epub |eng | | Author:Emma Bamford [Bamford, Emma]

The weather in the UK, of course, has a lot of to do with it, but when you see bikers in England they are invariably clad head to toe in ...

epub |eng | 1970-12-31 | Author:Richard Maury

Quite suddenly the bell sounds – and he awakes. Midnight already! Half asleep, he feels for the bell-clapper over the bunk, striking an answer before turning up the wick and ...

epub |eng | 1994-12-31 | Author:Clare Allcard

Explosions These are nearly always caused by petrol fumes or gas. Treat both substances with utmost caution. As mentioned in the preceding section on fire, never have a petrol engine ...

epub |eng | 1969-12-31 | Author:Nicholas Tomalin & Ron Hall

ENJOYED ROUND THE HORN SAILING TOWARDS TRINIDAD WITH LAST SOUTHEAST TRADE AND BRAZIL CURRENT Hallworth rightly worked out that ‘round the Horn sailing’ meant round-the-Horn-type sailing. And he realised that ...

epub, mobi |eng | 1948-12-31 | Author:John Caldwell

17 Dismasted W hen I awakened, it was daylight. I didn’t waken because I had slept enough, or because the daylight had caught my eye. Not forty-eight hours of sleep ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-11-20 | Author:Sam Jefferson

Repairs to the rudder were undertaken in Horta, Faial. The Dreadnought was working her way across a stretch of the Atlantic nicknamed the ‘devil’s blow hole’ when she was battered ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-07 | Author:Jonathan Raban [Raban, Jonathan]

If that had to go into Latin, one wonders how much of the story must have been unprintable in any language. Later folklorists, trying to gain a larger, younger audience ...

epub |eng | | Author:David de Rothschild

FELL ASLEEP ON THE FORE DECK UNDER AN AWNING, WOKEN UP TO THE SUN TRYING TO TRACK ME DOWN, THE BODY’S HYDRATION LEVEL IS MIDDLE OF THE RD! @DREXPLORE 3:07 ...

azw3, mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-06-23 | 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 ...

epub |eng | 2012-01-22 | Author:Tim Hore [Hore, Tim]

The reason for this is that the centreboard has a large surface area in contact with the water when fully down, which introduces a fair amount of drag that slows ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Pat Croce

[ fig. 22 ] BATTLE ON DECK gauge (between wind and prey) and amidships. A clever pirate captain will maneuver his ship between the wind and his prey, putting the ...

epub |eng | | Author:Joshua Slocum

CHAPTER XII Seventy-two days without a port—Whales and birds—A peep into the Spray’s galley—Flying-fish for breakfast—A welcome at Apia—A visit from Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson—At Vailima—Samoan hospitality—Arrested for fast riding—An ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2007-01-02 | Author:Mary South [South, Mary]

O, God, thy sea is so great, and my boat is so small. -ANONYMOUS Burrells Inlet, South Carolina. If you're ever in the neighborhood, stop by. Tucked back behind a ...

epub |eng | | Author:Richard Henry Dana

CHAPTER XXVII The Sunday Wash-up—On Shore—A Set-to—A Grandee—“Sail Ho!”—A Fandango The only other vessel in port was the Russian government bark, from Asitka, mounting eight guns, (four of which we ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-07 | Author:Chris Stewart

NIGHT BEGAN TO FALL and the pale cliffs of the Kent coast were replaced by distant lines of light. With the deepening of the darkness the sea, too, vanished, and ...