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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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$22.95  
DVD, Lin & Larry Pardey, 1929214227
Before you dream of crossing oceans, join Lin and Larry on board Taleisin in Fremantle Australia as they demonstrate gear storage for offshore voyaging, dinghy choices, life-raft storage, storm trysails and other valuable hints to help you prepare.  Then voyage along with them on a classic...

The Yacht Log - Book
GPT281
$29.95  
Hardcover, Ken Mahler, 144 pages, 11.43 x 0.61 x 8.59", 9781493068296
The official Mystic Seaport Museum yacht log. With Yacht Log, you can preserve your sailing memories, recall the details of idyllic or stormy passages, remember cruises spent with your favorite guests, and record the important data of your vessel in one convenient location. This helpful book...

$32.95  
Paperback, 346 pages, 8.5 x 11
This is a print-on-demand title and is NOT RETURNABLE

$39.95  
Paperback, 428 pages, 8.5 x 11
This is a print-on-demand title and is NOT RETURNABLE

$10.00  
Paperback, Richard Arghiris & Peter Hutchison, 111 pages, 1.2 x 4.7 x 7, 9781907263477
Formerly part of the legendary 'Travelers'' Bible', this new edition of Footprint's guide to Central America has been extensively researched and updated. Taking you along the Ruta Maya, through beautiful colonial cities and sleepy villages, to deserted beaches and lush rainforests, it provides...

$21.00  
Paperback, Dennis Fisher, 164 pages, 8.5 x 11, 9780070211209
Part history of navigation and part hands-on project book. Includes complete history and instruction for making 18 historic navigation tools including astrolabe, cross staff, pelorus, traverse board and a vernier sextant. Clever, instructive.

$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...

$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...

$49.95  
Paperback, 534 pages, 8.5 x 11
This is a print-on-demand title and is NOT RETURNABLE

$22.95  
DVD, Lin & Larry Pardey, 1929214197
Join Lin and Larry Pardey on board their cruising boat Taleisin and at their home base in New Zealand as they share ideas and hints to make hour boat safer, easier to handle, and more enjoyable to use. . On board Taleisin-the boat that has been their home for 85,000 miles of voyaging-they...

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.

$17.00  
Paperback, Mary Blewitt, 96 pages, 5 x 7, 9781472942876
Don't leave shore without this easy-to-use celestial favorite navigation primer--it could save your life! Huge advances in electronic navigation since the original publication of  Celestial Navigation  have transported offshore navigators to a world of press-button convenience....

$49.00  
Paperback, David Burch, 156 pages, 8.5 x 0.42 x 11", 9780914025764
There are two types of electronic charts: raster navigational charts (RNC) and electronic navigational charts (ENC). RNC are exact copies of paper charts and their use underway comes naturally to navigators accustomed to paper charts. All traditional paper charts, however, and their RNC are...

$29.99  
721002007834
The Professional Protractor Triangle with handle is larger than other navigation triangles on the market, with sides that are 9-1/4 inches (23.50cm) long and a hypotenuse (long side) 13-inches (33.02cm) long. Its clean, uncluttered design is inscribed with contrast enhancing colors (red &...

$16.95  
Paperback, Hewitt Schlereth, 133 pages, 7 x 10, 9781574090581
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.

$24.99  
Hardcover, DK, 232 pages, 7 x 9, 9780744051346
Capture the splendor of sea life with this alluring collection of stickers. Page after page of this book is packed with vintage drawings of coral, fish, and shells that portray the beauty of the ocean and the simple pleasures of a day at the beach. Get creative! Adorn your personal items...

$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...

$35.00  
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.

$152.00  
Hardcover, 6 x 9
This is the only truly comprehensive work on marine insurance in the United States published since the last edition of Phillips on Insurance in 1867. With the help of the author’s colleagues, this text includes not only the large body of American marine insurance case law, but also United...

