The Adventures of John and Mary Caldwell
By M. Caldwell and M. Douglas

A sequel to ' Desperate Voyage'. In 1952, after living in California for several years,they attempted a circumnavigation using only a sextant and dead reckoning to navigate. Mary was pregnant and they had a child and infant with them. She gave birth in Tahiti. After surviving hurricanes, seassickness and a tsunami they settled in the Grenanines. They then built the Palm Island resort. A remarkable tale of endurance.

Pb. 272pp 226x150mm

By Tania Aebi

An inspiring story of the first American woman to sail alone around the World. At 18 years old when she set off, she sailed for two and a half years in a 27 foot boat with only her cat for company.

Paperback, 302pp

By R. taylor
2010
Roger Taylor takes us on three extraordinary voyages aboard his junk-rigged Corribee Mingming. In his simple, rugged 21’ yacht he goes to Iceland, Rockall, the Faroes, Jan Mayen, the Greenland ice, with an interlude to the Azores. Roger has a unique sailing partnership with his yacht Mingming, using her to develop his ideas on simple, harmonious voyaging.

by Jean-Michel Barrault

Jean-Michel Barrault was Bernard Moitessier's friend for 36 years. He got him to start writing about his adventures. After finishing 'The Long Way', his most famous book, Moitessier and his 39-foot ketch spent many years in Polynesia. Shortly before his death, 'Tamata and the Alliance' was published to great acclaim. Moitessier, the internationally known sailor, writer and ecologist, became a legend in his own time.

234pp, paperback

by Stewart Platt

The story of a youngster brought up in Leigh-on-Sea with close contact with the shore, the mud and the cockles. Encouraged by his father who bought him a 12ft sailing dinghy at the age of 13, and then bought a shallow draft cruising yacht which the family cruised extensively around the Essex and Suffolk Coasts. This is the story of three boats owned during his life, Three Grey Mistresses.

By J. Cunnane
2006
Sailing the Northwest and Northeast passages.

Hb. 200pp colour maps and photos.

By F. Mulville

When Mulville set out for Argentina aboard his classic gaff rigged cutter 'Iskra', the journey was to reawaken memories of an unconventional childhood - running wild on the pampas and wartime adventures as thriling as any novel.

254p Pb

By Sharon Ragle

Around the world on the yacht Tigger.

True story of newlyweds on a four and half year circumnavigation. Single for many years after her children had grown, the author found romance, adventure and a life at sea. They travelled well known spots such as the Galapagos Islands and Cook Islands as well as little known spots such as the islands of Rodrigues and Atata. A new perspective on South Pacific Cruising.

220x140mm 224p illus. Hb

Small Boat: Big Drean
By D. Clarke

The Atlantic is 76m square miles of turbulent menace, vengeful and forgiving in turn. An unforgettable account of the challenge the author set himself.

252pp 234x156mm Hb. illus charts and photos

By B. Cooper

In 2004, Bob and Liz set off in their Warrior 35, to see how far round the world they could get without sinking, starving or pushing each other overboard. This tale covers the first 18 months or so from Scotland to Siracusa.

Pb.

By Herb McCormick
2011
On May 31, 2009, a committed team of sailors, scientists, teachers and conservationists joined forces on a voyage that was vast in scope and ambition but launched under the simplest of ideas: The continents of North and South America are a single island, surrounded by a shared ocean, and with a common set of challenges, communities, issues, and solutions. To put it in the simplest terms, we creatures of the land are utterly dependent on the sea around us, and we'd better take care of it, or it won't take care of us. This book tells the story of that amazing adventure, and sounds a call to action for everyone who loves this planet.

240pp

by John Wainwright

Shining through Jon Wainwright's account of a lifetime adventure - thirty eight years' cruising, racing and fishing in a traditional wooden boat - are a love of the sea, and a devotion to his boat, 'Deva'. With photos and illustrations by the author and Walter Kemsley.

