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

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IHP_PUB164
This is a print-on-demand title and is NOT RETURNABLE
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8.5 x 11
$2695
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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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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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INT496
"Build wooden boats the Buehler way, which is to say inexpensively, yet like the proverbial brick outhouse." -- Wooden Boat "A WEALTH OF VALUABLE INFORMATION." -- American Sailing Association The classic and definitive guide for the home boatbuilder--now updated Everybody has the dream: Build a boat in the backyard and sail off to join the happy campers of Pogo Pogo, right? But how? Assuming you aren't independently wealthy, if you want a boat that is really you, you gotta build it yourself. With irreverent wit and an engaging style, George Buehler shows you how to turn your backyard into a boatyard. Buehler draws...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 9.1 x 7.3
Author: George Buehler
ISBN: 9780071823050
$3400
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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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NBN048
For more than two centuries, lighthouses have helped sailors find their way through treacherous waters, guiding them home or taking them safely through passages on their way to adventure. These historic towers and houses form a sparkling chain of lights along our coasts, a reminder of the past echoing with adventure and mystery, a lure for travelers looking for a glimpse into a romantic past. American Lighthouses  offers more than just a tour of over 450 beautiful and historic navigational beacons dotting the coasts and lakes of the United States. This fully illustrated, one-of-a-kind handbook details their history and architecture...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6.1x8.9
Author: Bruce Roberts
ISBN: 9781493047000
$2695
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GNB001
An expanded, revised, reorganized, updated edition of this exhaustive manual on modern wood/epoxy yacht construction. Extensively illustrated with photos and drawings covering every operation from lofting to launching. Extraordinary volume.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 8.5 x 11
Author: Gougeon Brothers
ISBN: 9781878207500
$4995
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SPC020
A hundred years after their deaths, meet keepers who still keep the lights burning, their spurned lovers, wronged wives, and bereaved mothers. Travel round the borders of this great country, visiting the remote lighthouses and learn the grisly tales of disastrous deaths and unsolved murders, lost loves, and horrendous storms.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6x9
Author: Therese LaniganSchmidt
ISBN: 9780764311147
$1499
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STR022
Sextants are used to measure angular heights of celestial bodies above the horizon to find the latitude and longitude of the observer. They can also be used on land with artificial horizons. Sextants can also be used to find the correct Universal Time by measuring the angular distance between the moon and another body along its path across the zodiac. ÿ In coastal waters or on land, sextants can be used for very accurate piloting by measuring the horizontal angles between charted landmarks. The vertical angle of a peak above its baseline determines the distance to it, which, combined with a compass bearing, yields a position fix from...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 7.5 x 0.2 x 9
Author: David Burch
ISBN: 9780914025245
$1995
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IHP_GCG3
Over 70 anchorages described. For power or sail. Reformatted to 8x10 paperback. Gerry Cunningham's work lives on in our new Legacy Series. We have touched up the layout of this classic guide to make it easier to use. Laminated cover for added durability.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8 x 10
Author: Gerry Cunningham
ISBN: 9781951116132
$2995
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IHP_PUB125
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_PUB157
This is a print-on-demand title and is NOT RETURNABLE
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8.5 x 11
$3995
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PGN345
A riveting, adrenaline-fueled tour of a vast, lawless, and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the high seas. There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world's oceans: too big to police, and under no clear international authority, these immense regions of treacherous water play host to rampant criminality and exploitation.      Traffickers and smugglers, pirates and mercenaries, wreck thieves and repo men, vigilante conservationists and elusive poachers, seabound abortion providers, clandestine oil-dumpers, shackled slaves and cast-adrift stowaways--drawing...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5 x 8
Author: Ian Urbina
ISBN: 9781101972373
$2100
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IMR035
Secret Anchorages of Brittany provides concise pilotage directions for practically all the natural anchorages along the Brittany coast, from the Bay of Mont St Michel round to the great estuary of the Loire. In fact, as with the first edition, the anchorages start near Cap de la Hague on the Cotentin Peninsula and include Iles Chausey, both of course part of Normandy. The book enters Brittany waters near Cancale and follows the whole 300-mile coastline, with its rivers, estuaries and offshore islands, looking into every nook and cranny on the way. This stylish second edition includes many new anchorages and is lavishly illustrated in...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 7.5 x 10
Author: Peter Cumberlidge
ISBN: 9780852887578
$4995
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IHP_PUB141
This is a print-on-demand title and is NOT RETURNABLE
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8.5 x 11
$2795
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IHP_PUB146
This is a print-on-demand title and is NOT RETURNABLE
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8.5 x 11
$3295
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ARC122
