The Dramatic Story of the Clipper 09-10 Round the World Yacht Race

This is the high impact adventure television documentary series which follows ordinary people taking on the extraordinary challenge of circumnavigating the globe in the Clipper 09-10 Round the World Yacht Race.

Six action-packed episodes cram the ten months of this dramatic race into just under five hours of compelling, must-see television. From all walks of life, united by one incredible goal – to get around the world in an ocean racing yacht in one piece – many of the Clipper 09-10 participants had never set foot on a boat before, let alone sailed across oceans. In the course of their epic 35,000-mile journey these rookies from all over the world had to deal with the immense power of the sea, taking on everything Mother Nature could throw at them. It was an incredible journey - a man overboard mid Atlantic, boat collision, dismastings, a shipwreck and a yacht being rolled in the remote North Pacific waters in near-hurricane conditions.
This is not a sailing programme – it’s human adventure on the high seas!

6 Episodes / 2 DVDs.

Osmosis - The Full Story
With Tom Cunliffe
2011

This DVD is the complete DIY guide from a single blister to a full treatment. An easy to follow step by step guide. The DVD is easy to navigate and each task is arranged into a chapter.

120 minutes

Documentary film that follows the eccentric engineer Paul Childs who left his job and sold his house to restore and re-arm the last Royal Navy 1950's Motor Torpedo Boat.

As the vessel takes shape, Coastal Forces veterans describe the history and heroism behind their cloak and dagger type operations.

60 Minutes

With Tom Cunliffe
2011

The definitive DIY guide to restoring your marine gearbox. An easy to navigate DVD with a chapter for each single task.

90 minutes

With Tom Cunliffe
2011

The definitive guide to completely stripping down and rebuilding your engine. Easy to navigate DVD with each task arranged into a separate chapter.

4 Hours

Sail a Boat Series

Aimed at sailing for beginners, this DVD explains the sailing basics. Covers what you should know before setting sail out on the water. For optimum safety and effectiveness, you should be proficient with the topics in this collection before moving onto the Learn to Sail collections.
Know your Boat and Knots, Safety and Rules, Rigging and Reefing, Points of Sailing, Six Essentials.

60 minutes

Sail a Boat Series

Aimed at sailing a single handed dinghy and covers what you need to know to launch and recover a dinghy in different wind conditions, how to gybe and tack and also how to right your dinghy in the event of a capsize. For optimum safety and effectiveness, you should be proficient with the Intro to Sailing collection before moving onto this DVD.
Pontoon launching and Recovery, Beach Launching, Beach Recovery, Your First Sail, How to Tack, How to Gybe, Capsize.

58 minutes

Sail a Boat Series

For sailing a two handed dinghy and covers what you need to know to launch and recover a dinghy in different wind conditions, how to gybe and tack, sail with an asymmetric spinnaker and how to right your dinghy in the event of a capsize. For optimum safety and effectiveness, you should be proficient with the Intro to Sailing collection before moving onto this DVD.
Pontoon Launching and Recovery, Beach Launching, Beach Recovery, Your First Sail, How to Tack, How to Gybe, Capsize

2009

A 13 day Leeward Islands cruise on a 44' sailing catamaran

The 4th DVD in the series covers a day skippered Caribbean charter in a Privilege 435 sailing catamaran. The islands visited include St Martin, Anguilla, Dog Island, St Bartholomew, St Kitts, Nevis, Montserrat, Saba and the British Virgin Islands.

73 minutes

Harbours on Film series
2010
Covers Bosham, Thorney, Sweare Deep and Emsworth Channels. This film shows the landmarks, lights, channels and anchorages, boatyards, marinas, quaysides and villages. Discover historic Bosham and see Birdhams scenic treasures

Harbours on Film series
2010
Discover Dartford and the hidden creeks. Follow the beautiful River Dart to Totnes. Well researched information combining chart overlays, directions, compass headings and pilotage narration.

Harbours on Film Series
2010
This film has well researched information with chart overlays, concise directions, compass headings and pilotage narration. Shows the landmarks, lights, buoyage, channels, boatyards and quays.

Harbours on Film Series
2010
Porthnavas Creek, Gweek, Gillan Creek. Approach from Falmouth, avoiding August Rock, then make an approach from the south clearing Manacles Rocks. Inside Helford River, travel to Gweek, Porthnavas, Helford Point, Helford Village and Helford Sailing Club..

Harbours on Film Series
2010
Covers the River Yealm and approaches, Newton and Noss Creeks. Well researched information with chart overlays, concise directions, compass headings. Shows the landmarks and lights, transits, channels, boatyards, quaysides and villages.

