After tough assignments as a Canadian diplomat abroad, Nicholas Coghlan and his wife Jenny unwind by sailing Bosun Bird, a 27foot sailboat, from Cape Town, South Africa, across the South Atlantic and into the stormy winter waters around Tierra del Fuego, South America. Coghlan recounts earlier adventures in Patagonia when, taking time off from his job as a schoolteacher in Buenos Aires in the late 1970s, he and Jenny explored the region of southern Argentina and Chile over three successive summers. This time, as they negotiate the labyrinth of channels and inlets around snow-covered Fireland, he reflects on voyages of past explorers: Magellan, Cook, Darwin, and others. Sailing enthusiasts and readers of true adventures will want to add Coghlan's world-wise narrative to their libraries.

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

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.

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.

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.

'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.

This is the true account of a young man's journey, sailing his 21 foot, wooden boat single-handed over 7,000 miles. Over a period of seven years, he set off from British Columbia in the spring of 1979 and sailed first to San Francisco, then the Hawaiian Islands and on to a remote Pacific coral atoll called Fanning Island. It was here that he was offered the position of Relief Manager of a coconut plantation for a few months and ended up staying for six years. The book is part sailing log and part travelogue and expertly describes the conditions he endured, the power of the elements and his experience of living and working thousands of miles from home.

Roger Taylor follows on from his highly praised Voyages of a Simple Sailor, taking us on three more extraordinary voyages aboard his junk-rigged Corribee Mingming. This simple, rugged 21' yacht, developed and honed for effortless single-handed ocean sailing, goes where bigger and more sophisticated craft fear to tread. Iceland, Rockall, the Faroes, Jan Mayen, the Greenland ice, with an interlude to the Azores, are all encompassed in these enthralling adventures. Roger has a unique sailing partnership with his yacht Mingming, using her to develop his ideas on simple, harmonious voyaging.

For all radar users, recreational and professional. Covers the use of radar for chart navigation, blind pilotage, and collision avoidance. This Workbook is designed to be used in classroom or online courses in radar, or for individual study outside of the classroom. The lesson structure follows that used by several schools in the US, based on the background reader Radar for Mariners by David Burch. The Appendix on advanced radar plotting is included for professional mariners who seek more practice on interpreting ARPA output by working out the vector solutions themselves. The ability to manually interpret the radar interactions seen on the screen, independent of electronic solutions, is in keeping with the fundamental tenet of good navigation and seamanship that we should not rely on any one aid alone.

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.

More Small Trimarans ... More Information Sailors and Prospective Boat Builders Want to Know About Today's Production & Homebuilt Small Trimarans. Here is another opportunity for you to sit down with the experts and get your questions answered about the fascinating small trimarans out there
This book pics up where Small Trimarans: An Introduction leaves off. It's a "behind-the-scenes" look at the following models ...
-- The Tri-Star 18 ... with contribution from Ed Horstman
-- The Strike 18 ... with Richard Woods
-- The Nicky Cruz Explorer ... with Graeme Delaveau
-- The W17 & W22 ... with Michael Waters
-- The Tridarka Raider ... with Steve Isaac & Matt Layden
-- The Bandit 800 ... with Ronan Quin-Huard
-- The Astus Tris ... with Pascal Guignabaudet
-- The Tritium 720 ... with Paolo Bisol
-- The Predator(s) ... with Paul Dawson
-- The Sardine Run ... with Eric Henseval
-- The model now called "Moving Finger" ... with Tony Grainger
-- The Adventure Tri ... with Mark Zollitsch
-- The Kolibri 23 ... with Francois Maillette
-- The Little Wing Kayak Tri ... with Ted & Zac Warren
-- The Challenger ... with Rob White
-- The CC Cyclone 23 ... with John Marples
-- The Searunner 25 ... with Jim Brown
Your Questions About These Small Tris Answered ...
* The story behind each boat
* Why each sailboat is unique
* Biggest benefits of each design
* Their performance and speed
* More pictures and/or renderings of these small trimarans
* Unique insights and opinions from each designer
* What model may be best for you to buy or build
Find out why these small sailboats are among the most exciting ones ever designed and enjoyed by sailors around the world

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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.

Robert and Penny Powers continue their dream cruise aboard the Coronado 35' sailing yacht named DRIFTER which began in Lake Superior U.S.A. This Volume 2 begins at North Caicos Island enroute to the Caribbean Sea. For the Final Dynamic Conclusion of the Powers couple "once in a lifetime adventure," read "SAILAWAY - the PASSAGE - Vol 3."

This story depicts an accounting of a husband and wife's fullfilment of their one-year-long Dream Cruise from Lake Superior, U.S.A. to the Caribbean Sea. Their ship is a thirty one year old Coronado 35' center cockpit sloop rigged sailboat named DRIFTER. She had been meticulously maintained from the day she came out of the mold. Some ammenities were added, such as refrigeration, for this liveaboard lengthy cruise. A wide variety of weather conditions are experienced and vividly described. As one might expect, they meet some very interesting characters as their voyage progresses. Their cruising adventures take them across Lake Superior, Lake Huron, and Lake Erie. Transiting the East Coast of the United States from New York to Florida, they utilize a combination of the Intracoastal Waterway with several offshore passages. From Florida they sail east through the Bahamas Islands and Turks and Caicos Islands in route to the Caribbean Sea. Thoroughly experienced sailors as well as true novices will find this story very entertaining and informative. The moral of the story is, "Don't bury your dreams in the shadows of your mind. Live them while you have the chance. Anything is possible."