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Features: Florida sailor designs 19-foot coastwise, gaff-rigged cruiser - the Salt 19; Seidelmann designed Palmer 550 enrolls in Quarter Ton Fleet; Traditional cruising design finds speed, responsiveness with new rig - the enlarged version of the SERAFFYN; Aesthetics and comfort remembered in the Norlin 37 Mark II; Great gaffed mains, barn door rudders and plump hulls; Sailing for winter sports enthusiasts; in search of Spain - pictures and story by Dorothy I. Crossley; A ton of heavy racing; One by One - one last old Conway schooner survives to carry a fragment of the sail driven 19th century toward the last quarter of the 20th; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Please note: middle page loose but present. Book
Features: 1,046 boats plu 90 classes plus 14 yacht clubs equals one mega-regatta - the 46th Annual Southern California Yachting Association Regatta; The thriving Thunderbird - 26 foot sloop; Memories of Georgian Bay and the splendor of north country; Norway - land of sailors; A Sailing Legacy, by Taylor Walsh; Foul Weather Dinghy Sailing across the Atlantic - an invigorating view about the buoys by English photographer Alistair Black; A Look at Speed under Sail; 470s and a Tempest meet on Buzzards Bay; Marauder - innovations for the Canada's Cup; Newport 28 has good ideas from worlds of racing and cruising; Modern Maxi 95 - novel 32-footer by upcoming Swedish designer Pelle Petterson; Beautiful, distinctive 34-foot pinky is Jay Benford's own; Hinckley Sou'wester 48 - modern cruiser of conventional lines; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: Landfall at Diamond Head - ONDINE surts to the Transpac finish line; The Widgeon - class close-up of a big 12.5-foot pocket sailboat, ready for abuse, designed to give a good ride; Footing up the (Puget) Sound - 26-footers on the Gold Cup course off Shilshole Bay Marina; The Tumlaren - she gets into your blood; On Shore, by Paul Darling; Where mountains loom over quite beaches and bowls of coconut chips grace the bar - the Windward Islands in the Caribbean; Hail Skipjacks! - last of a breed; Nicholson 33 - 3/4 tonner by Holland; Ericson Cruising 36 - Rakish cutter by Bruce King; Sea Sprite - 22'6" sloop by Carl Alberg; Shannon 38 - Modern Ocean Cruising Yacht; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: The Mackinacs - racing a 36-footer 134-plus hours and 627-plus miles; Their first ocean cruise covered 14,000 miles - John Carson and Jim Grizzard and PEGASUS; Cowes, August, 1975 - the Admiral's Cup and a galaxy of ocean racing stars; Burgess' Atlantic - an aging but still romantic one-design; Over we go! - the fine art of capsizing; Want to Race? - The Boston-Toms Regatta; Albin 79 - Swedish Quarter Tonner; West Indies 36 - Family Cruiser-Racer; Southern Cross - Cruising cutter by Gillmer; Seair 27 - Comfortable Cruiser; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: Renaissance of a Herreshoff classic - fiberglass has given the Herreshoff 12.5' designed by Nathanael G. Herreshoff, new life; Ms. Overboard - the Lake Lanier Sailing club holds a Lightning Championship on Lake Lanier; Crotch Island Pinky returns; MOONSHADOW - an unabashed racer designed by graduates of the School of Hard Knocks; The Geary 18 - challenging 18-footer that's easy to build for little money; Gathering of the Clan at Block Island; Heavy weather test for Cal 29s - off Victoria, British Columbia; Canadian has a first in production aluminum 25-footer by Tom Timmerman of Vancouver, BC; New Kirby Quarter Tonner is advanced racing design - by Bruce Kirby; Pearson 365 - refreshing ideas in a cruising ketch; High performance predicted for Mirage 27 by Peter Schmitt; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: Cruising across the Arctic Ocean; Mapping the North - Who Was Really Where When?; The Last Resort - Cannibalism in the Arctic; Plying the Northwest Passage - The First Single-Season Traverse by Yacht; Plants of the Arctic Tundra; Capturing the North - The Work of Claire Fejes. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Articles: Lieutenant William Peel, British Naval Intelligence, and the Oregon Crisis; Emergency Fleet Corporation Ship Construction in World War I in the Pacific Northwest; Cruising the Labrador, or LORAN in 1941-42 - A Memoir; a letter re: George Vancouver; plus several book reviews. Unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Stories: Mutiny in Camp; The Gun Runner; The Water Diviner; The Yellow Streak; The Waxworks Affair; Indian Wild Dogs; Tradewind Cay; Hali Yamui; Off the Target; The Taking of Gavuto; Timber Cruising in New Zealand; Dead Men's Gold; Lone Valley Mine; The Syndicate. Average wear. Book
63 pages. Features: Nehru - Lonely leader of 500 million; Allen and Sharie Farrell built their vessel Ocean Girl - great photos and text; Carole Reinhart performs in a college orchestra and Salvation Army band in Miami, Florida; I love having my own zoo - Gerald Durrell; Men are Spoiling the Movies - Edmonton-born Dianne Foster; Lord Martin Cecil - Rancher Bishop of the Cariboo - he owns a town and is world leader of a sect that believes illness is caused by 'ill spirits' - 100 Mile House Lodge, British Columbia; Can you judge people?; Room that honour laughter - McGill University establishes a memorial to Stephen Leacock; The Balkheaded Society of Redcliff, Alberta is a highbrow service club that works for the community; Hollywood Boulevard - teenagers take advantage of traffic tangle to scout for dates (photos) - the new 'sport' of cruising; Boxer Tom McNeeley; Ginette Letondal of Montreal makes her mark in Paris; Busman's Holiday for Artists, with paintings by Gabriel Bastien; Nipper by Doug Wright. Great colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Magazine
