Practical seamanship
and boatbuilding
Sailing narratives, authors D–J
SAILS
FULL AND BY
Dom Degnon
The light-hearted tale of a seven-year circumnavigation aboard the 41-foot ketch Taku. The voyage takes the author and his crew by way of the Caribbean, Polynesia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, and Australia, through numerous adventures - from encounters with the masseuses in Bali to dealing with the Yemeni secret police.
156 x 235 mm | 152 pp illus. | ISBN 0 924486 75 9 |£16.95 SH hbk
LETTERS
FROM HIGH LATITUDES
Being some account of a voyage in 1856 in the schooner yacht 'Foam'
to Iceland, Jan Meyers and Spitzbergen
Lord Dufferin
The lively style and humour of this account instantly made it a Victorian best-seller. As fresh today as the travel-writing of Eric Newby, Paul Theroux or Jonathan Raban.
'Specially recommended'
W H Auden and Louis MacNeice
216 x 138 mm | 228 pp illus. | ISBN 085036 387 X |£7.95 SB pbk
OLD
GAFFER'S TALE
Martin Eve
The story of Privateer, a traditional "old gaffer" built sixty
years ago as a fishing smack.
'A warm, modest and amusing style'
Yachting Monthly
'…a must for all people with an interest in maritime history, local history, or just boats of great character'
Boston Target
216 x 138 mm | 200 pp illus. | ISBN 085036 424 8 | £8.95 SB pbk
A
SPLENDID MADNESS
A man : a boat : a love story
Thomas Froncek
A book to stir fond memories among old sailing hands and newcomers alike. It will encourage those who dream of someday sailing their own boat, and will enable puzzled friends and family to better understand the strange obsession that grips those who adore boats and sailing.
'… so evocative, I could feel the wind and spray. Thomas Froncek has written a classic for anyone who has ever loved the water.'
Luanne Rice, author of Safe Harbour and Cloud Nine
234 x 156 mm | 212 pp | ISBN 1 57409 179 4 | £15.95 SH hbk
IN
SHACKLETON'S WAKE
Arved Fuchs
Translated by Martin Sokolinsky
In 1914, Shackleton's ship, Endurance, sank after becoming trapped in the Antarctic ice. It took Shackleton two years, a heroic voyage in the lifeboat James Caird, and the crossing on foot of South Georgia to save his crew. This is the story of a reenactment of the journey in the year 2000 - a feat whose own dangers demanded meticulous planning, exceptional courage and endurance.
235 x 137 mm | 224 pp illus. | ISBN 1 57409 138 7 | £17.99 SH hbk
SONG
OF THE SIRENS
Ernest K Gann
The story of Gann's most beloved vessels: the beautiful brigantine Albatros; Butterfly - hardly more than a raft; the flawless Thetis; and 14 others. With moments of both drama and reflective calm, Gann's ode to his 17 sirens reveals the true romantic within every sailor.
'This is a book to be read and then kept comfortably close at hand to be read again, simply for the sheer joy of reading.'
Chicago Sun Times
229 x 149 mm | 336 pp | ISBN 1 57409 092 5 | £12.99 SH pbk
GOSSIP
Cecily Gould
The story of a twelve-metre cutter built in 1899, the remarkable man who owned her from 1920, and the adventures he and his family had in her, from the time his children were small, through the war years, and after. With an account of her last years after 1964, under French ownership, before the final disaster.
'This is a delightful book … worth reading again and again.'
The Little Ship
216 x 138 mm | 224 pp illus. | ISBN 0 95427 500 4 | £9.95 SB pbk
ROUGH
PASSAGE
Commander R.D. Graham
Being the narrative of the first single-handed voyage to Newfoundland, Labrador, and Bermuda in the seven ton yacht Emanuel and the subsequent return to England with a soldier crew. During the voyage he encountered hurricanes, food poisoning and many challenges in a small engineless gaff cutter long before the days of GPS. This voyage is one of the most remarkable and adventurous small boat voyages of modern times. Commander Graham won the Blue Water medal of the Cruising Club of America in 1939.In this new edition there is previously unpublished information about the eight year, twelve thousand hour restoration of Emanuel carried out by Robert Holden faithfully restoring her to her original state.Also included is Helen's account of their trip to the Faeroe Islands in 1929 described as the most out-of the -way archipelago in the world.Foreword by Maldwin Drummond and an Afterword by Captain Ian Tew, Commander Graham's grandson who followed in his wake.
216 x 138 mms • 224 pages Illus • ISBN 0 9547062 4 2 • Price: £12.95 pbk
JACKIRON
A Caribbean adventure
Robert Wallace Hudson
A destitute American charter boat captain in the Caribbean reluctantly accepts an impossible job: skippering an unseaworthy old rust bucket loaded with drilling gear from Trinidad to Guadeloupe. It takes determination, luck, expert seamanship, and two trips to overcome storms, leaks, engine trouble, and mutiny.
'… a gripping story…'
Caribbean compass
216 x 137 mm | 192 pp | ISBN 1 57409 133 6 | £12.99 SH pbk
THE
BIGGEST BOAT I COULD AFFORD
4000 kilometres with a damn fool in a dinghy
Lee Hughes
Wanting to overcome his 'great fear' of the sea and sailing - and to escape a creeping midlife crisis - New Zealander Lee, with no money for anything with a cabin, buys Frank Dye's Wanderer dinghy and sails it from Florida, 4000 km alone up the US Eastern Seaboard on a voyage of challenge and discovery. He learns the ways of the sea and the inland waterways by trial and error. Beached, swamped, and bitten by insects, he is sustained by the kindness of strangers and the friendliness of the American people.
