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Paradise Cay Publications offers a complete line of nautical Books for navigation and mariner trainingWe are an authorized print agent for NOAA charts and NGA print-on-demand nautical charts. In addition, we a certified seller for Canadian Hydrographic charts. Our charts and many of our books are printed in-house. We use modern printers to produce high-quality certifed products at a fair price for our customers, with generous margins to our dealers. Wholesale inquiries welcome.

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$25.95  
Paperback, 263 pages, 8.5 x 11
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$33.95  
Paperback, 366 pages, 8.5 x 11
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$18.95  
Paperback, Ray Jones, 208 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9781493047956
Lighthouses and ghosts are two popular passions. Melded together by master storyteller and lighthouse expert Ray Jones, these tales of spirited lights are guaranteed to grab the attention of all readers. As an added bonus, practical information is given for those who wish to visit the featured...

$35.00  
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South Biscay - Book
IMR200
$94.95  
Steve Imray, 205 pages, 11.69 x 0.2 x 8.27", 9781786794352
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$30.00  
Sy Montgomery, Warren K. Carlyle IV, 192 pages, 6.5 x 9.3, 9781426223723
Remarkable new discoveries affirm the octopus as one of nature’s most intelligent and complex animals. This new book—written by the beloved author of the international bestseller   The Soul of an Octopus,   along with Warren Carlyle, founder of Octonation, and enhanced with vivid National...

Moving Heavy Things
WBP043
$13.95  
Hardcover, Jan Adkins, 47 pages, 6.8x10.2, 9780937822821
The almost forgotten craft of shifting large weights with brains instead of engines. Beginning with practical rules for moving like "Get the Ming vase out of the Room. All the way out," and "What goes up comes down heavier" This is a fascinating description of applied physics in the real world....

$19.95  
David Burch, Larry Brandt , 106 pages, 8.5 x 11, 9780914025450
This book provides over 500 exercises with answers covering all aspects of small-craft navigation. These are practical problems that all navigators should know how to solve. Topics include: Piloting, Chart reading and plotting, Voyage planning, Dead reckoning, Compass use, Waypoint selection,...

$24.99  
Twain Braden, 216 pages, 8.5 x 11, 9781510767829
An illustrated sailing guide for beginner and expert alike--newly updated! The Complete Guide to Sailing & Seamanship  is the perfect blend of captivating sea stories and essential, basic instructional methods for anyone yearning to sail. Topics include seamanship and boat handling,...

$35.00  
8.5 x 11

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$19.99  
George Lewis, 113 pages, 9781784946746
This book shows you how to tie 50 knots. Some have been chosen for their fame, some for their beauty and some because they are knots that everyone should know how to tie.

$40.00  
Edwin R. Sherman , 160 pages, 7.5 x 9.25, 9781265626808
The first edition of  Outboard Engines  set the standard for a clear, easy-to-follow primer on engine basics, troubleshooting, care, and repair. This new edition, significantly expanded, brings the subject up to date, with full coverage of the new four-stroke engines, conventional electronic...

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8.5 x 11

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$54.99  
476 pages, 11 x 8.5, 9798986652580
Updated annually, the   Waterway Guide   Bahamas 2024   edition is the indispensable cruising companion for boaters exploring the Bahamas Islands and the Turks and Caicos Islands. The guide features mile-by-mile navigation information, aerial photography with marked routes, marina listings...

$27.00  
Helen Scales , 288 pages, 6 x 9, 9780802158222
A marine biologist vividly brings alive the extraordinary ecosystem of the deep ocean—a realm about which we know less than we do about the Moon—and shows how protecting rather than exploiting it will benefit mankind. “The oceans have always shaped human lives,” writes marine biologist...

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$24.99  
Paperback, Adam, Woog, 128 pages, 6.5 x 9.25, 9780738559179
The Hiram M. Chittenden Locks, known locally as the Ballard Locks, are an integral part of Seattle's extensive waterways. The busiest facility of their kind in America, the Ballard Locks form the heart of the channel connecting Puget Sound's saltwater with Seattle's main freshwater lakes. When...

$54.99  
608 pages, 9 x 10.5, 9798986652597
Updated annually,   Waterway Guide Northern 2024   edition is the indispensable cruising companion for boaters exploring the Atlantic coast from Cape May through Maine, as well as the Hudson River, Long Island Sound and Cape Cod Bay. The guide features mile-by-mile navigation information,...