152 pages. Features: DYON - the symbol of summer for four generations; Albert Strange and the Canoe Yawl SHEILA; Quick Steps for Spring Painting - Part II; Building the Belles of the Western Rivers - a rare glimpse into the world of steamboat construction; Trout Unlimited - The Compleat Fly Fisherman; PILGRIM'S Progress - Dennis Holland's new Baltimore Clipper; Bagging the GULL - Constant Camber goes Mono - Part I; The Careful Creation of MELE KAI - Part II - the completion of a lovely double-ended cruising boat. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
82 pages. Features: The famous whirlpool of Corrievreckan; Grantown-On-Spey; Climbing the Matterhorn - the first British ascent was made by T.S.G. Carruthers and a companion; The Craig Crannogs; Ballet Rambert; Physicians of Edinburgh; Meet the Stirlin' (Starling); On Being a Child Genius; Edinburgh's James Bond - story and photo of Sean Connery; Victorian Architect Alexander "Greek" Thomson; Angling Company; Photos of weddings of the month, including Mr. J. Usher and Miss R. Houldsworth; and more. Ads include: Saint Joseph, South Africa, Helena Rubinstein, Sunshine Cruising/P&O Orient Lines, Chivas Regal, Pringle at Coplands, Nice colour-photo ad for the Ford Consul Classic (white model shown by beach), Lancome, Brooke Bond, nice one-page Land-Rover ad shows logs being hauled, and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Moderate external soiling. Unmarked. Loss to bottom of backstrip. A worthy copy of this nice vintage issue. Magazine
284p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
Oblong 8vo., First Edition, with 231 burgees illustrated in colour; navy cloth, upper board lettered in gilt, red sprinkled edges, covers marked, creased and faded (but all lettering wholly legible), expertly recased, a sound, clean copy. With numerous trade advertisements (many illustrated) at front and rear. ALL EARLY ISSUES OF THIS 'YACHTSMAN'S BIBLE' ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE.
206p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition
LE TOUVET (38), Ed. Marcel-Didier Vrac - 1994 - In-8 - Broché - Couverture illustrée en couleurs - Planches de photographies NB HT - 207 pages - Très bel exemplaire
Pages 265-330 plus 22 pages of ads. Features include: The River-Pilot - author piloted a coal barge in the Monongahela River in West Virginia; Seeking the "Ruined City" - Author's trip to a fantastic natural wonder in Australia's Arnhem Land; Old Ned - Story by a Merchan Navy "Sparks"; The Pay-Out - Author became an assistant barman at a little up-country hotel in South Africa; Canadian Police-Dogs - Close-up; Lingeros - South American hoboes; Bush Bandit - An Australian bushman's strange experience; Through Northern India on Horseback - Author needed to get six horses from Simla to Delhi; River Gold - Author's adventure while cruising down British Columbia's mighty Fraser River; Island of Dreams - Puerto Rico; The Cleaning-Up of Williamson County (Part I of 4) - the rise and fall of Charlie Birger in Southern Illinois. Illustrated in black and white. Unmarked with above-average but not excessive wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 169pp. The author's account of his giving up his successful career inhis late fifties and sailing away on his boat Unlikely to a life that set him free beyond his wildest expectations. He tells the tale through humorous anecdotes and illustration, insighful observations and practical information - his unique sailing philosophy.
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, fading to spine, no tears. 313 pages with b&w photos, many mechanical drawings/ illustrations. Sections include: Free the galley slave, Spars, Build your own bulwarks, Tools and spares, Cruising drag free, Sailor's emergency abandon ship kit, Rudders for cruising, Plumbing ideas, Reef, don't buy, Mechanical pumps for bilge or fire, Truth about windvanes, A near-fatal bit of carelessness, Guns, pirates, and theives, etc.
311p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
256p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
in-8°, 220 pp., nombreuses photos, cartes et croquis, broche, couv. sous jaquette couleurs. Tres bel exemplaire, non coupe (accrocs a la jaquette). [TX-5]
in-8°, 238 pages, ill. h.t. coul., dessins et carte in-t., broche, couverture illustree plast. à rabats. Bel exemplaire. [CA-13]
199 p., illus. Hardcover Good condition; faint spine lettering
PARIS, Ed. Cercle d'Art - 1999 - In-4 - Broché - Couverture illustrée en couleurs - Très nombreuses illustrations NB et en couleurs dans le texte et HT, certaines PP et double page - 203 pages - Très bel exemplaire ex-libris
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full dark blue cloth boards. 208 pages. Black and white photos.
