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This is a useful, literate compendium of boating language and terminology.Author: Elliott Dunlap SmithPublisher: Sheridan HousePublication Date: Oct 24, 2000Number of Pages: 256 pagesBinding:...

'No cure, no pay'- those are the terms under which a salvor operates, and in doing so he takes on an onerous responsibility. If he is defeated by the elements he is not paid. He receives nothing,...

Author: Peter NicholsPublisher: Sheridan HousePublication Date: Aug 15, 2020Number of Pages: 256 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1493052004ISBN-13: 9781493052004

...even-handed, lyrical...Author: Jerry L. MashawPublisher: Sheridan HousePublication Date: Feb 16, 2007Number of Pages: 288 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1574092464ISBN-13:...

Author: Dave HornerPublisher: Sheridan HousePublication Date: Nov 01, 2021Number of Pages: 352 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1493059599ISBN-13: 9781493059591

Song of the Sirens is Ernest K. Gann's story of the ships he has sailed and owned; of his years as master of a commercial fishing vessel, of ocean crossings and of storms and emergencies encountered...

After their 43-foot schooner was stove in by a pod of killer whales, the Robertson family spent 37 days adrift in the Pacific. With no maps, compass, or navigational instruments, and rations for only...

In November 1941 the Australian light cruiser HMAS Sydney, with a crew of 645, disappeared off the coast of Western Australia. Shipwrecked German sailors told a tale of how their ship, a lightly...

With the used boat market growing and becoming more complex, here is the book that all boat buyers have been waiting for: John Kretschmer's Used Boat Notebook has long been one of the most popular...

Captain Nathaniel Drinkwater is caught up in the complex bloody Battle of Copenhagen, and must save his ship and help his borther escape the gallows.Author: Richard WoodmanPublisher: Sheridan...

Even as a teenager, John Beattie felt drawn to the ocean, but it was 25 years before his dreams of sailing the globe in his 35-foot yacht Warrior Queen could begin to come true. His voyage began in...

First published in Sweden, Bjor Larsson's thriller became a bestseller in Europe.Author: Bjorn LarssonPublisher: Sheridan HousePublication Date: Oct 01, 2000Number of Pages: 400 pagesBinding:...

The Complete Book of Party GamesAuthor: Alexander Van RensselaerPublisher: Sheridan HousePublication Date: Oct 15, 2012Number of Pages: 320 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

The frozen splendor of the Arctic Ocean and the absorbing drama of a nineteenth century whale hunt unfold as Drinkwater escorts a whaling fleet to Greenland and meets disaster, treachery and death...

Amid the internationally acrimonious atmosphere of 1811, Captain Nathaniel Drinkwater stumbles upon a bold conspiracy by which the U.S. could defeat the Royal Navy, collapse the British government...

A compilation of the best articles from Rudder magazine, 'the greatest American yachting and boating magazine ever published.'Author: Tom DavinPublisher: Sheridan HousePublication Date: Mar 01,...

It is 1814 and Napoleon has abdicated as Emperor of the French. King Louis XVIII is brought out of his English exile and escorted back to France by an Allied squadron commanded by the Duke of...

Why must a boat make leeway in order to sail to windward? How can a helmsman prevent downwind rolling? Why is a sail able to produce a force at right angles to the wind direction? These and many...

Author: John VigorPublisher: Sheridan HousePublication Date: Aug 01, 2005Number of Pages: 208 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1574092111ISBN-13: 9781574092110

Author: John VigorPublisher: Sheridan HousePublication Date: Jun 15, 2020Number of Pages: 240 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1493051393ISBN-13: 9781493051397

Violet Jessop survived the sinking of both the Titanic and Britannic, and her lively and well-rounded memoir including her first-hand account of the two disasters offers the reader a unique vantage...

Violet Jessop survived the sinking of both the Titanic and Britannic, and her lively and well-rounded memoir including her first-hand account of the two disasters offers the reader a unique vantage...

In this memorable exploit from a master storyteller, legendary sailor Tristan Jones makes an exceedingly difficult passage through the infamous Kra peninsula in a small fishing boat.Author: Tristan...

From John C. Payne, on eof the foremost international authorities on marine electrical systems and electronics, comes a new series of easy-to-understand yet thorough treatments of technical issues...

KNOW YOUR SYSTEMS. No one thinks much about their onboard plumbing systems until something goes wrong; maybe the pump is cycling on and off, the water tastes funky, the holding tank overflows, or...

Captain Cracker Jack Kemball of the tea clipper Erl King races Captain Richards of the Seawitch from Shangai to London. The wager: his daughter's hand in marriage.Author: Richard WoodmanPublisher:...