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$30.00  
Paperback, Paul Elvstrom, 240 pages, 5.3 x 7.4, 9781399421539
'This book is a must-have for any serious racing sailor' – Sir Ben Ainslie, four-time Olympic gold winning sailor. Paul Elvstrøm is arguably the greatest Olympic sailor of all time. Proving that understanding the rules is crucial to winning, he devised this unique approach to explaining them...

$13.60  
Bryan Willis, 24 pages, 3.15 x 8.74, 9781912621743
A pocket-sized guide to the essential 2025-2028 Racing Rules of Sailing, perfect for boosting a sailor's confidence and knowledge on the racecourse. Bryan Willis’ Racing Rules Companion is the invaluable pocket reference guide to the essentials of the racing rules, updated for the latest...

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SEATTLE, 8.5 x 10, 9781934707883
This calendar provides monthly tide graphs, with heights and times for Seattle. Also included are Deception Pass and Tacoma Narrows current tables, a tide correction table for 49 different locations, tide tables for the Pacific Beaches, moon phases, a sunrise/sunset table, and emergency-use...

$132.95  
Paperback, Alan G., Bole, 552 pages, 7.5 x 9.25, 9780080977522
This fully revised new edition covers the complete radar/ARPA installation and serves as the most comprehensive and up-to-date reference on equipment and techniques for radar observers using older and newer systems alike. Suitable for use as a professional reference or as a training text, the...

$27.95  
Paperback, Bryan Willis, 160 pages, 9781912621736
A definitive, practical guide to the Racing Rules of Sailing, now updated for 2025-2028. Every four years the Racing Rules of Sailing are updated following the Olympics. To help the sailor, World Sailing labels important changes with marginal markings. For the new rules coming into force on...

$24.99  
Paperback, Dennison, Berwick, 208 pages, 7 x 10, 9780981123394
Keeping a Logbook for your twin marine diesel engine system has never been easier. This logbook has been specifically designed for twin engine installations in recreational and smaller vessels - sailboats, motorboats, canal boats and smaller workboats. This is a value-added Logbook - loaded with...

$17.99  
Paperback, Dennison, Berwick , 208 pages, 7 x 10, 9780981123387
Keeping a Logbook for your single marine diesel system has never been easier. This logbook has been specifically designed for single marine diesel engine installations in recreational and smaller vessels - sailboats, motorboats, canal boats and smaller workboats. This is a value-added Logbook -...

Guiding Lights - Book
IPS338
$24.99  
Paperback, Shona Riddell, 256 pages, 6 x 8.9, 9781923011045
Women have a long history of keeping the lights burning, from tending ancient altar flames to manning modern day lighthouses. Yet most of their stories are little-known.  Guiding Lights   is a collection of true stories spanning decades and continents, chronicling the lives of the...

On Lighthouses - Book
WWN855
$12.95  
Paperback, Jazmina Barrera, 174 pages, 4.75 x 7, 9781949641349
“This book is a light at the end of the tunnel.”   ―The Paris Review Far from home, in the confines of a dim New York apartment where the oppressive skyscrapers further isolate her, Jazmina Barrera offers a tour of her lighthouses―those structures whose message is “first and foremost,...

Kayak Craft
WBP035
$19.95  
Paperback, Ted Moores, 175 pages, 10.1x9, 9780937822562
Ted is the author of  Canoecraft , one of the top books on strip-building canoes.  Kayakcraft  covers four Steve Killing designs, including the 17' Endeavour. Also included in the book are lines and offsets for a 14' sport kayak, a 16'6" touring kayak, and a 20'6" tandem kayak. Table of...

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Paperback, Dareld Clark , 137 pages, 9781934707067
Diving the San Juans by Dareld and Janine Clark is a complete and practical guide to live boat diving in the San Juan Islands. Over 60 dives are detailed with explanations of hazards and conditions. Each area is illustrated with a reproduction of the largest scale NOAA chart available.

Sailing For Everyone
WBP061
$12.95  
Paperback, Simon Watts, 87 pages, 9x6.4, 9781934982013
Builder, designer, and sailor Simon Watts has written a friendly, straight-forward how-to, geared for the "novice of any age". He provides you with practical, clear text and drawings, woven through the chapters. . Table of Contents:About the WindToo Much WindArrivals and DeparturesWhen Things Go...

$24.95  
Paperback, Peter H. Spectre, 133 pages, 10.1x9, 9780937822425
This book contains a collection of practical advice on the repair and replacements of keels, stems, and frames. Table of Contents:Why Bent Frames Break, and How to Fix ThemBending WoodAn Unpressured Approach to SteamingA steam Box PrimerA Steam Box ScrapbookReframing a YachtStem, Transom, and...

