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  • Snow Petrel

    (A father-son voyage to the windiest place on the planet)

    by Jon Tucker ...
    When Ben Tucker and his kid brother Matt decided to sail south in search of icebergs on Ben's small home-built kiwi sloop, their father Jon was allowed to come along as their cabin-boy, on a promise of good behaviour.The unfolding adventure took them through thick pack ice to become trapped at the windiest place on the planet, a remote location in East Antarctica.'Snow Petrel' is proof of what ... Read more

    ₹413.82

  • Sailing a Serious Ocean : Sailboats, Storms, Stories and Lessons Learned from 30 Years at Sea

    Sailboats, Storms, Stories and Lessons Learned from 30 Years at Sea

    by John Kretschmer ...
    Series series CREATIVE MATH SUPPLEMENT
    Learn what it takes to cross an ocean from a veteran sailorIn Sailing a Serious Ocean, author John Kretschmer uses his experiences and stories to show you what you will need to across an ocean or go around the world, in fair weather or foul. His true accounts of storms and other challenges at sea makes exciting reading and shows not only how sailboats should be handled when the chips are down, but ... Read more

    ₹2,005.28

  • Trade winds

    A voyage to a sustainable future for shipping

    by Christiaan De Beukelaer ...
    In 2020, Christiaan De Beukelaer spent 150 days covering 14,000 nautical miles aboard the schooner Avontuur, a hundred-year-old sailing vessel that transports cargo across the Atlantic Ocean. Embarking in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, he wanted to understand the realities of a little-known alternative to the shipping industry on which our global economy relies, and which contributes more carbon ... Read more

    ₹2,383.23

  • The Perfect Storm

    A True Story of Men Against the Sea

    by Sebastian Junger ...
    The worst storm in history seen from the wheelhouse of a doomed fishing trawler; a mesmerisingly vivid account of a natural hell from a perspective that offers no escape.The ‘perfect storm’ is a once-in-a-hundred-years combination: a high pressure system from the Great Lakes, running into storm winds over an Atlantic island – Sable Island – and colliding with a weather system from the Caribbean: ... Read more

    ₹334.40

  • The Frozen Frontier

    Polar Bound through the Northwest Passage

    by Jane Maufe ...
    The Northwest Passage proved so elusive for so long that many sailors and explorers believed it didn't actually exist. A sea route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through the Arctic archipelago, it wasn't until Roald Amundsen's 1903–06 voyage that the Northwest Passage's existence was finally proved, but the transit is treacherous and entirely dependent upon the ice giving up its grip ... Read more

    ₹534.65

  • Into the Ice

    The Northwest Passage, the Polar Sun, and a 175-Year-Old Mystery

    by Mark Synnott ...
    New York Times bestselling author Mark Synnott has climbed with Alex Honnold. He’s scaled Mount Everest. He's pioneered big-wall first ascents, including the north-west face of the mile-high Great Trango Tower, and skied monster first descents. But in 2022, he realized there was a dream he’d yet to achieve: to sail the Northwest Passage in his own boat-- a feat only four hundred or so sailors have ... Read more

    ₹402.37

  • L'Horizon à portée de main

    Chroniques d'un marin

    by Philippe Gander ...
    Il a traversé plusieurs océans à la voile et multiplié les navigations entre les rivages de l’Alaska, les lochs d’Ecosse, les fjords de Norvège ou encore les calanques de Méditerranée. Plus de 40 ans après son premier départ et des décennies consacrées à de multiples sillages, Philippe Gander nous livre ici une part précieuse de ses souvenirs et surtout, nous donne accès aux coulisses de sa ... Read more

    ₹1,299.00

  • Auguste Marceau

    Le missionnaire des missionnaires

    by Agnès Brot, Roch Wamitan, Mgr Jean-Yves Riocreux ...
    Né en 1806, Francois-Auguste Marceau choisit la Marine à l'issue de ses études à Polytechnique. Brillant officier, il fut l'un des premiers spécialistes et défenseurs de la marine à vapeur. Connu pour son anticléricalisme virulent, sa vie de débauche et son caractère cassant, il connut une conversion à l'âge de 36 ans. Il décida alors de quitter la marine royale pour mettre son métier de marin au ... Read more

