Sailing Around Britain A Weekend Sailors Voyage In 50 Day Sails 2nd Edition

Author : Kim Sturgess
Publisher : Fernhurst Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 1912177633
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sailing Around Britain written by Kim Sturgess and published by Fernhurst Books Limited. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kim Sturgess was a weekend sailor: he enjoyed club racing and several brief sailing holidays, but had never attempted a substantial expedition. Reaching the age of fifty focused the mind and he decided to sail around Britain. While many cruising sailors would not contemplate a 1900 nautical mile voyage, he broke the voyage into a series of day sails, making it an achievable ambition for him, largely single-handed, and for many other weekend sailors who might dream of sailing around their home island. This book tells the quirky traveller's narrative of the voyage and visits to forty-eight towns. Evoking the spirit of both Jerome K. Jerome with his Three Men in a Boat and Joshua Slocum's Sailing Alone Around the World, Kim shares his thoughts and struggles, recounting how easy it is for anyone to become an adventurer here at home. But don't expect to always agree with him – he has been described as "the Jeremy Clarkson of yachting"!

Author : Roger Oliver
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472906772
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Practical Boat Owner's Sailing Around the UK and Ireland written by Roger Oliver and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, based on a highly successful series of articles in Practical Boat Owner magazine, is a detailed practical guide to sailing around the UK - all by means of day sails. Roger Oliver, a passionate sailor, explains his in-depth passage planning, boat preparations, weather checks and log-keeping, as well as his choice of routes, the detailed navigation, sail trim tips and on-passage maintenance, all for the benefit of sailors who have a yen to follow in his footsteps. Packed with a wealth of practical tips on seamanship, anchoring in high winds, coping with big seas, problem-solving, harnessing the tide, sailing short-handed and living aboard for extended cruising, this book will be a godsend to the many thousands of sailors who enjoy coastal cruising and who will discover (as did Roger) that it is perfectly possible to cruise around the whole of the UK in a series of day sails. With this book to hand, and inspired by Roger's detailed route maps and spectacular photographs, anyone can experience the thrill and enjoyment of sailing around the beautiful and varied UK coast from any starting point.

Author : Libby Purves
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 13 : 1444721224
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Summer's Grace written by Libby Purves and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2010-09-20 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1988, Libby Purves set sail with her family on a voyage round the entire coastline of Britain, from the soft, sandy South-East, to the wilder shores of Orkney. They travelled in the wake of their literary-nautical forebears aboard their m

Author : Peter Wynter Bee
Publisher : People of the Day Limited
ISBN 13 : 0954811011
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book People of the Day 2 written by Peter Wynter Bee and published by People of the Day Limited. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joshua Slocum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sailing Alone Around the World written by Joshua Slocum and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 774 pages
Book Rating : 4.1W/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brentano's Aquatic Monthly and Sporting Gazetteer written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hal Roth
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 9780071778725
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Sail Around the World written by Hal Roth and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2003-10-20 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new classic from one of the world's most respected sailing authors More than 35 years ago, Hal Roth quit his job as a journalist and went sailing. Since then, he's logged more than 200,000 sea miles. Along the way, Roth also has authored eight voyaging classics, including the 1978 bestseller After 50,000 Miles. Taking that book as its starting point, this handsome new volume incorporates the new technologies and discoveries of the last quarter century along with another 150,000 miles of experience. A compendium of mature, time-tested sea wisdom from one of the world's most respected sailing writers, How to Sail Around the World will tell the reader: How to choose and equip a sailboat for long-distance cruising, with an emphasis on simplicity and a modest budget How to plan and conduct a voyage anywhere in the world How to master the arts of navigation, anchoring, and daily life aboard in exotic places How to cope with storms at sea--the most complete and authoritative treatise on this critical topic ever published

Author : Dorothy Volo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 157356687X
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daily Life in the Age of Sail written by Dorothy Volo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-11-30 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Thirteenth century through the Nineteenth, the waterways of the world provided the major means of transportation for exploration, trade, the military, and even criminals. Find out what life was like for those who chose to sail the high seas, as well as for those who didn't choose to be on board, like wives brought to sea by husbands and slaves en route to the auction block. What were their quarters like? What did they eat? How did they pass their long days at sea? These and other questions are answered in animated prose that brings the lives of ordinary people who oftentimes engaged in extraordinary activities, into sharp focus. First-hand accounts from such sources as personal journals and magazine articles are provided to help bring the time period alive. Students will also learn what life was like in the seaport towns and what the sailors did when they visited these towns, as well as the physical parts of the ships and the different roles different members of the crew played. This engaging history helps to separate fact from fiction while exploring the reasons the sea and sea life have held such prominent roles in popular fiction, and will help students understand what life was truly like for these people.

Author : William Armstrong Fairburn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Merchant Sail written by William Armstrong Fairburn and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kim C. Sturgess
Publisher : Matador
ISBN 13 : 9781848766822
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Precious Isle written by Kim C. Sturgess and published by Matador. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evoking the spirit of both Jerome K. Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat and Joshua Slocum’s Sailing Alone Around The World, this charming book is an observational portrait of contemporary Britain, told from the point of view of a fifty year old first time adventurer who, without planning or preparation, sails around Britain. During the summer of 2007 Kim Sturgess undertook his first major sailing adventure. Like so many weekend sailors Kim had, over a number of years, enjoyed club racing and several brief sailing holidays with friends, but never attempted a substantial solo expedition. Then, aged fifty-three, enacting a type of middle age rite of passage, and without significant planning or the usual preparation, Kim undertook a 1900 nautical mile, ninety-four day travel adventure circumnavigating Britain during the worst summer in more than two centuries. This Precious Isle is a narrative of the voyage, interspersed with diary observations made during his visits to forty-eight towns in the British Isles. The book was written to inspire the fifties ‘everyman’ to leave the comfort of the couch and discover both themselves and their home island.