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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...
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...
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.
Living A Dream
Living A Dream
PAR040
$14.95  
Paperback, Suzanne Giesemann, 300 pages, 9 x 5.9, 9780939837809
On 9/11, USN Commander Suzanne Giesemann was aboard the military aircraft Speckled Trout as it flew over the just-demolished Twin Towers. As aide to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, she strode beside him through the still-smoldering Pentagon. All those lives gone in an instant, robbed...
Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
GPT080
$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,...
Life at Sea Level
Life at Sea Level
SWP055
$8.00  
Paperback, Steven J. Pavlidis, 259 pages, 6 x 9, 9781892399335
Life at Sea Level is the latest work of one of America s finest travel guide authors. For nearly 20 years, Stephen J Pavlidis has been writing books about the Bahamas and the Caribbean islands. He has written 14 guides covering virtually all the geography from south Florida to Trinidad and...
Letters from the Sea
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...
Journeys Through the Inside Passage: Seafaring Adventures Along the Coast of British Columbia and Alaska
Journeys Through the Inside Passage: Seafaring Adventures Along the Coast of British Columbia and Alaska
IPS014
$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...
Harmony on the High Seas: When Your Mate Becomes Your Matey
Harmony on the High Seas: When Your Mate Becomes Your Matey
HMY002
$12.95  
Paperback, Virginia Crane Gleser, 422 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9780964724723
What is it that compels us to follow our all-consuming passions? Is it a search for that elusive, genuine happiness that uplifts the spirit and satisfies the soul? But why go cruising? For my husband Robert and I, it was the innate desire to explore our world, escape the rat race and cold...
Gift From the Sea: 50th-Anniversary Edition
Gift From the Sea: 50th-Anniversary Edition
RAN526
$14.00  
Hardcover, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 132 pages, 5.5 x 7, 9780679732419
In this inimitable, beloved classic—graceful, lucid and lyrical—Anne Morrow Lindbergh shares her meditations on youth and age; love and marriage; peace, solitude and contentment as she set them down during a brief vacation by the sea. Drawing inspiration from the shells on the shore, Lindbergh’s...
Getting Stoned with Savages
Getting Stoned with Savages
RAN003
$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. '
Flirting with Mermaids: The Unpredictable Life of a Sailboat Delivery Skipper
Flirting with Mermaids: The Unpredictable Life of a Sailboat Delivery Skipper
NBN042
$16.95  
Paperback, John Kretschmer, 224 pages, 6 x 9, 9781574091649
Over the course of twenty years of delivering sailboats to far-flung quaysides, John Kretschmer has had innumerable adventures, both humorous and terrifying. in  Flirting with Mermaids , he recounts the most memorable of them. He crosses the Western Caribbean with a crew of eccentric...
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...
Damn the Torpedoes!
Damn the Torpedoes!
TWE001
$6.00  
Paperback, Catherine Dook, 180 pages, 5.5 x 7.5, 9781894898065
Warm and witty tales of live aboard life and all its misadventures, joys and challenges. For the nautically committed and those who love to laugh.
Cruising In Seraffyn: Tribute Edition
Cruising In Seraffyn: Tribute Edition
PDB100
$12.95  
Paperback, Lin & Larry Pardey, 224 pages, 6 x 9, 9781929214150
Profits from the sale of this Tribute Edition will go towards maintaining and upgrading the Larry Pardey Memorial Observatory at Camp Bentzon on Kawau Island, New Zealand.  It was built with funds donated by Kenny Thorall who worked alongside Larry delivering and upgrading yachts before I...
Cruising Conversations with A Daring Duo!
Cruising Conversations with A Daring Duo!
SAI003
$5.00  
Paperback, Charles & Corrine Kanter, 364 pages, 6 x 9, 9780961840693
364 pages (includes 32 pages of COLOR photos) of mirth, introspection, experience, pathos and just plain lifestyle joy from two people who dared to be different and take to the sea on an '-unconventional'-sailing craft and find camaraderie, lasting friendships, and a business model that allowed...
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Child of the Sea
Child of the Sea
JCS002
$15.96 $19.95  
Paperback, Doina Cornell, 9780955639692
In 1975 Doina Cornell left England with her family when she was only seven and spent the next six years sailing around the world on a small yacht. The author has drawn on her memories, diaries and stories, to re-create the perfect life led by a sailing child: swimming, diving and playing the...
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...
Cape Horn: The Logical Route: 14,216 Miles Without a Port of Call
Cape Horn: The Logical Route: 14,216 Miles Without a Port of Call
SHP088
$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,...
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...
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...
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...
Blown Away
Blown Away
PDB018
$12.95  
Paperback, Herb Payson, 232 pages, 9 x 6, 9781929214068
Anyone crazy enough to buy a boat deserves all the headaches he gets, said Chuck. What kind of boat are you looking for? Oh, something about 35 feet. We re going to sail around the world. You poor kids, he said sympathetically. At Middle age, Herb and Nancy Payson decided they...
Blood Ransom: Stories from the Front Line in the War against Somali Piracy
Blood Ransom: Stories from the Front Line in the War against Somali Piracy
ACB132
$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...
Before the Wind PAPERBACK
Before the Wind PAPERBACK
RAN508
$16.00  
Paperback, Jim Lynch, 304 pages, 6 x 9, 9780307949356
The Johannssens are a sailing family: adventurous, fanatical, and, for now, a complete and total mess. Ruby, a prodigiously talented skipper, has taken off for Africa. Bernard is god-knows-where at sea. And at thirty-one years old, Josh Johannssen, the middle child, is fixing up an old family...
Back Under Sail
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.
August Gale: A Father and Daughter's Journey into the Storm PAPERBACK
August Gale: A Father and Daughter's Journey into the Storm PAPERBACK
GPT154
$10.00  
Paperback, Barbara Walsh, 272 pages, 9 x 6, 9780762784905
  An award-winning journalist's voyage into her family history and her quest to face the storms she encounters there.  
Astounding Sea Stories: Fifteen Ripping Good Tales
Astounding Sea Stories: Fifteen Ripping Good Tales
SKY128
$14.99  
Paperback, 280 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9781944824242
“1789 April: Just before sun-rising, Mr. Christian, with the master at arms, gunner’s mate, and Thomas Burket, seaman, came into my cabin while I was asleep, and seizing me, tied my hands with a cord behind my back and threatened me with instant death if I spoke or made the least noise.”  So...
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,...
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...
Adrift [Movie tie-in]: A True Story of Love, Loss, and Survival at Sea
Adrift [Movie tie-in]: A True Story of Love, Loss, and Survival at Sea
HRW156
$15.99  
Paperback, Tami Oldham Ashcraft, 240 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9780062868206
New York Times   Bestseller The heart-stopping memoir, soon to be a major motion picture starring Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin, and directed by Baltasar Kormákur ( Everest ). “An inspirational and empowering read.” —Shailene Woodley Young and in love, their lives ahead of...
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.
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