Category: Books
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The Beachman’s Coast; Suffolk by Robert Simper
Page 3 of this informative book contains a list of all other titles by the same author. And there are 39 others (!) dear reader, dating back to 1971. Together they catalogue the disappearance and… […]
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Black Waters by Julia Jones
It’s volume 5 of the Strong Winds series, but you get straight into the story even if you have not read the other books. The novel is based around teenage dinghy sailor Xanthe and some… […]
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Cruising Yachts by T Harrison Butler
With clean earlier editions of this classic on yacht design becoming rare it’s great to have a reprint from Lodestar, with forewords by both the late Ed Burnett and Ian Howlett (who prefaced the fourth… […]
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Solent Cruising Companion
By Derek Aslett This very successful book has now been re-issued in its third edition, and is bang up to date – for instance it includes a photo of the spinnaker tower in Portsmouth with… […]
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
by Edgar Allan Poe (his only novel) When you combine a boyhood seafaring fantasy with a horror writer you get a gory shock-fest from one of the world’s best horror writers. Cannibalism, betrayal, mutiny, monsters… […]
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Rogue Waves
by Michel Olagnon What a pleasure to have something very technical broken down into easy bites and then put together in an attractive and exciting volume beautifully illustrated with ancient Japanese paintings and the best… […]
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A History of Whisstock’s Boatyard
by Sue Whisstock Whisstock’s boatyard has been a feature of the Woodbridge, Suffolk, waterfront since 1926 when the 23-year-old Claude Whisstock drained some marshland and built his workshop. The yard became phenomenally successful, building a… […]
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Quality Time
By Mike Peyton The late Mike Peyton enjoyed the sobriquet of the “World’s greatest Yachting Cartoonist” and here is why… This is a second edition of the story of his life in boats, from his… […]
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The Naked Shore By Tom Blass
We sailors see the sea as connecting, rather than separating us, and so does Tom Blass who travelled around and across the North Sea to discover its people and ways of life. Coastal communities, both… […]