Download or read book Schooner from Windward written by Mifflin Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of travel by sea along the Hawaiian coasts and between the Hawaiian Islands.
Download or read book Hand Reef and Steer written by Tom Cunliffe and published by Sheridan House, Inc.. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handbook on sailing classic boats by the 'guru of gaff-rig sailors', replete with illustrations and clear descriptions of techniques that are unique to the classic boat world.
Download or read book Anchor to Windward written by Edwin Valentine Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Windward Passage written by Randall Peffer and published by . This book was released on 2023-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINDWARD PASSAGE is a legendary ocean-racing yacht. No sailboat of the modern era has stirred more emotion, or caused more consternation for competitors, than WINDWARD PASSAGE. She was built of wood on a Bahamian beach, to plans by a young and then-untested designer. Since the day of her launching she has had a magic career, breaking all the norms of her day and causing competitors to spend vast fortunes building boat after boat to beat her. And again and again, long after she was no longer supposed to be competitive, she simply kept winning. WINDWARD PASSAGE is an unparalleled racing yacht that has enjoyed a succession of dedicated owners and competent crews. She remains in pristine condition today, and is a cherished icon maintained in pristine condition-an expression of timeless good design, fine materials, and exceptional stewardship. This is her story, told through the words of the veteran marine journalist Randall Peffer and brilliant images by the southern California photographer Steve Jost.
Download or read book The Beat to Windward written by William Merrill and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-29 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This true story is a love song and journey surrounding the history and experiences of one unique sailboat class "the Flying 15" and young sailor. Written from childhood to adult encounters, it's a captivating story starting in Pennsylvania and ending in San Diego's Mission Bay. From high sea drama, a helicopter crash, chaos, and dismasting, it proves to be a good read. There is wisdom to be found in "the voice of command" and the all-important "checklist." Each short story can stand by itself or be read as a whole. No special knowledge is needed, but the reader will gain scope, insight, and be informed about sailing, safety, and the value of true experiences and relationships. This is a love story about a boy and the history of one special boat. You will be moved at the end and come to love it.
Download or read book Yacht Design Explained written by Steve Killing and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first guide to design aimed at every sailor. The authors examine a range of boats, from a 14-foot dinghy to a 40-foot cruiser, a catamaran to an offshore singlehander, to show what makes hulls, keels, ballast, rudders, foils, masts, and sails work. Their explanations include state-of-the-art graphics, dynamic charts, and photographs.
Download or read book Understanding Boat Design written by Edward S. Brewer and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 1993-11-22 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For new boating enthusiasts--even if they've been at it awhile--there are scores of burning questions. If one boat has a round bottom and another's is veed, what difference does it make in the way they perform? What are the advantages of a cutter rig over a sloop? Why does one sailor swear by a full keel, while others won't have anything but a fin keel? Why does one powerboat have more flare in its topsides than another? And what is flare? Why do some hull shapes look "right"? How big an engine and propeller will it take to move that powerboat? What elements make a boat safe, or comfortable? Understanding Boat Design has been the place to look for quick, uncomplicated answers since 1971. Founder of the Yacht Design Institute, a highly respected designer for more than 30 years, and a frequent contributor to SAIL, Cruising World, and other magazines, Ted Brewer has again revised his classic primer. This new volume has been greatly expanded and contains information on many aspects of design that were not even thought of twenty years ago. Understanding Boat Design has eased tens of thousands of readers into the complex world of small-craft design. It is the ideal introduction for backyard boatbuilders, students of boat design, or someone looking to buy a first boat. "This tight little book should be required reading."--Soundings "A natural for those embarking on a first purchase, or the amateur builder."--Sailing "One of the cleanest and clearest expositions on the elements of yacht design ever published . . . by a naval architect who knows what he is talking about."--WoodenBoat
Download or read book Tancook Schooners written by Wayne M. O'Leary and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1994-09-07 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wayne O'Leary provides detailed descriptions of how the schooners were conceived and perfected, and paints a vivid picture of life on Tancook from the late eighteenth century into the twentieth century. He shows how national and international developments affected the lives of the Tancook Islanders and the character and uses of the vessel for which they became famous. He also includes many stories about individual builders and a wealth of photographs and drawings. The Tancook Schooners will be of interest to maritime enthusiasts as well as maritime, economic, and social historians.
