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This popular book covering the Caribbean from Grenada and Barbados
to the Virgin Islands is a translation from Jacques Patuelli's
original French version. Each island is dealt with in detail and
pilotage notes are followed by tourist information and the usual
data on formalities and facilities. Fully illustrated with plans
and photos, many of which are new for this second edition, the
guide is packed with interesting and useful background information
on the Caribbean; its history, tourism, geography and details on
sailing in the islands. The last section of the book, the blue
pages, consists of listings of facilities, restaurants, bars,
hotels and other information of interest to tourists.
Imray-Iolaire charts for Caribbean 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.
Plans included: Mamora Bay (1:10 000) Falmouth & English
Harbours (1:20 000) Nonsuch Bay (1:40 000) Jolly Harbour Approaches
(1:25 000) For this edition the chart has been fully updated using
the latest depth surveys. The chart also includes a new plan of
Jolly Harbour.
Plans included: Upper Orwell to Ipswich (1:20 000) Fox's Marina
(1:10 000) Woolverstone Marina (1:10 000) Suffolk Yacht Harbour
(1:10 000) Shotley Marina (1:10 000)
From the best-selling author of four classic UK diving books, comes
The Darkness Below - a collection of absorbing adventures gained
from a lifetime in diving. As one of the UK's leading Technical
Divers, Rod takes the reader on a spellbinding and gripping
journey, from first beginnings as a novice scuba diver. Told in
intimate detail with a beguiling sense of self-deprecating humour,
he recounts epic dives on some of the most fabulous shipwrecks
around the world. Terrifying first explorations of virgin
shipwrecks far offshore, lost in time and enshrouded in darkness in
the silent depths, cram the pages. A daring expedition into the
heart of the feared Corryvreckan whirlpool, the third largest in
the world, an open sea encounter with Orca killer whales and an
agonizing attack of the bends keep the reader engrossed. The
palpable gloom, despair and human tragedy of the wrecks is never
far away - the cold and darkness of the depths almost resonating
with the cries of those who have perished. The fear of entrapment
inside a wreck is grippingly described and becomes almost
claustrophobic to the reader unfamiliar with the perils of wreck
penetration, when snagged nets sometimes billow unseen above the
unwary diver. However, there are rewards when survivors from wrecks
are keen to speak to someone who has seen and touched their ship
that had been lost long ago. This is an unmissable book for all
divers and anyone interested in maritime history.
Plans included: Burnham Yacht Harbour (1:12 500) River Crouch
continuation to Battlesbridge (1:35 000) River Roach continuation
to Rochford (1:35 000)
1. Approaches to the Channel Islands (1: 500 000) 2. Cap Barfleur
to Alderney (1: 150 000) Plans Cherbourg (1:40 000) Port de
Chantereyne (Cherbourg) (1:10 000) 3. Alderney & Burhou (1: 25
000) Plan Alderney Harbour (1:12 500) 4. Passages Between Alderney
& Guernsey (1: 150 000) Plan Dielette (1:15 000) 5. Guernsey,
Herm & Sark (1: 60 000) 6. East Guernsey & Herm (1: 25 000)
7. Guernsey & Sark Plans (various scales) Plans St Peter Port
& Havelet Bay (1:6000) Beaucette Marina (1:10 000) Sark
Anchorages (1:25 000) Guernsey - South Coast Anchorages (1:25 000)
8. Passages Between Guernsey & Jersey (1: 150 000) Plan
Carteret (1:22 500) 9. Jersey & Les Ecrehou (1: 75 000) 10.
Approaches to St Helier (1: 30 000) Plan St Helier Harbour (1:15
000) 11. East Coast of Jersey (1: 25 000) 12. Jersey to Granville
(1: 150 000) Plan Granville (1:30 000) 13. Plateau des Minquiers
(1: 50 000) 14. Plateau des Minquiers to St-Malo (1: 150 000) Plan
St-Malo Approaches (1:55 000) 15. Iles Chausey (1: 25 000) 16.
St-Malo & La Rance (1: 15 000) 17. La Rance - Cancaval to Lyvet
(1: 25 000) For this 2017 edition the latest depth surveys have
been applied. There has been general updating throughout. This
edition has tidal stream information is included.
Plans included: Wells-next-the-Sea (1:30 000) Blakeney Harbour
(1:28 000) Great Yarmouth Haven (1:10 000) Lowestoft Approaches
(1:42 500) Southwold Harbour (1:12 500) Rivers Ore and Alde (1:42
500) River Deben (1:45 000) Lowestoft Harbour (1:12 000). On this
edition the latest depth surveys have been applied throughout. The
latest information on wind farms is included. The chart
specification has been improved to show coloured light flashes.
There has been general updating throughout.
