By D. Durham
2011
A collection of gripping stories—both ancient and modern—of thrilling adventures at sea

Tales of adventures on the high seas captivate both sailors and those who stand on the shore and gaze out across the oceans. In this original collection of sea stories, edited by veteran writer Dick Durham, the gamut of human experience is mirrored in a world of tragic shipwrecks and sea monsters, epic races and brave rescues, tall ships and tiny dinghies.

Hb. 264pp 160x245mm

RRP £12.99, OUR PRICE £10.50

In 2006, Dee Caffari became the first woman to sail solo round the world against the prevailing winds and currents. Her story is an adventure in the true sense of the word. It is about physical hardship in terrible conditions, overcoming solitude, sleep deprivation, the worry of crucial equipment failing, 34 days of gales, 12 metre waves, cyclones and a lightning strike. It is also about a woman who stepped outside her safe zone, gave up a good job and financial security, all because she wanted to sail. She dared to dream, and her courage resulted in a place in the history books alongside a handful of men.

A new chapter for this paperback edition recounts Dee's experiences since her Record and her preparations for the Vendee Globe Race.

Paperback, 288pp, 2009.

by Hal Roth

The captivating story of Hal and Margaret Roth's 46 month, 30,000 mile circumnavigation via the Panama and Suez Canals. 'The Roth's showed guts, determination, and skill.' - Sail. 'Fun to read for sailors and non-sailors alike.' - The Ellsworth American.

348pp, maps and photographs

'A charm restored and sailed to the Western Isles
By Bob Orrell

Amulet, a 26 foot wooden keel boat, amateur built in Scotland in 1964 was restored by Cumbrian based Bob Orrell. This is a humerous account of the author's love hate relationship with Amulet during the 18 month restoration and subsequent voyage to the western Isles.

224p illus.Pb

By Pauline & Tim Carr

After 25 years cruising the World's ocaens, the Carrs found themselves attracted to the lonely places of the high latitudes. They fell under the spell of South georgia, living there year round for over 5 years as its only civilian inhabitants.

Hb 256p 100 colour photos

By S. Lester

This is the story of a sailing voyage around Britain during the spring and summer of 2005. Starting at Dartmouth, it calls in at traditional fishing harbours, busy yachting centres, bustling holiday resorts, secluded lochs and the cities of Aberdeen, Newcastle and Ipswich before returning to the River Dart. It includes the stories of Starry Gazy Pie and the Blind Piper of Gairloch, teh Cod War and the decline of the fishing industry, the drowning of the sixteen cities of the Cantre'r Gwaelod and the last days of the West Coast Puffers.

Pb 216pp

The True Story of a Family's Year Afloat
By Judith Dearlove
2011

A two book pack - part 1 and 2, telling the story of a family's journey from Italy home to England via the Caribbean. Covering 12,000 miles with two small children in a sailing boat over the course of a year.

Pb 329pp and Pb 302pp

To the Black Sea by the Great Rivers of Europe
By B. Cooper
1997
This breathtaking sequel to 'Watersteps' tells the story of the Coopers' voyage by barge from the North Sea, eastbound across flooded France, down the Rhine in full spate, through the new Rhein-Main-Donau Kanal, and down the Danube to the Black Sea — a journey that proved more difficult and dangerous than any of the Coopers' ocean crossings.

Pb. 216x138mm 256pp

By Nan Jeffrey

A collection of travel stories as the author travels through the islands with her husband and small children.

Paperback

By N. & D. Popov

The Popov brothers have spent 30 years in the Bahamas and have worked closely with Bahamian organizations to broaden the knowledge of the Bahamas for locals and visitors alike. This book introduces the Bahamas of today, superb photos record all aspects of the Bahamas - natural beauty, friendly people, old traditions, lifestyles, wildlife etc.

By Bob Cooper

Their liveaboard life was described in 'On the nose', a perceptive and witty tongue-in-cheek guide for yachties, packed with seriously funny cartoons. 'Bang on the nose', the long-awaited and equally entertaining follow-up, continues their journey around Malta, Greece and Turkey, and is even more crammed with whimsical full-colour cartoons, amusing stories, handy hints and cruising characters.

