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How To Anchor Safely - So You Sleep Well! eBook Malcolm Snook
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Final PassageTimothy FrostYachting |
Final Passage eBook What is the dark secret that Martin Lancaster's family seem determined to stop him uncovering? When Martin was eighteen, his father was tragically lost at sea during a transatlantic yacht race. Twenty-five years later, Martin discovers hidden logbooks in his mother's attic, and vows to find out the truth. His quest takes him racing him across the Atlantic in the Columbus Cup, the world's largest-ever regatta, an event that becomes a personal voyage of discovery and disaster. On the Caribbean island of St Lucia, with his enemies closing in, Martin must make one desperate final sea passage to discover the shocking truth about his family - and himself. Also by Timothy Frost: The Abigail Affair, a fast-moving, light-hearted thriller set aboard a Russian oligarch's yacht in the Caribbean. |
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The Cruise of the Elena; or, Yachting in the Hebrides.James Ewing RitchieBooks |
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YachtingRobin Knox-JohnstonBooks |
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SEAsonedVictoria AllmanBooks |
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How to Sail Around the WorldHal RothBooks |
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The Golden Age of YachtingL. Francis HerreshoffBooks |
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YachtingBarry PickthallBooks |
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Up the River - or, Yachting on the MississippiOliver OpticBooks |
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Frugal YachtingLarry BrownBooks |
Yachting's Golden Age More than a hundred breathtaking photographs that transport us back to the lavish, romantic world of sailing and yachting in its heyday at the turn of the century. The pictures -- glass-plate images documenting sail and steam from the earliest days of popular photography in the 1880s up to 1905 -- portray pleasure boats at their most magnificent during the height of the Gilded Age, when the largest and fastest cutters and sloops battled for possession of the world's most coveted sporting trophy, and when every yacht was a one-of-a-kind handcrafted creation with its own personality. We see the Puritan with her breakthrough design (it won the America's Cup) . . . the schooner Casco , which sailed into fame when Robert Louis Stevenson and family chartered her for a six-month cruise of the South Seas . . . the 119-foot Dungeness , owned by Lucy Carnegie, sister-in-law of Andrew. Here as well are photographs of catboats -- eminently seaworthy and delightfully uncomplicated . . . the Atalanta , a 233-foot steam yacht, owned by Jay Gould and manned by a crew of fifty-two (when Gould was bla... |
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Yachting's Golden AgeEd HolmYachting |
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Sailing Solo AloneJ.J. JamesKindle Store |
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