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STR013
This workbook is intended to supplement the text Modern Marine Weather with practice questions and convenient resources. All answers are provided. The Lesson structure here matches the chapter structure in the textbook. There are multiple choice questions and "points of ponder" questions for each of the ten chapters.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8 x 11
Author: David Burch
ISBN: 9780914025092
$1995
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TCP001
Book - Navigation the Human Element ISBN: 978-0-9576017-0-3 “Navigating the Human Element” provides an easy-to-read and simple to understand collection of human factors information and practical interpersonal tools to help Marine Officers in more competently addressing the pressures and challenges confronting them in their modern operating environment. As the stresses of work and pressures of time and efficiencies mount on the modern merchant navy crews, it is time that the crewmembers had the opportunity of learning more about how they can best manage them. They need answers to the questions: Where are my limitations? Where do my...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Hardcover
Author: Timothy Crowch
ISBN: 9780957601703
$5495
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IHP_PUB120
This is a print-on-demand title and is NOT RETURNABLE
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8.5 x 11
$4995
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IHP_JUNKRIG
The Chinese Sailing Rig: Design and Build Your Own Junk Rig is a stem-to-stern guide for the Western sailor who wants to junk rig any hull. . Words and drawings clearly explain in detail concepts that have been successfully used for millennia in the Orient. Using Western materials and techniques, Derek walks the amateur designer/builder through all the steps to successfully junk rig their hull of choice. The emphasis is on adaptation of the Chinese rig to Western hulls. Clear and concise, The Chinese Sailing Rig does in a small book what others have attempted in much larger volumes. This edition is an update of the original that has been...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 7.8 x 6.4
Author: Derek Van Loan
ISBN: 9780939837700
$1895
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NWN001
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 age. When the young couple stepped aboard the neglected vessel, her sturdy work-boat style captured their hearts with an ageless beauty that only the young dreamers could see. Their desire was to own and operate a small expedition cruise ship in Alaska. With their love for one another and without much income, they pinned their hopes and sheer will...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 8.5
Author: Christine K Smith
ISBN: 9780615540894
$1995
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IPS383
An essential collection for every sailor’s library, this fun dictionary of phrases and terms is anchored in nautical history. Life-long sailor Bruce Macdonald knows a thing or two about the language of the sea and, in  Sound Like a Sailor , he catalogs nautical terms and idioms that are used in the common vernacular. Delving deep into the colorful history behind each word or phrase, this alphabetical reference will help readers understand the maritime origins of our most ubiquitous expressions. Discover how minding your p’s and q’s originates in how bartenders kept track of pints and quarts on sailors’ tabs, how “going...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 5.51 x 8.5
Author: R. Bruce Macdonald
ISBN: 9781998526239
$1995
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RFR007
A waterproof, portable guide to 15 essential saltwater fishing knots with easy-to-follow diagrams. Covers knots for both burley and game-fishing applications. The 12-page fanned format offers quick access to every knot. Includes a mini carabiner to clip to a tackle box, pack, or cooler. 15 saltwater knot diagrams (Albright Special, Bimini Twist, Palomar, Uni Knot, Double Uni, Haywire Twist, San Diego Jam, etc.) Mini carabiner included 12-page fanned format Waterproof and portable
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Cards
Dimensions (IN): 3.38 x 2.13
ISBN: 860001445992
$849
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PDV009
Skimming before caressing tradwinds, savoring tropical landfalls, evading stormy seas - such is the image of the cruising lifestyle, but it can be so much more. Join Lin and Larry Pardey, winners of the CCA Far Horizon Award as they recount some of their most memorable adventures during more than 40 years of cruising. Learn how they planned and executed a seven-month "Champagne Safari on a Beer Budget", outfitting a 4X4 to reach remote corners of Southern Africa. Share their memories of campfire evenings with Kalahari Bushmen, life in a sculptors commune in Zimbabwe's northern reaches, and days of animal watching at waterholes far from...
