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I walked over the ground where the explosion took place. It was a dreadful sight; the dead being so mutilated that it was scarcely possible to tell their colour. I saw gun-barrels bent nearly double. I think we saw Sir Roger Sheafe, the British General, galloping across the field, by himself, a few minutes before the explosion. At all events, we saw a mounted officer, and fired at him. He galloped up to the government-house, dismounted, went in, remained a short time, and then galloped out of town.

Street's Guide to the Cape Verde Islands is the first and only cruising guide for the Cape Verde Islands. Printed in 2011 it is a completely up-to-date, full-color guide that includes charts and sketches not available through any other source, as well as GPS waypoints, harbor and marina information, local knowledge and much more.

Don Street has a message for all sailors planning to cross the Atlantic via the trade-wind route:

"Forget about spending Christmas in the Caribbean, which forces you to cross the Atlantic in late November and early December when the trades are erratic and sometimes light to nonexistent. Instead, spend Christmas cruising and exploring the Cape Verde Islands and set off in late December or early January, after the trades have settled in, and be almost guaranteed a fast passage. They're not called the Christmas Winds for nothing "

One of the world's most experienced sea adventurers, the veteran of countless ocean voyages, including yacht deliveries on nearly every ocean, single-handed passages, and offshore cruises, has set down the wonderful collection of tricks, lore, shortcuts, techniques, and precautions that he has accumulated over the years.

As Ellam says, "This book is for the yachtsman-whether sail or power-who already knows how to handle a boat under normal conditions and is familiar with the principles of piloting and seamanship but who would like to know more about the problems he may encounter-and how to deal with them-when he undertakes longer passages than he ever has before. For a long time we spent as many as 250 days a year making delivery passages-over all kinds of water-in many different kinds of boats, both sail and power. From that experience we arrived at the concepts and techniques presented here.

"Some of the techniques can be used every day, while others are for special occasions. But following the broad concepts of how to plan and execute a passage enabled us to make one after another, with a high degree of reliability and safety."

Based on a recent transatlantic crossing in a Hallberg Rassy 42, this book provides guidance and ideas on planning the food for a similar voyage. It includes details of the overall approach and plan, listings of all meals, a detailed spreadsheet of provisions, and recipes adapted for seagoing use. Food-related excerpts from the voyage's blog are included, along with illustrations.

Round the World in the Wrong Season, by Eric T. Wiberg - Written between 1994 and 2009, is a memoir of global travel and an unfulfilled college crush. The book follows the narrator out of school and across the Pacific. At only 23 he has command of a 68-foot Burmese-teak ketch built in Scotland thrust upon him. The owner is on a voyage home to his death, and along the way they hire sailors twice the skipper's age. They makes it to New Zealand in a storm which sinks seven yachts, then spends months shearing sheep and writing a memoir. By the time the narrator makes a rendezvous with his college sweetheart (who has been teaching Thai students on the Burmese border), she seems to have all but forgotten him. This leads to a less than satisfactory denouement and puts at least one of them in the hospital. The book includes extensive photographs and hand-drawn charts and a detailed bibliography. It is over 400 pages in length, perfect bound in cloth. More www.wrongseason.net and www.ericwiberg.com

Enjoy Part 2 of the Historic
Saga & Nautical Life-Journey Of
Multihull Designer Jim Brown
Embracing his role of cockpit storyteller,
Jim Brown continues sharing how multihulls happened to him
so we ll have these tales for ourselves
and future generations of multihullers
In this second volume ... the Brown family swallows the anchor in the American South and suffers reverse culture shock. Sons Steven and Russell go on to build their own boats and sail to faraway places. Wife Jo Anna expands her career helping children with learning difficulties. Jim becomes a global Johnny Appleseed -- spreading his practical know-how knowledge of modern trimarans, catamarans and proas. And the Browns enjoys some spectacular multihull crusing experiences to boot.
Travel with Jim as he helps indigenous peoples in Africa, the Philippines and the Pacific Islands create modern workboats to try and solve their economic challenges. Sail with him to exotic and beautiful locals from Canada to Cuba. And meet unforgettable (and sometimes downright incredible) sailors, adventurers, friends, indigenous peoples, various eklectic folks and assorted characters along the way.
Truly remarkable tales from an amazing life among boats -- especially multihulls. After finishing certain portions of this book you ll probably find yourself saying, Wow you re never gonna believe what I just read, to anybody who will listen
Jim Brown is easily one of the most celebrated figures in the 20th century's modern multihull movement. And after reading this first volume of this memoir, you'll feel like you've come to know the man in the same way you know a personal friend.
Many memoirs are meant to embellish the life work of the author, which often means playing loose with the truth about the past, being selective about what facts to include (and which ones to bury) and producing an endless amount of positive spin meant to always put the writer in a positive light.
Not so with this memoir.
If anything, Jim Brown tries hard to separate facts from fiction, and offers a deeply personal account that includes notable mistakes (both career and personal) in the midst of many great moments throughout his life. For this reason alone, his memoir is destined to forever endear him to its readers ... including you