Pb

by Emma Pontin

For several years Emma Pontin worked in a law firm in the City of London. Then aged 32 she embarked on a new career as an ocean-racing yacht skipper & instructor. But hours before the start of a transatlantic race in 2006, Emma received a call that would dramatically change her life once more. She had invasive breast cancer. She had to return home immediately for a life -saving mastectomy, & over the coming months she endured debilitating chemotherapy and radiotherapy, followed by reconstructive surgery. Throughout her ordeal she continued to sail, race & instruct with the mind set that if she could still sail then she was alive. She did indeed skipper the transatlantic race, just a year after her diagnosis, & then the infamous Sydney to Hobart Race. Written with humour & candour, Beating the Blowfish is a very personal story of two years in a young woman's life, offering a unique insight into the experience of breast cancer.

Paperback, 208pp, 2009.

by David Mercy

So begins an amazing true story of a journey to Antarctica in a 27ft sailing boat. After travelling through South America to Tierra del Fuego, the only continent David had never visited beckoned to him across treacherous waters. Ships booked for scientific expeditions wouldn't take him, and tourists cruises didn't appeal. Then he saw a little boat in the harbour, its name hand-painted in red on the hull: 'Beserk'.

Paperback, 272pp, 2006.

by Lee Hughes

What could make a man want to sail solo 2,500 miles up the east coast of the United States in a dinghy not much bigger than a king-size bed?

This book tells Lee Hughes' story as he makes his way up the Intra-Coastal Waterway, learning the ways of the sea by trial and error. He encounters thunderstorms and hail, unpredictable wind and wave conditions, snapping rudders, leaky tents and tigers in a shopping mall!

Paperback

by Herb Payson

In 'Sea Foam', a 36 foot ketch, Herb and Nancy Payson and their teenage children cruised the Pacific for six and a half years. The delights far outbalanced the drawbacks, and the terrors.

256pp, paperback

The Complete Voyages of the Lady Jane

By Robert Watson

With the aid of this book, you can sail with SJ and friends aboard the lady Jane without risking cirrhosis of the liver, penury or drowning. As serialised in MB&Y magazine.

240x171mm 96p 16 cartoons Pb

by Bob Roberts

Exciting sailing narrative trading under sail evoking vivid picture of those times in the Thames sailing barge Cambria. In 'Breeze for a Bargeman' he introduces some of the colourful characters that he has met over the years, Jim Mole, Dick Miller and Kitty Witch, in those trading days. Then Bob Roberts became part owner of the Whitstable fishing vessel, Quartette, and made passage to Rio de Janeiro, encountering various adventures on the voyage.

176pp, illustrated.

By Pat Henry

This beautifully written story of an eight year solo circumnavigation by a 56 year old American. She did not really plan it - just kept on going. She was lonely and despairing at times, but triumphed against all the odds.

Paperback, 320pp

by Jim Moore

Circumnavigating the world in a 36-foot sloop isn't generally regarded as an adventure to be taken lightly - especially when the adventurers are a couple with almost no sailing experience - but lightly is how Jim and Molly Moore took it. A refreshing and amusing inspiration to all long-distance sailors, actual or potential.

192pp, illustrations, paperback

By R. Paine
2009
During his twenty-eight years on the high seas former Royal Navy officer Roger Paine served all over the globe and in almost every kind of ship – from submarine to frigate, and from destroyers and aircraft carriers to ice patrol ship. In this delightful miscellany of light-hearted ‘yarns’ he charts the ups and downs of life, both ashore and afloat. The hazards – including a seasick parrot, a gun-toting generalissimo, and the ever-present danger of diplomatic faux pas – and the pleasures – sun-drenched ports and glamorous cocktail parties aplenty.

Hb. 196x129mm

By B. Moitessier

The story of the Moitessier's honeymoon voyage from Europe to the Pacific Islands and back via Cape Horn. Setting off from Tahiti, they took the fastest and 'logical route' of the high latitudes; the Roaring Forties and Ice-bergs.

256p 210x135mm Pb

By J. Conway

In 1993 a family purchased 'Buckrammer' a 100 year old wooden boat. They set about restoring her into the family yacht and then chronicled a decade of adventures in the New England waters.

210p Pb

by Dag Pike

Around the world Dag Pike is a recognised authority on handling power boats under all kinds of conditions. He writes for major yachting magazines all over the world, and has published over thirty books. Dag was eight when he fell in love the sea. From then on, every moment was devoted to living with it and savouring it, whatever it might bring. A ship's officer and already ship-wrecked before he was twenty-one, he became the youngest sea captain of Trinity House, keeping our coasts clear and safe for navigation. Such experience was quickly snapped up by the RNLI, where his expertise in fast boat handling, particularly in rough weather, triggered the development of the Rigid Inflatable Boat. Rescued nine times and himself a rescuer many times more, his favourite challenge has yet to be realised - navigating the fastest boat around the world.

