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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

    ₹387.95

  • 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

    ₹1,888.46

  • 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

  • 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

    ₹2,244.35

  • 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

    ₹314.93

  • 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

    ₹635.89

  • Lee Shore Blues

    Sex, Drugs and Bluewater Sailing

    by Peter M. Heiberg ...
    Lee Shore Blues is not your average nautical book. Peter Heiberg takes us on an irreverent charge through the highlights of his life at sea, from evading the homosexual advances of a 300-pound steward in the mid-Pacific at 19 years of age, to rebuilding and sailing a thirty-ton engineless Bristol Channel pilot cutter from the UK to Canada’s west coast. After commercial fishing in the Queen ... Read more

    ₹551.34

  • 17 år for Fulton

    by Mogens Frohn Nielsen ...
    Mogens Frohn Nielsen fortæller om de 17 år, han var skipper på skoleskibet Fulton. "Skipper", som han blev kaldt, beskriver sine oplevelser med de knægte, der kom under hans kærlige, men faste behandling. De blomstrede op, når de blev pålagt og betroet et ansvar. I bogen beretter Skipper om "hvalpenes" efterfølgende skæbner, om sine egne oplevelser og om sit livsværk. Mogens Frohn Nielsen (1935 ... Read more

    ₹1,011.01

  • The Island Hopping Digital Guide To The Southern Bahamas - Part III - The Crooked-Acklins District: Including

    Mira Por Vos, Samana, The Plana Cays, and The Crooked Island Passage

    by Stephen J Pavlidis ...
    Series Book 3 - The Island Hopping Digital Guide To The Southern B
    This edition is Part III of The Island Hopping Digital Guide to the Southern Bahamas and covers the Crooked-Acklins District, Including: Mira Por Vos, Samana, The Plana Cays, and The Crooked Island PassageThe Island Hopping Digital Guides are the digital versions of the world-famous cruising guides written by Stephen J. Pavlidis. Over the past 20 years, Stephen J. Pavlidis has written more than 10 ... Read more

    ₹748.70 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Island Hopping Digital Guide To The Southern Bahamas - Part IV - Mayaguana to Inagua

    Mayaguana, Great Inagua, Little Inagua, and the Hogsty Reef

    by Stephen J Pavlidis ...
    Series Book 4 - The Island Hopping Digital Gd Southern Bahamas
    This edition is Part IV of The Island Hopping Digital Guide to the Southern Bahamas and covers Mayaguana to Inagua Including the islands of Mayaguana, Great Inagua, Little Inagua, and the Hogsty Reef.The Island Hopping Digital Guides are the digital versions of the world-famous cruising guides written by Stephen J. Pavlidis. Over the past 20 years, Stephen J. Pavlidis has written more than 10 ... Read more

    ₹748.70 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Go to Sea

    by Greg LeBreton ...
    Have you ever watched a sailboat slip from its dock and cruise out to sea? Have you wanted to go along? "Go to Sea" gives you all the reasons to climb aboard a sailing adventure with your family. With plenty of links to cruising resources, web pages, and equipment information, Go to Sea is a must have for every new sailor wanting to cruise. ... Read more

    ₹168.00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Big Waves, Small Boat, Two Kids

    A Family Sailing Adventure

    by Katya Goodenough Gordon ...
    Mark and Katya bought a thirty-four-foot steel sailboat. With their two daughters, they sailed around Lake Superior, then moved aboard for a year and sailed to the Bahamas. The sailing life proved both challenging and rewarding to the extreme, and big decisions made along the way stretched them to personal limits of acceptance and maturity. Their sailing exploits are peppered with stories of their ... Read more

    ₹589.59 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reeds VHF Handbook

    by Mr Andy Du Port ...
    The Reeds VHF Handbook is an accessible, user friendly but comprehensive guide to marine VHF radio that helps users quickly get up to speed with all the functions on their equipment. Straightforward explanations and tips describe the leisure VHF DSC radio system in detail and its place within GMDSS.This brand new book incorporates all the information required to pass the Short Range Certificate, ... Read more

    ₹890.18

  • Published Writing 1976 - 2021

    by Eric Wiberg ...
    This book starts in Nassau Bahamas with a six-year old's perspective on how calves are born, and ends with the mapping out of a newly discovered million-square-mile WWII battlefield. There are over 100 articles published in roughly 75 periodicals in nearly half a dozen countries. Publications range from Oxford Today to Cruising World, and the primary focus is on memoir, maritime history, and non ... Read more

    ₹427.14

  • The Confessions of a Reluctant Charter Captain

    by Ronald White ...
    Forty years of chartering with students and the general public has given the author endless sea stories. The original business plan, and he uses that phrase loosely, was to create a sailing marine biology school aboard an oceangoing sailboat. Pete Seeger had successfully carried school children up and down the Hudson River on Pete's vessel, Clearwater. The author had spent a short time on his ... Read more