HEARD ISLAND, an improbably remote speck in the far Southern Ocean,
lies four thousand kilometres to the south-west of Australia - with
Antarctica its nearest continent. By 1964 it had been the object of
a number of expeditions, but none reaching the summit of its
9000-foot volcanic peak "Big Ben'. In that year Warwick Deacock
resolved to rectify this omission, and assembled a party of nine
with impressive credentials embracing mountaineering, exploration,
science and medicine, plus his own organisation and leadership
skills as a former Major in the British Army. But first they had to
get there. Heard had no airstrip and was on no steamer route; the
only way was by sea in their own vessel. Approached from Australia,
the island lay in the teeth of the 'Roaring Forties'and 'Furious
Fifties'. One name, only, came to mind as the skipper to navigate
them safely to their destination, and safely home - the veteran
mountaineer turned high-latitude sailor H. W. 'Bill' Tilman,
already renowned for his 'sailing to climb' expeditions to
Patagonia, Greenland and Arctic Canada, and the sub-Antarctic
archipelagos of Crozet and Kerguelen, to the north-west of Heard
Island. He readily 'signed on' to Warwick Deacock's team of proven
individuals and their well-found sailing vessel Patanela. In this
first-hand account, as fresh today as on its first publication
fifty years ago, Philip Temple invites us all on this superbly
conducted, happy and successful expedition, aided by many
previously unpublished photographs by Warwick Deacock. 'The
Skipper' - a man not free with his praise - described the
enterprise as 'a complete thing'. photographs, maps, drawings
In a post-exploration world, two relatively ordinary blokes,
serving Royal Marines, decided they wanted an extraordinary 21st
century adventure. In this refreshingly honest account they re-live
the highs and lows of sailing and rowing a tiny open boat,
completely unsupported, through one of the most iconic wilderness
waterways on the planet - the Northwest Passage across the top of
Canada. They describe battling with an Arctic storm miles from land
and being caught in the worst sea ice for more than a decade. At
one point they are forced to drag Arctic Mariner, their
seventeen-foot boat, across ten miles of broken pack ice to reach
open water. Their story is enriched by the Inuit people and the
incredible wildlife they met along the way, including all-too-close
encounters with both grizzly and polar bears. And they relate with
honesty how the isolation and stresses of the high Arctic shaped
the bond between their two very different personalities. This is
neither an expose of global warming, nor a detailed study of Inuit
culture. It is not particularly long on the historical quest for
the Northwest Passage. It is quite simply the tale of two blokes,
up north. b/w photographs, maps, drawings
Kaitlin Sandeno was one of the world's greatest and most versatile
swimmers. Competing at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics, she was a part
of the world record breaking 4x200-meter relay team and is one of
an elite few to medal in three different strokes. In Golden Glow:
How Kaitlin Sandeno Achieved Gold in the Pool and in Life, Dan
D'Addona recounts Sandeno's amazing swimming career, including her
spectacular Olympic performances, and details the impact she has
made in the world outside the pool. Breaking into the Olympics at
seventeen years old, she became the face of the team with her
enthusiasm and bubbly personality. She returned to the Olympics
four years later to have one of the most dominating meets by an
American woman in history. But Sandeno's legacy in the pool is
nothing compared to how she has used her platform to help those
around her. She is the national spokesperson for the Jessie Rees
Foundation and spreads joy around the country to children with
cancer. She has emceed Olympic trials, hosted multiple shows for
USA Swimming, and has given back to her sport, working for USA
Swimming and coaching youth teams. Golden Glow is not only the
story of how hard work and perseverance led Sandeno to Olympic
gold, but also how she has used her success in the pool to inspire
those around her.
This breezy escapist tale chronicles the misadventures of a motley
crew of college professors who abandon their landlocked lives (and
wives) for one week every year and go sailing. Author Tom Watkins
vividly recounts a decade's worth of these annual escapes, as the
adventurous academics fish, dive, drink, and dream together, all
the while coming to a better understanding of themselves and each
other. Their travels take them to such exotic locales as the Virgin
Islands, Guadeloupe, and the Grenadines, and along the way they
encounter a colorful array of salty characters, including famed
sailor and author John Caldwell and Undine, the jolly German
manager of a tropical restaurant hidden by lush vegetation.
Overflowing with rum, cigars, and poker chips, this is a hilarious
and insightful glimpse into the secret lives of men.
**Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography** Included in
President Obama's 2016 Summer Reading List "Without a doubt, the
finest surf book I've ever read . . . " -The New York Times
Magazine Barbarian Days is William Finnegan's memoir of an
obsession, a complex enchantment. Surfing only looks like a sport.
