Boating
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Alaska Challenge: A Journey Through Uncharted Wilderness Leading to a New Life in a New Land
Having grown disillusioned with the tedious existence that is expected of young college students, the newlyweds Bill and Ruth Albee dream of heading to Alaska—on foot—by way of a vast blank space on the map that is modern day Western British Columbia.
Like most dreams it dug into their body, mind and soul and nothing could satisfy it until they had given it a try. So, in 1930 they started off, ignoring all warnings and leaving from Vancouver on foot up through western B.C.—following a route very few white men and absolutely no white women had been on—into the Yukon and then on to Alaska down the mighty Yukon River. A journey of many thousands of miles.
Enroute are the perils of bureaucratic red tape, starvation, wolves, the disappearing Rudy, dangerous rivers, a worthless map, crazy frontiersmen, a Russian woman and her stuffed dog, friendly and unfriendly natives, and an unplanned pregnancy.
Upon reaching their goal of Alaska and wondering where to go from there Bill and Ruth accept a remote school teaching assignment in an Inuit village off of the Cape Prince of Wales on the Bering Sea. This is where they will make their home for the next year teaching and learning from the Eskimo children and parents alike. The journey to become an accepted member of the village is fraught with trying and often hilarious episodes.
And the experiences worth every minute of the hardships. For Bill and Ruth discovered something far greater than the adventure. Greater than the experience of it all. Something great, wild, wonderful and truly unexpected. . . .
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Moderate Becoming Good Later: Sea Kayaking the Shipping Forecast
An exhilarating and deeply moving story of one man’s attempt to sea kayak the areas of the Shipping Forecast, perfect for fans of The Salt Path and Attention All Shipping
Foreword by Charlie Connelly, author of Attention All Shipping
The Shipping Forecast has been described as the UK’s national lullaby: a source of dependability and calm in our often chaotic world, it has charmed millions of listeners and aided generations of seafarers across the decades. No stranger to weathering a storm after living with a rare life-limiting condition and facing the death of his brother, avid kayaker Toby Carr set out to explore the areas of the Forecast.
On a journey that took him to the harshest and most tranquil stretches of our sea, Toby found the real people, places and stories behind the familiar names and imagined environments of the well-loved BBC broadcast. From the wildness and peace of the sea, looking back at the land, Toby hoped to gain the strength and balance he knew nature could provide and to discover what anchors us to each other.
Written by Toby’s sister Katie from his extensive notes and recordings after his untimely death, Moderate Becoming Good Later is both an epic adventure – sometimes choppy, constantly moving – and a personal voyage of discovery that includes old friends and new, plenty of wildlife, and the ever-present sea.
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Sailing For Dummies, 3rd Edition
Buoy your sailing knowhow with advice from two US sailing champions
Nothing can beat the feel of the warm sun on your back, the gentle wind in your hair, and a swaying deck under your feet. If you long to take to the open water and sail wherever the wind takes you, you’ll find everything you need to know in Sailing For Dummies. This friendly guide offers information for beginning and intermediate captains. Discover everything you need to know to confidently navigate your vessel through whatever waters―rough or smooth―you may encounter. Whether your goal is to explore a nearby lake, sail down the Mighty Mississippi, or take to the open sea, Sailing For Dummies explains how to launch your vessel, tie knots, turn sails, read the water, and more.
- Figure out how to work with the wind using sails to reach your destination
- Find out how the latest technology makes sailing easier and more enjoyable
- Master the essential skills of docking, tying knots, and dropping anchor
- Learn how to read the wind, sea, and sky to know what the weather is up to
- Choose the boat that’s right for you, complete with bells and whistles
- Discover the basics of windsurfing and kiteboarding
- Satisfy your need to go farther and faster in your craft
- Know how to sail safely in tricky situations
Whether you’re dipping your toe in the water or knee deep in your pursuit of sailing excellence, this reference will come in handy as you set your sights on sailing. After spending some time with Sailing For Dummies―and even more time on the water―you’ll know the ropes!
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£16.20£17.10Sailing For Dummies, 3rd Edition
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Sea, Ice and Rock: Putting on the L-plates of Each Other’s Sport Above the Arctic Circle
After meeting on the TV programme “The Krypton Factor”, the authors of this book pooled their abilities on a light-hearted sail to Skye to climb the Cuillin Ridge. The Greenland expedition was something much more ambitious. First Robin had to nurse his famous wooden yacht through the enclosing icebergs of Watkins Fjord. Then Chris had to sort out a map discrepancy to identify the mountains they had come to climb. In the end it proved more demanding than expected and they had to turn back 200m below the true summit. But their narrative revels in the exciting climbing potential of the underexplored East Greenland and provides an account of how two very different men discovered a new dimension of adventure.Read more
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Speed Boat Safety: Beginner’s Guide to Equipment, Techniques and Guidelines You Need to Follow in Order to Make Sure That Everyone on Your Speed Boat Remains Safe and Has a Good…
★★ Buy the Paperback version of this book and get the eBook version included for FREE ★★Operating a speed boat is certainly a large responsibility regardless of the location. There are also certain guidelines and policies which you need to know about in order to make sure that you can ride your speed boat in a way that ensures that you and your passengers are without a care in the world. Showing you how to do that is what this book is all about.Riding a speed boat is pretty fun, but it’s not only about that. You also want to make sure that you have knowledge about things such as knowing if a storm is coming, recognizing sound signals, fueling your boat, among many other things contained within this book.In this book you can expect to learn about:•Safety rules you should abide by•How to drive the speed boat safely•How to avoid recreational hazards•How to use the light on your speed boat•And much more!Boat safety is important and that importance increases with every passenger you have with you. In order to get the most out of your boating experience when it finally happens, make sure that you go into it with the right knowledge to ensure that nothing can ruin your experience.If you want to learn how to remain safe on your boating adventures, then scrolling over to the Buy button is the first step towards that.Read more
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Strong Winds Are Forecast: A solo, 1850 mile journey by sea kayak, to every lifeboat station around Scotland.
