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Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Water sports & recreations > Boating
Principles of Yacht Design has established itself as the standard
book on the subject for practising designers, naval architecture
students, discerning boat owners as well as the boatbuilding
industry as a whole. The fifth edition is completely revised and
expanded. It examines every aspect of the process of yacht and
powerboat design. The new edition includes new findings from recent
research in aero and hydrodynamics, as well as covering the most
recent changes to building standards. The authors have used a newly
built 41-foot performance cruiser to demonstrate the practical
application of yacht design theory. This new edition includes
photos of the building process and detailed explanations.
Offering advice to sailors on "going green," this timely book
embraces the growing trend toward sustainable lifestyles and shows
how "clean boating" can be both practical and enjoyable. Sailing is
by nature a sustainable activity, but polluted waters and crowded
anchorages are signs that problems must be addressed in order to
keep it that way. What does "green" mean anyway? Is it improved
efficiency? More considerate behavior? Less ignorance? Dieter
Loibner offers answers, showing sailors how to reduce their carbon
footprint and lessen their impact on the environment as well as how
to be a positive force for change.
'Brilliant, clear, and humane' Elizabeth Gilbert 'Miraculous and
hopeful' Emma Straub Riverman: An American Odyssey uncovers the
story of an extraordinary man and his puzzling disappearance, and
paints a picture of the singular spirit of America's riverbank
towns. 'The peace of mind I found, largely alone, on that
white-water mecca convinced me that life was capable of exquisite
pleasure and undefined meaning deep in the face of failure. The
experience itself is the reward.' Dick Conant On his forty-third
birthday, Dick Conant, a golden boy who never quite grew up as
those around him expected, stepped into a homemade boat to embark
on a journey despite a gathering snowstorm. Among his possessions
was a Gideon Bible and biographies of Einstein and Bismark. It was
the beginning of an all-consuming odyssey by an unconventional man
into the watery arteries of America, a journey to the unreported
margins of society. He was to spend the next twenty years canoeing
thousands of miles of rivers and their innumerable smaller
tributaries, from one end of the country to the other. 'I can, and
I will!' he said. And then, in 2014, he disappeared. Not long
before Conant's upturned canoe was found in a brackish North
Carolina bay, Ben McGrath met Conant by chance as he paddled down
the Hudson, headed for Florida. McGrath set out to find the people
whose lives, like his own, had been touched by their encounter with
the great river wanderer. Along the way he meets eccentrics and
ne'er-do-wells drawn straight from the pages of Mark Twain, a vast
network of friends and acquaintances who would forever remember
this brilliant and charming man even after a single meeting.
Riverman is the story of a restless soul who was as troubled as he
was charismatic, a contemporary folk hero who slips the moorings of
ordinary civilised life to tap into what Thoreau called 'a yearning
toward all wildness.' It is also a riveting portrait of an America
we rarely see: a nation of unconventional characters, small river
towns, and long forgotten waterways.
Plans included: River Colne continuation to Colchester (1:35 000)
Wivenhoe (1:20 000) Brightlingsea (1:15 000) Tollesbury Marina
(1:12 500) Bradwell Marina (1:12 500) River Blackwater continuation
to Maldon (1:35 000) Maldon (1:20 000)
You might think stress-free navigation sounds like an impossible
paradox. But it need not be. All boaters, whether under sail or
under power, need to be able to navigate safely on the water - both
to keep themselves and their crew out of trouble and to avoid
endangering others. Yet navigation has often been presented almost
as a black art - complicated, full of tricky maths, and with alien
concepts to get your head around. Step in `Mr Stress-Free': having
in his previous books presented techniques for sailing and
motorboating in an accessible, manageable fashion, Duncan Wells now
turns his attention to navigation. He makes concepts easy to
understand and the practice of navigation perfectly achievable for
all - with minimum stress. The book covers the basic introductory
elements clearly and simply for novices, and progresses through
more advanced techniques for experienced navigators, so that there
is something for everyone, whatever their skill level. Diagrams,
quick-reference tables and flowcharts, explanatory step-by-step
photographs, box features, top tips and QR codes - giving access to
explanatory videos - are all features that have been much
appreciated by readers of Duncan's other top-selling titles.
'If you love thrilling adventure books that'll keep you on the edge
of your seat, then you're going to love this one' - Naomi Dunbar,
Adventure Travel 'I am an ocean rower, and have read a lot of books
by fellow ocean rowers, and enjoyed them, BUT, this one beats them
all. It was brilliant, so gripping that once started I could not
put it down, read it in one go, neglecting all my work and chores.
This man is brave. This man can row but most of all THIS MAN CAN
WRITE.' Ocean Rower 'Mick's account of the gruelling journey is
compelling. You'll feel that you're there with them, through the
near-death experiences and the equipment failures, battling extreme
fatigue, frightening storms and an ocean the consistency of liquid
cement' Lifeboat Magazine Storms, fatigue, equipment failure,
intense hunger, and lack of water are just a few of the challenges
that ocean rower Mick Dawson endured whilst attempting to complete
one of the World's 'Last Great Firsts'. In this nail-biting true
story of man versus nature, former Royal Marine commando Dawson, a
Guinness World Record-holder for ocean-rowing and high-seas
adventurer takes on the Atlantic and ultimately the North Pacific.
It took Dawson three attempts and a back-breaking voyage of over
six months to finally cross the mighty North Pacific for the first
time. Dawson and his rowing partner Chris Martin spent 189 days, 10
hours and 55 minutes rowing around the clock, facing the
destruction of their small boat and near-certain death every mile
of the way, before finally reaching the iconic span of San
Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. Dawson's thrilling account of his
epic adventure details how he and Chris propelled their fragile
craft, stroke by stroke for thousands of miles across some of the
most dangerous expanses of ocean, overcoming failure, personal
tragedy and everything that nature could throw at him along the
way.
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