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| Author | : Kim Sturgess |
| Publisher | : Fernhurst Books Limited |
| Total Pages | : 229 |
| Release | : 2017-10-03 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1912177633 |
Kim Sturgess was a weekend sailor: he enjoyed club racing and several brief sailing holidays, but had never attempted a substantial expedition. Reaching the age of fifty focused the mind and he decided to sail around Britain. While many cruising sailors would not contemplate a 1900 nautical mile voyage, he broke the voyage into a series of day sails, making it an achievable ambition for him, largely single-handed, and for many other weekend sailors who might dream of sailing around their home island. This book tells the quirky traveller's narrative of the voyage and visits to forty-eight towns. Evoking the spirit of both Jerome K. Jerome with his Three Men in a Boat and Joshua Slocum's Sailing Alone Around the World, Kim shares his thoughts and struggles, recounting how easy it is for anyone to become an adventurer here at home. But don't expect to always agree with him – he has been described as "the Jeremy Clarkson of yachting"!
| Author | : Roger Oliver |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 439 |
| Release | : 2013-11-05 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 1472906772 |
This book, based on a highly successful series of articles in Practical Boat Owner magazine, is a detailed practical guide to sailing around the UK - all by means of day sails. Roger Oliver, a passionate sailor, explains his in-depth passage planning, boat preparations, weather checks and log-keeping, as well as his choice of routes, the detailed navigation, sail trim tips and on-passage maintenance, all for the benefit of sailors who have a yen to follow in his footsteps. Packed with a wealth of practical tips on seamanship, anchoring in high winds, coping with big seas, problem-solving, harnessing the tide, sailing short-handed and living aboard for extended cruising, this book will be a godsend to the many thousands of sailors who enjoy coastal cruising and who will discover (as did Roger) that it is perfectly possible to cruise around the whole of the UK in a series of day sails. With this book to hand, and inspired by Roger's detailed route maps and spectacular photographs, anyone can experience the thrill and enjoyment of sailing around the beautiful and varied UK coast from any starting point.
| Author | : David Pyle |
| Publisher | : Hodder & Stoughton |
| Total Pages | : 188 |
| Release | : 1972-01-01 |
| Genre | : Voyages and travels |
| ISBN | : 9780340105108 |
| Author | : John McCarthy |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Great Britain |
| ISBN | : 9780563370536 |
The former hostage, John McCarthy and the comedian, Sandi Toksvig team up for an attempt to sail round Britain in three months. This book and the TV series it accompanies, reveals what it means to sail on British seas, it also affords an insight into John's reacquaintance with his native country.
| Author | : Adam Nicolson |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 194 |
| Release | : 2007-08-14 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0060753447 |
From Land's End to Cape Clear, past Roaringwater Bay and Cod's Head, on past Inishvickillane and Inishtooskert, up through the Hebrides, to Orkney and on to the Faeroes stretches the richest and wildest coastline in Europe. Adam Nicolson decided to sail this coast in the Auk, a 42-foot wooden ketch, embarking on a 1,500-mile voyage through what he hoped would be a sequence of revelatory landscapes. He was not disappointed. Seamanship is more than a travel journal. It describes an inner journey as much as an outer one—disasters and discoveries, powerful landscapes and modern visionaries, and encounters with the animals living on the wild edge of the Atlantic. Above all, it is about the gaps that open up between those who go and those who stay at home. Seamanship, in the end, is not about the sea. It's about being alive.
| Author | : Rif Winfield |
| Publisher | : Seaforth Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 434 |
| Release | : 2014-04-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1848321694 |
The publication of this book sees the completion of a monumental work listing the technical details and career histories of every significant British warship between 1603 and 1863. Following three earlier volumes, this one carries forward the story from the post-Napoleonic War reorganisation of the Royal Navy's rating system to the end of sail as the principal mode of propulsion. ??Although apparently well documented, this is a period of great complexity in the procurement and naval architecture of ships. The introduction of steam radically altered the design of vessels under construction and was later retro-fitted to others, while many 'names' lived a ghostly existence on the Navy List: ships ordered but not started, and in some cases having their intended draughts altered more than once before being cancelled entirely.??This book meticulously sorts out and clarifies these confusions _ a major contribution in itself _ but for the first time it also provides outline service histories for an era that is largely neglected. Like its companion volumes, the book is organised by Rate, classification and class, with significant technical and building data, followed by a concise summary of the careers of each ship in every class. ??With its unique depth of information, this is a work of the utmost importance to every naval historian and general reader interested in the navy of the sailing era and the formative years of the steam navy that supplanted it.
| Author | : Cate Graham Benjamin |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 196 |
| Release | : 2020-12-07 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
An illustrated account of Cate and Benj's 99-day two-handed sailing circumnavigation of England, Wales, and Scotland (and a bit of Ireland), and a diversion to join the Classic Malts Rally in the Inner Hebrides. The realization of a dream for one old man, and an exercise in tolerance for his long-suffering wife!
| Author | : Roger Oliver |
| Publisher | : Adlard Coles |
| Total Pages | : 176 |
| Release | : 2011-06-10 |
| Genre | : Ocean travel |
| ISBN | : 9781408137130 |
This book, based on a highly successful series of articles in Practical Boat Owner magazine, is a detailed practical guide to sailing around the UK - all by means of day sails. RogerOliver, a passionate sailor, explains his in-depth passage planning,boat preparations, weather checks and log-keeping, as well as hischoice of routes, the detailed navigation, sail trim tips and on-passagemaintenance, all for the benefit of sailors who have a yen to follow inhis footsteps. Packed with a wealth of practical tips onseamanship, anchoring in high winds, coping with big seas,problem-solving, harnessing the tide, sailing short-handed and livingaboard for extended cruising, this book will be a godsend to the manythousands of sailors who enjoy coastal cruising and who will discover(as did Roger) that it is perfectly possible to cruise around the wholeof the UK in a series of day sails. With this book to hand, andinspired by Roger's detailed route maps and spectacular photographs,anyone can experience the thrill and enjoyment of sailing around thebeautiful and varied UK coast from any starting point.
| Author | : Roger Barnes |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 522 |
| Release | : 2022-05-26 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 1472994280 |
'You will venture into the fringes of the wilderness with the minimum of simple gear, to live with it on its own terms. You will know that one of the sure ways to contentment in this life is a small boat, a fair wind, and a new coast to explore.' Dinghy cruising is a wonderful way to experience nature and new coastlines at close quarters and low cost. Sailing where larger boats cannot reach and sleeping under canvas onboard or ashore, this is boating taken right back to the basics, and all the better for that. This guide, updated and expanded for its second edition, is invaluable for all aspiring or already-enthusiastic dinghy cruisers, showing how to get started and how to expand your horizons. The information and advice is interwoven with wonderfully evocative stories of the author's adventures afloat, from idyllic weeks pottering around secluded rivers and coastlines to hair-raising voyages to remote islands. The text covers: finding a good boat; fitting out for daysailing; boatcraft under engine and oar; mooring and anchoring; preparing for open water; out at sea; coastal navigation; dinghy homemaking; keeping comfortable and safe. And for this new edition, an account of the author's first capsize, new material on electronics and clothing, and more information on boat designs. Illustrated throughout with inspirational colour photos and helpful illustrations, this book shows just why small boats are the perfect passport to remote and beautiful places.
| Author | : Ron Pattenden |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 109 |
| Release | : 2008-09-03 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781409216537 |
This is the first time anyone has sailed round Britain singlehanded on a Laser Olympic Class Sailing Dinghy, unsupported. The whole summer of 2004 was spent on this project, but what an adventure.
