The Sailing Handbook is the ideal guide for anyone who wants to get the most out of sailing. Brightly presented, clear and accessible, it is designed to teach the basics of sailing, increase your enjoyment of the sport, improve your technique, and ultimately, enable you to take part in professional competitions. Designed for easy reference, with over 500 colour photographs and explanatory illustrations, it presents clear and comprehensive guidance on the different parts of a boat * choosing a boat for pleasure and performance * how a boat sails * its fittings and equipment * how to anchor and pick up a mooring * handling ropes * navigating * understanding tides and buoyage * using radar * reading the weather * safety at sea * care and repair of the boat * buying, selling, chartering and insuring. The Sailing Handbook is ideal for novices of all ages.

"High Performance Sailing" is now regarded as the bible of racing sailors and carries a string of endorsements from high achievers. Since its publication in 1984, racing yachts and dinghies have developed out of all recognition - a new high-tech breed of 'apparent wind' fast racers has claimed the water and so far no-one has applied themselves seriously to analysing what makes these boats sail fast (and what will make them faster).This is Frank Bethwaite's ground-breaking achievement in "Higher Performance Sailing". By means of extensive research, and working with sailors of different racing calibre, Bethwaite analyses how to harness the apparent wind for increased speed and better position on your rivals. "Higher Performance Sailing" will provide the key to racing sailors' dreams. 'It represents a breakthrough. It is a book that my Olympic squad will benefit from' - Rod Carr, former British Olympic Sailing Team Manager. 'Allowed only one "if only" in yacht racing, it would have been to have read "Higher Performance Sailing" years ago' - Bob Fisher, journalist, broadcaster and international championship winner.

'It is the cheapest bit of go-faster gear you can buy...' - Robert Lloyd, Island Sailing Club 'One of the most readable books on the complex subject of sailing faster, and without doubt, a must for every racing sailor' - Yachts and Yachting Some people like to sail. Some people like to sail fast. This is a book about sailing faster. During the past few decades there has been a revolution in the way some boat designers and sailors have thought about, designed, built and sailed their boats. This book is about the new ideas which have led to these greater speeds and the faster sailing techniques which have been developed to achieve them. High Performance Sailing has become the standard reference work on high speed racing techniques - the bible for racing sailors, from dinghies right through to America's Cup boats. Ground-breaking in its thinking on boat speed, strategy and tactics, and timeless in its application, it is a book 'which no serious racing yachtsman should be without.' (Kelvin Hughes) Now in its second edition, High Performance Sailing has been brought right up to date with new information, the discoveries from new boat testing and new developments.

Plans: Approaches to Brindisi Approaches to Otranto Approaches to Gallipoli Approaches to Crotone

Plans included: Approaches to Brindisi (1:35 000) Approaches to Siracusa (1:50 000) For this 2015 edition, the amended TSS at Brindisi is now shown along with revised depths.

Aerial photographs by Patrick Roach. The South coasts of Devon and Cornwall are the first or the last many mariner has of England. Whether running up-channel, bound east for London and Northern Europe, or beating ever westwards out into the stormy Atlantic, these shores have been a haven, a guide, and occasionally, the source of ruin. All we who have made the traverse or have sought shelter in the multitude of harbours between Portland Bill and the Isles of Scilly, have had to carry out our pilotage from the decks of a vessel of some sort. How often we have longed for the wings of a sea eagle, to see what we cannot see. Powered flight has finally given us this chance, and Patrick Roach, the maestro of the airbourne camera has so excelled himself with this series of images that our mutual friend the publisher has had little choice but to bind us into one volume to share the wonders he has revealed. So stretch out your wings, give a wild seagull's cry, and let's take to the skies together, bound out for the far west.

Channel Havens is a cruising guide with a difference. Recognising that many of us would like to sail away from the crowd, Ken Endean introduces the reader to beautiful, unfrequented places within the Western English Channel, from the Solent to the West Country, Channel Islands and Northern France. Here are sandy bays, coves, reef anchorages and the upper reaches of river estuaries - places neglected by most pilot books - where one can experience the sense of discovery and adventure that is more usually associated with faraway cruising. Anyone who is attracted by the dramatic scenery of unspoilt coastal waters will treasure this guide from an experienced sailors who has gone before.

Coverage Area:

Martinique

St. Lucia

Carriacou

The Tobago Cays

Grenada

Trinidad

Barbados

Tobago

St. Vincent and the Grenadines

A Cruising Guide to the Windward Islands, 2nd ed. is the completely updated version of Steve Pavlidis' comprehensive Windward Islands guide that covers the stretch of islands from Martinique to Trinidad and Tobago known as the Windward Islands. Now in full-color with many new charts and full-color aerial photos of principal harbors. It contains 370 pages of text with 112 full-color sketch charts including GPS accurate data that is based on surveys personally conducted by the author. In addition it contains detailed piloting instructions, GPS waypoints, aerial photos, approaches and routes, anchorages, services, dive sites, history, basic information for cruising in the Caribbean, extensive appendices, index, bibliography and more. A Cruising Guide to the Windward Islands, 2nd ed. will greatly enhance your cruising experiences in this region by giving you valuable information based on actual experience and local knowledge.

