Reviews of current and new sailing titles
This is a compilation of the Class Notes section in Classic Boat collated over 12 years and updated for this volume. It covers the design and class histories of 156 different types of sailing craft. And it’s very much a book to take sailing with you, with a ready-reference two-page spread of sail numerals and [...]
Repair and Improve Your Boat's Essential Systems - for the novice and experienced boat owner - this book takes you both minor and major repairs of electrical systems, engines, electronics, steering systems, generators, pumps, cookers, spars and rigging. Nigel Calder's manual was first published in 1990 and was hailed as the first truly DIY manual [...]
Lodestar Books and Vertebrate Publishing are proud and delighted to announce their joint publication of a uniform, collected edition of the books of H. W. Tilman—surely Britain’s most accomplished independent explorer by both land and sea. Tilman’s seven mountaineering titles, his eight sailing titles, plus the biography High Mountains and Cold Seas by J. R. L. Anderson [...]
With section headings like Survival, Calm, Storm, Human Error, Tragedy and Deliverance this is a book which promises an element of instruction within its overall remit to entertain. And it does not disappoint. From the first short chapter it’s a bit of a rollicking read! That is called Voyage of Desperation and introduces us to [...]
Buying a good book for a friend or loved one? We have a great spread of this season's best nautical books in our December-January issue... From a great book of knots to a compendium of nautical fashions; Lloyd's complete register to the prosaic Forgotten songs and stories of the sea - there is a wide [...]
As reported in CS, the monumental task of converting the 94 volumes of Lloyd's Register of Yachts has been completed and compiled on a memory stick by the Association of Yachting Historians. And now (just in time for Christmas) the sticks are available to buy from the association's website. Cost is £95 – or £85 [...]
Living between the Deben and Orwell rivers it’s impossible not to be aware of Felixstowe’s container terminal or not to be fascinated by it and the great ships that dock there. Horatio Clare’s book, now in paperback, feeds that fascination. Modelled on a container ship and its cargo, it’s written in appar- ently random, disconnected [...]
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 very odd goings on around boats on the East Coast, covering Second World War history, Dunkirk Little Ships and pill [...]
Good to see that Fernhurst has reissued its edition of Arthur Ransome’s classic 1923 tale of his first proper yacht, and sailing her in the Baltic. This it the one edited by Brian Hammett which augments Ransome’s original maps and photographs with modern photos of the same scenes, and much additional material from Ransome’s [...]