276pp, hardback, colour & b/w photos, 2006.

By N. & D. Popov

The authors are co-directors and founders of 'Island Expedition' - they have pioneered environmental and oceanographic education in the Bahamas and Caribbean. Their expeditions have covered over 100,000 miles. This book highlights the activities on the expeditionsand explores the natural wonders of the Caribbean with spectacular photography.

112p Hb

by Pyle

'Clean, Sweet Wind'is a lyrical evocation of a place and time, the Lesser Antilles from Grenada to the Virgin Islands around 1970. Before the tourist boom, life in the Caribbean revolved around boats and the communities that built them. Through these stories of boatbuilders and fishermen we glimpse a society as vivid as the aquamarine waters of its reefs and the patched sails of its graceful fishing boats and inter-island traders.

208pp, hardback

by Anthony Bailey

Sailing New England Waters from Shelter Island to Cape Cod

The New England coast, a small cruising sloop, warm winds - and Anthony Bailey's seductive storytelling powers.

358pp, hardback

By Susan Tyler Hitchcock

A family passage at sea. A family sail for 9 months around the Caribbean, facing challenges from nature, cultural barriers and their own fears. A wonderful account of the fulfillment of dreams.

210x140mm 352pp, illustrations, paperback

by Jack London

Knowing little of navigation, Jack London set out from San Francisco to Polynesia and Melanesia with his wife and two crew, in a schooner whose tendency to leak was not her only defect. A sailing classic.

340pp, illustrations, paperback

By L. & L. Pardy

A cruising tale full of the sights, sounds and fragrances of Central America and the Caribbean. The story of how the Pardys built their 24 foot cutter Seraffyn and went on a 7 year voyage from California to England, via the Sea of Cortez, on to Panama then to cartegena in Columbia, Jamaica, Key West, Cape Hatteras and Virginia.

Pb. 192p b/w photos

by Tere Batham

Tere Batham and her husband embark on a 14 month, 10,000 mile voyage home from Japan to New Zealand, accompanied by Miki, a Japanese girl. They navigate the whirlpools of Japan's Inland Sea, and thread narrow channels among islands strewn with temples and lashed by typhoons. Their route takes them via Japan's Southern Archipelago, the Taiwan Straits, Hong Kong, Macau, the Philippines, and Micronesia, exploring the ruins of megalithic Nan Madol, enduring violent storms, and witnessing a deadly crocodile attack before finally reaching their destination.

320pp, illustrations, hardback

2008

The Deadliest Catch is the hit TV series featuring the harrowing struggles of fishermen on the wild and freezing Bering Sea — it's the perfect storm but for real. This is the only book on the series backed by the Discovery Channel, and it features exclusive photography alongside vivid personal accounts of the fishermen’s terrifying real life adventures, with additional stories and background information on the highly dangerous crab fishing industry.

Pb. 240pp 230x150mm Photos throughout

RRP £14.99 OUR PRICE £11.99

Iskra's Atlantic Adventures

by Frank Mulville

When 'Girl Stella' hit the rocks with Frank Mulville and his family aboard, it wasn't only his boat that was lost - his self-esteem went too. It took six single-handed Atlantic crossings before he was able to lay to rest the ghost of 'Girl Stella'.

An entertaining and thought-provoking story.

184pp, paperback

By P. Gogay
2011
The object of Ken and Patricia Gogay's imagining is a boat – Imago. And their story – of how a middle-aged man and woman overcome almost insuperable physical and emotional obstacles to build it – by hand, on a shoestring, before heading off to sail the oceans it is deeply symbolic. Together, they grow as their boat and their dream evolve. In so doing, they each come to terms with the past and reconcile some of the archetypal conflicts we all endure: between men and women, apathy and enterprise, ‘I wish’ dreams and ‘I will’ dreams... Written with candour, humour and insight, Imago is part personal memoir, part boat-building chronicle, and part probing exploration into the journey we (hopefully) all take: from formative experience to liberating metamorphosis; from nymph to imago.

