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Sailing Bible 2nd ed.
Sailing Bible 2nd ed.
FFB179
$39.95  
Hardcover, Jeremy Evans, Pat Manley, Barrie Smith, 400 pages, 8 X 10, 9780228101826
"Sailing is a popular sport and this book is a very comprehensive treatment of the subject.... The volume is well illustrated with color photographs [and] this reviewer was impressed by the constant stress the authors place on safety at sea.... This title is recommended for general reference...
Capt. Nat Herreshoff, new edition
Capt. Nat Herreshoff, new edition
SHP361
$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...
Ten Years in a Twenty Foot Boat
Ten Years in a Twenty Foot Boat
CPJ002
$29.95  
paperback, Gary Sack, 262 pages, 8.5 x 11, 9781463581435
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.
The Yacht Log - Book
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...
All Hands on Deck: A Modern-Day High Seas Adventure to the Far Side of the World
All Hands on Deck: A Modern-Day High Seas Adventure to the Far Side of the World
HCT057
$28.00  
Hardcover, Will Sofrin, 272 pages, 6 X 9, 9781419767067
A maritime adventure memoir that follows a crew of misfits hired to sail an 18th-century warship 6,000 miles to Hollywood “Thrilling . . . this is an adventure story of the highest order.” —Nathaniel Philbrick, author of the National Book Award–winning   In the Heart of the Sea   and...
A Sailor, A Chicken, An Incredible Voyage: The Seafaring Adventures of Guirec and Monique
A Sailor, A Chicken, An Incredible Voyage: The Seafaring Adventures of Guirec and Monique
IPS191
$27.95  
Hardcover, Guirec Soudée, 326 pages, 6 x 9, 9781771647045
A man and his chicken sail 45,000 nautical miles in this powerful story of following your dreams no matter what stands in your way. When Guirec Soudée was 21 years old, he bought a 30-foot sailboat and set out across the Atlantic, despite having only sailed a dinghy before.  His only...
Mum's Beauty
Mum's Beauty
CBJ001
$27.00  
paperback, Karen Sack, 142 pages, 8.5 x 11, 9781719272438
A young family leaves their Northern California tree farm to explore Europe by water. On this journey they discover a vast waterway system. Each family member assumes more responsibilities along the way and they all learn to live in harmony in a small space. This is a story of their sailing...
Cape Horn Birthday: Record-Breaking Solo Non-Stop Circumnavigation
Cape Horn Birthday: Record-Breaking Solo Non-Stop Circumnavigation
SWP065
$26.95  
Paperback, Peter Freeman, 348 pages, 6 x 9, 9781948494045
Cape Horn Birthday documents the extraordinary non-stop round-the-world journey of a lone sailor and his thirty-two-foot sloop. GPS did not exist when Peter Freeman set sail from Victoria, British Columbia, in 1984. Peter navigated the old-fashioned way, with a compass, a sextant, books of...
Spirit of a Dream: A Sailor's Ultimate Journey Around the World Alone
Spirit of a Dream: A Sailor's Ultimate Journey Around the World Alone
SWP069
$24.95  
Paperback, Dave Rearick, 249 pages, 6 x 9, 9781948494090
On October 2, 2013, Dave Rearick began an epic solo voyage around the world. Onboard his specifically built Class 40 racing sloop appropriately named Bodacious Dream, Dave sailed from Newport, Rhode Island, sailing the length of the Atlantic Ocean to Cape Town, South Africa, 8000 miles distant....
Wildly Inside: A Visual Journey Through the Inside Passage
Wildly Inside: A Visual Journey Through the Inside Passage
SMC001
$24.95  
Paperback, Susan Marie Conrad, 94 pages, 8 x 8, 9780578501352
"Wildly Inside" transports you through the Inside Passage of British Columbia and Southeast Alaska--a visual journey where you'll smell the muskiness of a whale's breath, hear the thunderous waves of a wide-awake ocean, feel the reverberations of the big ships passing by, and be totally...
The Great Circle Route, 2nd Edition
The Great Circle Route, 2nd Edition
PAR005
$24.95  
Paperback, G. Bickley Remmey Jr., 232 pages, 9 x 5.9, 9780939837687
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...
