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The Pelican was being pushed once more onto its port side, and Eddie knew with sad certainty that this time it was not stopping. When Captain Eddie Carroll put to sea on Labor Day weekend 1951, he didn't know how many passengers were aboard his overloaded boat. He didn't know that an unpredicted storm would descend from a cloudless sky.

Explains everything required to select and acquire a boat for your needs. This book shows you how to: identify the best powerboat for you and determine the total cost of ownership; negotiate the best deal on a boat and avoid mistakes; and, understand boat financing, registration, insurance, and the legal obligations of boat owners.

A guide to international and US boating rules which includes the full text of the original rules, and rule-by-rule translations of these rules. It also includes a "One-Minute Guide Decision Tree" and a brief overview of the rules' intent to give you an idea of what to do in any common situation.

Metal corrosion is a constant destructive problem on boats, and you need to know how to find it, stop it, and prevent it. This work covers various types of corrosion in a variety of metal boat parts and fixtures, both above and below water.

Shows how should a sailor cope with storms at sea? This book offers a practical strategy that can evolve and respond as storms grow stronger.

Shows you how to find your way on the water - even if your navigation equipment is damaged or lost - using ancient and modern skills or rudimentary materials like a stick, a piece of string or a pair of sunglasses. This guide includes navigation methods, graphics and lists. It offers a useful backup for every ocean mariner.

Covers Noah's ark, Thor Heyerdahl's raft, the lost city of Atlantis, and the mysterious Bermuda Triangle. This title spans the ages and scours the seas for fanciful, inspiring, and downright bizarre tales of sea monsters, ghost ships, lost continents, castaways, and pirates.

Retraces the journeys of three lone sailors swept up by a monster hurricane that confounds various predictions.

Offers tips, techniques, and designs for quick-and-easy plywood boatbuilding. This title includes plans and instructions for a multipurpose skiff for sail, oar, and power; a pirogue for single or double paddle; a big pram dinghy; a maneuverable peapod; a long, fast, rowing dory; a rugged outboard-powered work skiff; and more.

Helps you understand and prevent diving accidents, based on 20 true-life reports. This guide reveals how scuba diving accidents leading to severe injury or death usually result from a chain of events that can and should be prevented before a tragedy occurs. It features an introduction to diver safety and includes safety sidebars throughout.

Offers almost everything a cook needs to know to adapt to the world of cooking at sea. This book includes 450 recipes, such as: Pear Crepes, Apple Pancakes, Porcini Mushroom Dip, Conch Fritters, Curried Rock Scallops, Basque-Style Chicken and Sausage, Orzo with Sun-Dried Tomatoes, Stir-Fried Thai Chicken in Coconut Sauce.

Helps you explores the coastal waters of North America. This illustrated guide provides tips on anchoring, piloting and weather, along with step-by-step instructions on numerous specific skills and techniques.

All sailors want to believe their boats can go anywhere and stand up to anything. Who knows when you might get caught by bad weather? This book explains how you can refit your boat for worry-free bluewater voyaging. It covers what from structural modifications and reinforcements to rigging, engines, systems, and gear.

Contains 18 projects that fall into three categories: decorative, useful, and somewhere in between. The projects in this book have been designed with an emphasis on simplicity and cost.

Makes the US Coast Guard's approved standards and procedures for seamanship, boat handling, and navigation available to various boaters. This guide includes topics such as weather and sea state predictions, marlinespike seamanship, communications, crew comfort and safety, and much more.

A guide to boat maintenance and repair. It covers basic troubleshooting and repair procedures for your engine, electrical, plumbing, refrigeration, and steering systems.

Offers plans and instructions for building 47 functional wooden boats for oar, motor, and sail, including dories, peapods, Sea Bright skiffs, wherries, and Rangeley boats.

A practical step-by-step manual to help prepare you for the cruising lifestyle. It provides tips, practical suggestions, and life lessons on how to: choose and prepare the right boat; provision for long-term cruising; raise - and educate - kids; get along in close quarters; and, know what to expect in the cruising life.

Chronicles the odyssey of making a major lifestyle change from land to sea. This book explores what women stand to gain when they set forth on such a journey - and what they stand to lose if they do not.

Covers what you need to know to keep your boat running. This text features do-it-yourself troubleshooting and maintenance prescriptions. It offers guidance on: troubleshooting electrical wire and gear; electrolysis and how to protect your boat's underwater hardware; and, troubleshooting your engine, whether inboard, sterndrive, or outboard.

Explains how thick a hull should be, why one sailboat tips less than another, choosing an engine, designing a rig for your trawler yacht, building a dinghy, simple rules of thumb for dozens of design quandaries.

Intended for sailors and language enthusiasts, this is a collection of nautical metaphors and colloquialisms. It also includes examples of words drawn from literature, movies, and song, and contains sections of legends of the sea and weather lore.

Features 75 novel and wonderful boats - a planing microtrawler; a glass-galleried, beachable birdwatching boat; a fully enclosed ocean-cruising rowboat; cruising sailboats that take the ground at low tide; and, power, sail, and rowing boats from 6 to 95 feet.

Features explanations and 295 photographs on how to tie 20 useful knots and splices. This book includes the bowline, reef knot, sheet bend, and clove hitch but also the carrick bend and stevedore knot. It also explains the essentials of smart line handling, as well as ways to handle high-tech rope materials, such as Kevlar and Spectra.

Teaches you navigation the way small-boat skippers actually navigate: by combining electronic aids like GPS and radar with commonsense visual piloting skills and simple chartwork. This book also covers developments in electronic navigation, including improvements in GPS accuracy, and navigation information over the Internet.

A sharpie is a long, narrow, flat-bottom craft that evolved in the 19th century along the Connecticut shore as an oyster fisherman's boat. This book traces the development of the sharpie from its earliest days to the plywood-and-epoxy designs. It gives instructions that can be used to build sharpies of various types and sizes.

Helps to learn how to handle a cruising sailboat in as little as seven days. This guide teaches sailing and cruising together, taking you from your first sail to independent cruising in one leap.