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An illustrated sailing guide for beginner and expert alike!
The Complete Guide to Sailing& Seamanship is the perfect blend of captivating sea stories and essential, basic instructional methods for anyone yearning to sail. Topics include seamanship and boat handling, anchoring and docking, and history and lore alike.
Chapters include:
Knots and Lines
Sailboat Anatomy
Steering & Sailing
Lakes, Harbors, and Bays
A Look at the Weather
Charts &...
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Seawater and Sawdust is a book about many things. Primarily it is the account of two pensioners building a wooden boat, but it is also a tale of life's many adventures. Tom and Lorraine Owen were no beginners at boat building, when they set out on this mammoth project in 2015, but with a combined age of more than 120-years, they certainly exceeded all expectations with such an exceptional build.
Instead of being a 'how-to' textbook, Seawater and Sawdust...
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Author Suzanne M. AuClair is executive director of the Moosehead Historical Society, where these images are held. She has been writing about Moosehead Lake's North Woods region for 27 years and produced the anthology “The Origins, Formation & History of Maine's Inland Fisheries Division”.
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Fans of John Krakauer will devour this gripping tale of adventure, survival, and a search for life's deeper meaning
Two men, three years, seven countries, 3000 miles...
The Central American Sea Kayak Expedition 2000 is an inspiring journey of exploration, endurance, and self-discovery that takes Jean-Philippe Soulé and his traveling partner Luke Shullenberger from Baja California all the way to Panama.
During this unfathomably grueling expedition,...
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Sailors have used ditty bags to carry sewing equipment, toiletries, and other small items for centuries, and now The Ditty Bag Book teaches modern-day sailors the art form of hand-making ditty bags to use on their own seaward travels. Master sailor Frank Rosenow provides complete, step-by-step instructions in the making of a ditty bag-from cutting material to size to decorative touches-and emphasizes the proper maintenance of rigging and sails using...
507) Boats Will Float
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Writing in rhythmic text, author Andria Warmflash Rosenbaum (Trains Don't Sleep) explores the many types of watercraft navigating our lakes, rivers, and oceans, including trawlers, tankers, and cruise ships. Beginning with the sunrise, boats of all shapes and sizes are on their way to a full day. Fishing boats with their nets head out for their day's lucky catch. Tugboats guide a freighter safely into harbor, and pleasure craft such as sailboats and...
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Albert learns to swim is the sixth book in the Adventures of Albert Mouse Series.
Albert bought a boat without telling his mother. Mrs Mouse says Albert can only keep the boat if he learns to swim first.
Albert really didn't want to learn to swim, but he knows it is the only way he was going to be able to keep his boat.
By a stroke of luck, he finds the ideal person to give him swimming lessons - and for some strange reason, it's NOT Big Tony!
So...
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Lilah can't wait to spend her vacation in Key West, scuba diving with her dad. But when a powerful current separates the two, Lilah must stay calm and find her way back to the boat. She'll have to deal with the creatures she bumps into along the way-and not all of them seem very friendly! Fifth grade students will enjoy this adventure story that features full-color illustrations, compelling text, and chapter format to build reading comprehension,...
510) Goldfish: A Novel
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I am Lou Brown:
Social outcast, precocious failure, 5'10" and still growing.
I was on the fast track to the Olympic superstardom.
Now, I'm training boys too cool to talk to me. In a sport, I just made up. In a fish tank.
My life has quickly become very weird.
Nat Luurtsema's YA debut is side-splittingly funny and painfully true to anyone who's just trying to figure out how they fit into the world.
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Denver is known the world over as the gateway to Colorado's magnificent Rocky Mountains. Four national forests, a national grassland, scores of regional and city parks and preserves, and Rocky Mountain National Park offer hundreds of hiking and walking trails-all within one to three hours of downtown Denver. Base Camp Denver offers you 101 of the best of these great hiking destinations to choose from. Take a day to explore an alpine meadow, walk to...
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Here is the ultimate collection of stories about the sea for sailors old and young, experienced seamen and armchair admirals. For thousands of years, we have set out sailing for all kinds of reasons-for battle, for wealth, for excitement, and for escape. We have always had a primal relationship with the sea. Even those who have never been to sea are fascinated by the seafaring life and tales of salty adventure. This oversized collection of the greatest...
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THE RETICENT ARCHAEOLOGIST UNLEASHEDtells the story of Mike Wisenbaker's half-century-plus life journey, focusing mostly on the past fifty years. Although he is not famous (or infamous) enough to call for an exhaustive, in-depth autobiography, he's traveled down some captivating and challenging paths.
He reveals many morsels about the mid-twentieth century to the present zeitgeist through the eyes of a baby boomer trained and groomed as an anthropologist...
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In "Maverick Marketer," Johnstone considers the course of his life, from taking the helm of a sailboat in a race at age 2, through college days at Princeton, to creating the leading performance brand in sailing, then doing same with powerboats. Regaling readers with sailing stories and how award-winning boats were created, Johnstone seeks to ignite a creative spark in others, urging them to follow their passion and chart their own course to victory....
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." --Mark Twain. It's telling that Mark Twain chose sailing as a metaphor for living life to the fullest. Throughout history, humankind has been going to sea in boats and ships-for the purposes of trade, exploration,...
516) Gawky
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When Philadelphia journalist Margie Smith Holt first saw the stunning Caribbean blue of St. John's water, all she wanted was sunshine and a break from deadlines. What she got was a waitressing gig at a burger shack called Skinny Legs, sailing lessons from the characters who hung out there, and a newspaper editor who tricked her into writing it all down. Next thing she knew, she was on a tiny boat, sailing across the Atlantic. She thought she had discovered...
517) The Secret Room
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Achim is eleven years old when he moves from the orphanage to the house by the sea. Here everything is strange and new. But one day he discovers an unusual door that leads to a circular room with walls made of rough stone. The light coming through the window is hazy, as if the room is under water. It is a magic room-, which he calls "The Adopted Room"-belonging to another world. And on a bed in the room sits a boy who is waiting to take Achim with...
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The Definitive Guide to Scuba Diving and Snorkeling in Curaçao
#1 New Release in Scuba Travel Guides
From the authors of the Reef Smart Guides series comes Reef Smart Guides Curaçao, a unique and essential scuba, snorkel, and surf travel guide for the island of Curaçao─one of the top shore diving and snorkeling islands in the Caribbean.
A great travel gift. The ultimate guide for visitors and locals looking to explore the underwater world...
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Two Sailboats, One Moon is full of drama and tenderness, frustration and courage, travel adventures and sailing stories, as well as the minutiae of daily life. Qualities of good character abound.
In 2002, Bob Bennett and Sue Montana had been together for 17 years. They had made a point of revisiting, and renewing, their commitment to each other every few years, and talking about their goals as they looked towards the future. It was the year after...
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In 1976 a team of hand-tool shipwrights and a blacksmith, working with raw materials on a bare public lot, re-created a fully functional Baltimore clipper. The feat was like bringing a woolly mammoth back to life. This ship, Pride of Baltimore, a topsail schooner with a sail plan of well over nine-thousand square feet, embodied the sailing technology that had once enabled a newborn United States to take its vigorous place among the nations of the...
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