    ₹1,199.00

  • Ancestor

    A Carriacou Sloop's Voyage to Vancouver

    by John van Tamelen ...
    ANCESTOR is the story of a Carriacou sloop, an engineless, locally-built sailing vessel purchased and refit by the author while living and sailing in the vicinity of the islands of St. Vincent and Grenada in the Caribbean Sea. The Carriacou sloop is one of a legendary class of sailing craft hand-built of wood by local Caribbean builders using traditional shipbuilding methods and following designs ... Read more

    ₹680.90 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How To Anchor Safely

    So You Sleep Well!

    by Malcolm Snook ...
    When I did my sailing courses anchoring was discussed but not practiced. When I became a liveaboard boat gypsy, spending most of every summer at anchor, (whenever I wasn't sailing anyway) in order to avoid peak visitors rates in marinas, I suddenly discovered there's a lot more to it than just how much scope to use.If you Google' how to anchor a boat' you'll find plenty of articles some of which ... Read more

    ₹903.91

  • Pożeglować (pod nowymi przepisami)

    by Adam Woźniak ...
    Nad wodą, w wodzie, na wodzie – tak sobie często wyobrażamy nasz wypoczynek i rekreację. Sprzęt "pływający" wybitnie ją uatrakcyjnia. Aby się nim posługiwać, nie trzeba wiele formalności. Aby to robić bezpiecznie, trzeba sporo umieć i wiedzieć. Niniejsza książka jest właśnie o tym...Pożeglować – to tekst i ilustracje przeznaczone dla amatora żeglarstwa, lub szerzej jachtingu, albo nowocześniej – ... Read more

    ₹673.37 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sailing Alone Around the World

    by Capt Joshua Slocum ...
    Joshua Slocum's epic solo voyage around the world in 1895 in the 37 foot sloop Spray stands as one of the greatest sea adventures of all time. It remains one of the major feats of singlehanded voyaging, and has since been the inspiration for the many who have gone to sea in small boats.Starting from Boston in 1895, by the time he dropped anchor in Newport, Rhode Island over three years after his ... Read more

    ₹746.46

  • Sailing Around The World On Freedom-V

    A Memoir

    by Gilles Savoie, Amelia Woody ...
    I dreamed of owning a sailboat and traveling the ocean to visit the world. My story begins in my home province of Quebec, Canada, where I learned to sail, and moves to Vancouver, British Columbia, where I bought Freedom-V, my sailboat. Sailing Around The World On Freedom-V chronicles the first seven of the thirty-five years I spent living aboard as I traveled this planet, visiting more than sixty ... Read more

    ₹793.29

  • Jørn Havbo vender hjem

    by Børge Mikkelsen ...
    Series Book 5 - Jørn Havbo-serien
    Den 9. april 1940 var en tung dag for Danmark, da nazisterne besatte landet. Men for den unge sømand Jørn Havbo er den slags problemer uendeligt langt væk. Den 9. april 1940 går han nemlig atter engang om bord på kaptajn Candy Roberts skib i San Fransisco USA, lykkeligt uvidende om den spirende verdenskrig, og hvor forandret Danmark vil være, når han engang vender hjem. Undervejs når Jørn at rode ... Read more

    ₹1,318.87

  • Passage Making Made Perfect

    by Alastair Buchan ...
    Planning and carrying out a successful, safe and enjoyable passage is a real art, and this book covers the whole process, from planning before setting off to fine tuning once underway.This book shows how planning is about making the most of your time, your crew, and giving you the confidence to be more adventurous. Recent regulations issued by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency have also made ... Read more

    ₹809.00

  • El Fin De La Politica Del Equilibrio

    by Ruben Ygua ...
    Hemos complicado excesivamente el estudio del pasado dando mayor importancia a opiniones e intereses nacionalistas, religiosos y morales, relegando el hecho histórico a un segundo plano, subordinándolo a los intereses del sistema que controla nuestra educación. No podemos aceptar esa manipulación, es nuestro deber librarnos de las cadenas falsamente culturales por respeto hacia nuestros ... Read more

