The Impractical Boat Owner

Author : Dave Selby
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472944852
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Impractical Boat Owner written by Dave Selby and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book with no practical purpose whatsoever. As any fan of Dave's would probably guess, a book by him won't make you a better sailor, and it won't provide any instruction on boat maintenance. But it will entertain – his light but observational writings tap the rich well of all those things that sailors know but few dare admit. The Impractical Boat Owner is a collection of Dave's columns for Practical Boat Owner magazine, expanded for the book, and with additional 'Lessons Not Learned' hints and tips boxes, all accompanied by Jake Kavangh's wonderful cartoons. Taking us from Dave's first flounderings afloat to more recent, er, flounderings afloat, themes covered include: - first attempts at sailing - how not to sail singlehanded - mysteries of maintenance - how not to sail with a dog - the impenetrable mysteries of navigation and weather - how not to race With a Foreword by Mike Peyton, The Impractical Boatowner is an antidote to all that's written about expensive shiny new yachts, self-improvement, the quest for qualifications and practical skills.

Author : Albert Hickman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Viper Sea Sled written by Albert Hickman and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John N. Cole
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1466861983
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Away All Boats written by John N. Cole and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High-spirited and passionate--at once a useful guide and a record of an extended love affair with small boats--Away All Boats is a blending of sparkling waterlands and vivid memories. Author of Striper and Fishing Came First, John N. Cole takes readers from the dangers of haul-seining for striped bass that challenge a wooden dory's limits in the surf to the excitement of searching the flats of the Florida Keys for tarpon and other game fish aboard a shall-draft, high-tech craft perfectly matched to the task. Evocative of nature's miracles and realities (and the foibles of men who go down to the sea in "ships"), the writing is dry and witty, tender and perceptive. Alongside the hard facts and opinions about the selection, refitting, maintenance, and use of small boats is a series of wonderful stories about the author's explorations as a bayman and fisherman in the waters of eastern Long Island, Maine, and the Florida Keys. Each boat described serves to introduce a key chapter in the author's life and his taste for adventure. John Cole's first love is the skiff, rowboat, dory, or sharpie--any relatively stable wooden boat that can be easily and efficiently rowed--but the author also takes on larger craft powered by the internal combustion engine to indicate that every boat is designed to perform a limited family of functions. The trick, as we learn in these robust pages, is to find the boat you need (not always the boat you want), and Cole offers practical advice on how to go about it. The surprise is that a good boat doesn't have to be expensive; some are even gifts from the sea. As to basic equipment, the author keeps the advice simple: a compass, charts, a tachometer, an ammeter, an understanding of local winds and tides, and, with luck, an informed "weather eye" to minimize risks in open water.

Author : Wisconsin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1020 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wisconsin Session Laws written by Wisconsin and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wisconsin
Publisher : Legislative Reference Bureau
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2948 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wisconsin Statutes, 1959 written by Wisconsin and published by Legislative Reference Bureau. This book was released on 1959 with total page 2948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Motor Boat written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 950 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Motor Boat written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrew Collins
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448175046
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book That's Me in the Corner written by Andrew Collins and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fast approaching his fortieth birthday, Andrew is cornered at a family gathering by the nine-year-old son of his brother-in-law's sister. Having seen him as a talking head on TV, the boy asks, 'What are you?' It is a question so frank and simple that Andrew doesn't have an immediate answer to hand. So, with hilarious self-deprecation, he sets out to retrace how he got to where he is today. Seventeen precarious jobs in seventeen years: from trolley collector at Sainsbury's to high-flying film critic sipping cocktails with Will Smith and Jerry Bruckheimer on a yacht in Cannes. This is Andrew's tale of rubbing shoulders with the world's biggest stars: pissing off Christini Ricci, having his hairstyle mocked by Noel Gallagher, trying not to wake Clive James from his afternoon nap, having his apple pie eaten by Bob Geldof, and somehow stumbling into the next dream job. Along the way, he's been the world's worst gossip columnist, an almost-hip young gunslinger at the NME, a Radio 1 DJ (enduring a hellish Radio 1 roadshow in a car park in Birmingham), an ITV presenter, EastEnders scriptwriter, ghost writer for a major TV personality and much, much more. It charts a world of hedonism, mundanity, towering egos, shallow idiocy and occasional moments of mind-blowing joy. And, of course, being sent shit in a box.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book MotorBoating written by and published by . This book was released on 1980-09 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exemption of Small Vessels from Officers' Competency Certificates Convention, 1936 written by United States. Congress. House. Merchant Marine and Fisheries and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: