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Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Water sports & recreations > Boating > Sailing
Imray-Iolaire charts for the Atlantic Islands are widely
acknowledged as the best available for the cruising sailor. They
combine the latest official survey data with first-hand information
gathered over 60 years of research by Don Street Jr and his wide
network of contributors. Like all Imray charts, they are printed on
water resistant Pretex paper for durability, and they include many
anchorages, facilities and inlets not included on official charts.
This edition includes the latest official data combined with
additional information sourced from Imray's network to make it
ideal for small craft. It includes the latest official bathymetric
surveys. Completed harbour works at Porto das Velas (Sao Jorge) is
included and extra Marine Reserves are shown. For this edition
magnetic variation curves have been added. There has been general
updating throughout.
Not many 'amateur' yacht designers would dare to enter the first
boat they had ever designed into the epic offshore Fastnet Race,
let alone with the intention of winning it. But that is what Dick
Carter did in 1964, beating all 151 other yachts, some sailed by
the most notable sailors of the day. He repeated the feat 4 years
later with another of his own designs (which also won the Admiral's
Cup that year as top boat and top team), but by then he could
certainly not be described as an 'amateur' yacht designer. His
radical innovations created fast and comfortable boats which were
much in demand in this, the golden age of offshore racing. They
were commissioned by the top sailors and succeeded in winning the
Admiral's Cup, Southern Cross Series, One Ton Cup, Two Ton Cup and
many of the biggest races. He even went on to design the massive
128-foot Vendredi Treize for Jean-Yves Terlain to sail
single-handed in the 1972 OSTAR (trans-Atlantic) race - the longest
boat ever to have been raced single-handed. But after just a decade
at the top of his game, he quit the world of sailing and moved on
to other challenges. He hadn't been heard of for so long that
sailors assumed he was dead. His surprise appearance at the funeral
of Ted Hood gave rise to the suggestion that he wrote this book. It
is beautifully produced with many fabulous photographs and boat
plans and was first published in the US by Seapoint Books and is
now published in the UK by Fernhurst Books. While his career as a
yacht designer may have been brief, the impact of his innovations
has lasted the test of time. Who today would think of an offshore
yacht without internal halyards in the mast or that the rudder
always had to be fixed to the keel? These concepts, and many more,
were first introduced by Dick Carter.
The magnetic variation curves have been updated with 2020 data.
Under new royalty terms, the DGA (Danish Geodata Agency) have made
it unviable to reproduce their copyrighted data. All DGA data has
been removed from this chart. There has been general updating
throughout.
In the late 1920s Norwegian Erling Tambs and his wife Julie set out
from Oslo with their Colin Archer pilot boat Teddy, little in the
way of navigational equipment, and not much else. The Cruise of the
Teddy is Erling's charming and modest account of how, with great
fortitude, resourcefulness and good humour they reached New Zealand
via the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, with many delightful human
encounters along the way, to arrive with one more in the family
than they started with.
Bob Shepton is an ordained minister in the Church of England in his
late 70s, but spends most of his time sailing into the Arctic and
making first ascents of inaccessible mountains. No tea parties for
this vicar. Opening with the disastrous fire that destroyed his
yacht whilst he was ice-bound in Greenland, the book travels back
to his childhood growing up on the rubber plantation his father
managed in Malaysia, moving back to England after his father was
shot by the Japanese during the war, boarding school, the Royal
Marines, and the church. We then follow Bob as he sails around the
world with a group of schoolboys, is dismasted off the Falklands,
trapped in ice, and climbs mountains accessible only from
iceberg-strewn water and with only sketchy maps available. Bob
Shepton, winner of the 2013 Yachtsman of the Year Award, is an
old-school adventurer, and this compelling book is in the spirit of
sailing mountaineer HW Tilman, explorer Ranulph Fiennes, climber
Chris Bonington and yachtsman Robin Knox-Johnston, all of whom have
been either friends of Bob's or an inspiration for his own
exploits. Derring do in a dog collar! Ranulph Fiennes: 'A wonderful
true tale of adventure.' Bear Grylls: 'You are going to enjoy
this...as a Commando, Bob is clearly made of the right stuff!'
Chart scale 1: 350 000 Plans included: Figueira da Foz (1:15 000)
Nazare (1:15 000) Porto de Peniche (1:10 000) Cascais (1:15 000)
Lisboa Approaches (1:65 000) Lisboa (Lisbon) (1:30 000) Sesimbra
(1:15 000) Entrance to Rio Sado (Setubal) (1:40 000) Setubal (1:40
000) Sines (1:30 000) On this edition the chart specification has
been improved to show coloured light flashes. There have been
numerous updates to harbour developments across the chart, this
includes completed harbour works at Sines. The plan of Lisbao
Approaches has been extended westward so to include larger scale
approaches to both Lisboa and Cascais. There has been general
updating throughout.
