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$21.00  
Paperback, Olivia A. Isil, 125 pages, 7 x 7, 9780070328778
A salty collection of over 250 words, phrases and sayings that have become common in English usage. Arranged alphabetically and each entry is accompanied by a full explanation of origins and use. For lovers of English and the sea.

$32.00  
Hardcover, C. Dale Nouse, 224 pages, 9 x 12, 9780070482371
Log keeping pages for 105 days of cruising formatted parallel to spine for easy use. Each day gets two-page spread featuring morning maintenance checklist, record of times, courses, distances, positions.

Busy Boats
KGF002
$5.99  
Paperback, Tony Mitton & Ant Parker, 24 pages, 4 x 0.1 x 7.9, 9780753459164
Sail boats, row boats, ferry boats and speedboats: find them all and discover how they work in this fun-filled picture book. Then take a cruise on an ocean liner, crewed by our favorite animal characters, in a jolly rhyming journey. . About the Authors: Tony Mitton is a widely anthologized...

I Love Crab Cakes!
MOR008
$21.99  
Hardcover, Tom Douglas, 144 pages, 6.75 x 6.75, 9780060881962
Seattle's award-winning chef and author dishes out dozens of easy-to-prepare recipes for this seafood favorite. A wonderful, mouth-watering collection including 50 recipes, and 10 sauces. Color photos throughout.

$17.99  
Paperback, Mario Bigon & Guido Regazzoni, 251 pages, 5 x 7.5, 9780688012267
A super book. 647 color photos describe in step-by-step detail how to tie 70 of the most useful knots. Good for sailing, fishing, camping, climbing.

Take Her Deep
NAV021
$26.95  
Paperback, Admiral I. J. Galantin (Ret.), 262 pages, 6 x 9, 9781591142997
On 12 August 1943, on Midway Island, Lt. Cdr. I. J. Galantin took command of the fleet submarine USS Halibut. For the next fourteen months, Galantin and his officers and crew would play their part in the unrelenting attack on Japan's navy and merchant marine. But it was in Luzon Strait in...

Little Toot
PPG021
$8.99  
Paperback, Hardie Gramatky, 96 pages, 7 x 7.75, 9780698115767
The famous story of the little tugboat who rescues an ocean liner from the rocks and becomes a hero.

Scuffy the Tugboat
RAN002
$5.99  
Hardcover, Gertrude Crampton, 24 pages, 6.7 x 0.1 x 7.9, 9780307020468
A classic adventure in which a little tugboat gets lost and after some scary times is reunited with the man and boy to spend his time in the bathtub where he belongs.

Sailor Dog
RAN048
$5.99  
Hardcover, Margaret Wise Brown, 36 pages, 7.2 x 0.2 x 8.1, 9780307001436
One of the true classic children's seafaring tales in which Scuppers the sailor dog has adventures galore and learns lessons in self-reliance and the nature of contentment. Fine illustrations and a timeless story.

Loud Emily
SIM002
$9.99  
Paperback, Alexis O'Neill, 40 pages, 10 x 95, 9780689846694
Emily's voice is so loud she finds work on a tugboat as a fog horn and, as a bonus, her voice actually scares the fog away!

Birdie's Lighthouse
SIM017
$8.99  
Paperback, Deborah Hopkinson, 32 pages, 6 x 11.25, 9780689835292
Birdie, a young girl living on a tiny and desolate lighthouse island, watches her father tend the light and keeps the light going when her father falls ill. Based on true stories of lighthouse heroines. Dramatic illustrations.

$9.99  
Paperback, Edward L. Beach, 354 pages, 4.25 x 6.75, 9780743487993
THE WAR BENEATH THE WAVES For the World War II submariner, every day was a life-or-death trial: going to sea for months at a time; existing in dank, claustrophobic conditions; enduring long stretches of monotonous silence punctuated by adrenaline-spiked episodes of paralyzing fear and...

Stowaway
SIM060
$8.99  
Paperback, Karen Hesse, illust. by Robert Andrew Parker, 315 pages, 5 x 7.5, 9780689839894
The amazing true story of a young stowaway aboard Capt. Cook's Endeavor, and his adventures while helping to explore the South Seas. A thrilling tale.

$8.99  
Paperback, Tom Lichtenheld, 40 pages, 8.5 x 11, 9780689860096
A collection of made-up facts (did you know that pirates ate school cafeteria food'), educated guesses and silly pictures about the bad guys of the high seas. Aspiring buccaneers will find this a must read.

500 Days
STP002
$17.95  
Paperback, Serge Testa, 216 pages, 5.75 x 8.25, 9780731648498
The author departed Brisbane, Australia in June 1984 in his 12 ft. self-designed and built boat to complete a circumnavigation in the smallest yacht yet. An amazing story. Photos.

