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Illustrated Seamanship
Wiley 2007; US$ 24.95Seamanship is the art of managing a boat. This book is a follow-up to the successful Sail & Rig Tuning and Illustrated Navigation c overing knots, docking the boat and anchoring, all illustrated in Ivar Dedekam’s distinctive style and backed up with clear and simple text. These skills are imperative to keep a boat safe and make cruising... more...
Emergency Navigation, 2nd Edition
McGraw-Hill Education 2008; US$ 19.95Find Your Way at Sea, No Matter What ?Inherently interesting and fun to read . . . provides the clearest understanding of general navigation principles we've seen yet.?--BoatU.S. ?Thorough and authoritative.?-- Sea Kayaker ?A definitive work of instant appeal to seamen of all levels of experience.?--The Navigation Foundation Every sailor... more...
What Really Sank the Titanic
Kensington Publishing Corp. 2009; US$ 12.99On the night of April 14, 1912, the ?unsinkable? RMS Titanic, with over 2,200 passengers onboard, struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic and plunged to a watery grave. For nearly a century, the shocking loss has haunted the world. Now the same CSI techniques that are used to solve modern murder cases have been applied to the sinking of history?s most... more...
How To Read a Nautical Chart: A Captain's Quick Guide
McGraw-Hill Education 2008; US$ 8.95Your quick-reference, on-board guide to the symbology and shorthand notations used on nautical charts Nautical charts contain an incredible amount of information for those who know how to decipher them. But without a key to the symbology, a chart can be bewildering. Nigel Calder, one of today's most respected boating authors, helps you make... more...
Building Strip-Planked Boats
McGraw-Hill 2009; US$ 22.95The first comprehensive book on stripbuilding almost any type of small boat. Strip-planking is a popular method of amateur boat construction, but until now there has never been a book that showed how to use it for more than one type of boat. Author Nick Schade presents complete plans for three boats of different types (canoe, kayak, and a dinghy) and... more...
Rigging
Wiley 2008; US$ 32.50Everything you wanted to know about the mysterious art of rigging but were afraid to ask. Rigging covers every aspect of standing and running rigging on a boat, explaining the role of every part and how they influence eachother. Easy step-by-step guides explain how to choose and fit your equipment before going on to describe how to tune your rig... more...
The Instant Handbook of Boat Handling, Navigation, and Seamanship
McGraw-Hill Education 2007; US$ 24.95Instant answers for your boat handling, navigation, and seamanship questions. The Instant Handbook uses a dynamic new quick-reference format to cover the critical aspects of piloting, seamanship, and boat handling under sail or power more accessibly and effectively than has ever been done before. It puts at your fingertips all the information you need... more...
Teach Dinghy Sailing
Wiley 2008; US$ 32.50Whether embarking on a career teaching sailing or looking to teach your children to sail, this step by step guide will get the best out of you and your students. It takes the coach through the basics of teaching somebody to sail from their point of view and gives constant tips on how to help the student understand new ideas. For every new concept introduced... more...
Rescue From Grampa Woo
Dundurn 1998; US$ 11.99The dramatic story of the rescue of two men from a cruise ship on Lake Superior as it drifts out to sea in hurricane-force winds. more...
Bridge Resource Management for Small Ships: The Watchkeeper's Manual for Limited-Tonnage Vessels
McGraw-Hill Education 2011; US$ 50.00The first book on this required course of training written especially for officers aboard small ships The modern ship's bridge boasts miraculous resources: GPS, radar, electronic charting, VHF and shortwave radio, phones, electronic sensors, autopilot, and powerful computers to integrate these inputs with visual observations so that the officers... more...