Building Small Boats
WBP033
$39.95  
Hardcover, Greg Rossel, 288 pages, 11.3x8.6, 9780937822500
For years Greg has been teaching the fundamentals here at our WoodenBoat School. Greg?s talent for relaying this experience into the written word has resulted in a text with a straight-forward friendly approach, including helpful drawings and photographs. The combination will drive-home the...

$16.95  
Paperback, Jan Adkins, 64 pages, 8.5 x 11, 9781934982174
Subtitled "a primer of sailing" it really is an excellent guide to understand how wind and water affect boats. Aside from basic seamanship, Jan also includes drawings of the primary types of sailboats, so you'll see what makes a cutter a cutter, a schooner a schooner, etc. The illustrations will...

$84.95  
Hardcover, Matthew A. Carr, 240 pages, 11.25 x 8.75, 9781612511047
This textbook covers the basic design and operating principles of the propulsion and auxiliary systems of today's Naval forces. The topics include the main components in the propulsion and auxiliary systems for both conventional and nuclear steam propulsion, gas turbine power plants (for both...

$24.95  
Hardcover, Captain V S Parani , 208 pages, 8.8 x 5.65, 9781849953146
Although merchant ships carry 90% of the world’s trade, the mariners who run them have little guidance on leadership. This can result in disasters such as the Titanic, Costa Concordia, the Exxon Valdez, and the recent El Faro. With modern ships being worth several million dollars, seafarers...

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Paperback, Jan-Willem Polman, 128 pages, 6.43 x 4.02, 9781472981486
For any sea-farer, splicing rope is an essential skill. But the traditional 3-strand rope is fast disappearing. So how do you splice braided rope? This is the definitive pocket-sized guide to all rope splicing techniques. Most of the techniques are quite easy to master - and also fun to do. See...

$21.95  
Paperback, Reuel Parker, 320 pages, 9x7.4, 9780937822890
From Lofting to Launching. Out of print for several years, we've brought this good book back to life. It features a building process which combines strength, beauty, and the workability of wood, with the low-maintenance characteristics of epoxy. . Ideally suited to the amateur builder wanting a...

$45.00  
Paperback, John, Kinkela, 96 pages, 8.5 x 10.94, 9780764361401
The increasing popularity of water jet-propelled vessels both in the civilian and military sectors of the maritime industry has outpaced the commonly available and approachable books on these ships. Many mariners who operate these styles of vessels have received training in their operation from...

$64.95  
230 pages, 8.25 x 10.5, 9781734086362
The new 2025 edition of the Cruising Club of America’s Cruising Guide to Labrador has been fully updated and rewritten with information provided very experienced sailors who have “been there and done that”. What Makes Labrador Such A Special Place To Cruise? It is remote --...

$51.95  
Book, Hardcover, William J., Kotsch,, 334 pages, 10.25 x 7.25, 9780870217562

LIGHTRule
WPL0190
$59.00  
15 x 5
If you have ever been on the water at night and wondered if the marine navigation lights you see are from an approaching or fleeing vessel, or if the vessel is a fishing trawler or super tanker, then LIGHTRule™ is for you. This simple-to-use vessel identification tool is inexpensive security for...

$34.99  
Hardcover, Delyan Mihaylov Todorov , 240 pages, 12.8 x 7.44, 9780764351235
This comprehensive handbook details the procedures for the safe and efficient operation of roll-on roll-off type cargo ships, from loading and unloading at dockside to navigating the open seas. Thirteen chapters cover all aspects of Ro-Ro shipping such as ship development, ports and terminals,...

$75.95  
4' X 6'
This Nylon American flag boasts beautiful shine and all-weather durability. Its 200 Denier Nylon weave makes it the longest-lasting Nylon flag available and light enough to fly in the slightest breeze. Even in bright sunlight and strong ultraviolet radiation this flag resists fading. This flag...

$25.00  
Book, Paperback, Everett, Collier, 320 pages, 9.3 x 7.5, 9780071475440

$32.95  
Book, Hardcover, James G., Stavridis, 392 pages, 8.3 x 5.5, 9781682471722

Garbage Record Book
PRO110
$29.95  
Paperback, 60 pages, 8.5 x 11, 9781961537071
complies with revised MARPOL 73/78, ANNEX V as amended by Resolution MEPC.201(62) & 33 CFR Part 151 entries for 60 days for "manned oceango­ing ship" 40+ feet in length engaged in commerce and either document­ed or using state registration numbers to maintain a written refuse...

$49.95  
Book, Hardcover, James G., Stavridis,, 456 pages, 9.1 x 6.1, 9781682476130
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