Category: Books
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Kintyre to Ardnamurchan Clyde Cruising Club Sailing Directions
Kintyre to Ardnamurchan Clyde Cruising Club Sailing Directions and Anchorages – Incorporating the Yachtsman’s Pilots by Martin Lawrence Pub Imray – Second Edition “A relentless recital of potential hazards can create an air of impending… […]
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The Wreck of the Zephyr Written and illustrated by Chris van Allsburg
This is a magical tale – which should be on all parents’ (and grandparents’!) books list as a classic story of fantasy sailing for children. It centres around a boy, a keen sailor, who takes his gaff-rigged… […]
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GL Watson The Art and Science of Yacht Design by Martin Black
Seven years after it first appeared in print we find ourselves going back to this book. Invariably the need to cross reference a detail or check something on the design list (complete and concise!) gets… […]
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THE LUGWORM CHRONICLES by Ken Duxbury
Open boat or dinghy cruising has held a perennial interest for a special type of sailor since yachting began. And in the 1970s the handy Drascombe Lugger was a great boat to be getting afloat… […]
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Swinging the Lamp By Nick Ardley
Meandering about the Essex and Suffolk tidal creeks of the Thames Estuary in his Finesse 24, Nick Ardley has picked up all sorts of tales and snippets over the years, and relates them here in… […]
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Tom Diaper’s Logbook
Memoirs of a Racing Skipper First published in 1950 this is a welcome reprint of a professional skipper’s experiences from the days of late Victorian and Edwardian sailing – days of the Big Class, through… […]
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Secret Anchorages of Brittany by Peter Cumberlidge
To delve into this book is to yearn to be making passage across the Channel and close with the magical parts of coast described in this valuable book. Peter Cumberlidge has done more than a… […]
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Herreshoff: American Masterpieces
by Maynard Bray, Benjamin Mendlowitz, Claas Van Der Linde, Kurt Hasselbalch This handsome, large format, 288-page, full-colour book features the finest examples of the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company’s boats, along with 200 of the most sumptuous… […]
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Off The Deep End by Nic Compton
While some of us go sailing for sanity it is also well known that the sea can have the opposite effect, as this well-written volume explores. It’s a mix of general stories, such as the… […]