Download or read book Big Water Little Boats written by Tom Martin and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Using historic photos, river logs, letters and interviews, author Tom Marin recounts the voyages of a number of unsung river runners during the transformation from Grand Canyon expeditionary river running into today's whitewater recreation" -- Cover, p. [4].
Download or read book Big Boats written by Catherine Ipcizade and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2010 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simple text and photographs describe big boats.
Download or read book How to Avoid Huge Ships written by John W. Trimmer and published by Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are the owner-captain of a luxury fifty-foot trawler motoring across the bay with your family and a few friends one balmy summer evening. Off in the distance, beyond the bridge spanning the waterway, you can make out the lights and shape of a containership moving down the channel. Have you ever wondered what action you must take to keep clear of that fast-approaching ship? This book will tell you how to do so quickly. Conscientious skippers are wise to read this book and discover if a ship's radar will pick up a small boat at night. It is fascinating to learn what is taking place on the bridge or down in the engine room of one of these leviathans as it heads your way. Can it be stopped before it hits you? Learn how to protect yourself and your loved ones by reading this book written for the private boat owner/captain.
Download or read book Jonathan and the Big Blue Boat written by Philip C. Stead and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jonathan loses his best friend, a stuffed bear named Frederick, he sets sail on the Big Blue Boat to find him. Along the way he assembles a ragtag crew, including a mountain goat, a lonely circus elephant, and even a friendly whale. Adventure and intrigue (and pirates!) follow. This title has Common Core connections.
Download or read book Cruising the Big U written by Ade Salzer; Jo Salzer and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jo and Ade spent over three fantastic years crusing the Big U in a 43' Selene Trawler, Wandering Star. Besides having fun, their vision was to demonstrate that you don't have to cross oceans and go around the world to have the incredible adventure of a lifetime.
Download or read book Wooden Boats of the St Lawrence River written by David Kunz and Bill Simpson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Thousand Islands' very name conjures up images of great natural beauty and nautical wonders. They are forested islands replete with storybook stone castles. Exquisite mahogany runabouts can be seen speeding across the placid surface of the mighty St. Lawrence. Names like Boldt, Bourne, Emery, Lyon, and Pullman are embedded in the Golden Age of the area, and it all comes to life in this pictorial history of the river. Images of America: Wooden Boats of the St. Lawrence River tells the story of the rich and powerful men who constructed castles and built classic wooden boats in the Thousand Islands. At the center of the story loom David and Charlie Lyon. A descendant of the Lyon family, David Kunz, tells this story through historical photographs. David is the great-great-nephew of Charles Potter Lyon and Helen Griffin Lyon. Bill Simpson, whose first visit to the Thousand Islands was in the fall of 1976, is a novelist and publisher of Simpson Books. The majority of the photographs in this book are from the Lyon Archives on Oak Island"--
Download or read book Boats written by David Seybold and published by Atlantic Monthly Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title presents stories, poems, and essays by such authors as Annie Dillard, Peter Matthiessen, John Hersey, Rick Bass, and Robert Silverberg.
Download or read book Metal Boats written by Ken Scott and published by Sheridan House, Inc.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ken Scott is a writer and sailing enthusiast.
Download or read book The Big Book of Real Boats and Ships written by George J. Zaffo and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Just Boats vol 1 written by Big Book of Photos and published by Big Book of Photos. This book was released on with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a wonderful collection of 30 high-quality amazing images produced by a series of today's top professional photographers. Enjoy and be inspired!
Download or read book Boats written by Cathy Tatge and published by The Creative Company. This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big colorful pictures and simple text introduce you to a fundamental look at Boats. With a hands-on activity and listing of relevant book references, this title will be a great resource for your young readers.
Download or read book 25 Woodworking Projects for Small and Large Boats written by Peter H. Spectre and published by WoodenBoat Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well-known as the editor of the best-selling annual Mariner's Book of Days, Peter Spectre lives in Spruce Head, Maine.
Download or read book The Compleat Cruiser written by L. Francis Herreshoff and published by Seafarer Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famed yacht designer and author L. Francis Herreshoff takes us on family style cruises in American waters, during which all sorts of boats and boating skills are explained while they are used. He tells about the adventures of the crews of the catboat Piscator, the ketch Viator, and the engineless whaleboat-style ketch Rozinante. There are anecdotes and examples and a wide variety of boat lore in each chapter, as well as adventures, races and coastwide cruises and historical harbors to visit.
Download or read book The Motor Boat written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Boats Go written by Sean MacDumont and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boats are amazing machines that let us travel from place to play on water. Boats big and small all help us get around, navigating waters we couldn't travel without the aid of these helpful crafts. Young readers learn that boats are an exciting way to go in this book full of full-color photographs paired with accessible text. From visiting islands in the sea to crossing rivers and streams, they'll see how boats of all shapes and sizes are used by people to go from here to there.
Download or read book Motor Boat written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Motor Boats written by United States. Congress. House. Merchant Marine and Fisheries and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