Product Type : DVD
Author: Lin & Larry Pardey
ISBN: 718122916429
$2295
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IHP_PUB147
This is a print-on-demand title and is NOT RETURNABLE
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8.5 x 11
$1995
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CMP009
The most up-to-date information available on avoiding and dealing with dangers on the water. Search and Rescue chapter has been completely rewritten. Lifeboat and life raft use, abandon ship procedures and survival skills are thoroughly covered.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Robert Meurn
ISBN: 870335730
$3500
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IMR149
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 Derek Bowskill and now this brand new edition reverts to its early successful strip map format. The content has been revised and notes and photographs added by Dave Wise whose experience of navigating the river is as a canoeist. This new edition is printed in colour and packaged in an easy-to-use folded format.
Product Type : Map
Book Type: Map
Dimensions (IN): 9 x 6
ISBN: 9781846234521
$2095
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WPC130
A  New York Times  Bestseller A  Forbes  Top 10 Conservation and Environment Book of 2016 Read the sea like a Viking and interpret ponds like a Polynesian—with a little help from the “natural navigator”!   In his eye-opening books  The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs  and  The Natural Navigator , Tristan Gooley helped readers reconnect with nature by finding direction from the trees, stars, clouds, and more. Now, he turns his attention to our most abundant—yet perhaps least understood—resource.   Distilled from his far-flung adventures—sailing solo across the Atlantic, navigating with Omani tribespeople, canoeing in...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 7.5
Author: Tristan Gooley
ISBN: 9781615193585
$1995
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IHP_NEMSPD
Package deal includes: NEM Reference Material Guide Chart No. 1 MMDREF Compilation Book Free PDF version of the NEM Reference Material Guide ( A PDF file will be emailed to you shortly after your purchase ) Free Standard Shipping
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
$9900
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IHP_PUB109
This is a print-on-demand title and is NOT RETURNABLE
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 13 x 19
$3995
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PAR009
Everything you need to know about getting yourself and your boat ready for a cruise of weeks or months in Mexican waters. For the practical, hands-on pleasure boat skipper, whether power or sail, you'll find advice on clothing and provisions, recreational and galley equipment, toiletries and medical aids. The authors, veterans of Mexican cruising, guide you through the intricacies of government paperwork, insurance, even crew selection and buddy boats. The second half comprises an alphabetical listing of equipment you are likely to need including electrical, mechanical and navigational gear.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 10.7 x 8.2
Author: Carolyn & Bob Mehaffy
ISBN: 9780939837410
$499
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IPS344
Drive and seek on the construction site and go on a digger find and count adventure! Buckle up and get ready to go on a construction site adventure with this fun Magic Headlight book. With five clever card steering wheels, learning to count 1-10 is made fun as you take the wheel and 'drive' around five exciting scenes to find and count hidden construction machines and objects. Each right-hand page features a card steering wheel to turn and a 'magic' window full of 10 hidden construction pictures to discover. The card steering wheels are super-easy to use, simply turn each wheel from side to side and then watch as hidden...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Board Book
Dimensions (IN): 7.54 x 9.29
Author: Jenny Copper
ISBN: 9781801058360
$1299
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NAV513
The Craft of Wargaming  is designed to support supervisors, planners, and analysts who use wargames to support their organizations' missions. The authors focus on providing analysts and planners with a clear methodology that allows them to initiate, design, develop, conduct, and analyze wargames. Built around the analytic wargaming construct, organizations or individuals can easily adapt this methodology to construct educational and experiential wargames. The book breaks the wargame creation process into five distinct phases: Initiate, Design, Develop, Conduct, and Analyze. For each phase, the authors identify key tasks a wargaming team...
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Jeffrey Appleget PhD
ISBN: 9781682473764
$4295
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EPP022
Sailing along California's often forbidding coast was a risky venture before 1854, the year the state's first lighthouse was established. Eventually more than forty lighthouse stations were built to guide mariners along 1,200 miles of coastline from San Diego to the Redwood Coast, and through bays and inland waters.   Sharlene and Ted Nelson tell absorbing stories about each of these lighthouse stations, about the feats of their builders, and about the heroics of the men and women who tended the lights and fog signals. This new edition also contains:   - Information about lighthouses open to the public and offering tours....
