto the open ocean without the means to cope with the unthinkable, because in an uncontrolled environment we can't know what will go wrong. . Disasters occur because of a cascade of untoward events; the best seamen are able to interrupt this sequence...

$35.00  
Paperback, 8.5 x 11
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Paperback, Steve Henkel, 412 pages, 8 x 11, 9780071636520
For the first time ever, a comparative survey of 95 percent of the fiberglass pocket cruising sailboats ever built.

$20.95  
Spiral-Bound, 104 pages, 9 x 6, 9781846234521
First published in the 1950s Imray's Map of the river above Rochester has always been popular with boaters. There is no other large scale map of the non-tidal section of the Medway above Allington Lock. For the last twenty years the map had been published as part of a guide with a commentary by...

$12.95  
Paperback, 18 pages, 8.5 x 11
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Paperback, Henry Iriving, 134 pages, 8.5 X 11, 9780852885789
This new guide provides coverage north from the Humber. A detailed and entertaining guide to the remarkable variety of harbors and havens along the Yorkshire and Northumberland coasts, the pilot is fully illustrated in color with charts and photographs. This guide has been compiled in 2001 from...

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8.5 X 11
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$29.95  
Paperback, Alan E. Spears, 186 pages, 10.8 x 8.2, 9780939837199
An invaluable assemblage of forms, procedures, protocols and requirements for entering and leaving the most popular cruising ports in the Pacific. Covers Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Down Under, Mexico, Panama and the Galapagos.

$29.95  
Paperback, L. Francis Herreshoff, 349 pages, 6 x 9, 9781574092875
A much anticipated reissue, in larger format, of the biography of Nathanael G. Herreshoff, who was the greatest yacht and marine designer and builder this country has ever produced. Many of the closely guarded secrets of Captain Nat, the great master, are revealed in these pages. Fully...

$50.00  
Hardcover, 9780870336201
The domestic and international rules governing the qualifications for personnel serving on tank vessels have changed in recent years. To address those new requirements, the fourth edition of Tanker Operations incorporates new material by Mark Huber and other contributors, providing an updated...

Compass Book
PAR024
$12.95  
Paperback, Mike Harris, 104 pages, 11 x 8.3, 9780939837274
Leads the way to a useful understanding of how to repair and maintain and adjust the marine compass. Indicates when to seek the training and experience of a professional adjuster.
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