Seattle's waterfront has served as a central hub for people, transportation, and commerce since time immemorial. A low natural shoreline provided the Duwamish-Suquamish people with excellent canoe access to permanent villages and seasonal fishing camps. High bluffs served as a sacred place for tribal members' final journey to the spirit world. When the first settlers arrived in the 1850s, Seattle's shoreline began to change drastically. Emerald hills covered with dense forests were logged for timber to make way for the new city. As time passed, Seattle constructed a log seawall, wooden sidewalks, wharfs, buildings, streets, railroad...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6.5 x 9.25
Author: Joy Keniston-Longrie
ISBN: 9781467130523
$2499
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INT434
Since 1979, this book has been the piloting guide of choice for the tens of thousands of boaters traversing the 1,094-mile Intracoastal Waterway between Virginia and Florida each year. This sixth edition is double the size of its predecessor and includes greatly enhanced coverage of anchorages, pilotage, and facilities.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8.5 x 11
Author: Jan & Bill Moeller, revised by John Kettlewell
ISBN: 9780071623766
$3200
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IHP_PUB110
This is a print-on-demand title and is NOT RETURNABLE
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8.5 x 11
$3295
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WIL062
From one of the world's most respected sailors-the knowledge and secrets every sailor needsPeter Isler, two-time America's Cup winner, has sailed in and won hundreds of races over the last forty years. In that time, he has acquired a vast array of knowledge about sailing techniques and tactics, not to mention a boatload or two of entertaining stories along the way. In this book, he brings them all together into a single guide to help you make the most of your time on the water, whether you're going for a leisurely sail with friends or competing to win.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 8.8x5.8
Author: Peter Isler
ISBN: 9780470902639
$2799
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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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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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RAN526
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 musings on the shape of a woman’s life bring new understanding to both men and women at any stage of life. A mother of five, an acclaimed writer and a pioneering aviator, Lindbergh casts an unsentimental eye on the trappings of modernity that threaten to overwhelm us: the time-saving gadgets that complicate rather than simplify, the multiple...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 7
Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
ISBN: 9780679732419
$1500
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NGA_926
Charts are non-returnable.
Product Type : Chart
Nautical Chart Type: NGA Worldwide Charts
$2495
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IPS014
Writer and fisherman Joe Upton recounts the riveting stories of explorers of the past and seafarers of the present in JOURNEYS THROUGH THE INSIDE PASSAGE. His chronicle offers events vivid in their telling: the journey of widow  Muriel Blanchet, who solo navigated a small vessel in the 1930s with her five children; the failed meeting of explorers Alexander Mackenzie and George Vancouver in 1793; countless sinkings; and tales from the author's own experiences plying this legendary waterway.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 8.5
Author: Joe Upton
ISBN: 9780882407401
$1495
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WIL093
Get to grips with navigation at sea. This best-selling book gives you all the information you need to know to do just that! It starts from scratch, uses no jargon and features diagrams and pictures, instead of words, wherever possible. It has been updated to cover all modern navigation. It is recommended by Fernhurst Books for beginners and Day Skipper students. Written by an RYA Yachtmaster Instructor and Examiner who runs her own RYA Training Centre which specialises in navigation, it is the perfect place for newcomers to navigation to start. It explains simply how to look at charts, find your position, look at tides, plan your...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 7 x 10
Author: Sarah Hopkinson
ISBN: 9781912621040
$1795
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IHP_PUB174
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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IMR121
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. This is the area for which a local knowledge endorsement is required for most commercial skippers. It is a very busy part of the Thames, with every conceivable type of craft likely to be encountered. The book is divided into three parts:. • The first part gives general information and advice, and in passing, mentions local rules which will be...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 9.5 x 7.2 x 0.2
Author: Robert Ludlow
ISBN: 9781846234897
$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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IHP_PUB193
This is a print-on-demand title and is NOT RETURNABLE
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8.5 x 11
$1895
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PAR005
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 possible in the US" Bick shares the details of his 5 years of planning and 18 weeks of journeying with his wife aboard their 36-foot aft-cabin motor yacht Nittany Navy. The cruise took Bick and Jeri through several of the Great Lakes, down the Mississippi, across the Gulf of Mexico, up the coast of Florida, north through the Intracoastal Waterway,...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 9 x 5.9
Author: G. Bickley Remmey Jr.
ISBN: 9780939837687
$2495
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STR053
By the end of 2024, electronic navigational charts (ENC) are projected to be the only official NOAA charts, and all traditional paper charts will have been discontinued and NOAA is on schedule to remove the rest as announced. These charts are being replaced by new (reschemed) versions of electronic navigational charts (ENC) that have been in use for over 15 years in ocean shipping, but have not been used much by recreational and other commercial mariners. As of October, 2023, over 60% of paper charts have been permanently removed, and hundreds of new ENC have replaced them. ENC contain much more information than paper charts do, they are...