The title of Rod Heikell's latest writing only hints at this book's content and coverage. Five years ago the author and his wife, Lu, set out on a circumnavigation and the opening part of The Tradewind Foodie is an account of the successive eastbound passages first to the Caribbean and then on through the Panama Canal to the Pacific, Australia and the Indian Ocean. There's plenty of practical advice as well as entertaining asides in Rod's inimitable style on the incidents that contributed to the adventure. Throughout, however, there is a slant towards provisioning, cooking on board and discovering food and restaurants at the numerous landfalls. Rod Heikell provides an extensive selection of tried and tested dishes in the second part of the book. Cooking at sea is an art and Rod's selection provides a great range of recipes that are practical under most sea conditions. "Whilst taking you from the Mediterranean on a whirlwind trip west-about the world, dealing with food and provisioning as they go, Rod and Lu also incorporate a surprising amount of interesting information into this book...Having successfully tried a few recipes at home, with their straightforward ingredients list and instructions, I would have no hesitation in trying the rest on board. This is a useful, practical book which also makes for fascinating reading..." Sandy Duker, Cruising Magazine.

Bob Roberts and his friend Bully worked nights and saved every penny they could make to buy Thelma, a 27-foot Looe smack, and fit her out for her epic voyage. After testing her out in the North Sea, they headed for Panama, by way of Madeira and the Azores. Australia was in their minds, as times were hard in England. Their plans fell apart in the Cocos islands, where they were shipwrecked, and soon found themselves on a hair-raising voyage with treasure hunters aboard the bluenose schooner, "Franklin Barnet".

2012 Reprint of 1953 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Illustrated Edition. A maritime expert offers boating and yachting enthusiasts a complete course in rigging, working, and maintaining a ship. The perfect shipboard reference, this volume is packed with useful "hands-on" information: sailor's tools, basic knots, and useful hitches; hand sewing and canvas work; and dozens of other topics important to safety, economy, and efficiency. Over 100 illustrations. Few twentieth-century writers could equal Hervey Garrett Smith's works on the traditional arts of the sailor; none could surpass them. His descriptions of knotting, splicing, fancy work, canvas work, and the practice of marlinspike seamanship are clear, concise, and evocative. So, too, are his drawings, which are technically accurate, easy to follow, and a joy to behold. The "Arts of the Sailor" is Smith's finest book, a compendium of information that runs the gamut: the anatomy of rope, sailor's tools, knots, hitches, splicing, whipping, wire and rope service, hand sewing, decorative rope work, chafing gear, reefing, towing, cleats, rope-stropped blocks, and making all sorts of gear, including rope mats, a heaving line, a bosun's chair, and a ditty bag.

Coverage Area:

Anguilla

St. Barts

Statia

Nevis

Montserrat

Antigua

Marie-Galante

les des Saintes

St. Martin

Saba

St. Kitts

Redonda

Barbuda

Guadeloupe

Dominica

A Cruising Guide to the Leeward Islands, 2nd ed. is the completely updated version of Steve Pavlidis' comprehensive guide to the Leeward Islands that stretch from the northernmost, Anguilla to the southernmost, Dominica.

With full-color aerial harbor photos and 85 full-color sketch charts, it contains extremely accurate hydrographic data based on personally conducted independent surveys by the author. A Cruising Guide to the Leeward Islands Guide, 2nd ed. also includes extensive navigational instructions, GPS waypoints, approaches and routes, anchorages, services, dive sites, history, basic information for cruising in the Caribbean, extensive appendices, index, bibliography and more.

Back in February, 1986, I signed on to sail in the America's Cup. I was a lowly 'grinder, ' the guy who does most of the work while being yelled at by the other crewmen. FUN Actually it was a fun for the most part. And hard work. And miserable at times. And scary quite a few times, when the wind was raging off the Golden Gate Bridge. I was a part of the St. Francis Yacht Club syndicate - our 12-meter was called the USA. We had a wildman for a skipper, Tom Blackaller - 'Blacky' we called him. He was a kooky character to say the least. The America's Cup back then was contested in Fremantle, Australia, where the wind would come screaming across the Indian Ocean, right into our faces. Exciting times off the coast of Western Australia. 'Confessions' is a first-person, truthful account of what it was like to be a part of a crazy endeavor, as a worker ant, 'before the mast' as the saying goes. Hope you like it, Brad Alan Lewi

In 1910 - hoping that the study of penguin eggs would provide an evolutionary link between birds and reptiles - a group of explorers left Cardiff by boat on an expedition to Antarctica. Not all of them would return. Written by one of its survivors, "The Worst Journey in the World" tells the moving and dramatic story of the disastrous expedition.

