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In "Good Little Ship" Peter Willis analyses a classic of maritime literature – Arthur Ransome's "We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea" – and tells... Læs mere
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This book is a conversation with the past, conducted in a very old, engineless gaff cutter, armed with the Admiralty Pilot, a gallant crew, and a sense of the ridiculous.
Bemærk: Kan leveres før jul.
Gloria Wilson documents the Peterhead yard of Richard Irvin & Sons, and the wooden craft for which it became renowned. Some one hundred of her photographs accompany her account of the boats and the people who made up a distinctive and now disappearing maritime culture.
Bemærk: Kan leveres før jul.
Erling’s Tambs's charming and modest account of how, with great fortitude, resourcefulness and good humour he and his wife reached New Zealand in their Colin Archer vessel, with... Læs mere
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In his lone six-year voyage from England to New Zealand in the 1950s, in a 1908 yawl designed by Albert Strange, the author discovers both the world and himself.
Bemærk: Kan leveres før jul.
Will Stirling describes and illustrates the many arcane tasks which can daunt the beginning boatbuilder. He has been building clinker dinghiesfor many years and has learned... Læs mere
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'Lugworm on the Loose' describes how Ken and B quit the ‘rat race’ and explored the Greek islands under sail. 'Lugworm Homeward Bound' recounts their voyage home from Greece to England. 'Lugworm Island Hopping' has Ken and B exploring the Scilly Isles and the Hebrides.
Bemærk: Kan leveres før jul.
In photographs, artworks, and words Gloria Wilson celebrates the rugged fishing village where she was brought up, and from which she set her course to a career recording, both visually and verbally, the North Sea fishery she loves.
Bemærk: Kan leveres før jul.
Fishing boats of the North Sea have always been fundamental to my existence, writes Gloria Wilson in her Introduction. I have chosen... Læs mere
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This is West Country boatbuilder Luke Powell's account of his life building and sailing traditional wooden boats, and includes the entire fleet of his Scillonian pilot cutters built prior to 2012, when this book first appeared.