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Author: Eric C. Hiscock
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9780393033076
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the story of Susan and Eric Hiscocks last voyage in the steel ketch Wanderer IV from their home in New Zealand to the west coast of Canada. On their return, they decided to replace the Wanderer IV with a smaller wooden sloop-rigged yacht. The maiden voyage of Wanderer V is not a tale of idyllic sailing.
Author: Daniel Hays
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: 1995-01-01
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 1565121023
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraces a father and son journey around South America in a tiny boat they built together
Author: Cruising Club of America. Technical Committee
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780393033113
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSurveys trends in yacht design, discusses safety, modern construction techniques, spars, rigging, sails, and auxiliary equipment, and describes five good boats.
Author: G. Bruce Knecht
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2013-03-05
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1416576002
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTells the story of Doug Von Allmen's plan to build an extraordinary yacht and the way that the 2008 financial crisis threatened the project and the livelihood of the one thousand employees of the shipyard where it was built.
Author: Gwyneth Lewis
Publisher:
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9780007120635
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn her forties and recovering from a long battle against depression and alcoholism, Welsh poet Gwyneth Lewis decided to trade in her landlubber life - a nice house in Cardiff and a sensible job at the BBC - for life aboard a small yacht with her husband Leighton, a former bosun with the Merchant Navy and now in his mid-sixties.
Author: Donald M. Street
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Published: 1978-10-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA guide for the individual who has sailed small crafts and is interested in owning a cruising yacht, that provides practical data on boat construction, maintenance, navigation, and safety
Author: Nick Mason
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2013-10-03
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781492847984
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Nick Mason (15) and Sebastian Page Franklin (16) announced they were going to sail the 160 nautical miles around the island of Mallorca to raise money for charity, they had a knackered boat and very limited sailing experience. With the help and enthusiasm of 563 Very Nice People, they won a Best of British competition and embarked on a life-changing adventure. Meet Freddy the bird; Mo, Jo and the awesome chicken; the Hollywood film star who adopts grubby teens; the indestructable poo and Brad - the Aussie with a shark fetish. Follow the boys through their brushes with angry life guards, getting caught out in huge seas, encounters with "mega fauna", being run down by fishing boats and very nearly losing their dinghy forever ...
Author: Renee Petrillo
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Published: 2012-04-06
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 007178246X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“It was the best of dreams, it was the worst of dreams, it was an age of consulting the nautical experts, it was the age of landlubber foolishness, it was the epoch of determination, it was the epoch of despair, it was the season of hurricanes, it was a spring of beachcombing...” If you dream about chucking it all away and sailing toward an island life, read this first Renee and Michael didn’t have any boating experience and when their plans to remedy that fell through the two had to learn everything the hard way. Despite themselves they managed to get from Miami to Grenada, eventually dropping the anchor of their cruising catamaran at the island of their dreams. Determined to save future sailors from themselves, A Sail of Two Idiots includes lessons Renee and Michael learned and shares them with you as examples of what and what not to do. This a how-to guide wrapped in a funny story—kind of like getting your serving of vegetables from a slice of pizza. Read this and make your dream of sailing away a reality. Includes: “What Broke?” sections explores the ongoing maintenance and upkeep of a cruising multihull "Island” section provide assessments of the islands of the Caribbean
Author: Donald McMenamin
Publisher:
Published: 2018-05-31
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9781987768664
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is an easy to read yet deceptively challenging introduction to ideas and practices from narrative therapy. Through text and picture, it describes life as a series of journeys from one island to another - as migrations of identity towards what is valued. With clear explanations and helpful illustrations, this book explores how re-writing the stories of our lives can powerfully help us get where we are wanting to go.
Author: Fred Schwed, Jr.
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2006-01-10
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780471770893
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Once I picked it up I did not put it down until I finished. . . . What Schwed has done is capture fully-in deceptively clean language-the lunacy at the heart of the investment business." -- From the Foreword by Michael Lewis, Bestselling author of Liar's Poker ". . . one of the funniest books ever written about Wall Street." -- Jane Bryant Quinn, The Washington Post "How great to have a reissue of a hilarious classic that proves the more things change the more they stay the same. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent." -- Michael Bloomberg "It's amazing how well Schwed's book is holding up after fifty-five years. About the only thing that's changed on Wall Street is that computers have replaced pencils and graph paper. Otherwise, the basics are the same. The investor's need to believe somebody is matched by the financial advisor's need to make a nice living. If one of them has to be disappointed, it's bound to be the former." -- John Rothchild, Author, A Fool and His Money, Financial Columnist, Time magazine Humorous and entertaining, this book exposes the folly and hypocrisy of Wall Street. The title refers to a story about a visitor to New York who admired the yachts of the bankers and brokers. Naively, he asked where all the customers' yachts were? Of course, none of the customers could afford yachts, even though they dutifully followed the advice of their bankers and brokers. Full of wise contrarian advice and offering a true look at the world of investing, in which brokers get rich while their customers go broke, this book continues to open the eyes of investors to the reality of Wall Street.
