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Softcover new edition of this classic work on the great J Class yachts of the 1930s. Astra, Britannia, Shamrock V, Endeavour, Velsheda, Enterprise, Yankee, Rainbow, Ranger.... These great and beautif...» more
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With wry humour and the salt-encrusted wisdom of his immense experience, Des Sleightholme here offers 240-odd (some of them very odd) soundbites of cruising lore - epigrams, bon-mots and thoughts on...» more
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Your First Atlantic Crossing is now established as an essential read for ocean novices and dreamers. It answers all the important questions to allay any novices' fears not just about how to sail an o...» more
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Well, do they? And how come ice is clear, but icebergs are white? And why are the tides bigger in some places than others? Inquiring minds want to know! Well, these questions and 208 more about ships...» more
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Charlie Agutter is a designer of leading-edge racing yachts, and his boats are being sabotaged in the run-up to the Captain's Cup series. Then the killing starts ...» more
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A yachting thriller from the master of the genre. The quaint Devonshire village of Pulteney depends upon the sea for its existence. The launch of a brand new, cutting edge design yacht is therefore...» more
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Bill Tyrrell's elderly cutter Vixen sails across the North Sea as part of a sail training fleet, but something snags the propeller when they tie up next to the big Russian barque - a body ...» more
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A tale of international conspiracy stretching from Ethiopia to Boston, Massachusetts engulfs George Davis after his sister is gruesomely murdered. A transatlantic race is part of the solution ...» more
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The west coast of Scotland is a fine cruising ground, but Harry Frazer rescues a man fallen off a passing ship at dead of night. Ecological and personal disaster loom ...» more
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The crew of the Pollux is working hard in the Australian sun to prepare for the America's Cup. In shark-infested seas and in the heat of bitter rivalry, the last thing needed is a man in the water ...» more
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The racing trimaran Street Express is storm-bound off the south coast of Ireland, when one of the three crew vanishes overboard. Or does he? Intrigue and high finance with the beautiful Agnes follow ...» more
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Anti-whaling protester Fred Hope is drawn into a sinister whale-hunt with Russian Mafiosi and crazed neo-Nazis plotting with stolen art treasures and nuclear warheads… ...» more
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The washed-up Captain Jenkins is hired to take a rusty freighter across the Pacific with a cargo of illegal immigrants. Things soon turn nasty, complicated and then lethal. He desperately needs to ge...» more
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Challenged by her German-Swiss father, an 18-year-old New York City bicycle messenger in 1988 became the first American woman, and the youngest person, to sail alone around the world. In this jaunty...» more
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66 Days Adrift - A True Story of Survival on the Open Sea "It was paradise. Skimming across the vast Pacific, Bill and Simonne Butler had everything they needed aboard their trim sloop Siboney and a w...» more
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Like waves that could engulf you, one after another, the challenges in the book keep coming - faster, higher, longer, further. Surging back at them is professional skill and a life-time of passion fo...» more
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Cruise of the Conrad, a best seller in 1937, is the journal of a voyage round the world in the fully-rigged ship Joseph Conrad, 212 tons, in the years 1934, 1935 and 1936 by way of Good Hope, the Sou...» more
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Dave 'Sharky' Clarke might be a typical northern lad, yet from a very early age he harboured an extraordinarily untypical ambition. He dreamed not only of sailing, but of sailing solo across the Atla...» more
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David Baboulene runs away to sea in a cloud of romantic dust for the first time of his globetrotting adventures. His journey takes him across the world and back, from New Orleans and Houston in Ameri...» more
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The Sydney Hobart yacht race is world famous: the crowds at the Boxing Day start; the Harbour full of colour; giant super-maxis competing for line honours and glory. But in the wrong weather it can b...» more
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