|
Books > Sport & Leisure > Transport: general interest > Ships & shipping: general interest > General
In the spirit of early Bowditch editions, we offer navigation
details of a full ocean passage as an excellent way to learn the
ropes of practical celestial navigation. With your own tables and
plotting sheets, you can analyze 224 timed sextant sights of sun,
moon, stars, and planets to obtain 26 position fi xes to fi nd your
way along a 2,800-nmi voyage lasting 17 days. Solutions are
provided by computation, workforms, and detailed plots using
universal plotting sheets. After completing this passage you will
be prepared to navigate by celestial navigation on your own,
whether you need to or choose to. Also includes notes on optimizing
sight analysis, hurricane tracking, DR error analysis, ocean
currents, and use of visible light ranges for nighttime arrivals.
In the early morning hours of April 15, 1912 the R.M.S. Titanic
slipped below the waters of the Atlantic becoming one of the
greatest maritime disasters of the 20th century. 68 years later, a
young boy would learn about the lost liner while spending the day
with his grandfather. This is the story of that day and the
collection of memorabilia which would be amassed over the years,
the unbreakable bond between a grandfather and grandson joined
together by the interest in the unsinkable ship.
When their old GRP yacht was devastated by a Southern Ocean storm,
Jill Schinas and her husband, Nick, resolved to build something
stronger. Gaily, - and without having researched the matter to the
least degree -they threw themselves into the work of designing and
constructing the ultimate, ocean-proof, eco-friendly, dream
cruising yacht. On their side they had a wealth of sailing
experience, which provided a perfect knowledge of what was
required, but their only other weapons were irrepressible
enthusiasm and the mindset which enables a man to build a radio
from a potato or a mast from a lamppost. Had this been a business
enterprise no bank would ever have lent the capital, for ranged
against the dreamers was a whole battery of forces any one of which
would have deterred more realistic people. For a start, neither
Jill or Nick had any experience with a welder - and yet they were
proposing to build a steel boat. Secondly, they seemed only to have
enough money to buy a couple of masts and the sails. Worst of all,
they had two kids and a new baby in tow - and no one with a young
family ought to attempt anything more ambitious than the washing
up. Regardless of these drawbacks, Nick and Jill went ahead. "It'll
only take a year and a half," said he, confidently. Fifteen years
down the line, Mollymawk is afloat and the family have cruised all
over the Atlantic; but the boat is still not finished. This is the
tale of what went wrong and what went right. Packed full of advice
about such things as ocean-worthy design and sail plans, it will
also tell you how to operate a cutting torch, how to avoid a leaky
stern-gland, how to pour your own rigging sockets, how to handle a
ferocious gander, how to sandblast, how to weld in mid-Atlantic,
how to amuse three young children in a cabin space the size of a
phone booth... and much, much more besides.
By choosing to concentrate upon discovering what forest resources
were available to the French navy during the ancien regime and what
use it was able to make of them, Mr. Bamford has not only provided
the first monograph on that subject in the English language, but
has gone far toward explaining why France was the loser in the long
duel with England for the control of commerce and the extension of
empire. Two years of research in the Archives Nationales and in the
Archives de la Marine in Paris, Toulon, and Rochefort enabled him
to draw on contemporary sources of information of which little, if
any, use has been made before, and a further year of research in
the libraries of New York City, particularly in the rich Proudfit
Naval Collection, also yielded new material. It is Mr. Bamford's
achievement to have handled this vast store of primary sources with
such skill and judgement that the reader, by turning over letters
from disgruntled forest proprietors, reports from harassed maitres
on the trickery and recalcitrance of the peasants, instructions
from the top echelon of the navy to inspectors in the forests, and
a variety bills, receipts, and memoranda, is given at first hand an
appreciation of the difficulties faced by the navy in trying to
obtain timber and masts of the choice quality required for building
ships-of-the-line. The navy had to compete with the merchant marine
and with industrial and private users of fuel for supplies that
were continually being depleted by mismanagement and by the
conversion of forests to arable land. Measures, superficially
admirable, for conserving the forests are found on closer
examination to be at once over-precise and not properly enforced.
Transport, even in a country so abundantly supplied with navigable
rivers as France, was expensive and difficult. Not only historians,
but scholars in the field of forestry, economics, geography,
agriculture, and transport will find this book illuminating.
Between 1460 and 1540 the development of merchant shipping was of
vital importance to the growth of England as a European power. In
this work Miss Burwash offers a complete history of the English
merchant marine in the late middle ages and early renaissance
period. Her account includes a description of the size and design
of the ships, the trades in which they engaged, the business
arrangements under which they sailed and the codes of maritime law
which governed them, the wages and conditions of work of the common
seaman and the degree of navigational skill of the shipmasters and
pilots. This was the time when seamen and merchants of northern
Europe were beginning to venture out of the familiar home waters
and undertake voyages of discovery such as the Bristol expeditions
1501-1504 which in all probability reached Labrador and possibly
Greenland. The author concludes that, although English shipping
faced stiff competition from traders and seamen of other countries
in northern Europe-most particularly the Dutch-the period was one
of healthy growth which laid a good foundation for the more
brilliant and better known exploits of the Elizabethan age. Based
on extensive and detailed research in manuscript sources preserved
in the Public Record Office, British libraries and the British
Museum, this study is an essential one for serious students of
English history.
