Sailing
epub |eng | 2019-02-26 | Author:Sterling Hayden

CHAPTER 42 High water. A schooner lies to a wharf. Her sheer is proud as it runs up to her bows from a low point amidships. Old men lounge in ...
( Category: Boating January 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-12-02 | Author:Roger D. Taylor

27 Just after midnight on the morning of Saturday the twenty-eight of July, after twenty-five and a half days at sea, we crossed 37°East longitude and so entered, unequivocally, the ...
( Category: Sailing January 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-17 | Author:George Biddlecombe

SLINGS for Lower Yards are generally of chain (round the middle of the yard), with a shackle or slip, to connect it with the mast-head slings, which are also of ...
( Category: Knots, Macrame & Rope Work December 7,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-20 | Author:David Berson [Berson, David]

Technique Technique is always important, whether swinging a golf club, rowing a boat, or playing a guitar. This holds true for celestial navigation as well. In order to get the ...
( Category: Boating July 2,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-30 | Author:Fiona Sims

Penne with sardines, saffron and pine nuts Or pasta con sarde, as they call it in Sicily. Instead of fiddling around with fresh sardines, tinned fish works really well here. ...
( Category: Boating July 1,2019 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2010-06-22 | Author:Tim Severin

9 ISLAND OF SMITHS One day, said the Navigatio, Saint Brendan and his crew found themselves being blown by a southerly wind toward a stony island “very rough, rocky and ...
( Category: Sailing June 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-06 | Author:Brian Harvey

Kill All the Lawyers After Hatsumi went to sleep, I cleaned up a day’s clutter in the galley, retracing the steps of the dishwashing ballet that I would perform twice ...
( Category: Sailing May 8,2019 )
mobi |eng | 2015-03-11 | Author:Wells, Duncan [Wells, Duncan]

SAIL TRIM AND HANDLING There are many excellent books on sail trim worth consulting. As a general rule, if the tell tales on the headsail are flying straight, the only ...
( Category: Boating April 22,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bryan Willis

43 COMPETITOR CLOTHING AND EQUIPMENT 43.1 (a) Competitors shall not wear or carry clothing or equipment for the purpose of increasing their weight. (b) Furthermore, a competitor’s clothing and equipment ...
( Category: Sailing March 11,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bryan Willis

Here Yellow must rely on Blue’s judgement. If there is contact and damage, only Blue can be penalised. RULES 14 & 10 ON THE START LINE WINDWARD AND LEEWARD Blue ...
( Category: Sailing March 11,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Kretschmer

Six Magnetic Anomalies Cruising Newfoundland • High-Latitude Cruising • Lunenburg • Escape from Yemen “Newfoundland is of the sea. A mighty granite stopper thrust into the bell-mouth of the Gulf ...
( Category: Boating March 4,2019 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-03 | Author:Paul Elvstrom

This guide provides a notice of race designed primarily for major championship regattas for one or more classes. It therefore will be particularly useful for world, continental and national championships ...
( Category: Sailing March 4,2019 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-12 | Author:Tina Dreffin [Dreffin, Tina]

One day, Dick appeared on the dock at dusk while we were having dinner aboard the boat at the dock. When we heard his knock on the hull, we alighted ...
( Category: Sailing March 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-21 | Author:Fisher, Stuart [Fisher, Stuart]

An interesting bridge design near Aldersley Junction. Bilston waterworks beyond Bratch toll office. Compton Lock brings the end of the summit pound. This is where Brindley began building his canal ...
( Category: General January 9,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-09-27 | Author:Bill Johnson

37.The final thing is to work out the azimuth. Copy Z2 from above, and make it negative if F>90°. 38.On the next line, if F is negative, calculate and write ...
( Category: Sailing September 28,2016 )