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Queen Elizabeth: A Photographic Journey by Chris Frame Publisher Comments A photographic journey around the newest of the Cunard queens with behind-the-scenes access, fascinating facts and a foreword by Captain Wells By the 1970s it looked as if QE2 would be the last of the great transatlantic ocean liners, but the... (read more) Your price: $39.95 New - Hardcover 
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Titanic: Building the World's Most Famous Ship by Anton Gill Publisher Comments There had never before been ships quite like the Olympic-class liners built for the White Star Line by Harland & Wolff, and the story of the RMS (Royal Mail Ship) Titanic, the second and best known of the three liners of her class built, and her... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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The Water in Between: A Journey at Sea by Kevin Patterson Publisher Comments Wise, funny and beautifully written, The Water in Between is an inspiring-and cautionary-tale for anyone who has ever wanted to escape into another life. A stint in the army and a broken heart lead Kevin Patterson, who has never sailed before, to buy a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sailing in a Spoonful of Water by Joe Coomer Publisher Comments Joe Coomer whose fiction includes the beloved New England novel Beachcombing for a Shipwrecked God, is a writer of rare warmth, generosity, and insight. Sailing in a Spoongful of Water is his memior of your years spent aboard his vintage motorsailor... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Canvaswork and Sail Repair (International Marine Sailboat Library) by Don Casey Publisher Comments The skills required for top-notch canvaswork are astonishingly few, and canvas's potential to protect your boat and enhance your enjoyment of it is practically limitless. Here is all you need to tackle virtually any canvaswork project: sails and... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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How to Build a Tin Canoe: Confessions of an Old Salt Publisher Comments From a renowned boat builder and Southern raconteur comes a wryly humorous journey through a life lived on the water and the lessons learned along the way.... (read more) This Edition: SOLD OUT add to wish list |
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Boats with an Open Mind: Seventy-Five Unconventional Designs and Concepts by Philip C. Bolger Publisher Comments Here are 75 novel and wonderful boats--some strange, some beautiful, all of them paragons of Philip Bolger's form-follows-function design philosophy. A planing microtrawler; a glass-galleried, beachable birdwatching boat; a fully enclosed ocean-cruising... (read more) Your price: $37.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Outlaw Sea: A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime by William Langewiesche Publisher Comments The open ocean--that vast expanse of international waters--spreads across three-fourths of the globe. It is a place of storms and danger, both natural and manmade. And at a time when every last patch of land is claimed by one government or another, it is... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Celestial Navigation by Jeff Toghill Publisher Comments In fact, the maximum mathematics involved in the new sight reduction systems is the addition of three lines of figures. Similarly, the apparent complexities of the solar and stellar systems take on a less frightening appearance when related to the... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Formulae for the Mariner by Richard M. Plant Publisher Comments "The new edition of this useful book . . . [fills] the demand for a quick 'at a glance' mathematical reference book for the mariner. There are eight chapters: Mathematics, Navigation, Seamanship, Tanker Operations, Shiphandling, Stability and Trim... (read more) Your price: $12.50 New - Trade Paper
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Wood, Water, and Light: Classic Wooden Boats by Benjamin Mendlowitz Publisher Comments Twenty-four wooden boats are featured in this volume, among them classic sailing yachts and rugged schooners as well as smaller wooden craft. Each is accompanied by an in-depth description of the design and history of the vessel, exterior and interior... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $17.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Do Dolphins Ever Sleep?: 211 Questions and Answers about Ships, the Sky and the Sea by Pierre-yves Bely Publisher Comments These are some of the questions asked about the sea, the sky, wind and weather, ships, sailing, navigation and life aboard. Do dolphins ever sleep? 211 questions and answers about ships, the sky and the sea, offers clear and precise answers to some of... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Building Strip-Planked Boats by Nick Schade Publisher Comments The first comprehensive book on stripbuilding almost any type of small boat Strip-planking is a popular method of amateur boat construction, but until now there has never been a book that showed how to use it for more than one type of boat. Author Nick... (read more) Your price: $22.95 New - Trade Paper
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Building the Nutshell Pram by Maynard Bray Publisher Comments A step-by-step manual for the construction of this very popular Joel White design, for oar and sail. This instruction book is beneficial for anyone who wishes to build the pram from scratch using WoodenBoat's full-scale plans.... (read more) Your price: $9.95 New - Trade Paper
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Storms & Shipwrecks of Ne (Paperback) (Snow Centennial Editions) by Edward Rowe Snow Publisher Comments A classic by Edward Rowe Snow, first published in 1943 and updated in 1944 and again in 1946, Storms and Shipwrecks of New England relates what William P. Quinn calls "stories of stormy adventure." Jeremy D'Entremont has provided annotations to Snow's... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America by Eric Jay Dolin Publisher Comments This absorbing history demonstrates that few things capture the sheer danger and desperation of men on the deep sea as dramatically as whaling. Dolin provides rich and often fantastic accounts of the men themselves. 32 pages of illustrations.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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RMS Titanic Owners' Workshop Manual: 1909-12 (Olympic Class): An Insight Into the Design, Construction and Operation of the Most Famous Passenger Ship (Haynes Owners Workshop Manuals) by David F. Hutchings Publisher Comments Titanic—the second of the Olympic class liners—was not revolutionary in design, but was remarkable for her size. She measured 882 feet 9 inches from stem to stern, her navigating bridge towered 104 feet above the keel, and she could carry... (read more) Your price: $28.00 New - Hardcover
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Endurance : Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (99 Edition) by Alfred Lansing Publisher Comments In 1914, an expedition headed by Sir Ernest Shackleton set out to be the first to cross the continent of Antarctica. Shipwrecked and marooned for months on end, their ill-fated voyage became a triumphant story of indomitable courage and faith in the face... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Dead Reckoning: The Dunedin Star Disaster by Jeff Dawson Publisher Comments In November 1942, the Dunedin Star, a ship of Britains Blue Star Line, was bound for the Middle East, her consignment of munitions for the 8th Army supplemented by 21 civilians escaping the Blitz. Three weeks into her voyage, her hull mysteriously... (read more) Your price: $15.25 New - Trade Paper
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Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea (Penguin Classics) by Richard Henry Dana Publisher Comments The narrative of the author's journey from Boston around the Cape Horn and landing at a port in the western coast of the United States.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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