Step into a time capsule and explore the flora, fauna, and
fishermen of the Isles of Shoals. Originally published in 1873,
this book is a firsthand account of shipwrecks, storms, and simple
lives 10 miles off the coast of New England. Celia Thaxter was a
poet, artist, and noted gardener who spent much of her life on
White, Smuttynose, and Appledore islands.She made the acquaintance
of such luminous contemporaries as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Childe
Hassam, William Wadsworth Longfellow, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. This
book shines with attention to the smallest detail as Thaxter
watches the seasons pass, the islanders age, and the times change
in a tiny, seemingly abandoned corner of the world.
It was the original Survivor series, only without the omnipresent
cameras, paramedics, and faux tribal rituals. Between the spring of
1947 and the summer of the year 2006, more than forty expeditions
sought to drift across the oceans of the world on rafts. These
audacious voyages began with the legendary Kon-Tiki expedition,
under the leadership of the renowned Norwegian explorer Thor
Heyerdahl. The Kon-Tiki raft drifted more than four thousand miles
from Peru to Polynesia, and remained afloat months after experts
predicted it would sink to the bottom of the Pacific. Heyerdahl's
radical thesis of a prehistoric world where ancient mariners
drifted between continents on ocean currents electrified the
postwar world. His Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft sold twenty
million copies in sixty-five languages. In the wake of Kon-Tiki
documents all of the transoceanic raft expeditions that were
organized and carried out in the half century after Kon-Tiki.
Spanning more than fifty years and recounting more than forty
expeditions, In the wake of Kon-Tiki is a riveting chronicle of
human daring, endurance, and folly.
"Finally Fram showed herself in all her glory as the best sea-boat
in the world. It was extraordinary to watch how she behaved. ...
the Fram gave a wriggle of her body and was instantly at the top of
the wave, which slipped under the vessel. Can anyone be surprised
if one gets fond of such a ship?" --Captain Nilsen of the Fram,
1912. From her launch in 1892, to the triumphant return to Norway
in 1914, the polar expeditionary ship Fram sailed north almost to
the North Pole, and south to Antarctica. supporting three of the
most daring of all polar adventures. In the centenary year of Roald
Amundsen's successful trek to the South Pole, this is the story of
his ship, the Fram, and her voyages to the ends of the earth.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields
in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as
an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification:
++++ The Ship: Her Story W. Clark Russell
Combining a ship finance textbook with a jet setting geopolitical
romp, Viking Raid picks up where The Shipping Man left off - on a
journey into the famously private world of international shipping
tycoons and their financiers. At the conclusion of The Shipping
Man, Robert Fairchild is sipping rose on the Cote d'Azur with Coco
Jacobsen and toasting to the success of their $300 million junk
bond offering; six months later the CEO is in the 120-degree engine
room of a supertanker discharging two million barrels of Saudi
crude oil - afraid for his job and afraid for his life. Fortunes
change quickly in the volatile world of international oil shipping
and Fairchild knows that unless he can find another $500 million
soon his powerful Norwegian tanker tycoon boss will have little use
for him. When Robert convinces Coco to attempt an Initial Public
Offering of Viking Tankers on Wall Street, the desperate American
thinks his problems may have been solved - but the former hedge
fund manager couldn't be more wrong. Instead, Fairchild finds
himself stuck between an American shale gas wildcatter and The
Peoples' Republic of China in their competition for clean energy.
Combining swashbuckling shipping adventure with corporate finance
derring-do, Viking Raid puts Fairchild back at the table in the
highest-stakes casino in the world - with more than just his deal
at risk.
While Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary, USN, Retired, previous to his
1911 promotion to flag rank, spend 24 years of his life in
Nicaragua, surveying a route for a transoceanic canal and during
Arctic exploration, from 1885 to 1909, this Monograph will focus
primarily on his last two efforts to discover the North Pole,
namely his 1905 and 1908 adventures, during which he employed his
new, specially, constructed ship the SS Roosevelt for the singular
purpose of fulfilling his destiny-the Conquest of the North Pole.
This book is an updated and expanded edition of a text that has
been used in navigation courses for 30 years. It covers practical
small-craft navigation (sail, power, or paddle), starting from the
basics and ending with all that is needed to navigate safely and
efficiently on inland and coastal waters in all weather conditions.