    ₹962.51

  • Lazarus World Voyage

    by Sperry ...
    In the early 90s when mobile phones were the size of a briefcase and nobody had heard of e-mail, five friends in their early twenties, with the ambitious intention of circumnavigating the world, bought a 41 foot sailboat that had been wrecked in a hurricane and went to work fixing her. A year later, in October of 1992, they sailed out of Marion, Massachusetts to begin what would turn out to be a ... Read more

    ₹963.46

  • Skipper's Cockpit Navigation Guide

    by Rene Westerhuis ...
    Whether planning a day sail or a longer passage, at home, at the wheel or at the chart table, the Skipper's Cockpit Navigation Guide is the perfect at-a-glance handbook for all skippers and crew. It covers all the essential navigation skills and techniques with a user friendly, easy to follow and succinct approach. Spiral bound to lie flat, and with laminated splash-proof pages, it is the hands ... Read more

    ₹1,024.23

  • The Yoga of Sailing

    Anchors in an Open Sea, #1

    by Dyana Wells ...
    Series Book 1 - Anchors in an Open Sea
    The Yoga of Sailing is the first book in the Anchors in An Open Sea trilogy, based on Dyana’s true experiences of thirty years of sailing adventures through the Pacific Ocean, and retreats and sojourns that include Canada, Thailand, China and, of course, beautiful New Zealand.You join the four crew on their first serious voyage through gale-force winds and treacherous coral reefs, on a 35ft ketch. ... Read more

    ₹615.00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Sea Takes No Prisoners

    Offshore voyages in an open dinghy

    by Peter Clutterbuck ...
    This is a classic real-life story of derring do on the high seas, complete with extreme risk, last-minute ingenuity and many near-misses.Beginning in the 1960s, this book tells of the real life adventures of the author as a boy – a time of boarding schools, long holidays and an unbelievable (to today's parents) amount of freedom and danger. Encouraged by his parents (who lived abroad) to become ... Read more

    ₹719.00

  • Grave of a Shetland Sailor

    The Shetland Sailing Mysteries

    by Marsali Taylor ...
    Series Book 4 - The Shetland Sailing Mysteries
    The fourth book in Marsali Taylor's thrilling Shetland Sailing Mysteries series. Perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Val McDermid, Faith Martin, J.R. Ellis, LJ Ross and Ann Cleeves! 'This series is a must-read for anyone who loves the sea, or islands, or joyous, intricate story-telling.' ANN CLEEVESFrom a romantic stroll... to a deadly trail.Cass Lynch ... ... Read more

    ₹135.70

  • Celestial Navigation for Yachtsmen

    by Mary Blewitt ...
    There is deep mystery and profound satisfaction in finding your position on earth by reference to the sun, moon, and stars--not to mention profound relief when the GPS receiver stops working in mid-passage. That is why knowledge of celestial navigation is still a rite of initiation, and its practice still a favorite pastime among serious cruisers.That this edition of Celestial Navigation for ... Read more

    ₹1,273.92

  • The Savvy Sailors & Surveyors Book of Osmosis on Boats & Yachts

    by Martyn SILVESTER ...
    Osmosis is one of the most misunderstood—and often feared—problems in the boating world. For many boat owners and buyers, the discovery of hull blisters can raise serious concerns about structural integrity, repair costs, and long-term value. Yet much of the confusion surrounding osmosis comes from misinformation, overreaction, or a lack of clear, practical guidance.The Savvy Sailor's & Surveyor's ... Read more

    ₹944.00

  • Fra Vredens Kap til Jordens Ende

    by Björn Larsson ...
    Translated by Jesper Klint Kistorp ...
    Forfatteren og sejleren Björn Larsson har i en del år levet på en båd – en livsform der fremkalder overvejelse af såvel de store eksistentielle spørgsmål, som hvordan man løser de forskellige praktiske sømandsopgaver.I en række essays fra sejladser i de keltiske farvande, som han elsker højt, fortæller han bl.a. om farerne ved at sejle om natten, om at ligge for anker i tidevand, om at bo på sin ... Read more

    ₹1,011.01

  • Racing Rules Companion 2025-2028

    by Bryan Willis ...
    Series Book 13 - Practical Companions
    Bryan Willis' Racing Rules Companion is the invaluable pocket reference guide to the essentials of the racing rules, updated for the latest 2025-2028 Racing Rules of Sailing. Every racing sailor should have a copy! It will build their knowledge and make them more confident on the racecourse. The book summarises the basic principles, definitions and rules and then covers every aspect of the race, ... Read more

    ₹339.24