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The One-Minute Guide to the Nautical Rules of the Road by Charlie Wing Publisher Comments Your quick-access guide to international andU.S. boating rules The U.S. Coast Guard requires every boat morethan 39-feet long to carry a copy of the nauticalrules of the road onboard. Here’s one that is convenientand handy enough for quick reference on... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $17.53 Google eBooks - Electronic 
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Steamboats on the Western Rivers: An Economic and Technological History by Louis C. Hunter Publisher Comments Definitive account covers every aspect of steamboat's development: its construction, equipment and operation; the organization and conduct of steamboat transportation as a business enterprise; the hazards and amenities of shipboard life; steamboat races... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $22.14 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Technological Change and the United States Navy, 1865–1945 by William M. McBride Publisher Comments Navies have always been technologically sophisticated, from the ancient world's trireme galleys and the Age of Sail's ships-of-the-line to the dreadnoughts of World War I and today's nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines. Yet each large... (read more) Your price: $35.00 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Complete Yachtmaster by Tom Cunliffe Publisher Comments The Complete Yachtmaster has been a bestseller since first publication and has established itself as the standard reference for Yachtmaster studentsas well as skippers of all levels of experience. In this fully revised seventh edition, Tom Cunliffe... (read more) List Price $32.49 Your price: $31.27 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Outbound: Finding A Man, Sailing An Ocean by William Storandt Publisher Comments Printbegrænsninger: Der kan printes 10 sider ad gangen og max. 40 sider pr. session.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $11.49 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Mirror Book: Mirror Sailing from Start to Finish by Peter Aitken Publisher Comments The Mirror Booktells you everything you need to know about Mirror sailing. Packed with practical advice and illustrated with step-by-step photographs, this book teaches you how to sail the UK’s most iconic and best-loved dinghy.Learn all the... (read more) Your price: $19.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Voyager's Handbook : The Essential Guide to Blue Water Cruising by Beth Leonard Publisher Comments "Belongs in the bookshelf of every cruising vessel."--"Blue Water Sailing" "If you are serious about that extended voyage, read "The Voyager's Handbook.""--"Sailing" "Every now and then a new voice emerges in the world of sailing literature that stands... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $36.95 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Sailing, Yachts and Yarns by Tom Cunliffe Publisher Comments “Nobody Captures the Magic of Sail or Conveys the Lessons of Seamanship Like Tom. He’s One of Sailing’s Great Raconteurs.” – David Glenn, Editor, Yachting World Tom Cinliffe, star of BBC TV’s The Boats That Built... (read more) Your price: $16.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Ten Hours until Dawn: The True Story of Heroism and Tragedy aboard the Can Do by Michael Tougias Publisher Comments In the midst of the Blizzard of 1978, the tanker Global Hopefloundered on the shoals in Salem Sound off the Massachusetts coast. The Coast Guard heard the Mayday calls and immediately dispatched a patrol boat. Within an hour, the Coast Guard boat was in... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Art of the Canoe with Joe Seliga by Jerry Stelmok Publisher Comments Joe Seliga has been hand building canvas-on-wood canoes in his Ely, Minnesota, workshop for more than 60 years. Seliga's work is considered the best-of-the-best among canoe aficionados and wooden boat builders alike. This all-color celebration of hand... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $31.02 Google eBooks - Electronic
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History of the Buccaneers of America by James Burney Publisher Comments "As factual and...authentic as anything on the subject could be." — The New Yorker. One of the most comprehensive and accurate accounts of buccaneering, this exciting narrative is the work of an experienced 18th-century sailor who traveled with Captain... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $15.04 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Wreck of the Medusa: Mutiny, Murder, and Survival on the High Seas by Alexander McKee Publisher Comments In 1816, a fleet of ships left France to accept the British hand-over of the port of Saint-Louis in Senegal. Among them was the frigate Medusa. A month after it set sail, she shank miles off of Africa’s west coast, leaving the passengers to flee on... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $13.27 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Race: The First Nonstop, round-the-world, No-Holds-Barred Sailing Competition by Tim Zimmermann Publisher Comments An invigorating behind-the-scenes look at the world of extreme sailing, The Race is also a taut, engrossing account of the first running of the competition called The Race, which began on December 31, 2000, in Barcelona and ended sixty-two days later in... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $17.53 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Seamanship Secrets : 185 Tips & Techniques for Better Navigation, Cruise Planning, and Boat Handling Under Power or Sail by John Jamieson Publisher Comments "Secrets' is the modern Bowditch, written so clearly that navigation and seamanship will be comprehensible to anyone . . ." -- Dave and Jaja Martin, circumnavigators... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $17.53 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor: Or a Key to the Leading of Rigging and to Practical Seamanship by Darcy Lever Publisher Comments Widely used among young 19th-century officers in the Royal Navy and East India Company, this now-rare volume offers clear definitions and copious illustrations of the principles of rigging and other aspects of seamanship ? tacking, use of a compass... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $17.71 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Everything Knots Book by Randy Penn Publisher Comments Packed with easy-to-follow instruction and clear illustrations, "The Everything Knots Book makes learning this useful skill fun and easy.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $13.83 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Treasure Ship: by Dennis M. Powers Publisher Comments This gripping, entertaining story tells of the tragic 1865 sinking of the S.S. "Brother Jonathan," the century-long treasure hunt that led to the salvage of its priceless cargo, and the colorful characters that populate its history.... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $12.42 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Ten Degrees of Reckoning: A True Story of Survival by Hester Rumberg Publisher Comments In 1993, the Sleavin family set out to live their dream: to sail around the world. But one night, a freighter off the coast of New Zealand altered its course by a mere ten degrees, and changed everything. After surviving forty-four hours in the water... (read more) Your price: $12.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Art of Rigging by George Biddlecombe Publisher Comments Although mastery of the art of rigging is no longer required on board today's ships, legions of serious model ship builders who wish to rig their ships correctly need to learn the art in miniature. This book is widely considered the best manual ever... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $9.72 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Hen Frigates: Passion and Peril, Nineteenth-Century Women at Sea by Joan Druett Publisher Comments A "hen frigate," traditionally, was any ship with the captain's wife on board. Hen frigates were miniature worlds -- wildly colorful, romantic, and dangerous. Here are the dramatic, true stories of what the remarkable women on board these vessels... (read more) Your price: $12.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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