What Now Skipper: Forty Fiendish Challenges to Your Seamanship Skills

Engineering & Transportation

Sleightholme, Des

Transportation

Osprey Publishing (UK)

Anyone who has come across Des Sleightholme's bitingly witty writing will know they are in for a treat with this book.In his usual hilarious tongue-in-cheek manner, Des Sleightholme seeks to introduce the newcomer to the joys of cruising, explaining how to go about choosing a boat, what is likely to happen on your first time out, coping with tides, knots, and etiquette, and how to behave in marinas.In his own inimitable words: 'This book is for all those who are willing to leave the empties on the doorstep and their teeth on the bathroom shelf and go to sea. Having spent many a fascinating hour aground on the Buxey, keel banging like a town band drummer and praying in a loud falsetto voice, there's no doubt that it's a sport which broadens both mind and buttock.' Read it and you'll curl up!

Anchor's Aweigh

Sports & Outdoors

Water Sports

Adlard Coles

This is a collection of Des Sleightholme's humorous observations on the nautical scene. The 'joys' of antifouling, the bloody-mindedness of marine engines, the dubious pleasure of sailing on a spring tide, skippers, launchings and novice crew are just some of the subjects aired by 'Old Harry'.

Off Watch With Old Harry: The Funny Side of Sailing

Adlard Coles Nautical

Des Sleightholme, former Editor of Yachting Monthly" for many years, is well known for his irreverent outlook on the Establishment and for his unfailing eye for the funny side of things; here he takes on a hilarious anecdotal romp through his sailing life.From childhood efforts to get afloat at all costs - "if it floats stand on it" - to the tribulations of running a charter boat, the wandering narrative moves from the high drama of a force ten dismasting to the farce of a shattered toilet bowl. The author has a connoisseur's eye for a cock-up."

A Funny Old Life: An anecdotal romp through the sailing career of Des Sleightholme

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Off Watch With Old Harry is another delightfully entertaining collection of Des Sleightholme's amusing observations on the nautical scene. The 'joys' of antifouling, the bloody-mindedness of marine engines, the dubious pleasures of sailing on a spring tide, skippers, launching, and novice crew are just some of the subjects aired by 'Old Harry'. Perceptive, amusing and presented in Sleightholme's inimitable style, each episode is enlivened with a cartoon illustration. An ideal bunkside read. 'There are really only two side-splitting yachting journalists operating today - one of them is J D Sleightholme' Dolphin Book Club 'For the best humorous writing, Old Harry still reigns supreme' Yachting Monthly

Off Watch with Old Harry: The funny side of sailing

This Is Cruising

UNKNO

Four highly experienced sailors pose forty challenging seamanship and navigational puzzlers based on real life problems. Try to figure out what you would do in the same situation, them find out what the experts suggest. A fun way to keep your sailing skills honed, without getting wet.

What Now Skipper?: Forty Fiendish Challenges to Your Seamanship Skills

Sheridan House

This account gives a vivid picture of the romance and realism of coastal trade, initially in a schooner, then in Thames spiritsail sailing barges before and during the war. The author tells of the havoc wrought by barges caught out in severe gales and the hazards of plying trade in wartime.

Coasting Bargemaster

White, Archie

Roberts, A. W.

Biographies & Memoirs

'Sea lore, like mud, has a way of sticking to you'This handy book book represents some of the sea wisdom that has stuck to Des Sleightholme in over sixty years of sailing. The two hundred and forty-odd (some of them very odd) pieces of cruising lore will make your voyage easier, safer and more fun. They cover:SkipperingCrewingSeamanshipNavigationWeatherSafety

The Essence of Cruising

Wiley Nautical

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