Hb.223pp 140x275mm

Alone Around Antarctica as Far South as a Boat Can Sail
By A. Klink

The story of a single-handed circumnavigation of the Antarctic. A map at the beginning of each chapter allows the reader to follow the progress.

Pb. 272pp 225x230mm

By J. Schinas
2008
Foreword by Tom Cunliffe
Twenty years ago, a young woman took some time out from her usual way of life to embark on the journey of a lifetime : an Atlantic crossing. Within a few weeks she would be back at her desk; that was the plan. But as it happened, she is still out there now.

A Family Outing in the Atlantic is much more than a travelogue. It is the story of one woman’s transition from home-loving weekend sailor to ocean going hobo, long-term liveaboard - and Mum. Woven between the tales of ocean storms, shoaling turtles, and West African natives in grass skirts is a vivid picture of an alternative and very independent lifestyle.

Pb. 31 drawings and cartoons
198x129mm, 460pp

By W. Tompkins
2001
The thrilling record of the voyage of the 85 foot schooner Wander Bird around Cape Horn in the course of a voyage from Tangier to San Francisco. Many photos.

250p Pb.

By John Kretsch

A series of yarns about adventures and misadventures experienced by the author over 20 years of delivering yachts to all sorts of far flung destinations.

224p illus. Pb

by Beth Leonard

'Following Seas' is Beth Leonard's inspirational account of the three year circumnavigation she and her partner, Evans, made aboard their 37 foot ketch, 'Silk'.

Armchair sailors and adventurers alike will be drawn into Beth's voyage of discovery, and anyone with an unquenchable dream will find in these pages the encouragement to chase that dream.

204pp Pk. 100 colour photos. 230x176mm

RRP £16.99 OUR PRICE £13.99

by Tom Watkins

A hilarious glimpse into the secret lives of a motley crew of college professors who abandon their landlocked lives (and wives) for one week every year and go sailing. Tom Watkins vividly recounts a decade's worth of these annual escapes, as the adventurous academics fish, dive, drink and dream together in such exotic locales as the Virgin Islands, Guadeloupe, and the Grenadines, all the while coming to a better understanding of themselves and each other.

128pp, illustrated, paperback

By Bill Schanen

'The essays in this book look at sailing and polemics of sail. In each piece, the authors true love for the sport and the people in it come through' Soundings

The author is the editor of Sailing Magazine in the US.

'The next time someone asks you why such an activity is enjoyable, you can simply smile and hand them this book' Sail Miami.

210p Pb

Racing the Worlds Most Dangerous Waters
By D. Lundy
2000

This is a book about the sea, how we are drawn to it and how it repels us; about weather and how storms are born; about the architecture of boats and how to sail them; and about why men and women risk everything to embark on such a perilous journey.

Pb. 256pp 200x128mm

By R. Burke

This book is a catalogue of rewarding experience from swimming with Darwin's seals in the Galapagos to feeding the stingrays in Bora Bora. The book tells the story of the author's Bluewater cruise from the Greenwich Meridian in London to the International Dateline in the South Pacific. This is a sequel to the previous cruising book, 'Managing Your Bluewater Cruise', which is a preparation guide for those who want to go cruising. By contrast, this book is the personal story of the trip and experiences, together with a discussion about the yacht and its equipment.

by Hal Roth

Big adventures on the high seas from one of the greatest seafaring writers of our age.

Hal Roth's vivid, authentic tales of the sea have riveted readers around the world for forty years. Here, in one volume, are three of his classic sea stories, each one a white-knuckled, rail-down voyage into the unknown:
Two on a Big Ocean; Two Against Cape Horn; The Longest Race.

Hardback, 864pp, 2006

The Eight Sailing / Mountain Exploration Books.
Introduction by C. Putt
First published 1987, reprinted 2008

Mischief in Patagonia
Mischief Among the Penguins
Mischief in Greenland
Mostly Mischief. Mischief Goes South
In Mischiefs Wake
Ice with Everything
Triumph and Tribulation

Tales of discovery and adventures in old and small sailing craft. Exploration in remote and wild places.

Hb. 955pp 16 pages colour photos plus b/w photos 157x237mm

By Don Gilchrist & Robyn Boase

Gilchrist is well known to readers of the magazine 'Crusing Helmsman' for his many articles during and since his circumnavigation in the 1990's. This book, along with new material, includes the magazine articles but also allows scope for their full philosophical expression and practical crusing ideas to be properly developed. This book will prove a useful tool for anyone about to cruise, with their many ideas and insights. The circumnavigation route from Australia, S.E.Asia, Red Sea, Med. Caribbean and Panama Canal, Pacific.
A beautifully presented book with numerous colour photos.

