The Welsh explorer, adventurar, and sailing record holder describes his 1985 voyage down the Rhine and the Danube, from London to Istanbul, in his thirty-six-foot trimaran, Outward Leg

The Improbable Voyage of the Yacht Outward Leg Into, Through, and Out of the Heart of Europe

JONES, Tristan

Biographies & Memoirs

Hearst Marine Books

A story on the quest for sailing speed!

Faster! Faster!: The Quest for Sailing Speed

Pelly, David F.

On board with Bradley: The collected columns from Motor boating &amp; sailing magazine, 1977 to 1983

On board with Bradley: The collected columns from Motor boating & sailing magazine, 1977 to 1983

Sports & Outdoors

Bradley, Dick

Water Sports

Salty words

HENDRICKSON, ROBERT

Boatman's handbook containing chapters on: emergencies, safety, seamanship, piloting, weather, electronics, racing, amenities, sources, government, tables, maintenance.

Boatman's Handbook: The New Look-It-Up Book

Bottomley, Tom

Bottonley, Tom

"How to Buy the Best Sailboat" is the first complete guide to the maze of boats, builders, and brokers that confronts every prospective boat buyer. Buying the right boat, one that fits your every need, that is safe and well equipped, is the passport to a happy cruising life. The wrong boat is a ticket to a first-class nightmare. Charles Gustafson explains his time-proven method of matching boat to buyer, a method successfully used by hundreds of his students in his course "How to Buy the Best Sailboat". He covers every stage and detail of the boat-buying process, from material and design to negotiations, moorage, and insurance. The reader learns the advantages and disadvantages of various hull designs, rigging plans, and vast arrays of equipment. Twenty-nine drawings and eighty-five photos are keyed into the text. For anyone contemplating spending thousands of dollars on a new or used sailboat, "How to Buy the Best Sailboat" is a necessary bargain.

How to buy the best sailboat: A consumer's guide to selecting, outfitting, and negotiating the purchase of a sailboat

Charles Gustafson

The author describes his efforts to repair his badly damaged sailboat and portrays his voyage with his family from Polynesia to the United States

You Can't Blow Home Again

Payson, Herb

After seven years ashore and having had his left leg amputated, Tristan Jones decided to return to the sea, hoping to inspire other handicapped people. In October 1983, Jones and his only crew member, Wally Rediske, set out from San Diego in a 36-foot trimaran, intending to circumnavigate the world from west to east by sail. This is story of Tristan's preparation for this major seagoing event and the chronicle of half of it. (continued in Improbable Voyage"). Tristan sailed down the west coast of Central America through the Panama Canal to Colombia, where he had to fight for survival among hostile natives, drug dealers and uncoooperative port officers. He went on to Venezuela, Aruba and the Dominican Republic during its 1984 revolution. Finally he reached New York and crossed the Atlantic to return to St Katherine's Dock in London where he began his seagoing life, thirty years before."

Outward Leg

True Crime

I he most authoritative history of piracy, Frank Sherry's rich and colorful account reveals the rise and fall of the real "raiders and rebels" who terrorized the seas. From 1692 to 1725 pirates sailed the oceans of the world, plundering ships laden with the riches of India, Africa, South America, and the Caribbean. Often portrayed as larger-than-life characters, these outlaw figures and their bloodthirsty exploits have long been immortalized in fiction and film. But beneath the legends is the true story of these brigands—often common men and women escaping the social and economic restrictions of 18th-century Europe and America. Their activities threatened the beginnings of world trade and jeopardized the security of empires. And together, the author argues, they fashioned a surprisingly democratic society powerful enough to defy the world.

Raiders and Rebels: The Golden Age of Piracy

Sherry, Frank

History

On Deck: The Illustrated Manual of New-Tech Seamanship

Whiting, John R.

See the best price to sell, buy or rent books by the Hearst Marine Books publisher. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Hearst Marine Books