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This book of non-fishing, recreational powerboats, a step up from the very basic Power Boating for Dummies, offers the avid boater or novice a comprehensive overview of the hobby. Packed inside are how-to articles, builder histories and addresses, and engine option details. This 2002 publication is being offered at a special low price prior to the 2010 release of an updated edition.
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There are many books available that teach sailing skills for avid sailors. This is for those who are new to sailing, those who are thinking about sailing and those who will just be a guest along for a ride.Having sailed for many years in various parts of the world, I've learned that most people are not aware of what to expect or what is expected of them when going for a sail. Knowing some sailing basics will make the sailing experience more enjoyable...
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This book was written specifically to help amateur photographers capture stunning, action images of boats. The lessons can be applied to powerboats, sailboats, large, small, fast or slow boats. Technique is more important than equipment and the reader will learn how to get the most with the camera he already owns. The author draws on his many years of nautical photography experience and illustrates this guide with over fifty of his own photographs...
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Two by sea: a couple rows the wild coasts of the far north in Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic's Edge.
Jill Fredston has traveled more than twenty thousand miles of the Arctic and sub-Arctic-backwards. With her ocean-going rowing shell and her husband, Doug Fesler, in a small boat of his own, she has disappeared every summer for years, exploring the rugged shorelines of Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Spitsbergen, and Norway. Carrying what...
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Along the Maine coast, the distinctive lobster boat is ubiquitous, and fisherman devote nearly as much time and effort naming their boats as their children. In this charming little volume, Victor Cole has reached out to hundreds of lobstermen and collected the stories behind the names of their boats. Some of the names are of children, or of loved ones who've passed on; some are religious or inspirational, and some are downright funny. But the stories...
6) Los Misterios del Titanic: Historias Impactantes y Datos Increíbles Acerca del Hundimiento más Famos
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¿Qué secretos se ocultan tras el hundimiento de uno de los barcos más icónicos de la historia? ¿Cómo pudo ocurrir una tragedia de tal magnitud? ¿Aún quedan detalles sin conocer que podrían cambiar nuestra perspectiva de este evento tan trágico? Entonces sigue leyendo… "Viéndolo salir de lo oscuro cual barco fantasma me sigue desconcertando cada vez, el ver la triste rutina del grandioso barco yaciendo aquí, donde se posó a las 2:30...
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"Unlike Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, Tori Murden McClure's true story of a woman and the sea and a boat named American Pearl is one of victory. . . . If you want to be inspired, read this book. You won't stop till you've finished." - Sena Jeter Naslund, author of Ahab's Wife
In this thrilling memoir by the first woman to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean, Tori McClure finds that what she is looking for lies not in a superhuman show of...
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2021. The Boating and Cruising information for Brazil. The book includes links to online current cruising sources.Current information on formalities, ports, navigation, cruising Brazil etc .The sources examined in the preparation of this publication were:British Hydrographic Department Sailing Directions.Argentina Sailing Directions.Brazil Sailing Directions.Various port handbooks.Reports from United States Naval and merchant vessels and various shipping...
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America's Girl is an intimate look at the life and trials of Gertrude Ederle, who in 1926 not only became the first woman to swim across the English Channel, but broke the record set by men.
The feat so thrilled America that it welcomed her home with a ticker tape parade that drew two million people. This fascinating portrait follows Ederle from her early days as a competitive swimmer through her gold medal triumph at the 1924 Olympics, to the...
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As the dominant venture capitalist of Silicon Valley, Tom Perkins had seemingly done it all-from amassing a billion-dollar fortune to getting himself convicted of manslaughter in France. But his ultimate dream was to create the biggest, fastest, riskiest, highest-tech, most self-indulgent sailboat ever built.
With keen storytelling and biting wit, bestselling author David A. Kaplan takes us inside the mind of an American genius and behind the scenes...
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