336pp, illustrations, paperback

Taking the Long Way Home
By J. Otterbacher
2009
This is an inspirational story of a family man struck down with heart failure in his prime — just as he and his wife (and children) had decided to sail a circuit of the Atlantic for a year. Devastated that his plans are thwarted he endures seven operations in eight months as procedure after procedure fails, with heart attacks in between. Finally, he has to endure open heart surgery — and immediately makes plans for his ‘trip’.
This is the story of an incredibly determined sailor totally unwilling to give up his dream in the face of massive odds

Pb. 256pp 198x127mm

RRP £8.99 OUR PRICE £7.99

By A. Flannagan
2008
The first lone yachtsman to sail vertically around the world.
On 28 October 2005, Adrian set sail from the south coast of England to voyage vertically around the earth by the most difficult route imaginable, via Cape Horn and the icebound waters of the Russian Arctic. Adrian mortgaged his house and bought a unique stainless steel boat called Barrabas. He persuaded his ex-wife Louise to manage the expedition. Adrian faced death when a rogue wave swept him from the deck. He was chased by pirates off Brazil, dislocated both wrists and, at Cape Horn, Barrabas capsized in a hurricane. He also swam in water ten miles deep, sailed in the company of whales. After 30,825 miles, Adrian arrived home on 21 May 2008.

Hb 416pp

by Jimmy Cornell
2007

Jimmy Cornell has influenced the contemporary cruising scene more than any other sailor. He is the acknowledged authority on ocean routing and his bestselling World Cruising Routes provides a wealth of information on all sailing routes of the world. During the last three decades Jimmy Cornell has sailed close to 200,000 miles in all oceans of the world including three circumnavigations as well as voyages to the Arctic and Antarctic. This book is the essence of the author's hard won experience and covers all practical aspects of offshore cruising as well as a description of his latest voyage and also reflects on a life of adventures both on land and on the high seas.

Hb

One Man's Journey Around Britain
Kim Sturgess
2011

During the summer of 2007 Kim undertook his first major sailing adventure. With weekend club sailing experience behind him, he set off without significant planning or preparation. This is the story of the 1,900 nautical mile, 94 day adventure during the worst summer in the UK for 200 years.

Pb. 224pp 216x140mm

By J. Greenway
2009
The 1950s adventures of a family and their boat.
Over 50 years ago, Jocelyn Greenway wrote about her family’s holidays in their 22ft Hillyard sailing boat, Puffin. Many of her accounts were published at the time with sketches, maps and photographs by her husband, Robert. Puffin was kept at Parkstone Yacht Club in Poole Harbour and from there the family of five went on various voyages around the English Channel and to France, Belgium and Holland.

The Greenway’s daughter Cathy has compiled her parents’ work and published them in this charming record of her family’s voyages in their beloved boat.

Pb. 35 photos

by Shirley Billing

In 1996, the Billings were taken at gunpoint from their yacht in the Red Sea, and held for a month, accused of spying. A detailed and highly personal record of a drama which grabbed headlines across the world, this is a compelling tale for all who sail abroad.

256pp, b/w photos, line drawings and maps, paperback

A True Story of Disaster and Survival in a Force 12 Storm

by Farrington

In June of 1994 a dangerous 'bomb' storm caught dozens of cruising sailors by surprise as they voyaged north from New Zealand. This is the true story of how nine yachts struggled to survive the hurricane-like conditions. Boats were battered by fierce winds and capsized by seas towering well over 50 feet high. Equipment was ripped loose, and water penetrated every weak point. Masts collapsed, rudders broke, and sailors lost steering control when they needed it most. The crews coped as best they could with injury, fear, exhaustion, and illness. Their electronic calls for help were picked up by satellites and radio operators, who initiated a massive air and sea search. This is the story of heroic rescues, human endurance, and tragic loss.

288pp, paperback

By H. Swain

The author went to Murmansk in 1945 with the RN Navy. Interwoven with this account of his return voyage in a yacht 45 years later, are memories of fear and danger.

242p Pb

by Webb Chiles

Webb Chiles, whose adventures were previously chronicled in 'Single Wave', returns with a beautifully written account of his fourth circumnavigation.

Leaving astern the bleak winter of Boston Harbour and his despair over the near-fatal loss of his previous vessel, his joy in being at sea again, with his wife, Carol, makes this a joyous and inspiring story. He observes the great harbours of the world with a true sailor's eye and presents a unique philosophical view of life under sail.

224pp, illustrated, hardback

By Bob Roberts

Barge skipper and notable folk singer Bob Roberts lived life to the full and this is captured in this true story.

