With over 30 cocktail and drinks recipes, as well as in-the-know ideas for finding the best quaffing locations worldwide, this book shows you what to drink, where to drink it and ideas for accompanying nibbles from tapenade to tapas.
Wenn jemand wie Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, der erste Segler, der die Welt nonstop und einhand umrundet hat, der mit Gewinn der Golden Globe Regatta, dem Vorläufer des "Everest zur See", der gerade jüngst zum 7.
Expert advice on how to find (and purchase and outfit) that safe, affordable, and responsive sailboat to take readers around the world, or around the bayUnlike other books that go into fundamentals about rudder designs, etc.
This trilogy tells how Ian Nicolson, yachtsman, naval architect and author, joined a Canadian and a Norwegian to sail the 45-foot ketch Maken from England via the Panama Canal to Vancouver, Canada.
In 2005, Dennis Van Norman climbed into a kayak for the first time to spend an afternoon ';Huck Finning' down the Mississippi River with his son and grandson.
Confined in a small space for months on end, subject to ship's discipline and living on limited food supplies, many sailors of old lost their minds and no wonder.
Principles of Yacht Design has established itself as the standard book on the subject for practising designers, naval architecture students, discerning boat owners as well as the boatbuilding industry as a whole.
The Weather Handbook is the essential guide to how the weather is formed, providing readers with the ability to look at the sky and interpret its signs, and combine this knowledge with information provided by professional forecasts to assess for themselves what the coming weather is likely to be.
In June 1898, three years and two months after departing Boston in his aged oyster sloop Spray, Captain Joshua Slocum made land fall in New England and became the first person ever to sail alone around the world.
Als Sportbooteigner in einer Studie gefragt wurden, welche Gründe sie von der Ausübung ihres Hobbys abhielten, nannten sie an erster Stelle nicht etwa die Angst vor Sturm oder Seekrankheit.
This definitive guide to the sport of whitewater kayaking draws on the combined 30+ years of experience of world-renowned paddlers and instructors Ken Whiting and Kevin Varette.
Few people would want to test their mettle in an ice-encrusted boat with an Arctic explorer, sail the Straits of Magellan with Joshua Slocum, or watch with Owen Chase as an angry whale sends his ship to the bottom, thousands of miles from the nearest land.
Gut vorbereitet auf den nächsten Segeltörn: Profitipps für entspannte SegelmanöverWer sein Segelboot einhand oder mit einer kleinen Crew steuert, hat viel zu tun – und noch viel mehr zu wissen!
The America's Cup has always been a hotbed of unbridled ambition, personal agendas, intrigue, spying and, more recently, hard-fought court cases and that's before the boats even get out on the water to race.
Adventure, memoir, storytelling and celebration of all things maritime meet in Waypoints, a beautifully written account of sea journeys from Scotland's west coast.
When, as a young man in the 1880s, Benjamin Lundy signed up for duty aboard a square-rigged commercial sailing vessel, he began a journey more exciting, and more terrifying, than he could have ever imagined: a treacherous, white-knuckle passage around that notorious graveyard of ships, Cape Horn.
A hippy Sell Up and Sail, this entertaining and inspiring book is more than just a cruising narrative - it is an instructive account showing how anyone can circumnavigate (or even sail for an extended period) without huge funds.