389p Hb. colour photos

WAS £42.99 NOW £19.99

The classic story of the first singlehanded voyage to Antartica

By David Lewis

This is the story of the 1972 singlehanded cruise from Sydney to Antarticam in a rather basic home built 32 foot sloop, 'Ice Bird'.

224p colour photos

RRP £14.99 OUR PRICE £11.99

by Rae Ellen Lee

Told from the candid and humorous perspective of a reluctant first mate, the story of how Rae and her husband, Tom, found excitement and adventure on her 37-foot blue water cruiser, The Shoe.

Hardback, 240pp

by Jon Turk

In 1996 a 9,500-year-old skeleton unearthed beside the Columbia River galvanised anthropologists with the possibility that prehistoric humans reached North America from northern Japan by crossing the ocean in small open boats. In 'In the Wake of the Jomon', world-class kayaker and science writer Jon Turk relates his successful attempt to re-create this perilous migration, a voyage that Paddler magazine named one of the ten greatest sea kayak expeditions of all time.

Paperback, 312pp, 2006

By G. Quasar

The stunning results of a 12 year investigation into the phenomena that continues to baffle everyone from government officials to scientists and witnesses to the bizare disappearances.

Documents confirmed disappearances in detail, presents a chronological sequence of the most notable cases, testimony from witnesses, explores the many possible explanations.

Paperback

Stories of the World's Most Adventurous Sailors

By Lochhaas

The real life adventures of 15 legendary long distance sailors - men and women who have sailed to the ends of the earth and written about it. Tania Aebi, Naomi James, Robert Manry, Hugo Vihlen, Val Howels, Bernard Moitessier and other greats chronicle the joys, fears, sacrifices and triumphs of life at sea.

by Tania Aebi

In 1985, at the age of 18, Tania Aebi sailed around the world alone, and her account of her trip, Maiden Voyage, became a worldwide best-seller. This, her second book, is a compendium of her reflections on sailing, and her twenty years' experience as a professional sailor, filled with anecdotes, observations, opinions, cautionary tales and good advice..

Paperback

by Robert Wallace Hudson

A destitute American charter boat captain in the Caribbean reluctantly accepts an impossible job: skippering an unseaworthy old rust bucket loaded with drilling gear from Trinidad to Guadeloupe. It takes determination, luck, expert seamanship, and two trips to overcome storms, leaks, engine trouble, and mutiny.

192pp, paperback

By Peter Blake
Ed. Alan Sefton 2004

Sir Peter Blake was a much loved and greatly admired yachtsman and this large format book is a wonderful tribute to his achievements.

Drawn from Peter's logbooks of his last voyage, we are taken from the icy waters of Antartica to the humid rainforests of the Amazon.

Hb. 216p 310x245mm Colour photos throughout

by Steve Thomas

The tale of a young American's sojurn in the South Pacific, on the Micronesian Isle of Satawal, studying traditional navigation with Mau Piailus, the last of the Palus. It was Piailus who navigated a Polynesian vessel from Hawaii to Tahiti without compass or charts, relying on stars, wind, swell, birds and memory. A tale of seafaring, a dying culture and self discovery.

320pp, paperback, US publication

A five year voyage of discovery and adventure
By B. Bitchin

A travelogue with a difference, by an author whose joie de vivre is apparent on every page - the highs and lows of life at sea are explored in this irreverent and entertaining tale.

288pp, colour photos, paperback.

by Jack Becker

The Lilibet Logs tells the story of a two-year restoration project on a classic wooden sailing boat. It talks about the history of the boat, the owner's history with boats, the purchase of the boat, the process of restoration and the experience of learning to sail the boat. The book is enlivened with the writer's unique observations about the process, and the people and the places involved.

180pp, b&w photographs and illustrations, paperback

By Bob Cooper

One spring morning, Bob and Liz Cooper set off in 'Yanina', their Warrior 35, to see how far round the world they could get . 'On the nose' is an entertaining and amusing account of their journey into the Mediterranean, and Bob's inimitable writing and brilliant drawing style present a delightful and ironic look at the cruising life.

Pb.