Roberts and his friend bought Thelma, a 27 foot Looe smack and, after a North Sea testing, headed for Panama, by way of Madeira and the Azores. their plans fell apart in the Cocos Islands where they were shipwrecked and found themselves on a hair raising voyage with treasure hunters....

168p illus. Pb

By Deborah Veal

Deborah continued to row across the Atlantic after her husband had to abandon the challenge suffering from chronic fear syndrome. Alone, two oars and 3000 miles of ocean, Deborahs story is one of inspiring perseverence and written with a cheerful humour.

A Pensioner's Tale
By Trevor Wilson
2010

This true story tells of two failed attempts and the things that went wrong before finally landing in Natal, Brazil after his third voyage. Tales of surviving a hurricane, broken ribs, sinking.....

Hb. 286pp 8 pages of colour photos

by Dom Degnon

The light-hearted tale of a seven year circumnavigation aboard the 41-foot ketch 'Taku'. The voyage takes the author and his crew by way of the Caribbean, Polynesia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, and Australia, through numerous adventures - from encounters with the masseuses in Bali to dealing with the Yemeni secret police.

152pp, illustrations, hardback

by A C Stock

High adventure on a small budget is Charles Stock's philosophy as he cruises his midget 16-foot gaff-rigged sailing cruiser 'Shoal Waters' on the Thames estuary, with 68,000 miles logged since 1963. There's a lesson here for all of us who hanker after the South Seas!

238pp, illustrations, paperback

Across the Atlantic in a 70 foot Schooner
By Dorgan Theo
four people - three old sea hands and a novice (the author) - cross the Atlantic aboard a 70-foot schooner? Theo Dorgan's logbook of the voyage of the Spirit of Oysterhaven from the Caribbean to the coast of Co. Cork is meditative, philosophical, and utterly absorbing. Dorgan captures the quotidian realities of a trans-Atlantic passage - the importance of innumerable small rituals, the challenge of cooking in rough seas, the unspoken understandings that develop between crew members - but he also attends to the numinous possibilities of life at sea.

Pb 340pp

by Mike Perham

The amazing true story of the schoolboy who sailed single-handed around the world.

Robin Knox-Johnston said it could be suicidal. The head of the Royal Yachting Association told him not to go. Mike Perham ignored them and in August 2009, at the age of just 17 years, 5 months and 11 days, became the youngest person to have sailed solo around the world. This title tells the story of that amazing voyage, a nine-month odyssey.

Hardback, 304pp, 2010

By Frank Dye

Frankand his Wayfarer dinghy take us on an epic adventure - spanning several summers- from Florida, along the Eastern seaboard of the USA to Nova Scotia, up the treacherous St lawrence River and into the Great Lakes. He encountered hurricanes, sweltering heat, fog and dangerous currents.

192pp Photographs, maps. pb

RRP £14.99 OUR PRICE £11.99

by Dave Schaefer

For Dave Schaefer on his 32-foot sloop 'Dream Weaver', the urge to see Cuba now and track down Ernest Hemingway's old haunts was too strong to resist. Setting out alone from Lake Champlain, with friends joining as crew along the way, he sailed via the East coast and the Florida Keys to Havana, where the last year of the millenium marked the centennial of Hemingway's birth and the fortieth anniversary of Fidel's Revolution.

288pp, illustrations, paperback

By B. Bitchin

As founder and editor of the successful magazine 'Latitudes & Attitudes, Bob Bitchin offers a unique perspective on the sailing life in this collection of editorials and other writings. He surveys and comments on the good, the bad, the funny and the sad, the practical and theoretical aspects of the sailing scene. Full of useful advice, keen observations and outrageous comments.

Pb 203p

By W. Clarke
1999

Miles Clark's epic voyage from Ireland to the White Sea and across a continent to the Black Sea and Mediterranean.

Pb. 200pp 60 colour illus.

by Tom Cunliffe
2011

'Sailing, Yachts and Yarns' is a treasure chest of nautical wit and wisdom. Tom Cunliffe has chosen the very best of his writing for Yachting Monthly magazine to ensure a lively mix of anecdote, opinion and instruction.

There are hilarious tales that take the reader on a voyage from the frozen waters of Greenland to the palm trees of the Tropics. Tom also shares the lessons learned navigating an engineless yacht across the Atlantic with only the stars to guide him and lets loose on the red tape and rules that he sees infringing on the freedom of the seas.

