Category: Books
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Classic Classes by Vanessa Bird
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.… […]
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Boatowner’s Mechanical and Electrical Manual
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,… […]
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Bill Tilman books from the Lodestar collection
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… […]
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Amazing Sailing Stories By Dick Durham
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… […]
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Books for Christmas
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… […]
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Lloyd’s Registers of Yachts – all of them, on one USB
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… […]
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Down to the Sea in Ships by Horatio Clare
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… […]
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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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Racundra’s First Cruise By Arthur Ransome
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… […]