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342p., illus. Hardcover Good condition. blue cloth chipped d.j. fair
48 pages. Features: Great cover photo of a fully occupied Royal Albert Dock in 1958; Photo inside front cover of HMS Jersey (P275) in 1977; Full-page pre-war photo of a spritsail barge in the West India Dock, Port of London; On the Waterfront; Where to See the Big Ships; News From Portsmouth - a photo report; HMS 'Ganges' - a last look; Bosphorus Shipping; Vintage Thames Shipping Photos - part 1; Guide to Ships of the Royal New Zealand Navy; New Ship News; European Commentary; Freak Ships (2) - The 'Ross Winans'; "Invincible" goes to Sea Trials; Readers' Album - Atlantic Liners; Ship Sales; Letters; Ship Societies - The Coastal Cruising Association; Nice photo of the HMS 'Cornwall' in 1936 inside back cover. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Pages 1221-1252. Many great black and white photos. Features: Erling Tambs and the "Teddy" (continued); The Queen Mary's Engines - article, photos and nice colour illustration of the vessel at sea; Fifty Years in Sail - Vivid extracts from the log of the late Captain J.W. Holmes; Troops and Trooping - the work of troopships during the war of 1914-18 solved problems that had never before arisen on so large a scale; Yacht Cruising - amateurs may now set about yacht cruising in an economical and seamanlike manner; Battle of the Nile - the engagement in Aboukir Bay between Nelson and Napoleon on August 1, 1798. Moderate wear. Store stamp on front cover otherwise unmarked. Three-hole punched. A sound copy. Magazine
Pages 1381-1412. Many great black and white photos. Features: Captain Fryatt and the "Brussels" in the War of 1914-1918 (continued); Australia's Oldest Steamship - The "Edina"; The United States Navy; Luxury Cruising - The Arandora Star of the Blue Star Line; Sailing Ships in Collision - off Newcastle, New South Wales, April 1902 - photos with captions; By-Passing Niagara - the new Welland Canal; Youth at the Helm - William Albert Robinson sailed round the world from New York between June 1928 and November 1931 in a ketch only 32 feet 6 inches long. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Three-hole punched. A sound copy. Book
256p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
311p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
Oversize. 255 p., illus., incl. charts & aerial photographs Hardcover Good condition; top edge scorched
288p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
288p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
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
254 p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition
8vo., Second Edition, with coloured frontispiece, numerous plates in monochrome and illustrations in the text, somew faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; pale blue cloth, backstrip lettered in darker blue, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A bright copy of a scarce Batsford, first published in 1937. The wonderful Brian Cook wrap-around dustwrapper is arguably his finest of a non-topographical subject. EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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: 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: 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: 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: Sea Hawk - profile of a cruising man's yacht - from navy launch to stately schooner; Dutchman in flight; William Crealock designs distant voyager - Westsail 42; Palmer Johnson SF 47, flush deck racer by Frans Maas; On Bonaire (off Venezuela) - like being at sea; 5-0-5 acrobatics; afternoon on the Indian River, Florida; Sally has a knockdown; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Magazine
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: Under sail to Isla Mujeres - an Experience; Regata de los Amigos; Race Around Isla Mujeres; Interlude on Isla Mujeres; Chuting through the Georgia Straits; Thrilling sail to Jamaica; Young Men at Sea; Double-ended Cement Ketch designed for home builder; Handsome Scandinavian Sloop well Equipped - Mistral; Old Favorite Revived - Cruising Quoddy Pilot - the Pinky sloop; Rosa with Six Sails; Albacore - Class Close-up; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
Features: The Mac - Chicago to Mackinac Island Race; Blue Horizon; Diavolo; Blitzen; American Eagle; Dora; Comanche; Endurance; Bay Bea; Goblin; Jenny Too; Talisman; Pearson Entry a stand-out in year of the 30-footer; The Compleat Cruiser - Allied's Mistress 39; Nicholson 55 made to varied cruising and racing tastes; Sirensong - an exquisite new fiberglass racer; Two by Tripp; The Ensenada Parade - Beauty on the Water; 5.05 Meters of super planing sailboat - the 5-0-5; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
Features: European Breezes - photos of sailing in Europe; Frost-biters bite the bullet - and like it; Rainbow; Bolger refines sharpie for cruising and amateur building - BLACKGAUNTLET II; Brawny Quarter tonner has unique cabin layout - the Yankee 26; Small cruiser designed for the home builder - the 30-foot sloop designed by David Fernie of Richmond, British Columbia; Compact Pearson 10M has big boat dimensions - The Pearson 10M; Richards Racer by Cheoy Lee has unique accomodations - the Offshore 39; Photos of competition on San Francisco Bay; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: Suddenly I wanted to go sailing - G.A. (Andy) Marken; Kialoa III; AMERICA Lives! (colour centerfold!); Little Yacht for blue water and big fun - the 20 foot Able; Swampfire - American level racer and 3/4 ton winner; Rating is no handicap for Wylie's impressive NO GO-7; Stylish Palmer Johnson cruiser 43CR built by Wauquiez; Miller & Whitworth design GINKGO type for glass production; Twin Screw Nicholson 70 designed for plush cruising; Bonjour Tahiti - Hobie sailors race in paradise - world competition at Baie de Matavai; Javelin - a class close-up; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: Autumn on the Chesapeake; Last Dance off Steel Shore (Chicago); Cape 25 is small cruiser with good looks; Luxurious Challenger 48 is large cruising sailer; The Triton - glass success of the fifites; A Portfolio... by Denis Mason; Schooners at play in race sponsored by Ida Lewis Yacht Club, Newport, Rhode Island; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Magazine
Features: Profile of a surprise winner - Golden Dazy; Bluenose II sails inside America; Yes, Virginia - we know your sailors love your water; Meet the Tsar - from Performance Sailcraft who brought us the Laser; Four Schooners - COASTER, LEAH, BRIGADOON OF BOOTH BAY, FAIR WEATHER; Don't miss Young Island's voluptuous tropical growth, jump-up nightlife; Vega 8-ton - Crealock ocean traveller; Paquet - 55'6" McCurdy & Rhodes ketch; HELENA - 38-foot cruising sloop; Frers 46 - Alloy 10R sloop; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: Two -Ton Test - who's the best at IOP 32?; They call it the greatest spectacle in yacht racing - from Newport Harbor, California to Ensenada, Mexico; Under iron canopies through pastures on an inland passage to teh lakes; Victoria Yachtscape - another Balboa?; Alden's MALABAR IV lives! - she's MISTRESS II of New Orleans; Innovative monocoque 1/4 tonner, a cruiser too - Art Paine and TWO BITS; English Archer type is connoisseur's cruising yacht - Charles Ward, builder of the Saga 34; Frers turns to cruising with attractive 40-footer - the Frers 40; Farallon 29 - stiff family cruiser, competent to weather; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book