This is the perfect book for dipping into to discover another gem from one of greatest sailing writers alive today.

Hardback, 242pp.

RRP £14.99, OUR PRICE £11.99

By S. Kettle
2007
With no rowing experience and certainly no sea-going experience, Sally Kettle took to the oars in her ocean rowing boat, Calderdale, in 2003, joined by an unlikely partner, Sarah Kettle, her mother. After years of arguments and misunderstandings they set off from the Canary Islands in a boat the size of the average bathroom with nothing to do but row, watch whales and grow cress. When they landed in Barbados 105 days later they became the world's first mother-and-daughter pair to row an ocean.

Pb

The Captain Cook Bicentenary Voyage 1776 - 1976
By Gordon Cook
2011

Gordon Cook and his family repeated the third and last voyage of Captain Cook. Setting out from Plymouth to the Canary Islands, Rio, Cape Town, and the towards Australia. Disaster struck in the Roaring Forties....

Hb. 320pp 234x156mm

By N. Ardley

Tales through a sailing year, is a compilation of interlinked stories about cruising around the Lower Thames, Swale and River Medway. The area has been very much overlooked, in the yachting literary world - often derided even - yet it is a fantastic local cruising area, full of history, wildlife and seemingly remote anchorages - far from the madding crowd.

Pb. 224pp

by Bernard Moitessier

This legendary sailor's notebooks include all the knowledge he has acquired from his long experience at sea, and from meeting other sailors. A treasury of tips on such matters as preparing for a long cruise, choosing a boat, rigging, sails, anchors, weather, navigation, self-sufficiency, and adapting to life on an atoll.

224pp, illus., paperback

By J Mashaw and A. MacClintock

If you have ever wondered what it would be like to take a one year sabbatical a sail your boat to the Caribbean and back (from New York), this narrative captures the intense highs and lows. They also examine the politics of the region, as well as offering insights into the habits, behaviour and language of the worldwide cruising community.

270p Hb

The Story of Seven Years on the Seven Seas
By S. Billing
2005

Seize the day before its too late - life isn't a rehersal. In 1982, in our late forties, we sold the house and cars, cashed in insurance policies, ivested two thirds, then spent the remaining £30,000 on our boat to sail away.

This book is an account of the preparations, voyaging, visiting remote Pacific Islands where we were among the first visitors to arrive just as freinds. The book also tells of robbery, shipwreck and self-discovery.

Pb. 240pp b/w photos

By Lin & Larry Pardey

The Pardeys spent eleven years cruising the world in their backyard-built 24 foot cutter 'Seraffyn'. 'Seraffyn's Mediterranean Adventure' covers three years of their cruising life in and around the Mediterranean.

228x148mm 256pp b/w photos

by Peter Crowther

This is the story of yacht 'Galway Blazer' and Peter Crowther's love affair with the boat. It includes exciting narrative, relating adventures during many classic single-handed events and is interspersed with practical advice for would-be lone sailors. 'Galway Blazer' is, alas, no more. She sank in the Atlantic, after structural damage occurred in heavy weather. The story of this sinking and Peter Crowther's mid-Atlantic rescue are of course included.

144pp, 33 b/w photos, 6 line drawings, laminated boards

By A. Seligman

Seligman's lively prose describes the trials and pleasures of a life under sail: Cape Horn, adventures with sharks, drunken captains, stowaways - and an idyll with lovely Elsa in the Aland Islands.

220p Pb

A man, a woman and a dog cruising from Hong Kong to Vancouver
By A. Sparham
During the voyage on 'Moonshiner' they encountered a myriad of adventures and people. >From Singapore to the Bay of Bengal and the Red Sea, they met with colourful natives, powerful storms and corrupt officials. During the European leg they went through the French canals, fighting floods and taxes to end in Holland. they headed home via the North Atlantic and the Panama Canal.

Pb. 16 colour photos. 227p

A Journey of Conscience to a New Life in America
2004
John Vigor had it all: living in Durban South Africa, but an apartheid regime and a clampdown by government forces made John decide to leave. This is the tale of his voyage from Durban around the Cape of Good Hope, across the Atlantic to Florida and a new life in the US.

Pb.260pp 150x225mm

Three Times Around the World Single-handed
By Les Powles
2011

Les Powles only had 8 hours of sailing experience when he decided to sail solo around the world.
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.

