Sailing Close to the Wind: Reminiscences
Author: Dennis Skinner
Publisher: Quercus Books
Published: 2015-08
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781782061595
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Author: Dennis Skinner
Publisher: Quercus Books
Published: 2015-08
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781782061595
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas WEST (Wesleyan Minister.)
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Published: 1865
Total Pages: 538
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Cecil Sloane-Stanley
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Published: 1893
Total Pages: 480
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Toni Larson
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Published: 2021-11-26
Total Pages: 251
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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.
Author: Sir William Henry Bundey
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Published: 1888
Total Pages: 306
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Published: 1956
Total Pages: 217
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Published: 1910
Total Pages: 628
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Pete Goss
Publisher: Headline
Published: 2010-03-04
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 0755361229
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPete Goss became a national and international hero when he rescued French yachtsman Raphael Dinelli as his boat sank beneath him in the round-the-world single-handed sailing race, the Vendee Globe, on Christmas Day 1996. In doing so Pete scuppered his own chances in the race but was awarded theLegion d'Honneur by France's president and made a friend for life in Dinelli.Close to the Wind is his own story of the race and its dramas, his revolutionary boat,Aqua Quorum, his thoughts and emotions during four months of solitude at sea, the extraordinary surgery that he had to perform on his own elbow and the aftermath of the rescue in the Southern Ocean.
Author: Nathaniel Philbrick
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2018-03-06
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0143132091
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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.
Author: Sir William Rooke Creswell
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Published: 1965
Total Pages: 21
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