Here's the complete guide to choosing, using, and enjoying life with the ultimate portable, human-powered boat.

Complete Folding Kayaker

Sports & Outdoors

Diaz, Ralph

Water Sports

International Marine Publishing

Here's just a small sample of what The International Marine Boat Manager will do: -- Coach you through all those half-remembered procedures; -- Tell you exactly what steps to follow in an emergency; -- Provide you with the model/identification number of any part you need to replace, whether you're phoning from a secluded anchorage or your office 100 miles away from the boat; -- Tell you, your crew, or a charterer or guest where to find any piece of gear or equipment, or how to operate the engine, stove, or head, and in short, everything a competent mariner needs to run the boat; -- Provide a complete inventory and maintenance history to an insurer or prospective buyer; -- Let you hit the deck running after you've been away from the boat for weeks or months; -- Save you the hours that could mean the difference between a day on the water and a day on the telephone. It may even save you the seconds that could mean the difference between a crisis overcome and a disaster.

The International Marine Boat Manager: Your Vessel's Custom Handbook of Operating and Service Procedures

Ellison, Nick

Payne, Bob

OUR BOOK HAS THE SAME COVER AS STOCK PHOTO SHOWN. SCUFFING, MINOR EDGE WEAR AND A COUPLE DINGS ON COVERS/SPINE. NO MARKING OR WRITING NOTED WITHIN BOOK. NICE COPY!

A Cruising Guide to the Tennessee River, Tenn-Tom Waterway, and Lower Tombigbee River

Marian, Thomas W.

Rumsey, W. J.

Claire Walter's nurturing guide inspires and instructs women on getting started in scuba diving. Scuba Diving: A Woman's Guide features women telling in their own words how they overcame fears, met challenges, and improved skills. Written by an experienced diver, this thorough guide also covers choosing the best instructor, gear, gear care, obtaining certification, and more.

Scuba Diving: A Woman's Guide

Politics & Social Sciences

Walter, Claire

Women's Studies

Teaching Kids Golf is all any parent will ever need to welcome a child to the sport he or she will play for a lifetime. Written by a golfer with more than 25 years of teaching kids and adults at some of the country's most prestigious golf schools, this latest addition to the acclaimed Baffled Parent's series covers everything from the basics of proper grip and swing techniques, to putting, pitching, driving, and managing time on the course. 
<ul>
<li>Q&amp;A sections provide solutions to problems new instructors face </li>
<li>Designed for golfing and non-golfing parents alike </li>
<li>Takes a drill-based approach to teaching the basics </li>
</ul>

Teaching Kids Golf: A Baffled Parent's Guide

Parenting & Relationships

Moore, Bernadette "Detty"

Parenting

Permenently crippled from a fall from a horse, Liz Fordred refused to accept the limitations set for her. Together with her husband (also an accident survivor) they decided to build a boat and sail around the world, even though they had never sailed before. This is the tale of their triumph.

An Ocean to Cross: Daring the Atlantic, Claiming a New Life

Fordred, Liz

Blackmun, Susie

Biographies

The boatowner's foremost troubleshooting guide, now better than ever 
If it's on a boat and it has screws, wires, or moving parts, it's covered in Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual. When you leave the dock with this book aboard, you have at your fingertips the best and most comprehensive advice on: 
<ul>
<li>Battery technologies </li>
<li>12- and 24-volt DC systems </li>
<li>Corrosion, bonding, and lightning protection </li>
<li>Generators, inverters, and battery chargers </li>
<li>Electric motors and electric lights </li>
<li>Marine electronics, antennas, and RFI </li>
<li>Diesel engines </li>
<li>Transmissions, shaft brakes, and propellers </li>
<li>Refrigeration and air-conditioning </li>
<li>Tanks, plumbing, and through-hulls </li>
<li>Pumps and watermakers </li>
<li>Steering, autopilots, and wind vanes </li>
<li>Stoves and heaters </li>
<li>Winches, windlasses, and bow thrusters </li>
<li>Spars, rigging, and roller reefing </li>
</ul>
"If you had to choose a single book to help you assess and maintain your boat gear, this would be it."―Practical Sailor 
"A truly remarkable bible. . . . This book is the best of its kind."―WoodenBoat 
"A major achievement. . . . It would be hard to imagine anything going wrong on a boat that couldn't be figured out with this book."―Sailing World 
"The world's best technical reference and troubleshooting book."―Sailing Inland and Offshore 
"This manual will be of lasting interest to anyone who wants to know how their boat works, what has gone wrong when it doesn't, and how it could be fixed."―Classic Boat 
"Without becoming too complex, the book covers almost every imaginable mechanical or electrical matter in the marine environment."―Work Boat World 
"Calder lives what he writes, . . . [and] what he offers . . . is practical solutions to problems associated with increasingly complex marine systems. . . . [A] bargain for anyone in the construction and repair side of the boat business."―Professional Boatbuilder

Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual: How to Maintain, Repair, and Improve Your Boat's Essential Systems

Engineering & Transportation

CALDER, Nigel

Transportation

Winner Of The National Outdoor Book Award For Literature
When Beth Leonard and her partner, Evans Starzinger, returned from a three-year, 35,000 mile circumnavigation, they thought they were done with offshore voyaging. But neither realized how irrevocably they had been changed by their experience, nor how irresistible the siren song of the sea would prove. In comparison, life ashore seemed dull and monochrome, and within months, Beth knew she had to go back to sea in order to remain true to the person she had become.
Four years later they set out on their 47-foot aluminum sloop Hawk for a journey that lasted six years and took them more than 50,000 miles. They voyaged to Newfoundland, Iceland, Norway, the Caribbean, Ireland, Scotland, Cape Horn, New Zealand, the South Pacific, British Columbia--to the ends of the earth and back.
Blue Horizons is Beth Leonard's record of that journey. Compiled from her popular columns inBlue Water Sailing magazine, which she wrote along the way, Blue Horizons is more than an adventure saga, more than the log of an extended passage. As in all great travel writing, it’s the product of an insatiable hunger to explore the world, and in so doing to explore one’s own soul. It is, says Beth, "about pulling your dreams over the horizon to you, one sail change, one course correction at a time."
But this is no dreamer's tale. Beth Leonard is both sailor and writer, well qualified to deal with and describe blue water voyaging. Her observations are as sharp as salt air and her prose as informed as it is insightful and entertaining.
Beth also brings to Blue Horizons a uniquely feminine perspective, a combination of empathy, charm, and lyric grace. Her pages are suffused with emotion and a strong sense of immediacy. You're with Beth and Evans asHawk pokes into a lonely and deserted outport on Newfoundland's barren northeast coast, and as they await hurricane Lenny in Antigua. And you sympathize as she burrows deep into her tilting berth, seeking that one, elusive interval of comfort that will bring sleep on a pounding windward passage, only to be dashed awake by the cold shock of a rogue wave spilling into her bunk.Blue Horizons is a rare journey, one to be savored by sailors and armchair adventurers alike.
Praise for Blue Horizons:
“In her new, wonderful book, Beth Leonard shows us a world in which ‘perfection’ is not bland, easy, escapist comfort in a crowded tropical harbor but a more insecure yet more rewarding existence of constant challenge--cold waters, rocky coves, old fishing villages, demanding seamanship, and the evolution of two sailors trying to manage a boat and also their own relationship.” --John Rousmaniere, author ofFastnet, Force 10, After the Storm, and The Annapolis Book of Seamanship
“Let Beth Leonard inspire you to sail around the world, explore the high latitudes, or discover your own capacity for adventure. Each nugget in this ‘dream becomes reality’ series of revelations is worth a thousand pictures.” --Gary Jobson, ESPN sailing commentator, America’s Cup Hall of Famer, and author of Gary Jobson’s Championship Sailing
“Blue Horizons chronicles a remarkable adventure through some of the globe’s most inhospitable waters. . . . Every account in this collection provides a taste and sometimes a feast. It is wise, perceptive, wonderful. If you have ever wondered what it might be like to exchange conventional comforts for an adventure not packaged with round-trip airfare, Beth Leonard has written these dispatches to you.” --Don Casey, author ofThis Old Boat and Don Casey’s Complete Illustrated Sailboat Maintenance Manual

Blue Horizons: Dispatches from Distant Seas

Leonard, Beth A.

A guide to building good looking durable canoes and kayaks with a tack and tape method that is quick simple and inexpensive Fully drawn and dimensioned plans are presented for a solo canoe and for a 16 and 18 kayak These boats can be built directly without lofting following the author s step by step instructions Methods are also given for modifying existing canoes and kayaks to obtain just the hull you want

Canoes and Kayaks for the Backyard Builder

Snaith, Skip

Cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, snowboarding, and skating adventures: Iseult Devlin has done it all. She and other women athletes, professionals as well as weekend enthusiasts, share their experience and savvy about the wonderful world of winter sports in this unique woman-friendly guide. Covering the territory from A to Z, from getting started, getting equipment, getting in shape, and getting the family involved, to step-by-step illustrated techniques and a comprehensive list of resources for further reference, Winter Sports: A Woman's Guide makes the joy of snow sports more accessible than ever before.

Winter Sports: A Woman's Guide

Iseult Devlin

Hiking & Camping

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

Books by International Marine Publishing