$86.40  
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Star to Steer Her By
CMP244
$18.50  
Paperback, Edward J. Bergin, 202 pages, 8.5 x 11, 9780870333095
For the beginner, this gives straightforward explanations every step of the way to confident, successful celestial navigation. Widely used as textbook.

$40.00  
Paperback, Miranda Delmar-Morgan, 240 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9781472969811
Reeds Marine Distance Tables  are the perfect ready-reckoner for captains, navigators, and owners of merchant and cruise ships large and small wanting a quick and accurate distance references between all the regularly used commercial ports of the world. They are also of increasing value to the...

$26.00  
Paperback, Pat Manley, 160 pages, 9.3 x 6.7, 9781909911130
Concentrates on the 67 most common maintenance jobs to be done aboard both power and sailboats. Each is explained in simple steps and illustrated with fine color photos and diagrams. From electrical systems to leaky toilets, all is explained. Excellent and informative.

$14.95  
Laminated Card, 1 pages, 8.5 x 11, 9780914025566
New and updated edition of a product that has been in use since 1987.   This card is intended as an addition to a back-up nav kit or just as a quick reference to emergency techniques of navigation without conventional instruments. With it you can find your way across an ocean or across...

$41.95  
Paperback, 423 pages, 8.5 x 11
This is a print-on-demand title and is NOT RETURNABLE

Tuning to Win
WIL083
$24.95  
Paperback, Ian Pinnell & Tim Davison, 112 pages, 6 x 9, 9781909911482
For most sailors, boat tuning may seem a mystery understood only by sailmakers and the like. In this book, sailor, chandler and championship winner, Ian Pinnell, unravels this daunting subject and will help improve your boatspeed as a result. Since most races are won or lost by a difference of...

$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...

$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...

$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...

$10.00  
Paperback, Malcolm McKeag & Bill Edgerton, 96 pages, 7 x 8.5, 1898660166
Explains in concise language and clear photo sequences exactly how to perform all the crewing jobs safely, smartly and fast.

$19.95  
Paperback, 166 pages, 8.5 x 11
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$9.95  
Paperback, Joe Portney, 140 pages, 9780914025191
"Navigation puzzles, controversies, historical problems, and other ponderables demystified by an expert navigator and writer. Joe Portney is a US Naval Academy graduate and Air Force navigator who has participated in three historic flights over the North Pole. He is a past President of the...

$24.95  
Paper Chart
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$28.00  
Paperback, Mel Bartlett, 96 pages, 7 x 9, 9781472955401
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...

$12.95  
Paperback, 18 pages, 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, 294 pages, 8.5 x 11
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$29.99  
Dennison Berwick, 208 pages, 8.5 x 11, 9780981123387
Easy to use, value-added Maintenance Logbook for boats with a single diesel engines installed. Checklists and 50+ drawings make inspections simple. Includes detailed engine system inventory, summary pages, measures and conversion and a full index.

$19.95  
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$34.99  
Spiral Bound, Dennison Berwick, 288 pages, 9780981123394
Easy to use, value-added Maintenance Logbook for boats with twin diesel engines installed. Checklists and 50+ drawings make inspections simple. Includes detailed engine system inventory, summary pages, measures and conversion and a full index.

$27.95  
Paperback, 282 pages, 8.5 x 11
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$23.95  
Paperback, 242 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...

$34.95  
Paperback, 370 pages, 8.5 x 11
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$29.95  
Paperback, 330 pages, 8.5 x 11
This is a print-on-demand title and is NOT RETURNABLE

$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...

$49.95  
Paperback, 540 pages, 8.5 x 11
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$26.95  
Paperback, 292 pages, 8.5 x 11
This is a print-on-demand title and is NOT RETURNABLE

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.

$30.00  
Hardcover, Mark Helprin, 512 pages, 6.5 x 9.3 x 1.8", 9781419769085
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...

