An adventurous tale about four siblings who take their boat, the "Swallow," for a camping excursion to an island near their family farm. On their third day on the island, they notice another boat, the "Amazon," flying a flag bearing a skull an crossbones.
In this revised edition, every page reflects recent advances in boating, including more than 1,000 photographs, maps, and illustrations, and laws and regulations governing the nations waterways. Recommended by the United States Power Squadron and the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary for their public boating-education classes.
Let's say you're a typical low-paid working stiff. You've sailed small boats all your life, you've saved a little money - you're finally ready for a real cruising boat. You drop in on Tadd, your friendly neighborhood yacht broker, who is more than happy to sell you that brand-new Trickledown 32 for only $90,000, plus a few optional extras like ...
Before you take to the waters, know the basics from America's largest boating educator. Learn the fundamentals of boating from the U.S.C.G. Auxiliary's cornerstone how-to guide, "Boating Skills and Seamanship". The perfect book for beginning boaters, it covers the basics of choosing, equipping, trailering, and handling a small to mid-sized ...
From America's favorite traveler, "Along the Edge of America" recounts the sights, sounds, and people of America's Gulf Coast. The author explores the Florida Everglades, genteel southern homesteads, Cajun marshlands, and the Texas coastal cattle country. It's a riveting adventure by the author of "A Walk Across America". Photos.
This hilarious turn-of-the-century classic recounts the adventures of three young men (along with Montmorency the dog) who take a boat up the Thames on a voyage full of mishaps, sightseeing, strange encounters, and wacky ruminations on life.
In twenty years of delivering yachts to far-flung quaysides, Kretschmer has had innumerable adventures, both humorous and threatening. In this first paperback edition, he recounts the most memorable of them, from a Western Caribbean research voyage with a crew of eccentric Swedes to a North Atlantic crossing during which he discovers the existence ...
Little Bear just loves floating around on Huckleberry Lake in his lovely little boat. However, time passes, and Little Bear grows to be a bigger bear and he's soon too big to fit into his little boat. What will the no-longer-little bear do? Color illustrations accompany the text.
This book offers fast, frugal, and functional boat improvements anyone can make. When it comes to leading the weekend warrior through a boat-improvement project, nobody beats Don Casey. With his help, you can ratchet up your boat's appearance, safety, performance, and resale value while transforming it into the best-kept, most comfortable boat on ...
John, Susan, Titty and Roger return to the lake for another summer camping on their island with their old allies, Nancy and Peggy, otherwise known as the Amazon pirates. But immediately disaster strikes when the Swallows find themselves marooned ashore by the shipwreck of their boat. But if they can't have the island, there's always Swallowdale, ...
This work covers the whole spectrum of singlehanded sailing on coastal passages, ocean voyages and racing. Suitable choices of boat, sails and self-steering gear and the psychology, tactics and perils of sailing alone are given coverage, while the experiences of singlehanded sailors are discussed.
An enlarged and updated edition, this manual provides guidance to novice and experienced boatowners on major or minor repairs of electrical systems, engines, electronics, steering systems, generators, plumbing, pumps, cookers, spars and rigging. It contains new drawings and photographs, and revised troubleshooting charts, and is said to cover ...
The Swallows and Amazons are sailing with Nancy and Peggy's Uncle Jim (better known as Captain Flint) when their hired deckhand tells them a tale of his younger days - a tale to set pulses racing and hopes shooting sky high. Soon their boat is on its way to a Caribbean treasure hunt and they find themselves up against shark, storm, earthquake - ...
For new boating enthusiasts - even if they've been at it awhile - there are scores of burning questions. If one boat has a round bottom and another's is veed, what difference does it make in the way they perform? What are the advantages of a cutter rig over a sloop? Why does one sailor swear by a full keel, while others won't have anything but a ...
Between these covers is the essence of centuries of seafaring experience, distilled into a concise, alphabetically organized reference for sailors and powerboaters. You'll find rules of thumb for hull thickness, bottom paint coverage, estimating distances, when to hoist and lower flags, predicting weather, which colors are unlucky, rope size and ...
If wisdom can be defined as common sense that has withstood the test of time, then Sensible Cruising is a wise book. It explains: Why a sensible cruise is affordable to almost anyone. Why the boat of choice for most cruisers is under 35 feet. Why lowering the cost doesn't devalue the cruise. How simplicity minimizes insulation from ...
When Daniel Robb set out to rebuild a family sailboat that had been deteriorating for years, he didn't anticipated what he was getting into. Restoring the sailboat was both an act of respect and an homage to a place and a way of life that are in jeopardy of disappearing. "Sloop" is the captivating story of Robb's education in boatbuilding, peopled ...
On a lovely sunny day, a man named Mr. Gumpy sets off on a boat outing. Soon, he meets two children who ask if they can join him, and Mr. Gumpy agrees--as long as the children don't squabble. As the ride continues, Mr. Gumpy picks up a variety of other creatures, giving each an appropriate plea for proper behavior: the rabbit is told not to hop, ...
Here are 75 novel and wonderful boats - some strange, some beautiful, all of them paragons of Philip Bolger's form-follows-function design philosophy. A planing microtrawler; a glass-galleried, beachable birdwatching boat; a fully enclosed ocean-cruising rowboat; cruising sailboats that take the ground at low tide; power, sail, and rowing boats ...
Sally and Fred's Norfolk Broads boating holiday lurches from one mishap to another, until they befriend 15-year old Rosie. After she has a fight with her violent mother, it is Sally and Fred she runs to. She goes to live with her grandmother, but through the years she relies on Sally and Fred.
THREE MEN ON A BOAT, the hilarious turn-of-the-century classic by Jerome K. Jerome, recounts the adventures of three young men (along with Montmorency the dog) who take a boat up the Thames on a voyage full of mishaps, sightseeing, strange encounters, and wacky ruminations on life.
This is a biography and astonishing adventure story of a woman who, left a widow in 1927, packed her five children onto a 25-foot boat and cruised the coastal waters of British Columbia, summer after summer. Muriel Wylie Blanchet acted single-handedly as skipper, navigator, engineer and, of course, mum, as she saw her crew through encounters with ...
At 40, novice sailor South traded in her pleasant yet dull life for the open seas. What began as an idle wish to follow her dream became a crash course in navigating the ghosts of family and loves lost, and the realization of what it means to cast off an old life and make a new one.
For those who own a cherished but dilapidated fiberglass runabout, or for those who want a boat but are turned off by the high prices and often poor quality of today's offerings, this book explains everything there is to know about turning a rundown runabout into a real showpiece for a fraction of the cost of a new model. Author Jim Anderson, a ...
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