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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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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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WIL034
Explains both modern and traditional approaches to navigation. A web site features free online simulators including GPS, radar, AIS and chart plotter.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 7 x 8.5
Author: Pat Manley
ISBN: 97804707516133
$3995
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WWN128
Devoted to the practical and presented so even the most non-mathematical navigator can develop skill and competence. Includes techniques for checking compass and sextants.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 8.5
Author: Jeff Toghill
ISBN: 9780393302943
$1895
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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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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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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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SWP004
Comprehensive cruising guide for all of the waters surrounding Panama, plus its navigable rivers, the San Blas Islands and Las Perlas.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8 x 10
Author: Nancy Schwalbe Zydler & Tom Zydler
ISBN: 9781892399090
$3995
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CMP017
This book provides quick reference to commonly used formulae. Includes trig functions, mercator sailing, great circle, area, volume, water density effect on draft, common tankerman formulae, much more.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8.5 x 11
Author: Richard M. Plant
ISBN: 9780870333613
$1250
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PAR027
John Vigor, a freelance writer and editor, is the author of 10 boating books, including Twenty Small Sailboats to Take You Anywhere (Paradise Cay), and numerous magazine articles. . He is a sailing and navigation instructor qualified by the American Sailing Association.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 9 x 6.5
Author: John Vigor
ISBN: 9780939837625
$1095
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WIL092
Out of all the explanations for why a sailor has lost out on a race, an unforeseen change in the wind and weather is by far one of the most frequent. Whether a bad windshift; the non-occurrence of a sea breeze; or being becalmed, the weather has a huge impact on racing. However, it is not hard to turn these problems around. This handy guide has all you need to work out the best way to use the wind to your advantage and boost you up the fleet. The book covers all the essentials for racing, from why gusts form and where to find them, to the formation of the sea breeze (which is never quite as simple as first appears!). Splash-proof and...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 3 x 9.5
Author: David Houghton & Fiona Campbell
ISBN: 9781912621064
$1360
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MPS270
THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER A memoir of the author's journey from an office job to restoring a cabin in the Pacific Northwest, based on his wildly popular Outside Magazine piece.Wit’s End isn’t just a state of mind. It’s the name of a gravel road, the address of a run-down off-the-grid cabin, 120 shabby square feet of fixer-upper Patrick Hutchison purchased on a whim in the mossy woods of the Cascade Mountains in Washington state. To say Hutchison didn’t know what he was getting into is no more an exaggeration than to say he’s a man with nearly zero carpentry skills. Well, used to be. You can learn a lot over six years of renovations.CABIN is...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 8.6 x 5.9
Author: Patrick, Hutchison
ISBN: 9781250285706
$2900
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UHP011
Completely revised and updated with enhanced readability, James A. Bier's "Reference Map of Oceania" is the most comprehensive Pacific map in existence. Its main map and 52 inset maps of all major parts of the region provide a wealth of information in one source. Principal cities, towns, and villages are shown along with roads, topography, and population figures where available. The main map's Mercator projection is useful for planning routes. Time zones for the Pacific and individual countries are also included. It is the only map that clearly focuses on the political units of Micronesia, Polynesia, and Melanesia, using as its...
Product Type : Map
Book Type: Map
Dimensions (IN): 8.8 x 5.6, 39 x 25 unfolded
Author: James Bier
ISBN: 9780824831080
$995
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UHP004
A long-established cruising guide to the Pacific Islands. This edition features updated charts and reflects many changes in regulations and facilities for most countries and ports of entry. An exceptional reference for any South Seas cruiser.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8 x 10
Author: Earl R. Hinz & Jim Howard
ISBN: 824830377
$4999
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IHP_PUB150
This is a print-on-demand title and is NOT RETURNABLE
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8.5 x 11
$2495
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IHP_PUB107
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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IMR175
Italian Waters Pilot is the only guide for yachtsmen in English that covers the coasts of the Tyrrhenian Sea, Sardinia, Sicily, the Ionian 'heel' and Malta in one volume. This new tenth edition builds on first-hand research by the authors through the Tuscan islands, along the Tyrrhenian and Ionian coasts, to Sardinia and Sicily, Malta and Gozo. Numerous revisions have been made throughout, with the text, plans and photographs undergoing a complete overhaul. Care has been taken to research the details of marina developments. Where it has been available information is given on proposed changes and extensions to yacht harbours. Marine...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 8.3 x 1.2 x 11.6
Author: Rod Heikell
ISBN: 9781786790903
$10495
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IMR194
Now celebrating its tenth edition, Ionian has once again been thoroughly updated, with several new photos included to illustrate some of the changes. Covering the coast and islands southwards from Corfu to Finakounda and eastwards to Mesolongion, this much-loved guide contains more detail of many of the smaller anchorages and harbours than are comprehensively covered in Rod Heikell’s Greek Waters Pilot. Like its companions West Aegean and East Aegean, Ionian is ideal for charterers and flotilla sailors who are onboard for a relatively short time, but also for longer term cruisers on their own yachts who are looking for additional pilotage...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 9.6 x 7.5
Author: Rod & Lucinda Heikell
ISBN: 9781786791771
$6995
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IMR159
This new volume replaces the current two part coverage of the Mediterranean mainland coast of Spain from Gibraltar to the French border.  The entire coverage has been revised with the text updated, new plans added and others updated from the latest information. There are numerous new photos to support the sailing directions.  This is the only detailed pilot for the Spanish Mediterranean coast running up from Gibraltar to the border with France. It covers a varied cruising area that includes the mountain-backed Costas del and Sol and Blanca, the expansive lagoon of the Mar Menor, the low lying Ebro delta and the rugged Costa Brava....