Pb. 328pp 198x129mm Colour photos and b/w maps

RRP 9.99 OUR PRICE £7.99

by Ernest K Gann

This is the story of Gann's much loved vessels, his 17 sirens. Filled with moments of both drama and calm, this book reveals the romantic within every sailor. The sirens range from the 117 ton 'Albatross' to the incredible 'Butterfly' - little more than a raft.

'A true and often poetic saga of his many sea voyages' Newsweek

318p Pb

Capt. J. Cottier
Homeward Round the Horn

The lively story of a modern voyage under sail round Cape Horn.

220p illus. Pb

A Man - A Boat - A Love Story

by Thomas Froncek

A book to stir fond memories among old sailing hands and newcomers alike. It will encourage those who dream of someday sailing their own boat, and will enable puzzled friends and family to better understand the strange obsession that grips those who adore boats and sailing.

212pp, hardback

by Paul Gelder

30 dramatic accounts of yachts lost at sea

This is a new collection of terrifying and compelling accounts of yachts lost at sea. The seven deadly causes of loss continue to take their toll, and Paul Gelder has compiled first-hand accounts of shipwreck and sinking caused by Collision, Gear Failure, Stress of Weather, Faulty Navigation, Fire, Crew Failure and Exhaustion.

The moving, emotionally charged descriptions of shipwrecked sailors abandoning their yachts at sea will have you on the edge of your seat. But these accounts are more than just gripping tales of disaster - they carry valuable lessons which the survivors have been able to pass on to all who go to sea for pleasure.

Paperback, 256pp, 2010.

By R. Austen

Travellers from UK, USA & South Africa reach the Caribbean, where the islands provide an exotic backdrop for strong passions & betrayals. But it's in Grenada where they all finally meet. The events that follow test them as they each face their own demons, relationships, & the greater forces of nature as the hurricane season starts.

PB 312pp

By J. Moore

The engaging story of a 2 year, 10,000 mile voyage from hawaii to the east coast USA, via the Panama Canal, with a sojurn in the Sea of Cortez.

224p 14b/w photos 11 draw. 4 maps Pb

By M. Wilson

An exciting account of crossing the Atlantic, across the English Channel,through France to the Mediterranean and then across the Atlantic.

Pb. 234p charts & illus.
US Pub.

By Ellen MacArthur

Paperback version of best selling book.

129x198mm 416p Pb

by Bernard Moitessier

Born in Fench Indochina in 1925, Bernard Moitessier grew up astride two cultures - French and Vietnamese - in a turbulent era that moved dramatically from peace to war. He was imprisoned during the Japanese occupation, and later drafted into France's war against the Viet Minh. This book tells how, at the age of 25, he left Vietnam to answer the call of the sea, wandering the Indian Ocean, the South Atlantic and the Caribbean as a sea-Gypsy, and surviving two catastrophic shipwrecks. His greatest sailing adventures followed: the Tahiti - Alicante passage, and the 1969 Golden Globe round-the-world race, from which he withdrew to sail on to Tahiti. He then spent three years on an atoll of Tamata in the Tuamoto archipelago, where he went by the name of 'Tamata' ('Try it'). He planted coconut trees and gradually transformed the sun blasted coral into a speck of green in the middle of the South Pacific.

Hardback, 400pp, illustrations.

How to Cross a Big Ocean in a Small Sailboat

by Reese Palley

The core of this book is to give you enough information, but just enough, to support a claim to sailordom, and to convince you that you are capable of taking a small boat across a large ocean.

"Funny, raucous, insightful, anarchistic, entertaining, instructional: seamanship with a difference." Wooden Boat.

214pp, paperback

By C. Stewart
2009
Before Chris Stewart and Ana moved to El Valero, their Spanish farm, he took to the sea, landing a job as skipper for the summer, sailing a Cornish Crabber around the Greek islands. It was his dream job - and there was just one problem - he had not sailed before!

In a series of madcap and hilarious adventures we follow Chris from a shaky start in Chichester harbour to his epic Odyssey to Spetses (a bucket would have been handy), and then on to the journey of a lifetime - battening down the hatches on a trip across the North Atlantic. It's a journey crackling with Chris' zest for life, irresistible humour, and unerring lack of foresight.

