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  • The Hal Roth Seafaring Trilogy : Three True Stories of Adventure Under Sail: Three True Stories of Adventure Under Sail

    Three True Stories of Adventure Under Sail

    by Hal Roth ...
    Big adventures on the high seas—from one of the greatest seafaring writers of our ageHal Roth’s vivid, authentic tales of the sea have riveted readers around the world for forty years. Here, in one volume, are three of his classic sea stories, each one a white-knuckled, rail-down voyage into the unknown.A hard-working San Francisco husband and wife abandon their jobs, their security, and, some ... Read more

    S$ 25.28 SGD

  • Optimist Racing

    A manual for sailors, parents & coaches

    by Steve Irish, Phil Slater ...
    Series Book 9 - Sail to Win
    The Optimist is the most popular junior sailing class worldwide, with thousands of young people actively racing them and hundreds attending the major events in the class. It has been the nursery for most of the top racing sailors in the world including all the Team GBR gold medallists at the last 2 Olympics (Sir Ben Ainslie, Hannah Mills, Saskia Clark and Giles Scott) – the same will be true for ... Read more

    S$ 19.72 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sailing For Dummies

    by J. J. Fetter, Peter Isler ...
    Buoy your sailing knowhow with advice from two US sailing championsNothing can beat the feel of the warm sun on your back, the gentle wind in your hair, and a swaying deck under your feet. If you long to take to the open water and sail wherever the wind takes you, you’ll find everything you need to know in Sailing For Dummies. This friendly guide offers information for beginning and intermediate ... Read more

    S$ 22.99 SGD

  • 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

    S$ 11.43 SGD

  • Wavewalker

    Breaking Free

    by Suzanne Heywood ...
    THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2023‘Grippingly vivid and pacey’ THE TIMES‘A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand miles of sailing’ SIMON WINCHESTER'An astonishing almost day-by-day account of [a] hazardous journey and its legacy’ TELEGRAPH‘This is a story of an epic chil... ... Read more

    S$ 23.32 SGD

  • The Logs of the Watersnake and Water Rat

    by H. Fiennes Speed ...
    Series series Adventures in Travel
    He didn't cross oceans or battle mighty storms, but H. Fiennes Speed's Log of the "Watersnake" and "Water Rat" provides a vivid look the birth of small boat sailing as a sport in Victorian England. The author and his companions take their 16 foot sailing canoe on cruises to Holland, along the south coast of England, and up the Thames. The text is further enhanced with many lively woodcut ... Read more

    S$ 2.79 SGD

  • Occupation Circumnavigator: Sailing Around the World

    Sailing Around the World

    by Lars Hässler ...
    A hippy Sell Up and Sail , this entertaining and inspiring book is more than just a cruising narrative - it is an instructive account showing how anyone can circumnavigate (or even sail for an extended period) without huge funds. Lars Hassler originally set off intending to sail for three years, but by judiciously using his funds, and topping them up by taking charter guests on cruises, he sailed ... Read more

    S$ 28.33 SGD

  • 50 Ways to Improve Your Navigation

    by Dag Pike ...
    Series series 50 Ways to Improve Your...
    This is a book about practical navigation - packed with practical ways to make navigation safer, easier and better. It is a book for anyone - whether driving a power boat or sailing a yacht. And the techniques cover both electronic as well as visual navigation.This book starts where others finish. Once you have the important basics of navigation, you'll want to see how to translate these into ... Read more

    S$ 16.12 SGD

  • Pacific Ocean Mariners Guide

    by Alan Phillips ...
    Pacific Ocean Mariners GuideBy Alan PhillipsThe Pacific Ocean is not one cruising ground. It is a system of trade winds, cyclone seasons, currents, and long distances that rewards disciplined planning and punishes guesswork.This guide is built for skippers who want to get it right. Authored by Alan Phillips who has done a double circumnavigation,Inside, you will find a practical, skipper-first ... Read more