A Speck On the Sea
A Speck On the Sea
INT164
$24.00  
Paperback, William Longyard, 363 pages, 6 x 9, 9780071440295
Looks back half a millennium to chronicle the greatest ocean voyages attempted in the littlest of boats-rowboats, canoes, and tiny sailboats like Hugo Vihlen's 6 ft. April Fool. This is history, adventure and seafaring legend of the highest order.
The Sea Takes No Prisoners: Offshore voyages in an open dinghy
The Sea Takes No Prisoners: Offshore voyages in an open dinghy
ACB156
$22.00  
Paperback, Peter Clutterbuck, 224 pages, 6 x 9, 9781472945716
This is a real-life story of small-boat adventure on the high seas, complete with extreme risk, last-minute ingenuity, and many near-misses. The Sea Takes No Prisoners  begins in the 60s, telling of the adventures of the author as a boy--a time of boarding schools, long holidays, and an...
The Outlaw Ocean
The Outlaw Ocean
PGN345
$21.00  
Paperback, Ian Urbina, 576 pages, 5 x 8, 9781101972373
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...
On the Edge of Survival: A Shipwreck, a Raging Storm, and the Harrowing Alaskan Rescue That Became a Legend [Paperback]
On the Edge of Survival: A Shipwreck, a Raging Storm, and the Harrowing Alaskan Rescue That Became a Legend [Paperback]
SMP064
$19.99  
Paperback, Spike Walker, 304 pages, 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.9, 9780312604592
Walker mines familiar territory here with this detailed look into the grounding of a freighter on the Aleutian Islands in 2004. Through multiple interviews with the Coast Guard personnel involved, he provides a minute-by-minute account of the rescue mission that was compounded when a USCG...
The Un-Adult A-Rated Wally: 16 of Wally's Best Stories, Un-Cut, Un-Edited and Un-Usually Fun Reading
The Un-Adult A-Rated Wally: 16 of Wally's Best Stories, Un-Cut, Un-Edited and Un-Usually Fun Reading
SWP064
$19.95  
Paperback, Wally Moran, 92 pages, 6 x 9, 9781948494113
The UN-ADULT A-RATED Wally by Cruising World Magazine contributor, Wally Moran, is a collection of 16 of Wally's best stories, un-cut, un-edited and un-usually fun reading! Wally's often philosophical humor and his tongue-in-cheek outlook on life, as well as all things sailing and cruising...
More Faster Backwards: Rebuilding David B
More Faster Backwards: Rebuilding David B
NWN001
$19.95  
Paperback, Christine K Smith, 318 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9780615540894
ON JUNE 16, 2006, the David B left Bellingham, Washington bound for Juneau, Alaska, on her maiden voyage as a passenger vessel. Eight years earlier, Christine and Jeffrey had found the David B tucked behind a breakwater on Lopez Island. The tired old wooden boat, built in 1929, was showing her...
Shakedown Cruise: Lessons and Adventures from a Cruising Veteran as He Learns the Ropes
Shakedown Cruise: Lessons and Adventures from a Cruising Veteran as He Learns the Ropes
MPS193
$19.00  
Hardcover, Nigel Caulder, 208 pages, 6.5 x 9.5, 9781472946713
Long before he was one of America's leading yachting writers, Nigel Calder was a novice cruiser with ambitions grander than his experience, setting off for a round-world-voyage. Nigel and his partner Terrie were young and foolish, with a home-built boat that was new and untested, one child...
Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship
Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship
RAN496
$19.00  
Paperback, ROBERT KURSON, 304 pages, 6.4 x 1 x 9.6, 9780812973693
A thrilling new adventure of danger and deep-sea diving, historic mystery and suspense, by the author of the  New York Times  bestseller  Shadow Divers   Finding and identifying a pirate ship is the hardest thing to do under the sea. But two men—John Chatterton and John Mattera—are...
A Voyage for Madmen
A Voyage for Madmen
HRW005
$18.99  
Paperback, Peter Nichols, 298 pages, 5.25 X 8, 9780060957032
In 1968 nine sailors set off on the first solo, nonstop circumnavigators' race-possibly the most daring competition ever held. Only one finished. This is the story of each of those sailors, the challenges and hardships they faced, the obsession that drove them.