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 8.5 x 11
Author: Steve Pickard
ISBN: 9781846236501
$10495
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STR040
This book has been used for 30 years, updated periodically as needed. More than 20,000 students have successfully learned ocean navigation from these materials and gone on to cross oceans or circumnavigate the globe. This book covers how to find position at sea from timed sextant sights of the sun, moon, stars, and planets plus other routine and special procedures of safe, efficient offshore navigation. No previous navigation experience is required. The only math involved is arithmetic (adding and subtracting angles and times). This is a practical, how-to-do-it book, which also includes clear explanations of how it works and how to do it...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8.3 x 0.6 x 11
Author: David Burch
ISBN: 9780914025467
$3900
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IHP_PUB161
This is a print-on-demand title and is NOT RETURNABLE
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8.5 x 11
$2395
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PAP002
In a charming blend of history and human interest, this book paints a colorful portrait of the lives of a vanished breed-the lighthouse keepers. The books begins in the year 1716, when the first lighthouse was established in America, to the early 1980s when automation replaced the last human "guardian of the light" A wealth of material from the archives of the 19th and 20th centuries-primarily letters, diaries, and newspaper accounts-provides vivid stories about lighthouse keeping in this country: the daily work; coping with fog, storms, and other catastrophes; legends and ghosts; women's and family's roles; lighthouse children and pets;...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Elinor DeWire
ISBN: 9781561641192
$2195
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NAV511
The first new book on naval shiphandling in more than a generation, this guide helps beginning and intermediate shiphandlers learn and perfect a skill crucial to their naval careers while at the same time offering useful hints to seasoned pros. The book reflects all the many changes that have occurred in recent decades and is the first to cover the use of shiphandling simulators. The author, a skilled shiphandler with years of experience in nearly every type of Navy vessel, helps novice shiphandlers get the most out of their opportunities, whether handling real ships or simulators. Captain Barber tells readers everything they need to know...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 10 x 7.5 x 1.1 inches
Author: USN (Ret.) Capt James A. Barber
ISBN: 9781682477014
$6295
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MPS204
The Adlard Coles Book of Diesel Engines  is aimed at boatowners rather than experienced mechanics. In clear, jargon-free English, it explains how a diesel engine works, and how to care for it. Melanie Bartlett explains how the engine uses simple processes to covert fuel to power, and then looks at the various sub-systems that allow those processes to take place. She also advises on tools, winterizing and provides hints, tips and helpful fault-finding tables. Systems covered include: fuel, air, cooling, oil, electrical, propeller and transmission and control. This fifth edition has been thoroughly updated and illustrated with new...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 7 x 9
Author: Mel Bartlett
ISBN: 9781472955401
$2800
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IHP_PUB191
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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IHP_CHC007*
This guide has a detailed sketch of all anchorages and marina facilities in the Hawaiian Islands. The introduction discusses significant topics such as weather, navigation, provisioning, entry procedures, pets, radio communication and diving. The Appendices include a chart list, weather forecasts a list of Wx and Fax frequencies and a beautifully illustrated marine animal identification guide of turtles, whales and sharks found in coastal waters. "Charlie's Charts are probably the most used guides to Mexico, Costa Rica, Hawaii and Polynesia. No cruiser worth his salt would depart for a cruise in those areas without them." Bob...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8.5 x 11
Author: Charles and Margo Wood
ISBN: 9781937196400
$3495
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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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IMR190
First published in the 1950s under the editorship of EE Benest and later Konrad Nussbaum, the Imray map of the French inland waterway system has always been regarded as the essential reference for planning a visit to France by boat. It is now superseded by this completely recompiled and redrawn edition by David Edwards-May, the leading authority on World canals and waterways. The new cartography includes improved detail and presents essential information concerning distances and dimensions with a greater clarity than on previous editions. The map continues to cover the Low Countries and the western part of Germany and now also includes...
Product Type : Map
Book Type: Map
Dimensions (IN): 11.3 x 7.6
Author: David Edwards-May
ISBN: 9781786790644
$2395
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WWG_CUBA2
Waterway Guide Cuba covers the country's entire coast and is the perfect companion whether visiting for a few days or circumnavigating the island. Detailed navigation, anchorages, Goin' Ashore information, over 140 chartlets and a bonus section on the Florida Keys are included in this new 400+ page guide. Waterway Guide Cuba is the most comprehensive and up-to-date guidebook for boaters, fishermen and cruisers. It is co-authored by Addison Chan, who has distinguished himself as the preeminent expert on sailing and navigating Cuba's coastline. Contributing Editor Nigel Calder provides additional insight in the section on the Northeast...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 9 x 11
ISBN: 9780998586342
$5995
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IHP_PUB173
This is a print-on-demand title and is NOT RETURNABLE
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8.5 x 11
$3195
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IMR133
This new edition of the RCC PF's well known guide to the long Spanish Mediterranean coast between Gibraltar and Denia has been compiled by Graham Hutt who suceeds John Marchment as editor.  This is an important pilot for yachts coming to and from Northwest Europe and the Atlantic from the Balearic Islands and more distant parts of the Mediterranean. The clear sailing directions provide all the essential information for passage making or hopping along the coast between harbours and anchorages. The new 2014 seventh edition sees substantial changes, and whilst no major harbour alterations have taken place since the sixth edition the...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Hardcover
Author: Graham Hutt
ISBN: 9781846235269
$5995
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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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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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