50 Ways To Improve Your Power Boat Handling
This is a book about practical powerboat driving. It is about the techniques that can only be picked up from experience - practical ways to make your driving safer, easier and better. The techniques described are suitable for boats operating at speeds between 20 and 100 knots, both large and small.
This book starts where the textbooks finish. You may have learnt the important basics of powerboat...
Imray C28 Harwich to Wells-next-the-Sea
Imray C charts offer coverage for cruising yachtsmen on larger size sheets.
They are suitable for offshore passage making and the medium scales chosen also allow safe inshore navigation.
Plans
River Deben,
Rivers Ore and Alde,
Southwold Harbour,
Lowestoft Harbour,
Lowestoft Approaches,
Great Yarmouth Haven,
Blakeney Harbour,
Wells-next-the-Sea
Imray C3 Isle of Wight Chart
Imray C charts offer coverage for cruising yachtsmen on larger size sheets.
They are suitable for offshore passage making and the medium scales chosen also allow safe inshore navigation.
Imray C3 Isle of Wight and Solent.
Format: Sheet size 787 x 1118mm. Waterproof. Folded in plastic wallet.
Scale: 1:52500
Plans included:
Lymington River (1:17 500)
River Hamble (1:20 000)
Bembridge Harbour (1:20 000)
Continuation...
Imray C30 Harwich to Hoek van Holland and Dover Strait
Imray C charts offer coverage for cruising yachtsmen on larger size sheets.
They are suitable for offshore passage making and the medium scales chosen also allow safe inshore navigation.
Plans included:
Dunkerque Oostende Zeebrugge
Vlissingen Nieuwpoort Breskens
Blankenberge
NEW EDITION FOR 2008 Includes
The Maas, N Hinder & Sandettie Bank TSS revisions, as well as the latest survey data for...
Imray C4 Needles Channel to Bill of Portland
Imray C charts offer coverage for cruising yachtsmen on larger size sheets.
They are suitable for offshore passage making and the medium scales chosen also allow safe inshore navigation.
Imray C4 Needles Channel to Bill of Portland
Format: Sheet size 787 x 1118mm. Waterproof. Folded in plastic wallet.
Scale: 1:75000
Plans included:
Portland Harbour (1:20 000)
Weymouth Harbour (1:7500)
Lulworth Cove...
Imray C6 Salcombe to Lizard Point
Imray C charts offer coverage for cruising yachtsmen on larger size sheets.
They are suitable for offshore passage making and the medium scales chosen also allow safe inshore navigation.
Imray C6 Salcombe to Lizard Point
Format: Sheet size 787 x 1118mm. Waterproof. Folded in plastic wallet.
Scale: 1:100000
Plans included:
Salcombe (1:15 000)
Plymouth Sound (1:50 000)
Looe (1:5000)
Polperro Harbour...
Imray C7 Falmouth to Isles of Scilly & Trevose Head
Imray C charts offer coverage for cruising yachtsmen on larger size sheets.
They are suitable for offshore passage making and the medium scales chosen also allow safe inshore navigation. N
EW EDITION - Coverage has been extended eastwards to include Trevose Head on the north coast of Cornwall.
Plans :
Newquay Bay
St Mary's Road
Saint Ives
Mousehole
Penzance
Newlyn Harbour
Porthleven
Mullion Cove
Hugh...
Imray Turkish Waters & Cyprus Pilot [10th Edition].
Turkish Waters and Cyprus Pilot covers the entire coast of Turkey from the Black Sea down the Aegean coast and around to the Syrian border. The coasts, ports and marinas of the island of Cyprus are also described.
There are few more beautiful cities in the world that it is possible to sail into the heart of, but that is what the authors were able to do in Istanbul while researching this, the tenth...
Mediterranean France and Corsica Pilot 6th Edition
Rod and Lucinda Heikell
This is a comprehensive companion to the long coastline which ranges from Spain and the edge of the Pyrenees to the Alpes Maritimes and Italy. It covers the flat country of Languedoc-Roussillon, the coast of the Golfe du Lion, the Rhône delta and the Camargue, the industrial Golfe de Fos, the Côte d’Azur and the French Riviera and Monaco. The island of Corsica...
Mediterranean Spain (1st Combined Edition, 2017)
Mediterranean Spain
This new volume replaces the current two part coverage of the Mediterranean mainland coast of Spain from Gibraltar to the French border.
The entire coverage has been revised with the text updated, new plans added and others updated from the latest information.
There are numerous new photos to support the sailing directions.
This is the only detailed pilot for the Spanish Mediterranean...
North West Spain Crusing Companion
Product details
Hardcover: 176 pages
Publisher: Fernhurst Books Ltd. (1 Sept. 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1904358101
ISBN-13: 978-1904358107
Pass your Day Skipper 6th Edition
Since the first edition was published, Pass Your Day Skipper has helped thousands of students through their shore-based Day Skipper course. Concise and comprehensive, this crammer covers all the essentials of the RYA syllabus, arranged in bite-size chunks to make revision easier and brought fully up to date in this seventh edition.
Throughout, the theory is set in a practical seagoing perspective,...
Sally's Odd at Sea
With no rowing experience and certainly no sea-going experience Sally Kettle took to the oars in her ocean rowing boat, Calderdale,in 2003
Fate however,had other plans,and when illness beset her then boyfriend and teammate she was joined on board by an unlikely partner,Sarah Kettle,her mother
The First Aid Companion
This colourful aide-memoire covers most emergencies afloat:
- Drowning
- Unconsciousness
- External bleeding
- Immersion
- Hypothermia
- Seasickness
- Head injury
- Chest pain
- Fits
- Fractures
- Burns & scalds
- Heatstroke
- Communications in an emergency
Printed on strong card, fully laminated for water resistance.