This true and gripping narrative takes you aboard Restless, a 29 ft. sloop, with Richard and Bonnie Byhre sailing to the South Pacific from San Francisco. You will share moments of drama aboard Restless as she is caught in a catagory-3 hurricane off Mexico and miraculously survives as she is drawn through the eye of the storm. Despite 120mph winds and 50ft seas, Restless survives to reach Tahiti only to be tragically shipwrecked later on a lonely Tongan island. Friendly natives take them in and nurse them back to health only to realize that the village Chief is reluctant to let them leave.

A soft cover book with beautiful photographs of the Amel Santorin in the Greek Islands for fans of this amazing sailboat.

'This is the story of a happy boat, or so it seems to me...' A fascinating story of a charming boat, Something About Navigator explores the development, building and sailing of one of John Welsford's most loved designs. The Navigator has become an incredibly popular boat, with over 600 plan sets sold at last count. Robert Ditterich uses a narrative style to pin down the charm at the root of this popularity, while also extensively illustrating the processes involved in building one, fitting it out and using it. The Navigator 'in the wild' is represented by illustrated essays from experienced Navigator sailors and builders. The romance of small open boat sailing, and the freedom felt, even just in dreaming about one, will make this book appealing to owners or aspiring owner/builders of many wooden boats available to-day.

This volume is a narrative of Scott's last expedition from its departure from England in 1910 to its return to New Zealand in 1913.

At one point after the boom vang broke loose, the boom and the sail shifted to a higher position. I didn't like the loss of control this caused. The boat was swinging from 0 to 20 degrees in jerky motions, lifting and heeling. The boom vang had been ripped out of its housing. I had an idea what to do and told Roxanne what I had in mind. At a certain moment, with her help holding up the boom vang in a certain way, I would let go of the rudder and lunge forward to grab the creature from her hand and plunge its little head into the second available hole, a slot just under the boom. This she understood, but all the while I was under great stress, anxious for my daughter's life and mine. The wind was quite strong and I didn't want the boat to flip over ... not there, away from any available help. We were two miles from shore in any direction. I checked the waves and wind and then turned the boat into the wind. On my signal to Roxanne, I lurched forward and grabbed the beastly creature and shakily shoved its head in the hole. I then turned the boat back to windward and pulled in on the sheet that pulled the boom back to its correct position. Everything was fine again. In a plastic bag hanging from the boom near the mast were my cigarettes and a lighter. That's where Roxanne was also handy. She passed me a cigarette and my lighter and I lit it and took a big drag. Ah... The rest of the day went beautifully. In the same bag we had a nice light lunch (gourmet style), a couple of baloney sandwiches, and two cans of pop.

This book offers hilarious and serious guidelines to people planning to join a bare boat sailing cruise in the Caribbean. Read about Lefty, the Princeton engineering professor, who gives up sailing because he is unable to tie a bowline. Don't become a Purple Pink Love Lady who goes sailing to "find someone." She does find someone until that someone finds someone else on another boat. Rather than returning from the cruise with love in her heart, she returns in despair with her cheeks blistered from the sun, her toes crushed from the stern ladder and her thigh purpled from a spreading bruise. Will she ever go sailing again? Will she try the personal ads instead? Find out. Learn all the ways you can avoid responsibility. If you are a man, learn how to avoid lifting the dinghy engine, hauling up the anchor chain and clogging the toilet. If you are a woman, learn how to avoid steering and the politically incorrect jobs of shopping, cooking and cleaning. Pay attention to the sections on roommate assignment and potty training. You may become more intimate with your roommate than either of you would like. A beginning sailor who is inadequately potty trained can create for himself or herself a situation of almost infinite embarrassment. Don't skip the potty training section even though it is unavoidably impolite. Help with cooking but do not take responsibility for it. You can only lose. Don't let the dinghy drift you to Panama. Do not let the many perils described in this book, perhaps reinforced by your status as a novice sailor, deter you from group cruising. After all, the author has experienced worse perils and still loves the sea. In the last section, he explains why group cruising is worth the hassle even for one not protected by the excellent advice

We were not sorry to be out of the Zuider Zee this afternoon, for it began to blow a gale from the northeast, so that the lagoons were lashed into foam. The grey clouds rushed across the sky, and the bleak moors looked as they might well do in November instead of June, while the temperature fell until we shivered with cold. Those who revile the climate of England as changeable should visit the countries to the east of the North Sea.

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Title: Two Years before the Mast; or, a Voice from the forecastle: being a sailor's life at sea.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF TRAVEL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection contains personal narratives, travel guides and documentary accounts by Victorian travelers, male and female. Also included are pamphlets, travel guides, and personal narratives of trips to and around the Americas, the Indies, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. ++++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 insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Dana, Richard Henry; 1869. vi. 410 p.; 8 . 010026.f.6.

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Sextants are used to measure angular heights of celestial bodies above the horizon to find the latitude and longitude of the observer. They can also be used on land with artificial horizons. Sextants can also be used to find the correct Universal Time by measuring the angular distance between the moon and another body along its path across the zodiac. In coastal waters or on land, sextants can be used for very accurate piloting by measuring the horizontal angles between charted landmarks. The vertical angle of a peak above its baseline determines the distance to it, which, combined with a compass bearing, yields a position fix from just one landmark. The angular dip of an object (island or vessel) below the visible horizon can also be used to determine the distance to it. This booklet explains how to get the best results from plastic sextants, and presents numerical comparisons with similar data from metal sextants. Sextant piloting techniques are also reviewed as they are an ideal use of a plastic sextant.

Tales from Lyla's Log is a sea story, not a how-to book. It is a fast moving, close-up narrative about cruising and living on a sailboat exploring most of the east coast, Florida and the Bahamas. What is it really like to live this life? What is it like on a day when the wind is fair and the sea is a deep blue with pure-white whitecaps-or when a night overtakes you that's "not a fit night out for man or beast"? If you love maps, or nautical charts, and wonder what those bays, rivers, islands and inlets each are like; If you wonder what experience is required, what sort of boat with what abilities is the kind you might need, or you'd just like to read how one couple prepared for this sort of adventuring and made it all work, you will find it all here in this book. You'll get just what its title implies, daily stories of two round trips from Martha's Vineyard to Florida's east and west coasts, and then to the southern tip of the Exuma chain of islands in the south-central Bahamas-more than 1500 miles each way.

A young schooner bum, thrilled by the ways of a windjammer, resolves to acquire his own boat and follow the sea in search of pals and gals and utopian freedom. It is the mid 1950s, he is in his early twenties, and while building his own boat he rather suddenly finds himself to be a family man. Undeterred, he and his bride, now five and a half months pregnant, sail out through the Golden Gate in an experimental contraption and turn left for Mexico. They don't know it at the time, and they wouldn't have cared, but their tiny boat is the first three-hulled watercraft to go to sea in modern times. Soon the author becomes an unintended "instant expert" in what would become, fifty years later, an absolute sea change in marine architecture. This work in two volumes tells of those fifty years, of the people, the boats, the foibles and the fables, the history and lore that - despite a sometimes fierce resistance from the Corinthian community - comprise the origins of today's modern catamarans, trimarans and proas. Told as the memoir of a septuagenarian sea dog whose failing eyesight causes him to "see" his memories, Jim Brown recounts the multihull milestones of the 1950s to the 70s (Volume One) and the 1970s into the new millennium (Volume Two). He highlights the pivotal multihull pioneers, and relates the controversial advent and eventual ascendance of multihulls today, with their implications for tomorrow. However, this rich nautical heritage runs as but a thread through the fabric of how the multihull phenomenon shapes the lives of the writer and his family and friends. His obsession is fulfilled in ways far different from his youthful promise to himself.

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