$22.95  
Paperback, 212 pages, 8.5 x 11
This is a print-on-demand title and is NOT RETURNABLE

$75.95  
Hardcover, Mike Lewin-Harris, 376 pages, 8.27 x 0.79 x 11.61", 9781846231872
The nine countries bordering the Baltic Sea offer an immense variety of cruising grounds, peoples and cultures. There are thousands of harbours and innumerable anchorages, and it would take an entire bookshelf, to cover them all in detail. The information contained in this book is therefore...

$35.00  
Hardcover, Paul Heiney, 288 pages, 8 x 10, 9781472955395
Fully illustrated throughout, this authoritative reference brings together practical advice from the world's experts on ocean sailing, drawing on wisdom from members of the Royal Cruising Club, the Cruising Club of America and Ocean Cruising Club. This is the reassuring voice of the ocean...

$69.95  
8.5 x 11, 9798989816002
Chose Backstay All-Weather Logbook for Ultimate Durability! The waterproof cover and all-weather Rite in the Rain® paper are intended to survive exposure to the elements.  Backstay Logbook is more than just a logbook. It is a reference guide, trip and project planner, maintenance log, re-fuel...

$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...

$64.95  
Paperback, 718 pages, 8.5 x 11
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$32.95  
Paperback, 334 pages, 8.5 x 11
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$29.95  
Paperback, 310 pages, 8.5 x 11
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$28.99  
Spiral Bound, Dennison Berwick, 212 pages, 8.5 x 11, 9780981123356
Marine Diesel Basics1  shows  everything sailors need to know  to maintain their diesel system, protect from winter  and recommission for trouble-free running. • 350+ simple, clear drawings • 212 pages • 64 maintenance tasks • 66 lay-up tasks • 53 recommissioning...

$36.95  
Paperback, 368 pages, 8.5 x 11
This is a print-on-demand title and is NOT RETURNABLE

$19.95  
Paperback, David Burch, 52 pages, 6 x 0.14 x 9", 9780914025771
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...

$48.95  
Paperback, 524 pages, 8.5 x 11
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$29.95  
Paperback, 306 pages, 8.5 x 11
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$75.00  
Hardcover, Jane Russell, 304 pages, 8 x 12, 9781472947666
he Atlantic Crossing Guide , expanded and refreshed in its 7th edition for a new generation of Atlantic cruisers, is the well-established and definitive reference, relied upon by thousands of cruisers crossing the Atlantic in both directions. It is packed with information and collective...

$19.95  
Paperback, 218 pages, 8.5 x 11
This is a print-on-demand title and is NOT RETURNABLE

$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....

$39.95  
Paperback, 424 pages, 8.5 x 11
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$19.95  
Paperback, 201 pages, 8.5 x 11
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$33.95  
Paperback, 366 pages, 8.5 x 11
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$105.95  
Hardcover, David & Susie Baggaley, 0 pages, 11.97 x 0.83 x 8.54", 9781786793546
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$43.95  
Paperback, 463 pages, 8.5 x 11
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$25.95  
Paperback, 263 pages, 8.5 x 11
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$19.95  
Paperback, 187 pages, 8.5 x 11
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$22.95  
Paperback, 218 pages, 8.5 x 11
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$32.95  
Paperback, 356 pages, 8.5 x 11
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$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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South Biscay - Book
IMR200
$94.95  
Steve Imray, 205 pages, 11.69 x 0.2 x 8.27", 9781786794352
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$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...

$26.95  
Hardcover, Till Hein, 224 pages, 5.5 x 0.75 x 7.75", 9781771649889
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...

$69.95  
814 pages, 8.5 x 11, 9781951116866
The American Practical Navigator, first published in 1802, was billed as the "epitome of navigation" by its original author, Nathaniel Bowditch. The text has evolved with the advances in navigation practices since that first issue and continues to serve as a valuable reference for marine...

$49.95  
544 pages, 8.5 x 11, 9781951116873
The American Practical Navigator, first published in 1802, was billed as the "epitome of navigation" by its original author, Nathaniel Bowditch. The text has evolved with the advances in navigation practices since that first issue and continues to serve as a valuable reference for marine...
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