To initiates, it is something else: a beautiful addiction, a
demanding course of study, a morally dangerous pastime, a way of
life. Raised in California and Hawaii, Finnegan started surfing as
a child. He has chased waves all over the world, wandering for
years through the South Pacific, Australia, Asia, Africa. A bookish
boy, and then an excessively adventurous young man, he went on to
become a distinguished writer and war reporter. Barbarian Days
takes us deep into unfamiliar worlds, some of them right under our
noses-off the coasts of New York and San Francisco. It immerses the
reader in the edgy camaraderie of close male friendships forged in
challenging waves. Finnegan shares stories of life in a whites-only
gang in a tough school in Honolulu. He shows us a world turned
upside down for kids and adults alike by the social upheavals of
the 1960s. He details the intricacies of famous waves and his own
apprenticeships to them. Youthful folly-he drops LSD while riding
huge Honolua Bay, on Maui-is served up with rueful humor. As
Finnegan's travels take him ever farther afield, he discovers the
picturesque simplicity of a Samoan fishing village, dissects the
sexual politics of Tongan interactions with Americans and Japanese,
and navigates the Indonesian black market while nearly succumbing
to malaria. Throughout, he surfs, carrying readers with him on
rides of harrowing, unprecedented lucidity. Barbarian Days is an
old-school adventure story, an intellectual autobiography, a social
history, a literary road movie, and an extraordinary exploration of
the gradual mastering of an exacting, little-understood art.
Successor to Henry Irving's long-established guide to the nooks and
crannies of this fascinating corner of the east coast of England,
this new title has extended coverage under the authorship of
retired harbourmaster and local cruising sailor Peter Harvey. Some
choose to bypass this beautiful section of coast and its
extraordinary natural habitats, but this cruising guide gives
inspiration to anyone who wishes to explore the many shallow creeks
and deeper historic harbours of Norfolk, Lincolnshire and the
Humber. With thoroughly updated text and plans and new photographs
throughout, The Wash and Humber remains an essential companion to
this interesting and rewarding section of our coastline.
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".
Ian Thorpe's achievements in the water are nothing short of
phenomenal. He has won a record-holding 11 World Championship
titles and ten Commonwealth Games gold medals. He has broken 22
world records and won five gold, three silver and one bronze
Olympic medals. Having been under the spotlight since he was a
young teenager, he retired from competitive swimming in 2006, but
after five years he mounted a comeback for London 2012, and intense
media attention followed. Thorpe is one of the world's most famous
sportsmen, but it is the way he has managed his success and his
commitment to helping others that has earned him respect and
admiration internationally. This is a man who has had highs and
lows away from the pool, who has led an extraordinary life of an
elite athlete that most of us will never know, and who had the
courage to come back and stake his claim for the ultimate goal once
more.
Technique is critical in swimming performance. In the pool or open
water, coaches and athletes alike know that efficiency in entering
the water and in moving through it equates to milliseconds of
improvement-milliseconds that make all the difference in a
competition. That's where The Swimming Drill Book continues to
deliver. The first edition quickly became the best-selling drill
book in the sport. Now, this second edition ups the ante with more
drills, new variations, and expanded coverage to help every
swimmer. Inside, you'll find more than 175 drills for refining
strokes, correcting faults, and improving your feel for the water.
In addition to mastering all four competitive strokes-freestyle,
backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly-you'll learn the essentials
of body position, sculling, starts, turns, and finishes. You'll
even find all-new coverage of open-water drills and strength band
workouts to be performed poolside. See for yourself why The
Swimming Drill Book is on the shelf of every serious swimmer and
coach. It delivers every stroke, every skill, and everything you
need for swimming success.
This is an exciting new diving guide covering dive sites in
England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Explore the wreck of the E39
submarine off Pembrokeshire or the stunning Cathedral Rock off St
Abbs to the Unknown Coaster in Portland Harbour. In this title, 100
dives are described in detail from easy shore dives to more
demanding boat dives. Dive locations are fully illustrated with
specially commissioned maps and diagrams together with full colour
photography throughout. All dives are above 18m and suitable for
all levels of experience from novice to technical diver. The United
Kingdom has some of the best diving available in Europe offering a
mixture of scenic reef dives and spectacular wrecks. Wherever you
are in the United Kingdom you are only a short distance away from
one of these spectacular dives.
Plans included: Marmaris Limani (1:50 000) Skopea Limani (1:100
000) Goecek (1:25 000) Fethiye (1:35 000) Approaches to
Kastellorizo and Kas (1:75 000) Imray-Tetra charts for the Ionian
and Aegean are widely acknowledged as the best available for the
cruising sailor. They combine the latest official survey data with
first-hand information gathered by Rod and Lucinda Heikell. The
chart is designed to be used alongside Imray pilot guides of the
area. 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. The latest harbour developments at Goecek are included as is
latest official bathymetric survey data. There has been general
updating throughout.
The ninth edition of Inland Waterways of France is the ideal guide
for planning cruises in and through the most fascinating and
diverse waterway network in Europe. Author David Edwards-May has
researched the many changes that have taken place during the last
10 years, and presents a detailed overview of the waterways
extending throughout the South ('Midi'), the Southwest and Western
France. This system totals 3000 kilometres of waterways that are
maintained and developed almost exclusively for recreational
navigation. This third volume of the new edition sets out the
current state of the network in 146 pages in full colour, with
detailed maps of junctions and other key sites on the network,
overview maps for each waterway, and route descriptions. It is a
unique blend of practical information, maps, background historical
notes and colour photographs. It also highlights ongoing waterway
restoration projects, in which the author has been personally
involved for many years.
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