Product Type : Book
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 0.14 x 9"
Author: David Burch
ISBN: 9780914025771
$1995
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INT431
For the first time ever, a comparative survey of 95 percent of the fiberglass pocket cruising sailboats ever built.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8 x 11
Author: Steve Henkel
ISBN: 9780071636520
$3500
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CPJ002
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.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8.5 x 11
Author: Gary Sack
ISBN: 9781463581435
$2995
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IHP_PUB172
This is a print-on-demand title and is NOT RETURNABLE
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8.5 x 11
$4395
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PAR019
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 regulations as well as pointers on how to make your stay in the area enjoyable. Here you will find charts and photos; sailing and driving directions; descriptions of marinas, anchorages, and mooring areas; lists of public transportation, restaurants, hotels and sights to see in and around San Diego Bay. For your convenience, the guide gives telephone...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8.5 x 11
$2995
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PGN105
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 weather windows. This updated second edition offers an entertaining mine of information for the sun-soaked passage planner as well as the dreamer back home. Here is the full, vital background to help skipper and crew enjoy sailing the region. Topics include: How to achieve easier passage making and sail in comfort Which are the safe and easy harbors...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Author: Michael D' Antonio
ISBN: 9781594485213
$1700
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IPS299
With the whimsy and heart of The Soul of an Octopus and the surprising details of the very best science writing, The Curious World of Seahorses brilliantly captures the ocean's most charismatic and mysterious inhabitant."When God created the seahorse," says one marine biologist, "he may have had one too many."Of all the creatures in the ocean, there are none more charming and magical - or more strange - than the seahorses. Masters of disguise, graceful dancers, and romantic lovers, seahorses are found not only in the seagrass meadows and mangroves of the world, but also throughout the annals of human history and culture - surfacing...
Product Type : Book
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 0.75 x 7.75"
Author: Till Hein
ISBN: 9781771649889
$2695
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IHP_PUB153
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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IHP_PUB194
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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WWN296
How a scientific outsider came up with a revolutionary theory of light and saved untold numbers of lives. Augustin Fresnel (1788–1827) shocked the scientific elite with his view of the physics of light. The lens he invented was a feat of engineering that made lighthouses blaze many times brighter, farther, and more efficiently than they had before. As secretary of France's Lighthouse Commission, he planned and oversaw the lighting of the nation's coast. Although Fresnel died young, his brother Léonor presided over the spread of the new technology around the globe. The new lights were of strategic importance in navigation, and the Fresnel...
Product Type : Book
Author: Theresa Levitt
ISBN: 9780393350890
$1595
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EVE055
This matte laminated 20 inch square lithographic reproduction is the most detailed single page chart of the San Juan Islands available. It is a reduced size reproduction of the 2008 NOAA Chart 18421. Suitable for framing, this 20"x20" is very handsome on the wall, or durable for daily use.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Map
Dimensions (IN): 20 x 20
Author: Seaworthy
ISBN: 61945600368
$999
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IMR200
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Product Type : Book
Dimensions (IN): 11.69 x 0.2 x 8.27"
Author: Steve Imray
ISBN: 9781786794352
$9495
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MPS175
Reeds Introductions: Essential Sensing and Telecommunications for Maritime Applications covers all fundamental and essential theoretical maritime physics principles which underpin modern marine sensors and telecommunications devices as needed by marine users, such as those in the navy, coastguard, merchant shipping, and users of pleasure craft. For safety at sea, it is vital that maritime users have at least a basic understanding of the key concepts upon which many essential modern sea-going sensors and communications devices now operate.Knowledge regarding electromagnetic waves and electromagnetic devices is an established merchant navy...
Product Type : Book
Dimensions (IN): 9.28 x 6
Author: Christopher, Lavers
ISBN: 9781472922182
$3500
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IHP_PUB123
This is a print-on-demand title and is NOT RETURNABLE
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8.5 x 11
$2295
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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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SHP361
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 illustrated with historical photos and boat designs.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: L. Francis Herreshoff
ISBN: 9781574092875
$2995
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INT505
Your vessel may be equipped with the most advanced technology and the most powerful engines, but the failure to apply the basic principles of bridge resource management can still prevent you from getting where you are going. Satellite systems, ARPA, electronic charts, AIS, sophisticated communication equipment and integrated navigational systems; all these advanced technologies provide valuable capabilities, but accidents still happen and they usually involve human error. This simple fact has made Bridge Resource Management (BRM) training a requirement for watchkeepers worldwide. Bridge Resource Management for Small Ships: The...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Author: Daniel Parrott
ISBN: 9781265935849
$6600
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INT026
A fully illustrated tour through modern systems that power, steer, and control both power and sailboats. Features over 100 cutaway and exploded drawings with detailed explanations of eighty principle devices.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8.5 x 11
Author: Charlie Wing
ISBN: 9780071493444
$2600
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IMR184
The River Thames Book, now in its seventh edition, is the best-selling guide to the non-tidal Thames from Teddington to its source in Gloucestershire. This complete guide covers the Barrier to Cricklade with the River Wey, Basingstoke Canal and the Kennet & Avon Canal to Great Bedwyn. Chris Cove-Smith's updated text describes the navigation with support of clear and detailed mapping. The River Thames Book also lists in exhaustive detail the facilities to be found along each section of the navigation.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6.7 x 9.4
Author: Chris Cove-Smith
ISBN: 9781846237157
$2195
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