Harbours on Film Series
2010
This film takes you from seaward to Falmouth inner harbour and up the Penryn River to the marina. The vibrance of Falmouth contrasts with the tranquility of the picturesque St Mawes Harbour.

by Jon Mendez

This DVD takes the viewer through the preparations required to take a RIB or sportsboat out to sea and comprehensively teaches skills such as turning, speeding up and holding station. It also offers guidance on scenarios such as coping with rougher weather and man overboard procedures in a clear and authoritative manner.

The author, Jon Mendez, is a former RYA Chief Powerboat Instructor and now runs his own power school.

Navigation Made Simple by John Goode

Putting the theory of navigation into practice. John shows how his famous 'fast and simple' piloting techniques can be as dependable as GPS to guide you through inshore tidal waters safely. After a detailed explanation of his logical concepts, John shows how they can be applied in unfamiliar tidal waters to keep a plot that will guide you past busy shipping channels and unmarked shallows.

Other DVDS in the series - Practical Pilotage and Crossing the Channel

Following the Jupiter Moon Cookbook, this DVD shows footage from the Atlantic and Caribbean crossing. It illustrates the ease and fun of cooking and life aboard a sailing boat with family and friends.

From Gibralter across the Atlantic including St Lucia, Virgin Islands, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Bermuda and the Azores.

Bonus recipes on the DVD in PDF format to download

By David Dellenbaugh
North U Race & Win Series
2 DVD set

America's Cup veteran and US Sailing Rules Chairman David Dellenbaugh hosts this outstanding 2 DVD set. Featuring video and computer animations, as well as racing footage, this new edition covers the rules all the way around the course. Learn the principles behind the rules and how they apply to dynamic situations on the race course.

Disk 1 - The basic right of way rules
Disk 2 - Rules at marks and obstructions

2009
This documentary describes Joshua Slocum as an independent sailor, following his life from his birth in Nova Scotia to his ultimate mysterious disappearance post-circumnavigation in 1909. Beautifully shot and artfully narrated, the program depicts Slocum's life as a runaway teen, a sea captain in the days of square riggers, an evader of pirates and the riginal "roughin' it" type travel writer.

Like Slocum's wry informative novel, this program delights and inspires, as he interviews sailors and historians alike.

48 minutes

The America's Cup that Changed Everything!

Australia 11 skippered by John Bertrand beat Denis Conner's Liberty to end the 132 year domination of the Cup by the New York Yacht Club. See the greatest sailing event of the 20th Century! Includes an interview with John Bertrand where he talks about what it took to win the Cup, how they won, the winged keel, the psychology of winning and much more!

72 minutes

2008
This DVD follows on from RYA Introduction to Motorboat Handling. Covers the more advanced aspects of motorboat handling.

An essential learning tool for anyone taking a RYA motorboat course.

Sections include ferry gliding; Med mooring; IPS drives; going faster; anchoring; trim tabs, and using bow thrusters.

The first of a two part series. Jon Mendez guides you through the basics of operating a motorboat, helping you to build confidence on the water.

Sections include preparation; berthing & unberthing; different types of motorboats; the different parts of a motorboat; safety equipment & engine checks, and going afloat.

Jon Mendez is author of bestseller RYA Start Powerboating

Lin and Larry Pardey

From a Champagne Safari on a Beer Budget to sailing across the Indian Ocean and north to Ireland with this famous cruising couple. Learn how to get out there sooner than you think.

74 mins.

The Racing Sailor is a basic introduction to racing, giving instruction from taking your boat from the dock to racing success. Covers basic strategy, tactics, and boat handling. Learn tips to increase boat speed, point higher, and turn more quickly.

The Racing Sailor will teach you how sailboats work, how race courses are laid out.

73 minutes

By T. Cunliffe

Aboard his own boat, Tom Cunliffe demonstrates all the everyday knots and some rare ones too. Expert rigger Peter Martin unravels the mysteries of splicing. State of the art and traditional knots, bowlines, sheet bends, stopper knots, turns and hitches, coiling and stowing. Using light lines and heafty ropes, securing to posts and winch barrels, use of jammers, docklines.

95 minutes

Not limited to any dinghy boat design, this DVD is designed to help you become more competitive from the outset.

Hosted by Adam Bowers, a highly experienced racing sailor and RYA coach.

RRP £24.99, OUR PRICE £22.50

Voyage of the Harvey Gamage

The story of a voyage
on the 95 ft. classic rigged schooner Harvey Gamage as it sails from the Virgin Islands to Bermuda to Gloucester. The sail is smooth and pleasant out of the tropics to Bermuda. Then, in the North Atlantic, she hits heavy weather, up to 30 ft. seas and 50 knot winds. You’ll feel like you are onboard, a part of the crew, as they wrestle with the sails, rigging breaks and blocks foul aloft.

90 minutes

by Jon Mendez

An essential aid for anyone new to powerboating, taking a powerboating course or perfecting their boat handling skills.

Step by step on the water instruction - make a plan, the effect of windage, stream, turning, mooring and driving at high speed.