Part of the Clyde Cruising Club's Sailing Directions and Anchorages
series, Firth of Clyde extends beyond its titled area to the coast
of Northern Ireland (Rathlin Island to Belfast Lough) and on the
Scottish side southwards from Stranraer to Portpatrick and beyond
to the Solway Firth and Cumbria. Firth of Clyde covers everything
from the busy waters of the Firth of Clyde and River Clyde to the
more remote areas of the wider estuary and connected lochs,
including the protected and beautiful Kyles of Bute and Loch
Riddon, Loch Fyne and the Crinan Canal. Coverage then extends west
and south to encompass North Channel and Solway Firth. This new
edition, updated by Geoff Crowley, continues the long-respected
legacy of CCC publications for cruising sailors. The North Channel
section has been extended to include details for Belfast itself.
New photographs throughout illustrate the text and help orientate
the navigator. Details on plans have been updated with reference to
the new Imray 2900 Firth of Clyde chart pack for the area.
References to Bob Bradfield's useful Antares large scale charts are
also included. Whether you are a local sailor or a first-time
cruising visitor, Firth of Clyde is an essential companion in these
waters. Updates and corrections are available via the Clyde
Cruising Club website as below. Includes free mobile download:
Imray Digital Charts for West Britain and Ireland.
"I first met her in Tollesbury and immediately fell for her. She
was an -Essex girl through and through but not like all the others,
although she was shallow. As far as I could see then there were
only two problems. There was a big age difference-fifty-five years.
She was born in 1904 and I was ten back then in 1959. None of this
mattered to me but the second problem would be trickier: my Dad
loved her too." So begins Nick Imber's affectionate account of his
family's love affair with the barge yacht Nan, who was to give so
much pleasure to three generations, across twenty years from the
1950s to the 1970s. We share Nick's childhood excitement on first
encountering Nan, his teenage pride in skippering her for the very
first time, and his quiet pleasure as his own children take to the
water in her. Nan took good care of them all; whether exploring a
peaceful East Coast river, braving a gale at sea, or drying out on
an idyllic Devon beach, she demonstrates that the humble barge
yacht has so much to offer the young sailing family.
Scale: Scale: 1:50 000 WGS 84 Includes panel of Gibraltar (1:15
000)
For the past 12 years, Jo Winter has been cruising these waters in
her 45' Island Packet, Brother Wind, and she describes it as one of
the most diverse, beautiful, unspoilt and undiscovered sailing
areas in the world. The book covers thousands of miles of
coastline, a multitude of islands and inland up many of the
region's navigable rivers. Along with a comprehensive range of
information to help with planning a cruise in this region, the
introductory section details weather information, including
coverage of typhoons, and also indicates piracy risk areas to be
avoided. Sailing directions include small scale area plans to
orientate the navigator and larger scale plans to show details of
harbours and anchorages. Full colour throughout, the plans and
numerous photographs illustrate key features and places. Whether
transiting the region or planning a more extended cruise along any
of the coastlines bordering the South China Sea, this guide is an
essential companion.
Martin O'Scannall loves the old, the eccentric, the offbeat - the
quirky if you like; the wandering off into byways, the exploration
of half-forgotten snippets of history. And Galicia, his home for
the past decade or more, is ideal territory for indulging that
taste. Galicia is a time warp: rain-swept, isolated, savage and
gentle by turns, as far a cry from the blazing Costas as it is
possible to imagine. This book is a conversation with the past,
conducted in a very old, engineless gaff cutter, armed with the
Admiralty Pilot, a gallant crew, and a sense of the ridiculous. We
encounter, but in unexpected ways, the likes of Drake, Nelson, the
ill-fated HMS Serpent, Celtic myth and legend, and the
reminiscences of those who have gone before, all interspersed with
the business of managing an old yacht in the old way: Walker log,
paper charts and all. Beginning, as he says it has to be, with the
dreaded storm at sea.
Three hundred nautical miles from shore, I'm cold and sick and
afraid. I pray for reprieve. I long for solid ground. And I can't
help but ask myself, What the hell was I thinking? When Sue
Williams set sail for the North Atlantic, it wasn't a mid-life
crisis. She had no affinity for the sea. And she didn't have an
adventure-seeking bone in her body. In the wake of a perfect storm
of personal events, it suddenly became clear: her sons were adults
now; they needed freedom to figure things out for themselves; she
had to get out of their way. And it was now or never for her
husband, David, to realize his dream to cross an ocean. So she'd go
too. Ready to Come About is the story of a mother's improbable
adventure on the high seas and her profound journey within, through
which she grew to believe that there is no gift more precious than
the liberty to chart one's own course, and that risk is a good
thing ... sometimes, at least.
Since its publication in 1963, Sterling Hayden's autobiography,
Wanderer, has been surrounded by controversy. The author was at the
peak of his earning power as a movie star when he suddenly quit. He
walked out on Hollywood, walked out of a shattered marriage, defied
the courts, broke as an outlaw, set sail with his four children in
the schooner Wanderer--bound for the South Seas. His attempt to
escape launched his autobiography. It is the candid, sometimes
painfully revealing confession of a man who scrutinized his every
self-defeat and self-betrayal in the unblinking light of
conscience.
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