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  • Day Sailing Round Ireland

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    Seria Cartea 5 - Robinetta
    Circumnavigating Ireland is hardly an unusual thing. Yachts do it every year, many of them in the Biannual Volvo Round Ireland race. In 2016 63 yachts took part in this, travelling 704 nm non-stop. The fastest (a multi-hull) got round in under 39 hours with the first monohull managing it in just over 50 hours. Rough weather meant that 15 boats retired, but all finishers were over the line inside 6 ... Citiți mai mult

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  • Performance Sailing and Racing

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  • Sailing In Newfoundland and to the Azores

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  • The Complete Book of Laser Sailing

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  • Canvas Flying, Seagulls Crying

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    de Justin Tyers ...
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  • The Pirates' Pact

    The Secret Alliances Between History's Most Notorious Buccaneers and Colonial America

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  • Small-Boat Sailing - An Explanation of the Management of Small Yachts, Half-Decked and Open Sailing-Boats of Various Rigs, Sailing on Sea and on River; Cruising, Etc.

    de E. F. Knight ...
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  • Mostly Mischief

    Including the first ascent of a mountain to start below sea level

    Seria Cartea 8 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
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  • Cabo Trafalgar in the Moonlight: Pen & Sail: My Life with Dudley Pope

    de Kay Pope ...
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  • Deer Isle's Undefeated America's Cup Crews

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    de Tom Cunliffe ...
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