Hb. 160pp 195x140mm

by Ben Pester

The mysterious, dangerous and largely unfrequented waters of Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia are the setting for this story of a Millenium cruise in the 36-foot classic wooden yacht 'Marelle'. The climax of this nine month voyage was Cape Horn, the most challenging cape to round for generations of sailors.

The author complements the drama of his own voyage with colourful tales from the heroic age of seafaring, of the adventurers who braved these hostile seas.

Paperback, 282 pp

Octogenarian Paul Packwood from Ipswich describes a 58-day, single-handed cruise in his 18-foot sailing boat, Plover. Not a complete circumnavigation of the British Isles, but a thumbnail odyssey round the south of England, through coastal waters and inland waterways. All is not smooth sailing. In difficulties off the Cornish coast, he is towed into port by a lifeboat. A collision costs him a broken thumb. Undaunted, he completes the voyage and brings Plover back to the River Orwell.

Paperback, 140pp illus.

Dramatic first-hand accounts of yacht losses at sea
by Paul Gelder

This is an enthralling collection of 50 dramatic stories of yachts lost at sea. First published in 1985, Jack Coote's book of first-hand accounts has been comprehensively updated and revised, with the addition of more than 20 new stories, including the loss of Pete Goss's 4m pound catamaran, Team Philips, in an Atlantic storm at the end of 2000.

Paperback, 288pp, 2008.

By Tom Cunliffe

The author and his family sail from Norway in the wake of the Vikings, via Iceland and Greenland to Newfoundland, in the Bristol Channel pilot cutter 'Hirta'.

182p draw. Pb

By T. Edwards

Tracey Edwards's story. In 1989 -90 she brought Maiden home to Southampton at the end of the Whitbread Round the World Race under the full focus of the National media. She is truly a heroine of our time and with her disadvantaged start in life, all her achievements in sporting and personal terms are even more remarkable.

Colour photos. Hb 430p

by Helen Tew

Foreword by Sir Robin Knox-Johnson

This is the incredible story of an eighty-eight year old grandmother who sailed eight thousand miles in a 26-foot gaff cutter.

Paperback, 192pp, 8pp b/w photos, 8pp colour photos, maps and drawings.

by Marcia Pirie

David and Marcia Pirie gave up their careers and sailed off across the wide blue ocean.

Paperback, 330pp

by Reese Palley

Palley gave up a successful career as an art dealer and sailed off in his ship 'Unlikely' to encircle the globe. Through a series of humorous anecdotes, illustrations, insights, and practical tips, Palley expounds his unique sailing philosophy.

192pp, illustrated, paperback

by Reese Palley

A tribute to the unique breed of people that take to the seas. Stories gathered over thirty years of sailing, from devils and saints, fools and philosophers, are told with humour and charm in Palley's inimitable style. Notable characters include sailing legend Tristan Jones, lunatics in Colombia and The Dumbest Sailor in the World.

224pp, illustrations, paperback

by A J Mackinnon

An astonishing story of an Australian teacher who bought a Mirror dinghy on a whim, went for a sail on the River Severn and just kept going - for 5,000 km, 12 countries and 282 locks, until he ended up in the Black Sea - and all unplanned!

356pp, Paperback

by Valentine Howells

As a founder member of single handed ocean racing, taking part in the first event (OSTAR 1960) with Chichester, Hasler et al, the author is familiar with a sport that has progressed from Folkboats to the sophisticated professionalism of today. But there is another side to sailing, mirrored by the person who struggles to build their boat and then sets off to explore the world, and themselves with little fuss and a restricted budget. These people form a community seldom mentioned in the press, with few books dedicated to the lifestyle of the wandering yachtie. Occasionally a yarn breaks surface .... bobs up from the depths, which provides an uninhibited glimpse of natural bohemia.

For more details, reviews, etc:
www.pavilionpublications.co.uk

245 x 175mm, 372pp, paperback
(signed if required - email request after ordering)

by Tony James

'Up The Creek' charts Tony James' unintentional voyage from his father's broad-bean bed, in land-locked Derbyshire, to a marina in Somerset via the Caribbean, the Persian Gulf and the bottom of a swimming pool in Ottery St Mary.

On the way, Tony gathers a motley crew of unforgettable eccentrics and maritime misfits, brought to hilarious life by his acute observation of the ridiculous and by his wry acceptance that whatever happens at sea, things can only get worse. The funniest and most original sailing book for years.