$24.00  
Paperback, Milton Roth, 275 pages, 7.25 x 9, 9780830628445
Lavishly illustrated, complete sourcebook of tools, techniques and materials for the model ship builder.

$22.00  
Paperback, Donald Dressel, 135 pages, 7.25 x 9, 9780830628681
In-depth reference for tools, techniques, materials for planking wooden ships, both kit and scratch models. Illustrations, photos.

$6.99  
Paperback, Helene Seigel, 96 pages, 5 x 6, 9780890878248
A celebration of salmon recipes in miniature and it's shaped like the fish itself. These are good, proven recipes. Die cut in shape of a salmon.

Longitude
WAC005
$17.00  
Paperback, Dava Sobel, 180 pages, 4.5 x 7.5, 9780802715296
Engagingly told true story of John Harrison, the lone genius who met the greatest scientific challenge of his time by perfecting the marine chronometer and solving the problem of measuring longitude at sea, profoundly altering history. Color photos.

Halibut: The Cookbook
WHI010
$24.95  
Paperback, edited by Karen Barnaby, 176 pages, 8.25 x 9.5, 9781552858608
120 proven and delicious recipes for this increasingly popular fish. Includes grilled halibut steaks with peppercorn chive butter, Alaska halibut chowder along with traditional favorites galore. Color photos.

Salmon: The Cookbook
WHI015
$24.95  
Paperback, edited by Bill Jones, 166 pages, 8.25 x 9.5, 9781552856451
Some of the best salmon recipes ever collected now compiled in one handy volume. More than 120 recipes for both Atlantic and Pacific species, organized by meal course, ranging from simple to elaborate preparations. Color photos.

$24.95  
Paperback, edited by Karen Barnaby, 224 pages, 8.25 x 9.5, 9781552859254
Oysters, clams, mussels, scallops, prawns, crabs, lobsters, shrimp and prawns all have starring roles in this diverse cross-section of delicious recipes culled from a host of global cuisines. Easy instructions.

Six Frigates
WWN014
$18.95  
Paperback, Ian Toll, 560 pages, 6 x 95, 9780393330328
The epic history if the founding of the American Navy and how a handful of bastards and outlaws fighting under a piece of striped bunting humbled the omnipotent Royal Navy. From the decision to build six heavy frigates through the war of 1812.

$6.99  
Board, Hardie Gramatky, 12 pages, 8 x 0.4 x 6.8, 9780448405858
First published in 1939, this classic story of the energetic tugboat, available in board book format.

$14.99  
Paperback, Therese LaniganSchmidt, 159 pages, 6x9, 9780764311147
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,...

$19.95  
Paperback, Elinor DeWire, 292 pages, 8.8 x 5.5, 9780939837861
This guidebook, now in a second, expanded edition, is a roundup of the existing lighthouses along the Pacific Coast of the United States lighthouses in California, Oregon, and Washington. . Most West Coast sentinels still exhibit a beacon each night, while a few serve only as daymarks. Many are...

Fishes & Dishes
EPP002
$19.95  
Paperback, Kiyo Marsh, Tomi Marsh, and Laura Cooper, 143 pages, 8.5x8.8, 9781935347071
The women featured in this book successfully challenged one of the last frontiers of male domination - the commercial fishing grounds of Alaska. A generation ago, they might have been celebrated as pioneers. In today's world they were simply living their dreams. They worked every job, from...

Sea Wolf
DBD002
$4.95  
Paperback, Jack London, 278 pages, 4.25 x 5, 9780553212259
Uniquely packaged to appeal to the young reader with bright, colorful cover art and great cover copy, here is the Tor Classics edition of Jack London's Sea Wolf. A shipwrecked gentleman scholar is "rescued" by a brutal crew and their murderous captain. Unabridged.

$14.95  
Paperback, Lenore Skomal, 148 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9780762758807
This is the absorbing, painstakingly researched story of Ida Lewis, born in Newport, Rhode Island in 1842, and the fearless rescues she made at Lime Rock Lighthouse. Her father, Captain Hosea Lewis, became the first keeper of Lime Rock Lighthouse in 1853. But after he was disabled by stroke,...

Haunted Lighthouses
GPT081
$14.95  
Paperback, Ray Jones, 242 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9780762756605
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...

So Others May Live
LYB067
$16.95  
Paperback, Martha LaGuardiaKotite, 260 pages, 6 x 9, 9781599211596
Dramatic, compelling, downright unbelievable accounts of the Coast Guard's often unsung heroes.

$29.95  
Paperback, L. Francis Herreshoff, 349 pages, 6 x 9, 9781574092875
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...
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