Water sports and recreations

Welcome To A Whole New Underwater World.

Cruising guide book pioneer, Don Street, Jr.

The Georgia Coast, Waterways, and Islands is a new kind of boater's guide to the intricate, unspoiled and exciting coast of Georgia.

In this collection of narratives Victoria technologist, environmentalist and writer Alex Zimmerman tells stories not only of self-propelled travel and adventure but also of nature, the magnificent environment and of interesting people that he meets on the coast of British Columbia.

Waterborne is the story of an artist, an engineer and a Labradorthree entirely different personalitieswho abandon a stable middle-age lifestyle for a pitching deck and the possibility of pirates.

ANCESTOR is the story of a Carriacou sloop, an engineless, locally-built sailing vessel purchased and refit by the author while living and sailing in the vicinity of the islands of St.

Bruce and April Winship were young and newly married when they decided to go looking for a little adventure.

This is Volume 2 of 3 of Kayaking Through Historycovering the Maine Paddles of Deer Isle and Stonington.

This is a book for those who want to embark on extended cruising under power.

Boat Smart Chronicles contains true cases of boating emergencies on and around Lake Michigan and what can be learned from these mishaps.

On October 2, 2013, Dave Rearick began an epic solo voyage around the world.

Rigging Modern Anchors demystifies anchoring with today's modern anchors.

Cape Horn Birthday documents the extraordinary non-stop round-the-world journey of a lone sailor and his thirty-two-foot sloop.

This is Volume I of II of Kayaking through History: Maine Paddles, Deer Isle/Stonington.

Triathlon Swimming reveals the rewarding and rigorous Tower 26 program for mastering open-water swimming by the world's leading open-water swimming coach Gerry Rodrigues and former pro triathlete Emma-Kate Lidbury.

Four seasons of immersion in New Englands Great MarshLike Wendell Berry and Rachel Carson, Hanlon is a true poet-ecologist, sharing in exquisitely resonant prose her patient observations of natures most intimate details.

Take a Deep Dive into the Secrets of Our Blue PlanetThe author is one of the most experienced in the world.

True surfers understand that surfing is not a sport, a hobby or even a lifestyle.

Written by one of the most revered surfers of his generation, Gerry Lopez's Surf Is Where You Find It is a collection of stories about a lifetime of surfing.

In a tale remarkable for its quiet confidence and acute natural observation, the author of Paddling Hawaii begins with her decision, at age 60, to undertake a solo, summer-long voyage along the southeast coast of Alaska in an inflatable kayak.

Christian Beamish, a former editor at The Surfers Journal, envisioned a low-tech, self-reliant exploration for surf along the coast of North America, using primarily clothes and instruments available to his ancestors, and the 18-foot boat he would build by hand in his garage.

Mickey Muoz has been called the surfers surfer, and is loved and respected among the cognoscenti for his contributions to surfing and the surfing life for the past 60 years as a surfer, a pioneer of Waimea Bay, a stuntman (stand-in for Gidget), a board shaper and designer, and as a sailor and boatbuilder (Americas Cup).

In Swim Speed Secrets, 4-time Olympian, gold medalist, and triathlon world champion Sheila Taormina reveals the swim technique used by the world's fastest swimmers.

Swim better and faster in all four strokes with 4-time Olympian and gold medalist Sheila Taormina.

As a seven-year-old boy, Jon Coile dreamed of spending the summer sailing Author of Evolution of an Xmas Letter the Atlantic.

This classic guide focuses on the fundamentals of seamanship that are essential knowledge to all ocean paddlers.

You either lie down and die, or you fight.

From the moment I am born, I am like no-one else around me.

Truly hilarious books are rare.

Here are the answers to all your boating questions and dilemmas.

A beautifully presented, practical gift guide for all surf seekers.

Summer 1867: four-year-old Daisy Belle is about to make her debut at the Lambeth Baths in London.

Thousands of people in Britain surf, few of them have surfed all the way round.

The Physics of Scuba Diving features questions at the end of each chapter, for which answers can be found by visiting http://nup.

This is Volume 4 of the eBook series, The Captain's Guide to Hurricane Holes and covers the northwest Caribbean region, including Cuba, the Cayman Islands, the north coast of Jamaica, Honduras, and the Bay Islands, Guatemala and the Rio Dulce, Belize, and Mexico.

This is Volume 3 of the Kindle series, The Captain's Guide to Hurricane Holes covering the Leeward and Windward Islands, including St.

This is Volume 2 of the Kindle series, The Captain's Guide to Hurricane Holes, and covers the region from The Turks and Caicos to the Virgin Islands, including Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.

This is Volume 1 of the eBook series, The Captain's Guide to Hurricane Holes, and covers The Bahamas region.

This is Part 2 of 2 of The Captain's Guide to Alternative Energy Afloat.

This is Part 1 of 2 of The Captain's Guide to Alternative Energy Afloat.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD ADVENTURE TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAROn 1 April 2011, rower and adventurer Sarah Outen set off in her kayak from Tower Bridge for France.

Recounted with his usual level of meticulous historical research, Rod weaves an easily readable account of the build-up to and implementation of Operation Desecrate 1 - the raid undertaken to destroy Japanese ships and aircraft in the lagoons of Palau.

This is a meticulously-researched reference guide to 300 shipping losses, and the events surrounding their sinking, off the coast of Scotland from Berwick-on-Tweed to the Forth and Tay, and northwards to Stonehaven.

The west coast of Scotland casts a spell on anyone with a taste for adventure, a feeling for the past or a love of the wild, uninhabited places.

The author has acquired a vast wealth of knowledge, data and experience in boat angling, sport and wreck diving over a period of almost 50 years and has written various wreck books, including two volumes about shipwrecks off the north-east coast of England.

A kayak trip in Greenland's Nuuk fjords through an area of amazing beautyTurreted fairytale peaks, glistening snowfields, waterfalls plunging over immense cliffs into the sea, a million tons of ice capsizing - this is the setting for Fallen Pieces of the Moon, an account of a kayak trip along the west coast of Greenland, paddling about 150 miles of coastline in the Nuuk fjords area.

The tragedy of the loss in 1941 of two Royal Navy capital ships, HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse, the core of Churchill's deterrent Force Z, stunned the world.

Truk Lagoon is quite simply the greatest wreck diving location in the world.

The constant dangers that deep-sea sailing ships and sailors of the late 19th century and early 20th centuries faced were numerous and this book recounts the true-life dramas of their perils and misfortunes - the battles that they waged, and all too often lost - against the hazards of the sea.