Ben Ainslie Laser Campaign Manual
The Olympic Gold Medallist explains how to win in this, the most competitive class.
Beautifully illustrated with colour photo sequences of Ainslie in action.
An online video including footage of him demonstrating every manoeuvre from starting, tacking upwind to downwind technique is also available.
Details of where to view the online videos can be found within the book.
Confessions "Yachtsmen Own up to Their Sailing Sins"
This pick of the pack from 20 years of the much loved Yachting Monthly column.
The Confessions: A light bedside read, designed to fill one with the comforting thought that many other yachtsman are equally as incompetent (or unlucky) as oneself
Do Whales Get The Bends
Using a question and answer format, this entertaining narrative addresses 101 general interest questions about the sea, sea life, seabirds and man's relationship with the sea.
Where does seawater come from?
How big can waves get?
Why do we get seasick?
How do flying fish fly?
Why do icebergs float?
Inspired by questions raised whilst the author was guest lecturer on cruise ships,...
First Aid Afloat
A quick-reference manual for medical emergencies at sea as used by 12 boats in the Whitbread Round the World Race.
PB 96pg.
Imray 2000.2 Rivers Ore and Alde
The Imray 2000 chart series is a range of handy-sized charts ideal for use on small chart tables and in open cockpits. These charts are at convenient scales and are clearly edited. Printed in colour on water-resistant paper & correctable.
Imray 2000.2 (Ed 2015 To Clear)
Small format A2 size – 594mm x 420mm
Folded to A4 size with a plastic wallet
Water-resistant Pretex paper
Yeoman...
Imray 2100.4 River Medway
The Imray 2100 chart series is a range of handy-sized charts ideal for use on small chart tables and in open cockpits. These charts are at convenient scales and are clearly edited. Printed in colour on water-resistant paper & correctable.
Imray 2100.4 (Ed 2015 To Clear)
Small format A2 size – 594mm x 420mm
Folded to A4 size with a plastic wallet
Water-resistant Pretex paper
Yeoman...
Lighthouses of the World
Lighthouses of the World
This book is a beautifully presented panorama of over 150 lighthouses from 56 countries all around the world, all of which are accessible and many of which can be visited. From lighthouses boldly beaming their lights from clifftops, to those clinging to the edge of cliff faces, this is a spectacular and unusual celebration of lighthouses from every continent. This is a wonderful...
RYA Weather Handbook G1
Another publication is the RYA’s Weather Handbook by world class sailor & renowned sailing meteorologist, Chris Tibbs.
With full colour graphics by Sarah Selman. The RYA’s Weather Handbook will guide you through the intricacies of weather.
The Weather Handbook is also the new official RYA reference book to accompany the revised Yachtmaster syllabus.
PB 106 Pages
Sail to Win - Tides & Currents
The author explains how to find out about the predicted water-flow, how local conditions will modify it, and how to plan your strategy both inshore and offshore.
Tides and currents are predictable, yet few sailors use them to the best of their advantage. Whether you sail a dinghy, a yacht or a board, enormous gains can be made by understanding how the water moves. This book explains clearly how...
Team Spirit
Team Spirit is a gripping account of a race on the edge, and a young skipper's determined journey to victory.
The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race is the ultimate long distance challenge - a 35,000mile circumnavigation of the globe, contested by amateur crews in identical racing yachts and the winners are those who keep their focus the longest.
The 2010 winner was 28y/o Brendan Hall and...
The Black Sea
The Black Sea
RCCPF / Barker and Borre
Based on previously published cruising notes this guide provides sailing directions for all the countries surrounding the Black Sea.Packed with useful background information and supported by the RCCPF’s access to the latest and often changing information this is an essential companion for anyone venturing north from the Bosphorus.
The Iron Hotel "Sam Llewellyn"
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Sam Llewellyn - One of Britain's Great Storytellers.
Sam Llewellyn was born on Tresco, Isles of Scilly, thirty miles west of Land’s End, Britain’s southwesternmost point. He was brought up between the coast road and the sea in North Norfolk.
Several Februaries ago, I read a newspaper story about a rustbucket freighter that had run itself aground on New York’s...
Walking on Water
On 5 September 1984, eighteen-year-old Geoff Holt dived into an idyllic tropical sea and his life changed forever. A broken neck cut short a promising career as a yachtsman and left him paralysed, with his horizons reduced to an uncertain future in a wheelchair.
On 5 September 2007, after a journey of 109 days and 1,445 miles, Geoff Holt crossed the finish line and reached the summit of his Personal...
Waterways Past & Present
Discover the stunning waterways of Britain in this unique photograhic 1st Edition record of the magnificent and varied waterways heritage. The book covers 40 transitional years which follows Britains Inland waterways transformation from a thriving commerical transport system to the varied and beautiful cruising network it is today.
Worse Things Happen at Sea
Worse Things Happen at Sea "Worse Things Happen at Sea is the long-awaited follow-up to Jake Kavanagh's hugely popular Ups and Downs of a Lockkeeper.
This time turning his humorous eye to the scrapes people get into when let loose on open water, Jake has us chuckling, blushing and recognising ourselves or fellow crew coming unstuck in the maritime mayhem he highlights with his witty pen...
Yachting Monthly South West Spain & Portugal Cruising Companion
Yachting Monthly South West Spain & Portugal Cruising Companion- Covers the from Bayona in the north to the Strait of Gibraltar, including a detour to Ceuta. It provides pilotage, nautical information and insights into the history, culture and culinary specialities of this part of the world.Hardback, 176 pages, Full colour port plans and photos throughout.