Product Type : Book
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Sharlene Nelson, Ted Nelson
ISBN: 9781684922093
$2495
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CMP090
Textbook to meet the needs of contemporary marine engineers. Emphasis is placed on main propulsion diesel engines. Aero derivative gas turbines are covered in detail. Each chapter includes review questions and references for additional study.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Everett C. Hunt, Editor
ISBN: 9780870334962
$9500
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IMR044
Inshore Britain is an anthology of articles, each dealing with a particular stretch of coast around Britain, that were first published in the Canoeist magazine. Designed to provide guidance for sea kayakers, Stuart Fishers commentary is a fascinating read for anyone interested in Britain's long and varied coastline. The text is fully illustrated with colored mapping and the author's photo's.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8.25 x 11.75
Author: Stuart Fisher
ISBN: 9780852889060
$6995
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NAV105
This mariner's guide to the weather provides information on weather warnings and fronts, the Beaufort Scale, cloud formations, fog, storms, wind, waves and swells, barometer use, and simple forecasting methods in one easy-to-read volume. It also offers an entire chapter on acid rain and its effects on mariners and their electronic equipment. It is an essential volume for any seamanship bookshelf.
Product Type : Book
Dimensions (IN): 10.25 x 7.25
Author: William J., Kotsch,
ISBN: 9780870217562
$5195
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CMP211
‘Marine Cargo Operations clearly instructs merchant officers with the techniques of cargo operations and the principles of stowage and their application. Based on the author's half century of experience, the book singles out the most practical methods, procedures, and philosophies and presents them in thorough detail. Over 160 photographs and drawings enhance these discussions. The book provides a complete understanding of the shipping cycle so all associated personnel can work as a team in observing the ‘‘three Cs’’ of shipping: communication, cooperation and coordination. The fourth edition emphasizes innovation sin cargo operations...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
ISBN: 9780870336232
$5000
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IHP_PUB159
This is a print-on-demand title and is NOT RETURNABLE
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8.5 x 11
$2595
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IHP_PUB115
This is a print-on-demand title and is NOT RETURNABLE
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8.5 x 11
$2995
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IHP_PUB145
This is a print-on-demand title and is NOT RETURNABLE
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8.5 x 11
$2995
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PAR425
Laser-cut steel, stone tumbled and finished with Squatch Metalworks proprietary distressed metal patina treatment. Clear coated with durable automotive clear-coat. Backed with a Rare Earth magnet. DESIGNED AND MANUFACTURED IN THE USA.
Location: B7
Product Type : Magnet
Dimensions (IN): 3 x 2.6
$895
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IHP_PUB131
This is a print-on-demand title and is NOT RETURNABLE
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8.5 x 11
$4895
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CMP303
Recreational boating presents more than its fair share of legal hazards. An unsuspecting buyer may discover too late that the yacht is encumbered by secret maritime liens incurred by a previous owner. A marine insurer may deny coverage for a total loss based on a seemingly innocent misrepresentation in the insurance application.  A boat owner may mistakenly believe that a rescue from a grounding is covered by a prepaid towage plan, when in fact the rescuer will be making a very expensive claim for marine salvage. These and other dilemmas unique to maritime law appear repeatedly in the court decisions relating to recreational boating....
