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Book Synopsis Sailing Solitaire by : James and Nancy Aadland
Download or read book Sailing Solitaire written by James and Nancy Aadland and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-11-25 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jim and Nancy had a different dream for their retirement. They imagined themselves traveling to remote settlements on tropical Islands in theirsailboat - meeting the people, learning the history, enjoying the environment, and givinga little back along the way. Their biggest challenge was how to accomplish that without the means of the "rich and famous." They were a late-in-life couple; starting over in their forties. They didn't have trust funds and stock portfolios - just government jobs with modest pensions, 401K's and social security. They didn't even have a boat yet. What they did have was a plan. Sail with Jim and Nancy on their 41 footsailboat, Solitaire, during their first year ascruisers. Read Jim's journals and Nancy'slogs as they travel from New England to theBahamas; learning one lesson after anotherand getting ready to venture into moreremote areas of the world.
Download or read book Solitaire Spirit written by Les Powles and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-01-15 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les Powles only had 8 hours of sailing experience when he decided to sail solo around the world. Many novices would be content to just dream of such an adventure, and maybe get as far as a solo Channel crossing a couple of years down the line. Not so Les Powles, one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary and eccentric sailors. Les was in his 50s when he built himself a yacht with little prior knowledge of boatbuilding. Remarkably he made it across the Atlantic, though his navigation skills didn't match his boatbuilding abilities; his first landfall was Brazil. He'd been aiming for Barbados - 100 miles north, and in a different hemisphere! Three complete solo circumnavigations followed, all of them full of incident. The last one saw him given up for dead when he hadn't been heard from for four months. His boat had been damaged in a storm, he'd lost all communications and had virtually run out of food. When he sailed up the Lymington River (aged 70) in a skeletal state his arrival caused a media frenzy. Lymington Yacht Haven subsequently gave him a free berth for life. A terrific achiever who has beaten the odds, Les Powles tells his story in a lively, entertaining, humorous and compelling way. It will resonate with sailors and non sailors alike, and may inspire one of them to become the twenty-first century's Les Powles.
Book Synopsis Amazing Sailing Stories by : Dick Durham
Download or read book Amazing Sailing Stories written by Dick Durham and published by Fernhurst Books Limited. This book was released on 2011-08-23 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set sail on a thrilling journey to discover some of the most exciting tales of adventure afloat. There's every sort of vessel from majestic square rigger to humble homemade yacht. Journey around gale-whipped headlands and survive mountainous seas – or turn the page to discover the delights of cruising among the islands of a tropical paradise. The exploits of sailing's greatest names are recounted, along with an eclectic mix of tales that never made the headlines, yet make compelling reading. Discover a treasure trove of sailing stories from across centuries, and from the four corners of the globe. This is wonderful reading for anyone with a love of sailing and the sea.
Book Synopsis Sailing Bear Cub by : Paula C. Vickery
Download or read book Sailing Bear Cub written by Paula C. Vickery and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using offshore sailing as an analogy to sailing ones’ own life, the author reflects back on her life-long affiliation with water and boats and how they are intertwined with relationships in her life. From one woman’s perspective, this memoir describes how a family built a sailboat, cut society’s comfort cord and began a five-year sailing adventure to the South Pacific. This memoir is an excellent read for sailing “doers, doners, and dreamers”. It is full of adventure, and humor. The author was able to glean an awareness and insight into many cultures in Oceania and shares descriptive experiences with people she encountered. It is a glimpse of off the beaten track places. The author describes an extraordinary life that most people can’t even fathom, as well as lessons she learned and how she coped while the winds of life were filling her sails.
Book Synopsis Tippy the Boat Cat by : Tippy Aadland
Download or read book Tippy the Boat Cat written by Tippy Aadland and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-01-29 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the true story of an orphaned cat who was shanghaied aboard a sailboat. Written by a ten-year-old cat with an attitude, this book will charm readers of all ages. Tippy's life story is beautifully illustrated with full-page color photographs of the author. Follow her adventures as she leaves the farm in South Dakota, is taken from the home she loves in Oklahoma, and ends up on a sailboat in the Chesapeake Bay heading for the Islands of the Bahamas. Learn what it's like to live and travel aboard a sailboat along with Tippy.
Download or read book Solitaire Spirit written by Les Powles and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-01-05 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary story of an ordinary yachtsman who built his own yacht, then sailed around the world (three times) with only 8 hours of prior experience.
Download or read book Solitaire Spirit written by Les Powles and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-07-16 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les Powles only had 8 hours of sailing experience when he decided to sail solo around the world. Many novices would be content to just dream of such an adventure, and maybe get as far as a solo Channel crossing a couple of years down the line. Not so Les Powles, one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary and eccentric sailors. Les was in his 50s when he built himself a yacht with little prior knowledge of boatbuilding. Remarkably he made it across the Atlantic, though his navigation skills didn't match his boatbuilding abilities; his first landfall was Brazil. He'd been aiming for Barbados - 100 miles north, and in a different hemisphere! Three complete solo circumnavigations followed, all of them full of incident. The last one saw him given up for dead when he hadn't been heard from for four months. His boat had been damaged in a storm, he'd lost all communications and had virtually run out of food. When he sailed up the Lymington River (aged 70) in a skeletal state his arrival caused a media frenzy. Lymington Yacht Haven subsequently gave him a free berth for life. A terrific achiever who has beaten the odds, Les Powles tells his story in a lively, entertaining, humorous and compelling way. It will resonate with sailors and non sailors alike, and may inspire one of them to become the twenty-first century's Les Powles.