'…an enjoyable read with plenty of humour'
Lloyd's List
234 x 153 mm |304 pp illus.| ISBN 0 95427 504 7 | £12.95 SHSB pbk
PIRATES ABOARD!
40 Cases of piracy today and what bluewater cruisers can do about it
KLAUS HYMPENDAHL
In 1895, Joshua Slocum, the first man to sail alone around the world, scattered thumbtacks on the sole of Spray to repel an attack by intruders on Tierra del Fuego. In December 2001, an attack on Sir Peter Blake's yacht in Brazil resulted in his death. Pirates Aboard! deals with recent cases of piracy studied by author Klaus Hympendahl, who interviewed the victims of about 40 cases. He asks them what lessons they learned from their hostile encounter and what they would suggest others do differently to avoid (or just survive) similar incidents. He then gives an appraisal of which areas in the world are the most dangerous, including Somalia, the Gulf of Aden, Venezuela, Guatemala, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and parts of Brazil. This invaluable document suggests what preventive measures sailors can take and advises how they should deal with stress, aggression, and fear when faced with a confrontation.
'This volume is well-written, forceful and hard to put down'
Cruising World
228 x 148 mms • 336 pages Illus • ISBN 1574092308 • Price: £12.95 pbk
UP
THE CREEK
A Lifetime spent trying to be a sailor
Tony James
Up The Creek charts Tony James' unintentional voyage from his father's broad-bean bed, in land locked Derbyshire, to a marina in Somerset via the Caribbean, the Persian Gulf and the bottom of a swimming pool in Ottery St Mary.On the way Tony gathers a motley crew of unforgettable eccentrics and maritime misfits, brought to a hilarious life by his acute observation of the ridiculous and by his wry acceptance that whatever happens at sea, things can only get worse. The funniest and most original sailing book for years.
Tony James is a freelance journalist and writer. Formerly he was a theatrical entrepreneur, magazine agony aunt, crime writer, Fleet Street editor and education correspondent of the Jamaican Daily Gleaner. The author of over twenty books he still writes regularly for thirty publications world-wide.Tony lives with his partner Vivienne on the edge of Exmoor. When not at sea he plays jazz trombone and makes model boats. Over the last fifty years he has sailed the equivalent of twice round the world, stopping off as often as possible for chocolate cake. He still doesn't know why he goes sailing.
216 x 135 mms • 220 pages Illus • ISBN 0 9547062 7 7• Price: £9.95 pbk
YANKEE
JACK SAILS AGAIN
Tony James
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ADRIFT
Tristan Jones
After a 60,000-mile voyage from the Dead Sea to Lake Titicaca, Jones is arrested in Buenos Aires. And after helping a Chilean friend to escape, he lands up in jail in Uruguay. On finally making it home to Britain, his boat, Sea Dart, is impounded by customs because he can't pay the 'import' tax. In recouinting these and other adventures, Tristan Jones tells a harrowing and moving story.
229 x 149 mm | 272 pp | ISBN 0 924486 30 9 | £12.95 SH pbk
AKA
Tristan Jones
Bill Conan, a middle-aged adventurer, has entered a 30,000-mile solo race around the world - his last chance to win status and success. His course leads him across the Atlantic, to disaster. Overboard, in the open sea, things look bad, but then comes Aka and his dolphin tribe, who work to keep him alive.
'A lyrical and intelligent account of both man and dolphin and the relationship they have to the sea and to each other... '
Library Journal
229 x 149 mm | 208 pp, illus. | ISBN 1 57409 026 7 | £12.99 SH pbk
SAGA
OF A WAYWARD SAILOR
Tristan Jones
Aboard his beloved Cresswell, a converted wooden lifeboat. Jones survives storms, dismastings, arrest by the Soviet navy, the smuggling of Edam cheeses and Barbary apes, and being sunk by whales. Quintessential Jones: exciting, poignant, outrageous and thoroughly amusing.
'Here's a rollicking yarn of small boat seafaring, packed with incidents and characters to make you gasp and stretch your eyes.'
Practical Boat Owner
210 x 137 mm | 276 pp, 4 maps | ISBN 0 924486 79 1 | £11.95 SH pbk
YARNS
Tristan Jones
These stories by one of the great sailor-adventurers of our times represent some of Jones's finest work - his marvellous evocation in the style of Sir Conan Doyle of the mystery of the Mary Celeste, the Conrad-inspired story of a troubled steamship, a strange rendez-vous on the coast of Africa and much more. Readers will return again and again to this selection, for wonder and inspiration.
'In the realm of seagoing adventure tales,no modern writer can match Tristan Jones.'
Publishers Weekly
216 x 137 mm | 232 pp | ISBN 0 924486 02 3 | £12.95 SH pbk
THE
LONE RANGER STORY
From Salvage Tug to Superyacht
John Julian
Lone Ranger worked as a salvage tug (then named Simson) and towed some of the largest oil installations ever built during twenty of the most challenging years in the history of the business. During the mid-1990s she embarked on a second career and has become the world's pre-eminent exploration yacht. As befits her name she goes to the cold extremes of latitude where few other ships are found, but is also seen in the warm seas of the Caribbean and Mediterranean.Here, her proud and purposeful lines stand out among pleasure craft that have never battled through a storm to take a distressed ship in tow or stood by bulk carrier threatened with destruction on a lee shore. She begins her fourth decade as supremely seaworthy as ever with more long voyages in prospect, thanks to the vision and commitment of her owner and crew.
John Julian grew up in Hampshire UK His early career was with Lloyds of London. He has sailed racing and cruising yachts in Europe and overseas for 25 years. He first became involved with super yachts as a broker in 1994. His first book Super Yachts was published in 2000.
235 x 305 mm | 160 pp illus.| ISBN 0 9550243 0 7 | £19.95 pbk
Sailing narratives
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