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Eric Lenck
ISBN: 9780764356810
$2499
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IHP_PUB181
This is a print-on-demand title and is NOT RETURNABLE
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8.5 x 11
$1995
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SHP018
A easy-to-use guide that takes the reader through the basic methods involved in position finding using sun, moon and star sights. Uses several examples and situations to make this an effective self-teaching text.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 7 x 10
Author: Hewitt Schlereth
ISBN: 9781574090581
$1695
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PAR068
This 11th edition of the legendary round the world race is arguably the most visually dazzling yacht race ever. Seldom has photography documented the quest to master the oceans or the ingredients of world-class sporting endeavour better or more vividly than in this Volvo Ocean Race. . From intense racing to the high emotion of life onboard and the festive atmosphere of the race villages, this magnificent fleet has captured the imagination of millions through the media. . 39270 provides the ultimate hard-copy keepsake of a global spectacle. Published for an international audience with text translations in English, Spanish, French and...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Hardcover
Author: Gavin Brown
ISBN: 9781908271822
$4495
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SKY073
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” --Mark Twain It’s telling that Mark Twain chose sailing as a metaphor for living life to the fullest. Throughout history, humankind has been going to sea in boats and ships—for the purposes of trade, exploration, transport, fishing, and pure enjoyment. The Little Blue Book of Sailing Wisdom contains some of the most moving, perceptive, witty, and inspirational words ever spoken or written about...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 5 x 7
Author: Stephan Brennan (Editor)
ISBN: 9781628737622
$2499
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CMP093
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 textbook for maritime schools and individuals pursuing a tankerman endorsement. It is also a standard reference for anyone involved in the tanker industry. The subject areas from the third edition have been expanded and address such basics as vessel construction and cargo characteristics; cargo piping and venting systems; cargo measurement and...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780870336201
$5000
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INT334
Step-by-step, picture-by-picture how to measure for, construct, modify, renew and repair canvas items such as dodgers, biminis, sail covers, sail bags, cushions and more above decks and below. Also, how to repair and improve sails.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 7.5 x 95
Author: Don Casey
ISBN: 9780070133914
$2800
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PDB007
With this edition of Seraffyn's European Adventure, all four of the Pardey's classic Seraffyn tales are available in affordable paperback.   Join Lin and Larry while they winter in England working to pay for the next leg of their journey into the Baltic, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Germany. They dealt with armed guards on the Polish waterfront who watched while the people greeted them with flowers and fruit. They weathered a fierce mast-under broach in a Baltic gale. This story ends at the gateway to the Mediterranean to be continued in Seraffyn's Mediterranean Adventure. 
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Lin & Larry Pardey
ISBN: 9780964603646
$1695
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IMR189
Spiral-bound
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6.5 x 9.5
$1495
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WFP188
The Caribbean Sea is a semi-enclosed basin of the western Atlantic Ocean that includes over 8,388 miles (over 13,500 km) of coastline, a zone that is characterized by coral reefs, mangroves, seagrasses, sandy beaches, and rocky shores. These tropical ecosystems contain a high diversity of flora and fauna, and constitute a major marine biodiversity hot spot. This beautifully illustrated 12-panel waterproof folding guide to Caribbean Seashore Life highlights 120 species of seashore birds, mammals, seashore creatures, seashells, nearshore fishes, marine plants and algae, and coastal plants that are most likely to be encountered along the...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Folding Pocket Guide
Dimensions (IN): 4.5 x 8.5
ISBN: 9781620054796
$795
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PGN051
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.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Nathaniel Philbrick
ISBN: 9780141001821
$1800
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FRM011
Printed in both sides of durable waterproof material. On one side, is a display of the entire seas, and on the other side a display of the seas with lables and information about each island, including size, population and a bit of history. Marine life is represented by the common species in the region. English only.
Product Type : Map
Book Type: Map
Dimensions (IN): 9 x 4
ISBN: 9781601902771
$899
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MPS208
This fully updated new edition of   First Aid at Sea   provides an easy-to-access instant guide to emergency first aid for all seafarers: - Color coded thumb index of emergencies for quick reference - Concise descriptions of medical conditions - Prioritized list of treatments - Ringbinding and waterproofed pages to withstand use at sea "A highly practical on-board emergency tool written by doctors who sail" Yachting Monthly "Everything you'd expect, from the CPR ration you've forgotten... to cuts, injuries, poisoning and broken bones, is here" Classic Boat
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 7 x 9
Author: Douglas Justins, Colin Berry
ISBN: 9781472953414
$2000
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IMR191
First published over 60 years ago when interest in reviving Britain's network of navigable and rivers was starting to gather pace, this map provides the best coverage of the system in England, Wales and Scotland. Distances, the number of locks and restricting dimensions are given for each waterway. The simple cartography defines rivers, broad and narrow canals against generalized relief and the major road network. The 2016 edition has been updated to show progress in restoration schemes and other changes.