    S$ 3.82 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Yksin seitsemällä merellä

    by Tapio Lehtinen, Ari Pusa ...
    ”Osa sieluani jää lentelemään Eteläiselle valtamerelle albatrossien kanssa.”- yksinpurjehtija Tapio LehtinenTapio Lehtinen teki suomalaista purjehdushistoriaa seilaamalla maapallon ympäri yksin ja pysähtymättä. Kyseessä oli Golden Globe -yksinpurjehdus, jossa noudatettiin 50 vuotta sitten järjestetyn vastaavan kilpailun sääntöjä. Nykyaikaiset suunnistusvälineet olivat kiellettyjä. Suuntaa piti ... Read more

    S$ 23.97 SGD

  • Alfred Mylne The Leading Yacht Designer

    1896-1920

    by Ian Nicolson, C. Eng. FRINA Hon. MIIMS ...
    Beautiful boats last a long time, but ugly ones die young. That is one reason why there are so many Alfred Mylne designed yachts still sailing, even though some of them are well over 100 years old. It was in 1896 that Alfred Mylne, at the age of twenty-four, set up his yacht design office in Glasgow and the company is now one of the oldest British yacht design firms still in existence. Boat design ... Read more

    S$ 18.41 SGD

  • Elvstrøm Explains the Racing Rules

    2025-2028 Rules (with model boats)

    by Paul Elvstrom, Soren Krause ...
    'This book is a must-have for any serious racing sailor' – Sir Ben Ainslie, four-time Olympic gold winning sailor.Paul Elvstrøm is arguably the greatest Olympic sailor of all time. Proving that understanding the rules is crucial to winning, he devised this unique approach to explaining them using bird's-eye diagrams. His detailed explanations are applied to myriad racing situations, each cross ... Read more

    S$ 35.74 SGD

  • On the Whale Road

    Robinetta, #9

    by Alison Cable, Julian Cable ...
    Series Book 9 - Robinetta
    "On the Whale Road" records the adventures and misadventures of a small yacht sailing in Scotland over 3 seasons. Robinetta was built in 1937, designed to cruise from Liverpool to Scotland. She now boasts the modern safety features of a depth gauge, radio, and chart-plotter, but remains true to her original task, of providing a comfortable home from home for a couple who enjoy exploring the ... Read more

    S$ 8.31 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lifted

    by Mike Ritter ...
    An overwhelming sense of awe, gratitude, and clarity suddenly hit me.How did I get here?I’m sitting in first class on my way to St. Maarten to join my 66-foot sailboat, crew, and friends to begin a sailing saga that will take me across 15,000 miles of sea to Australia during the next 18 months. A dream come true.Retired at age 54, with a lakefront home at Lake Tahoe and building a grand home on 40 ... Read more

    S$ 13.29 SGD

  • Básico dos Motores Diesel Marítimos 1

    Manutenção, Parada, Proteção para Inverno Armazenamento Tropical, Recomissionamento,

    by Dennison Berwick ...
    Guia completo de manutenção de motores diesel marítimos para veleiros, barcos estreitos e lanchas - mais de 144 tarefas essenciais com desenhos claros e instruções fáceis de seguirAssuma o controle da manutenção do motor do seu barco com este guia abrangente e fácil de usar, desenvolvido para proprietários de veleiros, barcos estreitos e lanchas. Seja você um marinheiro experiente ou um iniciante, ... Read more

    S$ 16.71 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Yachting Monthly's Confessions

    Yachtsmen Own Up to Their Sailing Sins

    by Paul Gelder, Mike Peyton ...
    Series series Yachting Monthly
    This is a wonderful cherry-picked collection of humiliating misadventures from the enduringly popular Confessional column of Yachting Monthly magazine.For over 25 years, yachtsmen have clamoured to tell the worldabout their most embarrassing exploits and their most shamefulblunders, and the cream of the crop are collected together here in thehope that the rest of us can learn from their mistakes ... Read more

    S$ 17.87 SGD

  • Ever Wonder Why We Do It?

