How to go Boating and Where - The Complete Kiwi Guide by Mike Rendle
40.00 NZD
Category: Nautical - Seamanship
This is a book for everyone who wants to begin their own boating career or who wants to add to their knowledge. Written in the same style as his previous bestseller How to Catch Fish and Where: The Complete Kiwi Beginner's Guide, the book covers everything from how to buy a boat through to how to launch ...Show more
Antarctic's Voyage to the Southern Ocean: As told by Captain Leonard Kristensen by Paul Chaplin
40.00 NZD
Category: Nautical
In September 1893 the three masted, barque rigged steam ship Antarctic (formerly Cap Nor) sailed from Tønsberg in Norway, under the command of Captain Leonard Kristensen. It was headed for the Southern Ocean on a sealing and whaling expedtion. After successful sealing around the Kerguelen Islands, the ...Show more
The Complete Yachtmaster: Sailing, Seamanship and Navigation for the Modern Yacht Skipper 10th edition by Tom Cunliffe
55.00 NZD
Category: Nautical - Seamanship
The Complete Yachtmaster has been a bestseller since first publication and has established itself as the standard reference for Yachtmaster students as well as skippers of all levels of experience.In this fully revised and up-to-date 10th edition, Tom Cunliffe brings together all the essentials of moder ...Show more
Skipper's Cockpit Navigation Guide by Rene Westerhuis
28.00 NZD
Category: Nautical - Seamanship
Whether planning a day sail or a longer passage, at home, at the wheel or at the chart table, the Skipper's Cockpit Navigation Guide is the ideal instant reference for all skippers and crew. It covers all the essential navigation skills and techniques with a user friendly, easy to follow and succinct ap ...Show more
Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
23.00 NZD
Category: Nautical - Seamanship
SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2022A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2022_______________'Rigorous, deft and entertaining ... a sparkling read' - The Spectator'The ride is thrilling ... a work of serious scholarship' - Sunday Telegraph_______________For centuries, Ferdinand Magellan has been ...Show more
Working Sail: A Life in Wooden Boats by LUKE POWELL
120.00 NZD
Category: Nautical
Luke Powell has almost single-handedly pioneered a revival in the building of traditional pilot cutters in Great Britain; he also has a flair for storytelling, both when looking back over a rich if unconventional life lived to the full, and when describing the long struggle to win acceptance for the woo ...Show more
Contemporary Cruise by Iwein Maassen
19.99 NZD
Category: Travel
Here is the first and indispensable guide to cruising in style. Brilliantly illustrated throughout and packed with practical information, it presents cruises to suit every taste, from the all-in fun and entertainment of the latest floating resorts, to the quiet elegance of a classic tall ship. Fun, luxu ...Show more
Knots Splices by Jeff Toghill
17.00 NZD
Category: Nautical - Knots
Well-priced and extremely popular. -Ideal for any sailor both afloat and ashore. -Over 150 step by step photographs describe clearly the tying of over 30 knots and splices.
Wild Seas To Greenland : A sailing adventure with ocean racer Ross Field by Rebecca Hayter
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
A sailing adventure with ocean racer Ross Field, written by well-known New Zealand yachting journalist Rebecca Hayter. When New Zealand ocean racing skipper Ross Field retired from professional sailing, he was already looking for his next, unusual adventure. In a dusty boatyard in France, he bought a 2 ...Show more
Stress-Free Sailing - Single and Short-Handed Techniques by Duncan Wells
39.00 NZD
Category: Nautical - Seamanship
This brand new edition of Stress-Free Sailing is the answer to single or short-handed crews' prayers - a step-by-step handbook addressing the most common sailing situations that anyone cruising will have to manage.Here you will find clever, highly effective and successfully tried and tested shorthanded ...Show more
Worse Things Happen at Sea by John McCrystal
40.00 NZD
Category: Nautical
MISHAP 1968 – Caught in a sudden violent storm, the Wahine ferry foundered after running aground on Barrett’s Reef, attempting to enter Wellington Harbour. Battered mercilessly by the elements, the Wahine was listing heavily to starboard when the order to abandon ship was given. The tragic events that f ...Show more
Madhouse at the End of the Earth - The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night by Julian Sancton
26.00 NZD
Category: Nautical | Reading Level: very good
A new classic of extreme endurance - Into Thin Air meets The Perfect Storm in 19th century Antarctica **A Times Best Book of 2021** The harrowing, survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly wrong, with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless, Antarct ...Show more