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  • Sailing by Starlight

    The Remarkable Voyage of Globe Star

    by Rod Scher ...
    Sailing by Starlight is the story of the adventure of a lifetime—in fact, of many lifetimes. In the early 1980s, retired geography professor Marvin Creamer set out to do what hadn’t been done for a thousand years—if indeed it had ever been done at all: Marv and his crew boarded a 35’ sailboat named Globe Star and set out into the frigid Atlantic, planning to sail around the world without the use ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Ship of Lost Souls

    The Tragic Wreck of the Steamship Valencia

    by Rod Scher ...
    Of all the stories of ships lost in what has come to be called the “Graveyard of the Pacific,” that of the steamship Valencia is among the saddest. In January 1906, the Valencia set out from San Francisco, bound for Seattle with 108 passengers and some sixty-five crew members aboard. Owing to bad weather and the captain’s mistakes, the ship struck a reef eleven miles off Cape Beale on the ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • The Wreck of the Steamship Pacific

    How Greed and Gold Sent Hundreds to a Watery Grave

    by Rod Scher ...
    The deadliest shipwreck on the Pacific Coast—and one of the most cynical cover-ups in maritime historyOn the night of November 4, 1875, off the coast of Cape Flattery, Washington, the sidewheel steamer Pacific was struck a glancing blow by a larger and heavier sailing ship, the Orpheus. What followed was the worst disaster in “the Graveyard of the Pacific,” a region notorious then and now for ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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    A True Story of Love, Loss, and Survival at Sea

    by Tami Oldham Ashcraft ...
    "Heart-warming and heart-wrenching" the New York Times– bestselling memoir is now a major motion picture starring Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin ( Los Angeles Daily News).Young and in love, Tami Oldham and her fiancé Richard Sharp set sail from Tahiti under brilliant blue skies, with Tami's hometown of San Diego as their ultimate destination. But the two free spirits and avid sailors couldn't a ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sailing a Serious Ocean : Sailboats, Storms, Stories and Lessons Learned from 30 Years at Sea

    Sailboats, Storms, Stories and Lessons Learned from 30 Years at Sea

    by John Kretschmer ...
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    Learn what it takes to cross an ocean from a veteran sailorIn Sailing a Serious Ocean, author John Kretschmer uses his experiences and stories to show you what you will need to across an ocean or go around the world, in fair weather or foul. His true accounts of storms and other challenges at sea makes exciting reading and shows not only how sailboats should be handled when the chips are down, but ... Read more

    $27.79 CAD

  • Dove

    by Robin L. Graham ...
    In 1965, 16-year-old Robin Lee Graham began a solo around-the-world voyage from San Pedro, California, in a 24-foot sloop. Five years and 33,000 miles later, he returned to home port with a wife and daughter and enough extraordinary experiences to fill this bestselling book, Dove. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A World of My Own

    The First Ever Non-stop Solo Round the World Voyage

    by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston ...
    On Friday 14 June 1968 Suhaili, a tiny ketch, slipped almostunnoticed out of Falmouth harbour steered by the solitary figure at herhelm, Robin Knox-Johnston. Ten and a half months later Suhaili,paintwork peeling and rust streaked, her once white sails weathered andbrown, her self-steering gone, her tiller arm jury rigged to the rudderhead, came romping joyously back to Falmouth to a fantastic ... Read more

    $17.29 CAD

  • Cilin Ii: a Solo Sailing Odyssey

    The Closest Point to Heaven

    by Edgar D. Whitcomb ...
    In 1986, seventy-one-year-old Edgar Whitcomb faced a crossroads in his life; he needed a new direction. Th at venture became an epic journey, as this retired Indiana governor embarked on what would be a solo, 30,000-mile, six-year sailing trip. With virtually no previous sailing experience, he and his thirty-foot sailboat, the CILIN II, traveled around the world.In this travel memoir, a chronicle ... Read more

    $6.29 CAD

  • Two Clowns Cross the Pacific in a Small Boat

    by John Champion ...
    Tells of a sailing journey from San Diego to Australia in a 40 foot sailing boat. Covers Mexico, French Polynesia, Cook Islands, Tonga and Fiji. Also has a chapter on various events "that were too much fun," for the crew. Includes useful detail on various formalities required in the respective ports of call. Chapters on each of the destinations mentioned above and a final chapter on comical (in ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ship Beneath the Ice

    The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance

    by Mensun Bound ...
    By the subject of the National Geographic documentary Endurance, streaming soon on Disney+"As thrilling as any tale from the heroic age of exploration. . . Bound’s account is a triumph. The storytelling is piano-wire taut, the writing saturated with polar moodiness." ― Sunday TimesThe inside story of how the Endurance, Ernest Shackleton's legendary lost ship, was found in the most hostile sea on ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The Hal Roth Seafaring Trilogy : Three True Stories of Adventure Under Sail: Three True Stories of Adventure Under Sail

    Three True Stories of Adventure Under Sail

    by Hal Roth ...
    Big adventures on the high seas—from one of the greatest seafaring writers of our ageHal Roth’s vivid, authentic tales of the sea have riveted readers around the world for forty years. Here, in one volume, are three of his classic sea stories, each one a white-knuckled, rail-down voyage into the unknown.A hard-working San Francisco husband and wife abandon their jobs, their security, and, some ... Read more

    $27.69 CAD

  • HANDLING STORMS AT SEA : The 5 Secrets of Heavy Weather Sailing: The 5 Secrets of Heavy Weather Sailing

    The 5 Secrets of Heavy Weather Sailing

    by Hal Roth ...
    The definitive guide to a critical, hotly debated topicHow should a sailor cope with storms at sea? Some advocate heaving-to, others running off. Some say trail a sea anchor over the bow, others a drogue astern. The stakes in the discussion couldn’t be higher, or the consensus lower. Finally, preeminent sailor/author Hal Roth offers a practical strategy that can evolve and respond as storms grow ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD