Download or read book Second Wind written by Nathaniel Philbrick and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A charming memoir of midlife by the bestselling author of Mayflower and In the Hurricane's Eye, recounting his attempt to recapture a national sailing championship he'd won at twenty-two. “There had been something elemental and all consuming about a Sunfish. Nothing could compare to the exhilaration of a close race in a real blow—the wind howling and spray flying as my Sunfish and I punched through the waves to the finish.” In the spring of 1992, Nat Philbrick was in his late thirties, living with his family on Nantucket, feeling stranded and longing for that thrill of victory he once felt after winning a national sailing championship in his youth. Was it a midlife crisis? It was certainly a watershed for the journalist-turned-stay-at-home dad, who impulsively decided to throw his hat into the ring, or water, again. With the bemused approval of his wife and children, Philbrick used the off-season on the island as his solitary training ground, sailing his tiny Sunfish to its remotest corners, experiencing the haunting beauty of its tidal creeks, inlets, and wave-battered sandbars. On ponds, bays, rivers, and finally at the championship on a lake in the heartland of America, he sailed through storms and memories, racing for the prize, but finding something unexpected about himself instead.
Download or read book Sailing Close to the Wind written by Dennis Skinner and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-09-18 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dennis Skinner, the famed Beast of Bolsover, is adored by legions of supporters and respected as well as feared by admiring enemies. Fiery and forthright, with a prodigious recall, Skinner is one of the best-known politicians in Britain. He remains as passionate and committed to the causes he champions as on the first day he entered the House of Commons back in 1970. In an age of growing cynicism about politicians, the witty and astute Skinner is renowned as a brightly burning beacon of principle. He has watched Prime Ministers come and go - Heath, Wilson, Callaghan, Thatcher, Major, Blair, Brown - and yet remains uncorrupted by patronage and compromise. Cameron discovered Skinner's popularity when a public backlash forced the current PM to apologise in Parliament for calling Skinner a dinosaur who should be in a museum. Skinner at eighty has a unique take on post-war Britain. A combatant in the great social, industrial and political upheavals of the last half century, he's resisted telling his extraordinary story. Until now.
Download or read book Close to the Wind written by Pete Goss and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pete Goss shares his adventures and philosophy - and the lessons learned - during the Vendee Globe race and the ten years of preparation for it. He tells of the dramas of the race, including his rescue of Frenchman Raphael Dinelli, along with his thoughts during his solitude at sea.
Download or read book Close to the Wind written by John Harris and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sailing Against the Wind written by Toni Larson and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-26 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sailing Against the Wind" was written in 1980, though never published. It is an accounting of the three years the Larson family lived and traveled on a ketch rigged sailboat. The book is intended, not as an instruction manual on how to sail, but entirely as a diary of daily life and the difficulties found in close quarters while at sea. All five family members kept journals and when Toni sat down to write this, the journals gave a clear and accurate guide for her to work with. Over all the years since this manuscript was written, people have quizzed them, "What was it like? How did you do it? Was it hard? Were you scared?" The manuscript answers all those questions and has been shared with friends and family who were curious. The book does not cover the finer details of charting, trimming sails, repairing the engine, etc. Instead, it reveals how to live, survive, love and learn as a family while sailing against the wind. Now, in this era of downsizing into boats, rv's and tiny houses this diary of events may have relevance. The mid-1970s were the last years before the introduction of personal computers, the Internet, email, GPS, ATM, cell phones, and all forms of advanced electronics. Those things were not even available on the most luxurious boats at the time this adventure occurred. Navigation tools in the '70s were almost identical to that of explorers some 250 years before. However, if all those wonderful inventions had been available, it still would not have saved them from the many mishaps they encountered. And that is the lesson of this book.
Download or read book Wind of Peace written by Elli K. Straus and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Realizing that the time is right to act on their crazy idea of pulling their two daughters out of school for a year, shut down the house, and embark on a sailing sabbatical, Elli and her husband David, pitch the idea to their daughters. With just a few months planning time available, what follows is a mad rush to take sailing lessons, buy and equip a boat, devote countless hours to researching every aspect of their trip, and attempt to convince friends and relatives that they haven't completely lost their minds. Temporary home found for their beloved dog Chester, boat stuffed with provisions, charts, and safety gear, their trip is almost over before it even begins when a strong summer squall causes their 42' sailboat to drag through the anchorage on their journey's first stormy night.
Download or read book Sea Change written by Peter Nichols and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1997 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A seaworthy memoir chronicling Nichol's five year sailing adventure and the capsize of both his boat and his marriage. More than the typical adventure tale, the story follows Nichols and his wife's journey on their small wooden boat, Toad, the dissolution of the marriage, and Nichols' solitary return during which he ponders sailing lore and the hidden truths of his marriage, and finally confronts survival. The journey ends as he is rescued from the deck of his sinking boat and delivered to an optimistic but uncertain future. Lacks bibliography and index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Sail Tales written by Robert L. Engel and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sail Tales" is about the adventures a humble sailboat owner had over the years. So where does one start writing about these adventures? You start at the beginning. That beginning was in 1967 when I was helping a friend of mine, Frank, re-build an old wooden boat that he had bought. Frank took the whole boat apart and then rebuilt it from the frames up. It was a sleek little craft and I found myself involved in his project. Frank found a similar craft and with his promise of help, I bought it. I spent the whole winter and most of the spring doing the things that had to be done to the boat to get it ready for the summer of 69. I knew nothing about about sailing. But how hard could it be to learn? I soon found out. My sailing adventures started that summer. I learned quickly that unlike a power boat, a sailboat is not a craft that you get aboard, turn a key and then drive it like a car. You have to sail the boat. You have to do what the wind lets you do. You can't go directly where you want to go because the wind won't allow it. You have to finesse, you have be diplomatic, you have to learn to tweak a sail rather than over trim. Well, I learned to get that sailboat from point to point. I also learned that time on a sailboat is not the same as time on land and I learned this on my very first trip on my first sailboat. That three hour trip ended up taking thirteen hours. Read about it. The time of a sailboat trip can not be predicted. If you need to get to a certain place at a certain time take a bus not a sailboat. An afternoon trip has more than once become a late nighter. " Leave your watches ashore." That's what I tell everyone before they step foot aboard. I don't know what time we'll be back but I'm certain that we will be back. My very first sailboat trip was not a late nighter but rather an early morning return. Speaking of time, How long does it take you to hang a calender on your wall? You get a stick pin and put it through a hole in the calender and stick the pin in the cork board. Thirty seconds? It took me the better part of three hours to hang a calender on the boat. First I had to get the tape from the old calender off the wall. For this project I had to find the razor blade scrapper. Then I had to run to the hardware store to get new blades for it. The scrapper got the top layer of the tape off the wall but the sticky part of the tape just rolled up into little balls. I had to go back to the hardware store for some solvent to get the sticky balls off the wall. Then and only then was I able to re-tape the new calender to the wall. I have since put the scrapper in it's place so I can find it next time. I hope I remember that place. Imagine what a project it is to install a new pedestal steering system or an new diesel engine. Imagine the time it takes to make an old boat a safe craft, a boat ready to sail, and the keyword is safe. It took me the better part of four years to make my Morgan 38 the boat I wanted it to be. And notice I'm not saying anything about the cost. That's another story. And these are some of the stories I tell. This is the third boat I have redone. But it is the last boat that I will redo. I'm getting too old for this rebuilding stuff. Parts of "Sail Tales" tells about projects such as what I have just described. But the majority of the stories are about sailing trips where something happens. If you are a sailor or if you own a sailboat, sit back and try to remember trips that were dull and boring. They don't pop into your mind. But what does pop are the adventures, the thrill of the wind that is blowing just a bit harder than you would like. You remember the trips where the rail is in the water for most of the day and how you were able to keep the boat under control. You remember the trips where there was no wind and the day became a motor day. You remember entering an anchorage and finding someone there from your marina or someo
Download or read book As Wild as the Wind written by James Lee Meadows and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-06 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wild adventure sailing a tiny Sunfish sailboat from Miami to Boston, involving over 300 coastline characters of all walks of life, a 110-day sea saga. James Lee Meadows' Screwy Sea Saga Featuring A Wild Cast Of Over 300 Coastline Characters.
Download or read book With Reckless Abandon written by Jim Sharp and published by Devereux Books (MA). This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imbued with a sea captain’s outlook on life and the optimistic attitudes found in overcoming obstacles--from battling childhood polio to preparing and maintaining a 100-year-old wooden schooner--this autobiography regales the life of a leading windjammer captain and tugboat skipper. Packed with wonderful characters and salty adventures--from a mutinous cook to sailing through nor’easters--this inspirational life story takes readers from ports of call in Florida and the Bahamas to the foggy shores of Maine.
Download or read book Close to the Wind the Early Memoirs 1866 1879 written by Sir William Rooke Creswell and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Blue Water Green Skipper written by Stuart Woods and published by Putnam Adult. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author's memoir of sailing alone across the Atlantic, with a new afterword that looks back at how one transatlantic race changed his life.
Download or read book Sailing with the Wind written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Before the Wind True Stories about Sailing written by David Gowdey and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book This is Down Wind Sailing written by John Oakeley and published by A & C Black. This book was released on 1981 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book By the Wind written by Richard Baum and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sailing Troubadour Reminiscences With Illustrations written by Betty J. KLITGAARD and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
