Boating: Sport and leisure

Based on a series of highly popular articles written for Classic Boat magazine, this witty collection dwells on the scrapes people get themselves into when building and sailing boats of all descriptions.

There are more than 4000 miles of navigable waterways in Great
Britain, with more in Ireland and Europe.

This straightforward guide is designed to take the novice
step-by-step through the stages of designing both power and sailing
boats, explaining the reasons behind the procedures and using typical
lines plans and working drawings to help understanding.

This straightforward guide is designed to take the novice
step-by-step through the stages of designing both power and sailing
boats, explaining the reasons behind the procedures and using typical
lines plans and working drawings to help understanding.

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Mit dem Boot durch Holland: Törn-Abenteuer im Land der tausend WasserwegeEntdecken Sie die Niederlande aus einer neuen PerspektiveErleben Sie die reiche Vielfalt der niederländischen Landschaft mit "Mit dem Boot durch Holland: Unterwegs im Land der tausend Wasserwege.

Storms, fatigue, equipment failure, intense hunger, and lack of water are just a few of the challenges that ocean rower Mick Dawson endured whilst attempting to complete one of the World's 'Last Great Firsts'.

Octogenarian Anthony Smith's journey was originally inspired by both the Kontiki Expedition of Thor Heyerdahl (who he knew) and the incredible story of the survivors of a 1940 boat disaster, who spent 70 days adrift in the Atlantic, eventually reaching land emaciated and close to death.

Every man's dream - to sail around the world.

High-spirited and passionate--at once a useful guide and a record of an extended love affair with small boats--Away All Boats is a blending of sparkling waterlands and vivid memories.

Meet Bryn, the self-proclaimed unluckiest girl in the world.

This is not a story about someone who grew up around boats and made a miraculous voyage across open oceans.

Set against the backdrop of mankinds epic spaceodyssey is the tale of a dream that wouldntdie and a stone boat that eventually sailed40,000 ocean miles.

Sail Tales is about the adventures a humble sailboat owner had over the years.

Georgia's waters hold a wealth of riches, and Paddling Georgia features thirty-eight river and coastal trips for avid paddlers, floaters, and anglers.

In Paddling Alaska, you can drive to all the lakes and rivers described in this guide.

BASIC ILLUSTRATED CANOE PADDLINGHarry Roberts and Steve Salins guide canoeists in everything they need to know, such as choosing the right paddle, safe launches, basic forward, turning and correction strokes, and working in wind, waves and moving water.

Noted traveller and environmentalist Hap Wilson shares accounts of his lifelong involvement with wilderness living within the Canadian Shield.

Improbable, heart-wrenching, and uplifting, Jeremiah Brown's journey from novice rower to Olympic silver medallist in under four years is a story about chasing a goal with everything you've got.

Improbable, heart-wrenching, and uplifting, Jeremiah Brown's journey from novice rower to Olympic silver medallist in under four years is a story about chasing a goal with everything you've got.

Third-generation Chinese-Canadian Arlene Chan shares the rich histories of Toronto's Chinese-Canadian communities in this special four-book bundle.

Carol and Bruce Hodgins began leading canoe trips in 1957 for Camp Wanapitei on Lake Temagami in Northern Ontario, initially to the great rivers of that region and on into Quebec.

Resonant, reflective, a legacy of the Canadian canoeing experience - Canexus: The Canoe in Canadian Culture is a first.

A rich history of Canadian wilderness travel, "e;an utterly compelling collection,"e; said The Globe and Mail, and "e;a gem - it absolutely sparkles,"e; according to Canadian Geographic.

Capturing the French River introduces a rare collection of exceptional photographs taken along the river between 1910 and 1927 by Doctors J.

Hap Wilson is back for another journey, this time on the lighter side of the adventure trail, where the bizarre melds with the sublime.

My Hand on the Tiller is an account of the authors sailing experiences over his lifetime.

This is a murder mystery that takes place in the northwest, and involves sea kayaking, rare book collecting and a beloved Newfoundland dog, who rides in the heroines kayak.

This is a book of days and moments spent sailing on the east coast of Newfoundland and over the Atlantic to the Azores.

In Sea Kayaking, , comprehensive guide for those who travel the open waters in the Southern Hemisphere, Philip Woodhouse, Australian paddler and Royal Australian Air Force veteran, shares his years of experience, technical training, and military teaching skills.

At one point after the boom vang broke loose, the boom and the sail shifted to a higher position.

WINNER OF THE FIRST WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK AWARD Strikingly reminiscent of Chariots of Fire, this classic bestseller tells the story of the sporting event which shook both Oxford University and its Boat Club to the very foundations during the harsh winter of 1986/7.

Double Olympic gold-medal winner, James Cracknell.

David Vann has loved boats all his life.

'Tim and I both understood we had done something really stupid.

'One of the best books ever written about sailing'Time 27,000 miles, three and a half to five months alone at sea, chilling casualty rates, the unrelenting strain of handling 60-foot boats day and night, the absolute certainty of weather and waves that could destroy them.

Von der kroatischen Küste bis nach Montenegro: die schönsten Törns in der AdriaSonne satt, blaues Meer und wildromantische Buchten: Ein Segeltörn in Kroatien weckt die Sehnsucht vieler Segler und Sportbootkapitäne.

Originally published London 1931, this is a well illustrated book that will prove invaluable to the class of yachtsmen for whom it is intended, with much information that will still be found practical and relevant to the modern reader.

A guide for racing yachtsman that is as useful today as when it was first published.

Now a major motion picture, directed by George Clooney.

A fascinating collection of articles by various authors, first published in 1886.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'She'd been intimately his, and he hers, for twenty-seven years - which were his final twenty-seven years.

With his last-gasp victory as part of the Great British coxless four team at the Athens Olympics, Matthew Pinsent clinched an historic fourth Olympic Gold to add to the three already won with his legendary rowing partner Steve Redgrave.

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE COMMONWEALTH WRITERS' PRIZE*From when he was twelve years old Robert Radnor had been in love with the idea of being a sailor.

The hilarious true story of an amateur boating adventure.

Benjamin Lundy crossed oceans under sail in the late nineteenth century and over one hundred years later Derek Lundy, his great-great nephew, has re-created that journey.

Mit der Erfindung der Freizeitparks erkundet der Leser eine spannende und gleichsam lehrreiche Reise durch die Geschichte von Freizeitparks.