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Book Synopsis The Cape Horners' Club by : Adrian Flanagan
Download or read book The Cape Horners' Club written by Adrian Flanagan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cape Horn's fearsome reputation and the price it has exacted from those who venture there derives from a lethal contrivance of geography that unleashes the most powerful natural dynamic forces on the earth's surface. Reaching deep into the Southern Ocean, the Cape intrudes into the flow of the water and weather patterns at the bottom of the world and funnels them into a maritime superhighway a mere 500 miles wide, building massive seas and accelerating wind speeds to hurricane strength. Currents rip at rates that defeat powerful engines. These legendarily treacherous conditions were enough to secure Cape Horn's reputation as the ultimate in ocean violence; the supreme test of sailors and ships. It is the oceanic equivalent of the climbers' Everest, and the challenge to some became irresistible. The roll call of sailors who have managed to round the Horn east-about (and more rarely, head to wind and west-about) glitters with the names of sailing legends: Vito Dumas, Marcel Bardiaux, Francis Chichester, Robin Knox-Johnston, Bernard Moitessier and Chay Blyth. This book recounts the history of the Cape through the stories of the people who've taken it on and made it round – the Cape Horners' Club. From the first recorded single-hander in 1934 (Al Hansen, who was lost shortly afterwards and his body never found), we follow these very different protagonists as they pursue the ultimate goal while battling almost overwhelming odds. Woven through their stories is a history of the Cape, from its discovery to its use as a trading corridor until the opening of the Panama Canal, to its more recent role as a pure challenge for the best yachtsmen and yachtswomen in the world. Changes in weather prediction and navigation have had a huge impact, but the pressure for ever-faster times has never been greater.
Book Synopsis Chronological History of the West Indies by : Thomas Southey
Download or read book Chronological History of the West Indies written by Thomas Southey and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Chronological history of the West Indies by : Thomas Southey (Captain.)
Download or read book Chronological history of the West Indies written by Thomas Southey (Captain.) and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Chronological History Of The West Indies ... In Three Volumes by : Thomas Southey
Download or read book Chronological History Of The West Indies ... In Three Volumes written by Thomas Southey and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Chronological History of the West Indies by Captain Thomas Southley. In Three Volumes by :
Download or read book Chronological History of the West Indies by Captain Thomas Southley. In Three Volumes written by and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Index to the Periodicals of 1890-1902 by : The Review of reviews
Download or read book Index to the Periodicals of 1890-1902 written by The Review of reviews and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lloyd's Register Sail Numbers of Racing Yachts of the National and International Classes 1967 by : Lloyd's Register Foundation
Download or read book Lloyd's Register Sail Numbers of Racing Yachts of the National and International Classes 1967 written by Lloyd's Register Foundation and published by Lloyd's Register . This book was released on 1967-01-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lloyd’s Register of Yachts was first issued in 1878, and was issued annually until 1980, except during the years 1916-18 and 1940-46. Two supplements containing additions and corrections were also issued annually. The Register contains the names, details and characters of Yachts classed by the Society, together with the particulars of other Yachts which are considered to be of interest, illustrates plates of the Flags of Yacht and Sailing Clubs, together with a List of Club Officers, an illustrated List of the Distinguishing Flags of Yachtsmen, a List of the Names and Addresses of Yacht Owners, and much other information. For more information on the Lloyd’s Register of Yachts, please click here: https://hec.lrfoundation.org.uk/archive-library/lloyds-register-of-yachts-online
Book Synopsis Our Navy, the Standard Publication of the U.S. Navy by :
Download or read book Our Navy, the Standard Publication of the U.S. Navy written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sail written by Timothy Jeffery and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of sailing, featuring profiles on the world’s greatest races & sailors, as well as technical analysis of some of the best racing boats. Whether it is to test the high seas on around-the-world events in the glory of 49er yachts, to cut through choppy coastal waters on a Lazer racing for Olympic Gold or to set team against team in the great cup challenges, Sail is a celebration of the adventure and skill of one of mankind’s oldest sports. Including chapters on the greatest races and their class divisions and the incredible and inspirational stories of the world’s greatest sailors—from Ellen MacArthur to Seve Jarvin, Tony Bullimore to Vinny Lauwers—homage is paid to those who have mastered their boats and set out to conquer the seas. Sail also includes detailed technical analysis and intricate illustrations on each classification of racing boat, explained by the experts in their field, to give a complete account of the world of sailing competition.
