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Paperback, Don Douglass, 286 pages, 6 x 0.6 x 9, 9781934199152
Charts are non-returnable

$15.00  
Paperback, J. Maarten Troost, 239 pages, 5 x 8, 9780767921992
The hilarious tale of the author's time on Vanuatu, a rugged cluster of islands where the natives gorge themselves on kava and are still known to 'eat the man. '

$14.95  
Paperback, Shawn Shallow, 291 pages, 9 x 5.9, 9780939837656
Winter came early to the Arctic in 1897. Frigid temperatures brought pack ice that filled the waters north of the Bering Strait. As a result, virtually the entire North American whaling fleet was trapped, stranding 300 men to die of starvation and exposure. Three escaping ships raised the alarm....

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.

$10.00  
Paperback, Tom Lochhaas, 9780071803311
True stories of contemporary sailing disasters that will keep you alert and careful when you are on the water. . Suddenly Overboard tells stories about sailors who experienced catastrophes when least expecting them and who were rescued, or who died, or who lived to tell the tale simply by good...

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...

$20.99  
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...

Letters from the Sea
PAR053
$9.95  
Paperback, Deborah Shapiro, 96 pages, 8.8 x 5.8, 9780939837038
Letters to children who have never been sailing written aboard the sailing yacht Northern Light during an 8,000 mile ocean voyage. The author describes life aboard a small sailboat in mid-ocean, close to birds, dolphins and sea life of all kinds. . Click the E-Book icon to get the Kindle version...

Back Under Sail
MWE001
$10.00  
Hardcover, Migael Scherer, 203 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9781571312747
An experienced sailor goes racing for the first time, searching for victory and a renewed love of life. This is a moving portrayal of a frayed life being made whole again in the comradeship of a grueling race through hauntingly beautiful surrounds.

$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 Long Way
SHP617
$16.95  
Paperback, Bernard Moitessier, 256 pages, 6 x 9, 9781493042784
The Long Way is Bernard Moitessier's own incredible story of his participation in the first Golden Globe Race, a solo, non-stop circumnavigation rounding the three great Capes of Good Hope, Leeuwin, and the Horn. For seven months, the veteran seafarer battled storms, doldrums, gear-failures,...

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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...

$12.95  
Paperback, Lin and Larry Pardey, 256 pages, 9 x 6, 9780964603639
A tale of adventures, as two young dreamers continue their voyaging on board their self-built 24'4" cutter. They cross the exotic sea that spawned Homer's tales of Ulysses' Odyssey, then sail through the strife torn Red Sea and across the typhoon tossed waters of the Bay of Bengal. In this...

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.

$12.00  
Hardcover, John Boyle, 304 pages, 6 x 1.2 x 9, 9781472912671
For the first time in history, the navies of the world have united against a common enemy--a couple of thousand rag-tag, underfed men and boys in the western Indian Ocean. Crammed into open boats and armed with ancient AK-47s, they range up to a thousand miles from home shores in Somalia. No one...

$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...

Walking on Water
SHP346
$9.00  
Paperback, Geoff Holt, 364 pages, 5 x 8, 9781574092769
On September 5, 1984, eighteen-year-old Geoff Holt dived into an idyllic tropical sea, and his life changed forever. A broken neck cut short a promising career as a yachtsman and left him paralyzed, with his horizons reduced to an uncertain future in a wheelchair. On September 5, 2007, after a...

$11.50  
This is the story of Bernard and Françoise Moitessier's honeymoon voyage aboard Joshua, sailing from Europe to the islands of the Pacific and back by way of Cape Horn, the "logical route," because it was the fastest. Setting out from Tahiti, they make their way through the Roaring Forties,...

$10.00  
Hardcover, Guy Bernardin, 230 pages, 65 x 9.5, 9781574091489
The author, a French racing sailor, buys a replica of the Spray and sets off in 1995 for three years with wife and young son to retrace Slocum's circumnavigation. A fresh take on the seagoing travelogue and a story of a happy family at sea.

Over the Top
IPG032
$7.00  
Paperback, Adrian Flanagan, 402 pages, 5 x 8.25, 9780753826102
In 1975, when Adrian Flanagan was 15, he read Sir Francis Chichester's account of his record-breaking circumnavigation, and a dream began to form. Thirty years later, on October 28, 2005, Adrian set sail from the south coast of England on his quest to voyage vertically around the earth by the...

Red Sea Peril
SHP073
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Paperback, Shirley Billing, 254 pages, 6 x 9, 9781574091373
Records in dramatic detail the ordeal of Peter and Shirley Billing who were taken from their yacht at gunpoint in the Red Sea and only released after a month of the most extraordinary efforts by friends, family and their government.

$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....

$14.95  
Paperback, Joe Upton, 192 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9780882407401
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...

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...
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