    ₹739.00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Svalbard

    by Laura Canepuccia ...
    È primavera in Italia quando Laura Canepuccia decide di lasciarsi alle spalle la vita di tutti i giorni e di fare i bagagli per il gelido Nord. A Tromsö Norvegia l’attende un ingaggio di sei mesi su un Challenge ’67 uno yacht di venti metri per settanta tonnellate comandato da un ombroso e tenace olandese che fa servizio di charter per sciatori estremi fotografi naturalisti e amanti dell’avventura ... Read more

    ₹1,155.03

  • Gordon Bennett and the First Yacht Race Across the Atlantic

    by Sam Jefferson ...
    The 1866 transatlantic yacht race was a match that saw three yachts battle their way across the Atlantic in the dead of winter in pursuit of a $90,000 prize. Six men died in the brutal and close-fought contest, and the event changed the perception of yachting from a slightly effete gentlemen's pursuit into something altogether more rugged and adventurous. The race also symbolized the beginning of ... Read more

    ₹629.00

  • I nodi in barca

    by Giulio Mazzolini ...
    I QUADERNI DEL NOSTROMONell’immenso mondo dei libri sui nodi marinari, questo breve manuale intende illustrare soltanto i nodi principali ed effettivamente utili in barca, che pongano il navigante nella condizione di sapersi destreggiare con prontezza nelle manovre d’ormeggio e nelle situazioni d’emergenza.I testi, semplici e esaustivi, spiegano la funzione di ogni nodo e sono corredati da ... Read more

    ₹480.70 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Through the French Canals

    The Complete Planning Guide to Cruising the French Waterways

    by Mr David Jefferson ...
    Through the French Canals has probably tempted more people to explore the beautiful waterways of France than any other book. First published in 1970, it's been the key authoritative title on cruising the French canals ever since.The revised new edition is the essential comprehensive planning guide for anyone wanting to cruise through the French waterways or take their boat from the English Channel ... Read more

    ₹2,069.59

  • The Voyage Alone in the Yawl "Rob Roy"

    From London to Paris, and by Harve across the Channel to the Isle of Wight, South Coast, &c., &c.

    by John MacGregor ...
    This edition features illustrations and linked Footnotes.PREFACE.In the earlier part of this voyage, and where it was most wished for, along the dangerous coast of France, fine weather came.Next there was an amphibious interlude to the Paris Exhibition, while the Rob Roy sailed inland.Thence her course over the sea brought the yawl across the broad Channel (100 miles) to Cowes and its Regattas, ... Read more

    ₹453.55

  • An Introduction to Open Boat Cruising

    by Ian Nicolson, C. Eng. FRINA Hon. MIIMS ...
    This book will appeal to anyone who enjoys small boat cruising, or anyone considering taking up the sport. Ian Nicolson is a renowned nautical author who has always been particularly keen on open boat cruising. Here he imparts the benefits of many years spent investigating and indulging in this fun, cheap and exciting form of cruising. He offers advice on the selection of a suitable boat (new or ... Read more

    ₹888.53

  • The Atlantic Crossing Guide 7th edition

    RCC Pilotage Foundation

    by Jane Russell ...
    'I cannot imagine setting sail without it' SAIL'A must for all aspiring ocean crossers' Yachting WorldWe call it 'The Pond', yet the Atlantic Ocean covers one fifth of the surface of our planet and one third of its surface area of water. It is still a mighty big pond to cross! Realising the dream of an Atlantic crossing remains a challenge but the rewards are many and lifelong.The Atlantic ... Read more

    ₹2,519.29

  • Fix It and Sail

    Everything You Need to Know to Buy and Retore a Small Sailboat on a Shoestring

    by Brian Gilbert ...
    Find a small cruising sailboat and restore it to pristine condition on a budget that won't sink your budget Small, trailererable cruising sailboats are more popular than ever as mooring spaces dwindle and marina dockage and winter storage costs soar. Fix It and Sail helps you discover boatloads of fun far less than a single ski weekend or golf club membership. Veteran sailor and journalist Brian ... Read more

    ₹2,228.06