Sports & Recreation : Boating

The learn-to-sail book for when you are in a hurry to gain your sea legs. At the Offshore Sailing School, the Colgates havetaught more than 100,000 adults how to sail. Now theyare making their proven instructional methods availableto you so you can fulfill your sailing dreams in little time.Though designed around three days of intensiveinstruction, the book adapts easily to any learning pace.You can master the fundamentals inthree days--or over a summer of leisurely sailing. more...

Price: $19.95

Find a small cruising sailboat and restore it to pristine condition on a budget that won't sink your budget. Small, trailererable cruising sailboats are more popular than ever as mooring spaces dwindle and marina dockage and winter storage costs soar. Fix It and Sail helps you discover boatloads of fun far less than a single ski weekend or golf club membership. Veteran sailor and journalist Brian Gilbert shows you how to select and inspect a boat, then restore it from keel to rigging. Gilbert's clear, step-by-step instructions guide you through every phase of the restoration process from repairing keels, hulls, ports, and cabins to painting, wiring, and sealing. You'll learn how to evaluate, repair and replace hardware, upholstery, canvaswork, and more. Profusely illustrated appendices give you a vivid picture of the costs, tasks, and labor involved in an actual restoration project. more...

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GPS for Mariners summarizes essential global positioning system concepts, explains the buttons, screens, and menus of your GPS receiver, and answers all your questions. Filled with helpful illustrations and hands-on examples, this complete and practical guide shows you how to:. Become an informed GPS buyer and user. Connect GPS to your computer, autopilot, and radar. Navigate with GPS using waypoints and routes. Use an electronic chartplotter or navigation software to plan and monitor your course. Utilize the many functions in your GPS to safely and enjoyably reach your destination whether under sail or power. Enhance your receiver's performance with WAAS, DGPS, and proper antenna placement. Master advanced techniques more...

Price: $15.95

Seamanship is the art of managing a boat. This book is a follow-up to the successful Sail & Rig Tuning and Illustrated Navigation c overing knots, docking the boat and anchoring, all illustrated in Ivar Dedekam’s distinctive style a more...

Price: $24.95

Still unsolved, still baffling, still claiming new victims. Here are the untold stories. A pilot reports a strange haze enveloping his plane, then disappears; eleven hours after fuel starvation, as if calling from a void, he is heard 600 miles away. He requests permission to land, then vanishes forever. A freighter steaming over placid seas disappears without a trace. A pleasure yacht ghosts past without a soul on board. A pilot calls for help because a ''weird object'' is harassing his plane. A jet collides with an ''unknown'' and is never found. . . . Into the Bermuda Triangle is the first comprehensive examination of these baffling disappearances in more than a generation. Drawing on official reports from the NTSB and other investigative agencies as well as interviews with scientists, theorists, and survivors, leading authority Gian Quasar not only sets the record straight on previously examined cases, he also offers a bulging file of new cases, the collective results of his twelve-year investigation. In meticulous detail this unflinching account:.:.; Documents confirmed disappearances of airplanes and ships.; Gathers new testimony and reexamines old interviews from eyewitnesses and survivors.; Explores possible explanations ranging from zero-point energy to magnetic vortices.; Challenges our assumptions with the sheer weight of accumulated evidence. In this age of technological and scientific discovery, there are still mysteries that transcend understanding. The Bermuda Triangle is one. ''The best book I've ever read on this important subject.''—Andrew Griffin, The Town Talk. more...

Price: $14.95