The Integrity was the dream boat of her owner, Waldo Howland. The only man able to tell the story of her last voyage, Frank Mulville, was to meet Waldo and members of the crew who abandoned her. He has pieced together the whole story and given a first-hand account of the climax.

This pilot covers the most remote areas of the west coast of Scotland between Ardnamurchan Point and Cape Wrath and the Island of Skye. Martin Lawrence has completely revised the text and for this edition has added new photographs taken from both the air and sea. The use of full colour throughout the work brings a clarity to the photographs and harbour plans. New photographs have been added to support changes to the text and plans in this 3rd edition. Martin Lawrence has spent many years sailing on the West Coast of Scotland and is a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation. He is well known as the author of the Yachtsman's Pilot series. "An excellent example of how text, charts and photos can be made to work together to enhance the information available to the navigator. It is also further evidence that this publisher is far ahead of its rivals in presentation of information for the yachtsman". - CT, Yachting Monthly "Yachtsman's Pilot to Skye and NW Scotland is a revelation in clarity. The layout is excellent with line drawings and chartlets on the same page and often with a photograph making it useful to have on deck when eyeballing. This book is an essential item on any boat ruising north of Ardnamurchan Point". - Cruising Association Bulletin

Provides advice on traveling by boat from Florida to the Caribbean by island hopping your way through the Bahamas, the Turks and Caicos Islands, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico. Discusses suggested reference sources, charts, trip timing, and routes. In addition it includes a narrative of the authors' trip, what went right, what didn't, and how they would do it if they did it again. Aimed at those who have never made this trip before, including those who are new to cruising and those who might be just dreaming about it.

The standard reference to the waterways of England, Wales and Scotland has been completely revised. The 8th edition retains the format of previous editions but, throughout, details are updated and the work has been widened in its scope to appeal not only to navigators but to all users of the waterways. Full colour throughout.

The coverage in The Southern Bahamas Guide from Cat Island South to the Turks & Caicos~Dominican Republic North Coast includes:

Cat Island

The Jumentos

Conception Island and Ragged Island

Rum Cay

The Crooked Island District

San Salvador

Mayaguana

Long Island

Inagua

The Turks and Caicos Islands

The Dominican Republic North Coast Ports

This completely updated version of the Pavlidis Bahamas Guide has:

All Original Charts Based on Personal Surveys Conducted by the Author.

Extensive Navigational Instructions and GPS Waypoints.

New Full-color Aerial Photos and Charts.

"Sailing is Fun - A Beginners Manual for Young Sailors" is written for kids. This book introduces basic terms, concepts and procedures which all new sailors need to understand, but does so in a "kid friendly" manner. The book also stresses water safety. It is the author's hope that once a child is properly introduced to the joys and thrills of sailing, a life-long passion will develop. In this modern 21st century world, there is a lot of "bad stuff" out there for kids to get into. Sailing is a great alternative. It's fast (or can be), it's fun, and it's green, totally green.

"It takes thousands of hours of sailing to get the kind of knowledge contained in this book." -- from the Foreword by Bruce Schwab The ONLY bible for how to sail your boat fast, safe, and alone Solo sailing is within any sailor's grasp with a little forethought--and this essential guide. Got a 35-foot sailboat? No problem. Is the wind blowing 20 knots? No problem. Are you racing offshore overnight? Even better. Singlehander Andrew Evans learned the hard way how to sail and race alone--with lots of mishaps, including broaches and a near tumbling over a waterfall--and in Singlehanded Sailing he shares the techniques, tips, and tactics he has developed to make his solo sailing adventures safe and enriching. Learn everything you need to know to meet any solo challenge, including: Managing the power consumption aboard a boat to feed the electric autopilotSetting and gybing a spinnakerFinding time to sleepDealing with heavy weather

This new title covers the extensive cruising area of Galicia in the north west of Spain from Ribadeo to Bayona, where the beautiful rias provide shelter from the Atlantic in picturesque harbours and remote anchorages. The authors have spent several seasons cruising in the area and making use of their local connections have produced a modern guide that provides in-depth information necessary for yachts spending time visiting the rias and ports of Galicia. Annotated town plans covering over 90 destinations show shore-side facilities and recommended restaurants and side panels provide advice on interesting places to visit, local customs and features of interest. Carlos Rojas has sailed yachts since 2000, a short but intensive career during which he has crossed the Atlantic, cruised in the Pacific, made several passages across Biscay and sailed to Ireland and France. His professional involvement in technology companies as an engineer, manager and director has given him an insight into design and usability that he applies to his pilot books. Carlos has lived most of his life in Britain but he is originally from Spain, a country that he knows well, naming Galicia as one of his favourite areas. Robert Bailey was brought up in a sailing family. Over a period of 35 years, and with the aid of a Nicholson 32 and Rustler 36, much of the coastline of the north western approaches to Europe, from the Faroe Islands in the north to the Morbihan in the south, were avidly explored. In 2001 he adopted a more flexible approach to his career as an aerospace engineer and this allowed him to take up cruising instruction. He is now a Yachtmaster Instructor.