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RAN508
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 boat and trying to figure out where it all went wrong. When Josh’s father coaxes his children home for one last yacht race, the Johannssens find themselves reunited under thrilling circumstances that will change the course of their lives.  Before the Wind  is a funny, tender, and big-hearted novel about a gifted, volatile family whose love for the...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Jim Lynch
ISBN: 9780307949356
$1600
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SWP069
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. From Cape Town, Dave sailed to Wellington, New Zealand where “Bo” was originally built, and then onto the fabled Galapagos Islands, one of the earth’s great nature preserves. On the final leg, Dave returned to Newport, Rhode Island by way of the Panama Canal. The full circumnavigation took 256 days to complete, leaving an indelible memory of the...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Dave Rearick
ISBN: 9781948494090
$2495
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PAR005
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 possible in the US" Bick shares the details of his 5 years of planning and 18 weeks of journeying with his wife aboard their 36-foot aft-cabin motor yacht Nittany Navy. The cruise took Bick and Jeri through several of the Great Lakes, down the Mississippi, across the Gulf of Mexico, up the coast of Florida, north through the Intracoastal Waterway,...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 9 x 5.9
Author: G. Bickley Remmey Jr.
ISBN: 9780939837687
$2495
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HCT057
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   Travels with George In the late 1990s, Patrick O’Brian’s multimillion-copy-selling historical novel series—the Aubrey–Maturin series—seemed destined for film. With director Peter Weir and stars Russell Crowe and Paul Bettany signed on for  Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World , there was one problem: The  Rose,   the replica...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 6 X 9
Author: Will Sofrin
ISBN: 9781419767067
$2800
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MWE001
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.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 8.5
Author: Migael Scherer
ISBN: 9781571312747
$2200
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TWE001
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.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 7.5
Author: Catherine Dook
ISBN: 9781894898065
$1295
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ABI001
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 realization: “We’re dead.” Thus began the gripping 40-hour torture as Larry waited for rescue or death. In February 1982, the Coast Guard worked this North Pacific search and rescue, which still remains unforgettable in Coast Guard annals. This is the story of a man’s continued courage to fight his way through the lonely and painful hours of survival and disability...
Product Type : Book
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 0.6 x 9
Author: Abigail B. Calkin Ph.D.
ISBN: 9780615591933
$1895
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PAR040
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 of the chance to live their dreams: would she and her Naval captain husband get to live their own dream?. Click the E-Book icon to get the Kindle version of this title
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 9 x 5.9
Author: Suzanne Giesemann
ISBN: 9780939837809
$1495
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PGN544
THE RUNAWAY   NEW YORK TIMES   BESTSELLER & ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2025 A   NEW YORK TIMES   TOP 10 BOOK OF 2025 ALSO NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2025 BY NPR,   VOGUE, TIME MAGAZINE, THE NEW YORKER , AND MORE “This is nonfiction that reads like fiction – the best kind. Elmhirst’s retelling is a triumph, second only to the seemingly impossible feat of Maurice and Maralyn themselves. You won’t be able to put it down.”   – USA Today “Remarkable… I found myself, alternately, holding my breath as I read at top speed, wandering rooms in search of someone to read aloud to, and placing the book facedown, arrested...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 5.71 x 8.54
Author: Sophie Elmhirst
ISBN: 9780593854280
$2800
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SHP346
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 journey of 109 days and 1445 miles, Geoff Holt crossed the finish line in the Solent and reached the summit of his 'personal Everest'---e was the first quadriplegic yachtsman to sail single handed around Britain. Walking on Water is Geoff'- very personal story of his life before the accident: how he learned to live with his disability, how he...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5 x 8
Author: Geoff Holt
ISBN: 9781574092769
$1995
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SWP055
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 Tobago, including many lesser known destinations such as Guatemala and Honduras. That writing was done aboard his 40-foot sailboat, IV Play, making careful notes, tedious maps and talking to the locals he met ashore. 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...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Steven J. Pavlidis
ISBN: 9781892399335
$1995
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CAP004
Charts are non-returnable
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 0.6 x 9
Author: Don Douglass
ISBN: 9781934199152
$1295
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HMY002
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 winters, while partaking of a truly unique lifestyle. A romantic dream enticed us to sail to warm, secluded beaches in the tropics to spend time swimming and snorkeling in aquarium-like settings, spending time in nature in its least corrupted arena. The ingenuity, perseverance, and hard work that was required by both of us to keep the dream alive and the...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 8.5
Author: Virginia Crane Gleser
ISBN: 9780964724723
$1975
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SHP144
A fine cruising narrative in which a couple decide to pull out of the rat race and spend years exploring cruising destinations off the beaten path. They learn a great deal about the world and themselves.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Adrian Sparham
ISBN: 9781574092172
$2395
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SHP361
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 illustrated with historical photos and boat designs.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: L. Francis Herreshoff
ISBN: 9781574092875
$2995
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STL361
The CubeBook series brings together breathtaking landscapes, inspiring quotes, and infographics about environmental issues that will take readers on a journey through the depths of the sea.   "For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it." —Jacques-Yves Cousteau   The mesmerizing pictures in  The Sea  combine with powerful quotes about the importance of protecting the world around us. Each chapter begins with an infographic depicting the issues faced by these large bodies of water. The images in this book, from the icy waters of...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 6.38 x 6.38
Author: Valter Fogato
ISBN: 9788854418714
$1999
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