It is for beginners, starting from scratch, or for more seasoned
mariners who wish to expand their skills. Topics include: Charts,
Chart Reading, and Chart Plotting Instruments and Logbook
Procedures Compass Use Piloting and Dead Reckoning Lights and
Buoyage Tides and Currents Rules of the Road GPS and other
Electronic Aids The GPS tells us where we are and how fast we are
moving in what direction, but it can never tell us the safest, most
efficient route to our destination. That fundamental task requires
the basic navigation skills taught in this book, which we can use
as well to check the GPS underway, and then be prepared to navigate
without the GPS if we need to. The hallmark of good seamanship is
to look ahead and be prepared. The text covers not only the long
tested traditional methods of navigation but also the efficient use
of the latest technology in electronic navigation and charting.
![Port Jefferson (Hardcover): Robert Maggio, Port Jefferson Free Library and Port Jef, Port Jefferson Free Library](//media.loot.co.za/images/x80/700723893073179215.jpg) |
Port Jefferson
(Hardcover)
Robert Maggio, Port Jefferson Free Library and Port Jef, Port Jefferson Free Library
|
R842
R691
Discovery Miles 6 910
Save R151 (18%)
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
|
PANAMA 1914 IS NOW BOARDING Join this great voyage through the
history of the Panama Canal, which is, one hundred years after its
completion, on the eve of a new chapter in its spectacular history.
From the early explorers, many seeking a critical water connection
between two of the world's great oceans to the determination of the
best engineers of America, the BIG DIG finally opened for shipping
- you can be on board What stood in the way of making this canal a
reality? Dense jungle, bottomless swamps, snakes and wild animals,
endless mountain slides, vicious mosquito borne illnesses, hostile
Indians, marauding pirates and buccaneers, and jealous colonial-era
world powers, just to name a few. The story of the Panama Canal is
told in this book through the original news reports of the day
along with great photos of the construction efforts, gripping
illustrations and editorial cartoons that appeared in many
publications. In addition, the detailed chronicles of veteran
newspaperman Logan Marshall have been restored, edited and abridged
by the author. The story told so well one hundred years ago has
been newly enhanced, researched and the verbiage brought up to
date. PANAMA 1914 provides the reader with a full understanding of
the aborted tries, the competing routes, and the lambasting of
President Teddy Roosevelt at the hands of the press as well as
interesting anecdotes of history. For instance: learn about the
practice of renting gravesites, much like today's storage lockers.
What happened when the relatives of the deceased failed to pay the
rent? Scotland sent settlers to establish a colony at Panama. What
happened? Of eight hundred Chinese workers who arrived to work on
the canal and railroad, hundreds committed suicide and all of them
either died or left, due to pestilence and turmoil. Why did
hundreds of them fling themselves into the ocean? A custom-made
$40,000 Pullman car for a French canal company big shot was only
part of the way the funds of investors were squandered in the
failed effort that led to the takeover by the United States. What
was the real cost to build this spectacular ditch? What happened
when the U. S. House of Representatives had to decide whether to
build the canal through Panama or plan a trip through Lake
Nicaragua? The desperate dash of the USS Oregon to travel the long
distance from the west coast around South America to help defend
the east coast from a Spanish Armada reportedly heading to attack
That episode helped push the decision to enable America to quickly
move ships from one ocean to the other - with the construction of
the Panama Canal. Corruption, charges and counter-charges went on
for many years after this: in March, 1899, Marshall wrote "Congress
authorized the President to make an exhaustive investigation as to
the most practicable and feasible Isthmian route for a canal that
should be under the complete control of the United States and the
absolute property of the nation." A lobbyist stepped in and the key
legislators learned about an explosive potential in one country
which led to a decision being finally made to build the
$375,000,000 water connection between the Atlantic and the Pacific.
Step aboard the ship of history and don't forget your mosquito
netting.
Fleet in Focus; Shell's Gibraltar Oil Hunks; Record Reviews;
Bosun's Locker; His Master's Ghost; Hopemount Shipping Co Ltd;
Putting the Record Straight; French Bounty Ship Boom 1897-1902;
South West Scenes.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
America's Marine Highway system accommodates the water-borne
movement of passengers and non-bulk freight between origins and
destinations otherwise served solely by roads and railways. Its
corridors run parallel to many of the nation's most important
land-based routes and connectors. These corridors are important
components of the nation's broader domestic marine transportation
system, which consists of 25,320 miles of navigable waterways,
including rivers, bays, and channels, and many thousands of
additional miles on the Great Lakes Saint Lawrence Seaway System
and deep sea routes. For much of the early history of the United
States, the network of waterways was the primary means of
interstate commerce and transportation for goods and people. As a
result, the majority of America's large metropolitan areas, as well
as the preponderance of the U.S. population, are located along the
coasts and navigable waterways. This book provides an overview of
the current elements and benefits of water transportation, with a
focus on a more environmentally sustainable transportation system;
the marine highway and national defence; and impediments of new and
expanded marine highway services.
|
|