This book is not just another sea kayaking adventure.For four months during the unseasonably windy summer of 2015, Nick kayaked alone to all 47 Scottish RNLI lifeboat stations. His route took him from Kippford on the Solway Firth to Eyemouth on the east coast, including the Outer Hebrides, the Orkney Isles, and the Shetland Isles. He camped wild, living simply, in tune with the cadence of Nature and the sea, and carried everything he required in his sea kayak. It was for him, a richly rewarding, life enhancing adventure.
Nick’s candid writing, with powerful and beautiful observations about his total immersion in Nature, the many selfless RNLI volunteers he met, the wild Scottish coastline he explored, and the innumerable challenges he overcame, all add vibrancy to this wonderful tale.
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The Outer Hebrides: Sea Kayaking Around the Isles & St Kilda
This is a guidebook to 44 great sea kayak trips around the archipelago of the Outer Hebrides, from Berneray to the Butt of Lewis and including St Kilda. As well as describing 44 great kayaking journeys, this book presents all the navigational and tidal information a sea kayaker needs on this magnificent section of coast. This means that it can also be used as a kayaker’s ‘pilot’ for any journey they might wish to undertake in this area. It follows the successful format of other Pesda Press sea kayaking guides, presenting the information in a user-friendly fashion and making lavish use of maps and colour photographs.Read more
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The Ultimate Fish Finder Guide ★★★★★ [2023]: How to use your fish finder the right way & catch more fish then ever
The best rated sonar book – Made in Germany!!!
► Find fish with any type of fish finder – no matter where, no matter when
135+ illustrations will help you – to better understand your fish finder images – and to precisely target hotspots. This way you’ll catch more fish!
Out on the water, your fish finder gives you a magical insight into the underwater world. However, when using it for the first time, you quickly realize that it’s not that easy …
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where the heck are the big fish?
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where should I decide to stop?
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how do I find the best hotspots?
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what are the best settings (any sonar)
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I found a big fish arch – and now? Should I stop and cast?
Answers to these questions – and many more – can be found in the “Ultimate Fish Finder Guide.”
► You will learn how to fish 80% more fish using just 20% of the settings.
These tips will save you a considerable amount of time and allow you to catch more fish.
Then it’s easy to:
– interpret fish arcs correctly
– estimate the size of the fish
– judge whether you are in a good or bad spo
– choose the right settings to find the best hotspots
– precisely navigate to these hotspots — being one foot off might make the difference.P.s. Do you wish to buy a depth finder or a fish finder or do you already have one?
This book tells you what features a fish finder really must have. So you can buy the right sonar for your needs. This will save you from making the wrong purchase and save you a lot of money.
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Wavewalker: THE INTERNATIONAL BESTELLING TRUE-STORY OF A YOUNG GIRL’S FIGHT FOR FREEDOM AND EDUCATION
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
A TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2023
‘Grippingly vivid and pacey’ THE TIMES
‘A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand miles of sailing’ SIMON WINCHESTER
‘An astonishing almost day-by-day account of [a] hazardous journey and its legacy’ TELEGRAPH
‘This is a story of an epic childhood journey, so exciting and so shocking it is hard to know whether you’re reading about a dream or a nightmare… Wavewalker is thrilling, horrifying, beautifully written – I couldn’t put it down’ ED BALLS
Aged just seven, Suzanne Heywood set sail with her parents and brother on a three-year voyage around the world. What followed turned instead into a decade-long way of life, through storms, shipwrecks, reefs and isolation, with little formal schooling. No one else knew where they were most of the time and no state showed any interest in what was happening to the children.
Suzanne fought her parents, longing to return to England and to education and stability. This memoir covers her astonishing upbringing, a survival story of a child deprived of safety, friendships, schooling and occasionally drinking water… At seventeen Suzanne earned an interview at Oxford University and returned to the UK.
From the bestselling author of What Does Jeremy Think?, Wavewalker is the incredible true story of how the adventure of a lifetime became one child’s worst nightmare – and how her determination to educate herself enabled her to escape
‘A classic memoir of childhood. This is a book that every parent should read to consider the consequences of their midlife crises, and every child should read to learn how to deal with impossible mums and dads, as well as boils and barnacles’ Mail on Sunday 5*
‘An electrifying story about an extraordinary childhood, and Heywood tells it with remarkable clarity and assurance . . . an engrossing book that pitches the reader into the highs and lows of a young life spent in the “Wavewalker School of the Sea”’TLS
Suzanne Heywood’s book ‘Wavewalker’ was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 29-05-2023.
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White Water Safety and Rescue
This work includes white water safety and rescue for canoeists, kayakers and rafters. This is a completely revised new 2006 2nd edition now in full colour throughout. What’s new in the 2nd Edition? This work includes: full colour and new photos throughout; the text has been completely revised and numerous small but significant improvements have been made; the principles of safety and rescue have been unified and the mneumonic C.L.A.P. adopted. This is to make it easier to remember them and fall in line with current practice in the teaching of white water safety. The rescue section has been reorganized to fit in more closely with the TRTTG ‘low to high risk’ model. The rafting sections have been completely rewritten by Geraint Rowlands. The chapter ‘Planning a Descent’ has been extended to cover factors to be considered when travelling abroad. One-handed signals as used by Paul O’Sullivan in his chapter in the BCU Canoe and Kayak Handbook have been adopted.Read more
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