The Sun Is a Compass: My 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds
The Sun Is a Compass: My 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds
LBC121
$18.99  
Paperback, Caroline Van Hemert, 320 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9780316414449
For fans of Cheryl Strayed, the gripping story of a biologist's human-powered journey from the Pacific Northwest to the Arctic to rediscover her love of birds, nature, and adventure.   During graduate school, as she conducted experiments on the peculiarly misshapen beaks of chickadees,...
As Long as It's Fun: The Epic Voyages and Extraordinary Times of Lin and Larry Pardey
As Long as It's Fun: The Epic Voyages and Extraordinary Times of Lin and Larry Pardey
PDB014
$18.95  
Paperback, Herb McCormick, 9781929214983
In As Long as It’s Fun, the biography of Lin and Larry Pardey, Herb McCormick recounts their remarkable sailing career—from their early days in Southern Cal. to their two circumnavigations to their current life in a quiet cove in New Zealand. Through interviews with their families, friends,...
The Night Orion Fell: A Survival Story
The Night Orion Fell: A Survival Story
ABI001
$18.95  
Abigail B. Calkin Ph.D., 252 pages, 6 x 0.6 x 9, 9780615591933
When Captain Larry Hills attempted to rescue his deckhand, he too was tragically caught in the lines that whipped and wrapped the two men against the net reel of the trawler like captured fish. In the moment before the deckhand’s death he was the only one who heard Larry’s cold...
Log from the Sea of Cortez
Log from the Sea of Cortez
PGN037
$18.00  
Paperback, John Steinbeck, 278 pages, 6 x 9, 9780140187441
An exciting day-by-day account of Steinbeck's trip to the Gulf of CA with botanist Ed Ricketts. A wonderful combination of science, philosophy and high-spirited cruising adventure.
Deadliest Sea
Deadliest Sea
HRW093
$17.99  
Paperback, Kalee Thompson, 336 pages, 8 x 5.3 x 0.8, 9780061766305
Deadliest Sea  by Kalee Thompson is the spellbinding true story of the greatest rescue in U.S. Coast Guard history. Recounting the tragic sinking of the fishing trawler,  Alaska Ranger , in the Bering Sea and its remarkable aftermath in March 2008,  Deadliest Sea  is real life action and...
500 Days
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.
A Full Cup
A Full Cup
PGN105
$17.00  
Paperback, Michael D' Antonio, 400 pages, 9781594485213
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...
Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea
Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea
RAN213
$17.00  
Paperback, Richard Henry Dana Jr. & Gary Kinder, 516 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9780375757945
Tracing an awe-inspiring oceanic route from Boston, around Cape Horn, to the California coast, Two Years Before the Mast is both a riveting story of adventure and the most eloquent, insightful account we have of life at sea in the early nineteenth century. Richard Henry Dana is only nineteen...
Adrift
Adrift
HMC022
$16.99  
Paperback, Steve Callahan, 237 pages, 5.5 x 8.25, 9780618257324
Riveting, first-hand account of the only man ever to have survived more than a month alone at sea in an inflatable raft. A genuine seafaring classic.
South From Alaska: Sailing to Australia with a baby for crew
South From Alaska: Sailing to Australia with a baby for crew
SFA001
$16.99  
Paperback, Mike Litzow, 344 pages, 6 x 9, 9780692029268
"As a sailor who raised his daughter aboard, I was touched by this book. Litzow writes from the heart."  - Fatty Goodlander   When marine biologists Mike Litzow and Alisa Abookire decide to follow their dream and sail from Alaska to Australia, they agree that they won't leave...
Blue Water Women: Making the Leap from Landlubber to a Life at Sea
Blue Water Women: Making the Leap from Landlubber to a Life at Sea
CPG001
$16.99  
Paperback, Gina De Vere, 336 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9781681571485
This book is for the young and young at heart who yearn for adventure. It is written for those women considering a life-changing direction and those seeking a career at sea.  It is not an instruction book, but you will learn from the experience of other blue water women what you need to know to...
Bold Sea Stories: 21 Inspiring Adventures
Bold Sea Stories: 21 Inspiring Adventures
IPG090
$16.99  
paperback, Marlin Bree, 240 pages, 6x9, 9781892147356
Who doesn't love a good sea story? Award-winning newspaperman Marlin Bree crafts his true tales about the legends and the lore of the world's wickedest waters, from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific, as well as upon (and in the dark depths) of the world's biggest inland ocean, Lake...
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