Download or read book The Sailing Boat a description of English and Foreign boats their varieties of rig and practical directions for sailing etc written by Henry Coleman FOLKARD and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Float Your Boat written by Mark Denny and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2008-12-15 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An estimated 4.1 million people in the United States participate in recreational sailing. Yet the large library of sailing literature leaves many of them high and dry. On one side are technical guides for America’s Cup boat-builders; on the other, simplistic books for weekend sailors with little interest in science. In Float Your Boat! professional and amateur boaters alike will find intelligent and understandable answers to such questions as: What were the key innovations that made sailboats more efficient? How do you increase the speed of a boat? How do sailboats travel into the wind? Why are so many explanations of sailing so wrong? Sailing enthusiast and physicist Mark Denny first traces the evolution of the sailing craft, from prehistoric coracles made of animal skins and antlers to the sailboat’s reinvention as a pleasure craft during the Industrial Revolution. He then identifies specific sailing phenomena—how wind drives modern Bermuda sloops, how torque determines stability, why hull speed exists—and provides the key physics principles behind them. Whether you are an inquisitive landlubber who has never set foot in a boat, a casual weekend sailor, or an old salt who lives for the sea, Float Your Boat! is an accessible guide to the physics of sailing.
Download or read book The Persistence of Sail in the Age of Steam written by Donna J. Souza and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Archaeology Under Water (1966: 19), pioneer nautical archaeologist George Bass pointed out how much easier it is to train someone who is already an archaeologist to become a diver than to take trained divers and teach them to do archaeology. While this is 'generally true, there have also been occasions when well-trained and enthusiastic sport-divers have been willing to accept the train ing and discipline necessary to conduct good archaeological science, becoming first-rate scholars in the process. Dr. Donna Souza's book is the product of just such a transition. It shows how a sport-diver and volunteer fieldworker can proceed through a rigorous graduate program to achieve research results that are convincing in their own right and point toward new directions in the discipline as a whole. What is new in this book for maritime archaeology? Perhaps the most obvious and important feature of Dr. Souza's archaeological and historical analysis of the wreck at Pulaski Reef and its contemporaries in the Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida, is the way it serves as a means to a larger end---namely an understanding of the social history of the transition from sail to steam in late nineteenth century maritime commerce in America. The relationship between changes in technology and culture is a classic theme in anthropology, and this study extends ~t theme into the domain of underwater archaeology.
Download or read book The Sailing Boat written by Henry Coleman Folkard and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Voyages to Windward written by Elsie Hulsizer and published by . This book was released on 2015-08 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quarter-century of sailing, discovering the west coast of Vancouver Island.
Download or read book Naval Battles from 1744 to the Peace in 1814 written by Sir Charles Ekins and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gentleman s Guide to Passages South written by Bruce Van Sant and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-03-14 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the Tenth and last Edition of the popular directions for sailing south to the Bahamas and the Caribbean. For more than twenty years Van Sant repeatedly surveyed nearly 200 anchorages between Florida and South America. He racked up well over 80,000 sea miles doing it, mostly single-handed. Why? You'll find some interesting answers in his book of stories, Margarita Cat, but es-sentially, he did it because he liked doing it. Sailing up and down the chain of islands so much and so often, he got to looking for shorter and easier ways to navigate between each link in the chain, and he kept refining detailed nav plans for every leg. He has systematically taken the thorns out of the route they used to call the Thorny Path. For example, he exploits the calming effects on wind and sea which result from land cooling on each side of an inter-island passage. Applying his many methods, both sail and power can make safe, comfortable and pleasant progress even against normally impenetrable trade winds and seas. Passages South offers an illustrated manual of instruction for specific passages and harbors down islands as well as a cruising guide for the Greater Antilles islands of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico. It has sailed aboard tens of thousands of boats passaging between the Americas. It should sail with you too.
Download or read book Down to the Sea written by Joseph E. Garland and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2000 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the swift but perilous Gloucester schooners and of the men who built, sailed, raced and fished them.
Download or read book Sailing A Guide for Everyman written by Aubrey De Selincourt and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This antiquarian book contains a comprehensive and novice-friendly guide to sailing. Including all the information a beginner needs to know, this accessible and profusely illustrated guide constitutes the ideal introductory book. Although old, the information contained within this volume is timeless, and would be of considerable utility to the modern enthusiast. Chapters include: “Is It Expensive?”, “Old Boats and New”, “Beginning to Sail”, “Engines”, “Rigs”, “Cruising: Gear”, “Cruising: Buoys and Charts”, “Cruising: Coastal Navigation”, “Some Miscellaneous Tips”, “Maintenance”, “Flags and Rule of the Road”... and more. This vintage book is being republished now in an affordable, modern edition - complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on sailing.