A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas
By Abby Sunderland

The stirring narrative of Unsinkable tells sixteen-year-old Abby Sunderland's remarkable true story of attempting to become the youngest person ever to sail solo around the world.

More people have flown into outer space than have sailed solo around the globe. It is a challenge so immense that many have died trying, and all have been pushed beyond every physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual limit. In Unsinkable, readers follow Abby Sunderland into those depths. This biography delivers a gripping and evocative firsthand account that starts prior to her departure, travels through her daring (and sometimes near-death) encounters on the open sea, to her dramatic rescue in the remotest corner of the Indian Ocean, and the media explosion that happened upon her safe return to dry land.

Hb. 240pp

By R. Bishop
2008
A man with a passion and an ambition for sailing and to compete in the single-handed transatlantic race.

Moving from London to Looe in the 1970's, a rule change thwarted his transatlantic ambition. This book captures the perilous voyage to Ireland and back, meet the many friends he made and characters he encountered along the Devon and Cornwall coasts and on his summer cruises down the west coast of France, and discover how one man's love of sailing could take over his life.

Hb.

By A. Seligman

With money from his grandfather and experience before the mast in square rigged ships, the author bought a 3 masted barquentine of 295 tons and fitted her out to sail around the world with an amateur crew and newly married wife...

360p illus. Pb

By R. Taylor
The stories of Roger Taylors voyages - In 1971, Roger Taylor signed up on the square-rigger Endeavour II, bound from Australia to New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.
In the 1974 Trans-Tasman Single-handed Yacht Race, only the sixth ever single-handed ocean race. In the early part of this voyage Roc was rolled in huge seas, the main steering was damaged and the self steering smashed beyond repair. Roger hand-steered for nearly 30 days, only to encounter one of the worst storms recorded off the east coast of Australia. Roger went on to sail many thousands of ocean miles, all the while refining his simple approach. In 2006 he sailed his junk-rigged Corribee Mingming in the very first Jester Transatlantic Challenge. In contrast to the previous two voyages, this was a passage of calms and mature reflection

Pb.

By G. Holt
2008

On 5th September 1984, 18 year old Geoff Holt dived into an idyllic tropical sea and changed his life forever - a broken neck left him paralysed.

Exactly 23 years later, he crossed the finish line in the Solent after a journey of 109 days and 1,445 miles to reach the summit of his personal Everest. He became the first quadriplegic yachtsman to sail single handed around Great Britain.

Pb. 356pp 16 pages of colour photos

By Hal Roth

Roth tells the story of sailing a small boat in the wake of Odysseus. Crossing oceans and seas in pursuit of his cause, Roth re-traces the voyages of Odysseus among the Greek Isles, the Italian and Sicilian coasts, Corsica, Malta and an island off Tunisia.

256pp maps photos Hb.

Solo into the Unknown
by Crispin Latymer

When Crispin Latymer hit 50 he had a 'What now?' moment — and decided he wanted to sail the Atlantic solo. But he was no intrepid adventurer — Latymer was an ordinary sailor, used to cruising the coasts of the UK, who wanted to do something memorable before he was too old.

His voyage turned into an epic. Only two days into his trip, Latymer was caught by Tropical Storm Delta. During the following 23 days he also broke two ribs, was followed by pirates in a scary incident off the Mauritanian coast, and then broke a toe. He describes it all as 'magical'.

Pb, 224 pp, 198x127mm, illustrations & colour photo section, 2009.

by Tony James

Inspired by the adventurous seagoing career of an old salt from his home town of Watchet, Tony James sets off in his Bristol Channel 'flattie' to rediscover once-thriving life and commerce of the great number of ports, big and small, that line the coasts of Somerset, Devon and Cornwall between Bridgwater Bay in the north, to the Exe in the south. The result - entertaining, highly informative, and richly illustrated with archive and modern photos - is a unique record of the maritime Southwest and the living it drew from the Sea in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

200pp, photographs, pbk, 2006.

By herb Peyson

the sequel to the classic 'Blown Away'. Payson and his wife Nancy learn that their wooden boat, Sea Foam, is in desperate need of repairs. Triumphing over adversity, they rescue the boat and embark on a Pacific passage.

230x152mm 208p Pb