    by Mike Peyton ...
    Mike Peyton is the nautical world's best known and much lovedcartoonist. For years he has made his mark, contributing witty, wellexecuted and poignantly funny cartoons to the yachting and boatingpress, poking fun at seafarers of all types and capturing in hisdistinctive cartoon style their often eccentric and idiosyncratic ways.Nowhere, at last, is a wonderful collection of Mike Peyton's light ... Read more

    S$ 14.92 SGD

  • GIà che sei lì passami la cerata e prepara qualcosa da mangiare

    by Silvia Ancillotti ...
    Questo ricettario mi è stato rivelato da una barca, ad uso degliumani che, solo per il fatto di essere seduti al riparo dalleintemperie, si trovano all'improvviso a dover sfamare unequipaggio zuppo ed infreddolito di vagabondi,senza sapere da dove cominciare.Vi aiuterà a rinfrancare animi e corpi, e a rendere le bolinatemeno ardue, i laschi più piacevoli e le impoppate sublimi. ... Read more

    S$ 7.66 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Horizons of the world

    by Cinzia Codato ...
    These are horizons that have passed before my eyes in two years of my life, the two years of my sailing trip around the world.This book is not a marine navigation manual, nor a guide to tropical countries, or a naturalistic documentary, or a love story, but it's a bit of everything.This is my life of the two years that have opened my eyes, not only in the physical sense, to the reality of the ... Read more

    S$ 14.45 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Under Wide and Starry Skies

    50 Sailing Destinations in Seas Less Travelled

    by Nicholas Coghlan ...
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE MARITIME FOUNDATION AWARD FOR BEST BOOKCast off the lines and discover 50 of the most fabulous off-the-beaten-track sailing destinations on our planet.If you own a sailing boat, chances are that you've wondered what it would be like to throw in your job, cast off and sail over the horizon.Here are 50 out-of-the way destinations to encourage you to sell up and go (or enjoy a ... Read more

    S$ 39.56 SGD

  • Cruising With Your Four-Footed Friends

    The Basics of Boat Travel with your Cat or Dog

    by Diana Jessie ...
    Cruising With Your Four-Footed Friends will give you the vital basics for happy traveling with a cat or dog on a boat. Virtually everything the pet owner, cruiser or liveaboard needs to know.FeaturesWhy do we take pets to seaAnimal care and upkeepSafety for petsForeign travel ... Read more

    S$ 6.31 SGD

  • Til søs i evig sommer

    by Benta Biinfeldt ...
    Da Arne Birch Jensen i 1978 gik på pension efter 40 års lægegerning, besluttede han sig for at udleve sit livs store drøm. På trods af at han havde rundet de 70, stak han til søs på sejlskibet Marco-Polo uden anden besætning end sin tidligere lægesekretær, Benta Biinfeldt, og de næste 6 år sov han ikke en eneste nat på land."Til søs i evig sommer" er Benta Biinfeldts personlige beretning om de ... Read more

    S$ 14.81 SGD

  • Riddle of the Raven

    A Sailing Ship Possessed by a Ghost

    by Jan de Groot ...
    When Jan de Groot decided to purchase Raven, a 140-foot gaff-rigged ketch, in order to provide sailing adventures for underprivileged children in British Columbia, he had no idea of the bizarre adventure that lay ahead. Built in 1920 as a sailing cargo vessel, Raven was converted to a pleasure yacht in the late 1960s. She should have been the perfect vessel for the job Jan envisaged - and might ... Read more

    S$ 8.10 SGD

  • The Splicing Handbook

    Techniques for Traditional and Modern Ropes and Wires

    by Barbara Merry, John Darwin ...
    The only handbook devoted to splicing today's ropes, this bestselling reference covers every kind of splicing project a boater will ever need. Featuring step-by-step illustrations and explanations for the most useful and popular splices in traditional twisted and modern braided ropes as well as wire, it covers:- how to splice high-tech, slippery, synthetic ropes such as Spectra, Dyneema and Kevlar ... Read more

    S$ 30.40 SGD