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Yachting Monthly's Confessions
Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 11.99This is a wonderful cherry-picked collection of humiliating misadventures from the enduringly popular Confessional column of Yachting Monthly magazine. For over 25 years, yachtsmen have clamoured to tell the world about their most embarrassing exploits and their most shameful blunders, and the cream of the crop are collected together here in the hope... more...
Yachting Monthly's Further Confessions
Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 10.99There were too many degrading disasters, mortifying mishaps and groan-worthy gaffes for one collection, so following on from Yachting Monthly's Confessions , here is another wonderful collection of humiliating misadventures from the enduringly popular Confessional column of Yachting Monthly magazine. For over 25 years, yachtsmen have clamoured... more...
Sunk Without Trace
A&C Black 2010; US$ 11.69By the same author as the bestselling Total Loss, this is a new collection of terrifying and compelling accounts of yachts lost at sea. The seven deadly causes of loss continue to take their toll, and Paul Gelder has compiled first-hand accounts of shipwreck and sinking caused by Collision, Gear Failure, Stress of Weather, Faulty Navigation, Fire,... more...
Crash Test Boat
Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 27.99From the people behind the UKs leading sailing magazine for cruisers comes Crash Test Boat , a dramatic documentation of controlled sailing disasters which has the potential to save the lives of each and every seaman who buys it. Crash Test Boat is unique in its field, with no other title on the market aimed at explicitly revealing at first hand... more...
Total Loss
Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 14.99An enthralling collection of 45 dramatic stories of yachts lost at sea, Total Loss has been a consistent bestseller since first publication. This fascinating new edition carries exciting first-hand accounts, including the tragic sinking of the yacht Ouzo , run down or swamped by a P&O ferry in the English Channel, the loss of Hooligan V , the sinking... more...
No Time for Fear
Penguin Books Ltd 2011; Not AvailableIMPROVISE. ADAPT. OVERCOME. These three words ? the mantra of the Australian Army ? resonated with Paul de Gelder the first time he heard them. Paul chased adventure wherever he could find it, from his wild ride as a hoodlum teen and his drug-and-alcohol fuelled stint working in a strip club to hauling his way up to the elite echelons... more...
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