Product Type : Map
Book Type: Map
Dimensions (IN): 10 x 7.5
ISBN: 9781846238277
$2395
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HCT063
Mark Helprin, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Winter’s Tale and A Soldier of the Great War, presents a fast-paced, beautifully written novel about the majesty of the sea; a life dedicated to duty, honor, and country; and the gift of falling in love. A Navy captain near the end of a decorated career, Stephen Rensselaer is disciplined, intelligent, and determined to always do what’s right. In defending the development of a new variant of warship, he makes an enemy of the president of the United States, who assigns him to command the doomed line’s only prototype––Athena, Patrol Coastal 15––with the intent to humiliate a man who...
Product Type : Book
Dimensions (IN): 6.5 x 9.3 x 1.8"
Author: Mark Helprin
ISBN: 9781419769085
$3000
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NGA_923
Charts are non-returnable.
Product Type : Chart
Nautical Chart Type: NGA Worldwide Charts
$2495
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ACB140
Color photographs of cloud formations and their groundbreaking explanatory text enable readers to read the sky, pick up the clues and predict what the weather will do. With its winning formula of 24 clear color photographs of cloud formations and their accompanying explanatory text,  Instant Weather Forecasting  enables the reader to read the sky, pick up the clues, and predict what the weather will do. This revised and updated 5th edition takes into account the new ways users can receive professional weather forecasts, factor them into their own cloud observations, and develop an even better understanding of how the weather will...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8.5 x 5.5
Author: Alan Watts
ISBN: 9781472929730
$1600
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WPL12000C
Hand-crafted in Northern Italy, these 12-inch (30.48 cm) chrome bells are guaranteed to please with their richness of sound and beautiful finish. These stunning bells have a high copper content which makes them stronger than most bells available on the market. They are chrome-plated cast brass, polished to a mirror finish, and they produce a wonderfully rich tone when struck. They also meet the United States Coast Guard requirement for any vessel over 65 feet (20 meters).The sturdy chrome bulkhead/wall mounting bracket allows them to be easily lifted from the bracket for removal and storage when not in use. The blue, hand-tied, monkey...
Product Type : Navigation Tool
Dimensions (IN): 12 x 12 x 12
ISBN: 721002006479
$1,87299
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INT222
A quick reference guide for sail and power. Offers concise instruction in every vital facet of safely operating power and sailboats. Covers navigation, boat handling, anchoring, weather, emergencies, troubleshooting, more.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 10
Author: Nigel Calder, et al
ISBN: 9780071499101
$4700
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NGA_5270
Charts are non-returnable.
Product Type : Chart
Nautical Chart Type: NGA Worldwide Charts
$2495
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SHP171
Frank Mulville gives advice on how to choose self-steering, how to adapt rigging and gear, what supplies to take and how to stow them, how to prepare for bad weather, and how to keep fit on an ocean passage.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Frank Mulville
ISBN: 9780850364101
$1750
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PAR040
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 of the chance to live their dreams: would she and her Naval captain husband get to live their own dream?. Click the E-Book icon to get the Kindle version of this title
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 9 x 5.9
Author: Suzanne Giesemann
ISBN: 9780939837809
$1495
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PAR044
The Trailer Sailer Owner's Manual should be included with every trailerable sailboat. This comprehensive guide to selecting, caring for, and enjoying a trailerable sailboat will answer all your questions about fitting out, care of your sails, launching and retrieval, and boat maintenance. . Easy-to-understand selection guides help you choose the proper sealant/adhesive or antifouling paint. Here you'll find natural alternatives to common toxic cleaning agents, as well as a useful guide to cooking in very small spaces. You'll even learn to make traditional mats from rope while you keep a weather eye on the clouds. . . Click the E-Book icon...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 9 x 6
Author: Gregg Nestor
ISBN: 9780939837823
$1795
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