20,000 Leagues Over the Bounding Main is meant for the enjoyment of not only aspiring, active duty and retired military personnel, but also nostalgia lovers. Relive the times when human intelligence, creativity and imagination - not computers - dominated and "political corrections" was a joke Will also make a great gift.

CRUISING THE WEST: FIFTY YEARS OF SAIL presents a fascination selection of the voyages, challenges, and and new horizons which Matts and Jeanine experienced during the past half century on the water.

This book recalls some of the most memorable, comic, and difficult of those moments, whether long ago when they were innocent and unsuspecting or during the last quarter century when they refined their skills and explored the Pacificd Northwest, Canada, Mexico, central and southern California, and the Great Southwest.

Each chapter will carry you a little further down the years as describes their many adventures and misadventures and the bewildering magic of sail.

Most of all, this book is about their love of freedom, their heartfelt curiosity, and the sheer joy of sailing.

For Matts and Jeanine, this book is a celebration; for it is about love and the passage of years, the chance to take the full measure of life; and mystery of growing a bit wiser along the way.>/p>

A brand new chart for 2016 covering the south coast of Sicily and Malta Passage Plans included: Licata (1:20 000) Porto Palo and Capo Passero (1:100 000) Siracusa (1:35 000) Grand Harbour & Marsamxett (Malta) (1:15 000)

He proposed, but interrupted her response with, "Before you say, 'yes', you need to know that someday I want to have a sailboat and sail around the world." She cried. These were not tears of joy. Twenty-five years later, they went to sea. This is the story of their first year as cruising sailors, and what she learned about: weathering storms, provisioning, entering strange harbors, and how living on a small boat with one's spouse isn't the long awaited life-time honey-moon imagined by landlubbers. From December through April they made their way east from Florida through the Bahamas and into the Caribbean, sailing to windward into the prevailing easterly winds. They encountered weeks when they had to wait for a weather window, days of perfect sailing to the east, and days of tacking off shore in six foot seas. They also sailed to windward as they encountered a steep learning curve, numerous unexpected boat projects, and challenges in their relationship. If you're planning a long sea voyage with your loved ones -- then read this book. It won't provide all of the sailing or travel information you need, but it will make you smile and help prepare you for many of the experiences encountered while sailing in paradise. You'll learn some things here that can't be found in cruising guides or how-to sail and cruise books. As Barb says, "This is the stuff I didn't know I needed to know before we left." If you enjoy reading true stories of couples undertaking new challenges, travel journals, and self-discovery sprinkled with humor -- then read this book. It won't answer relevant questions of the day, but it will make you smile as you recognize yourself, your spouse, or your parents in these essays about one baby-boomer couple undertaking a journey together. Harts at Sea Sailing to Windward is comprised of the stories of their first year as full-time cruisers. It's an often funny, sometimes useful, and always honest record of their journey from Portland, Maine to Grenada. Barb Hart and her husband, EW, are still happily married, sailing aboard La Luna, and getting haircuts in exotic harbors.

A story from the personal journal of Henriette Groot of a two day visit by sailboat to a village in a remote lagoon in the Solomon Islands. Her story offers a glimpse into the relationships among people. What do we share? And how?