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Amazon Storyteller finalist Jono Dunnett embarks upon the World's Longest WindsurfThis sailing adventure begins deep within the Arctic Circle and becomes the World's Longest Windsurfing Journey (Guinness Record). Dunnett navigates through wilderness and carries his supplies in a watertight barrel. Many boundaries of the Seas of the Atlantic Ocean are crossed, and these provide structure to the narrative as the journey tacks towards Asia. What started as an expedition becomes a voyage, and two years later it has become an odyssey.Gale force winds, tumultuous seas and fearsome currents test him and his craft to their limits. The reader comes aboard for this sometimes traumatic ride, but also experiences his elation upon reaching land, and the peak experiences of full immersion in nature.At sea, Dunnett could not be more alone, but on land he finds the best of humanity.
This book is all about one extended family's adventures, over a period of more than 30 years, riding horses and driving narrowboats around many of the country's ancient transport routes - tracks, bridleways, roads, canals and rivers.
From the golden age of pirates and privateers comes the novel The Sea Beggar: A Sloop of My Own. This is the second novel of the Sea Beggar series of a historical novels about Ephraim Bogardus who was a Dutch American Hudson River mariner of the early 18th century. Ephraim Bogardus lived between 1687 and 1770. The term sea beggar or in Dutch watergeuzen means a sea robber and was applied to Dutch privateers. Ephraim Bogardus considered himself to be a watergeuzen or sea beggar. In this novel Ephraim tells his story of how he had his own sloop built by his brothers in Albany and obtained a letter of marque from the governor of New York to hunt Spanish and French prizes and to trade commodities like flour and tobacco in the Caribbean.Ephraim and his brother Cornelius sailed to North Carolina in 1711. Queen Anne's War between Great Britain against Spain and France is still in full swing. North Carolina at the was at the time a wild and wooly place with fights over the government of the new colony and threats of attack by Native Americans. Along the way the brothers captured a Spanish privateer sloop which they kept as their own with his brother Cornelius as the captain. Together Ephraim in his sloop the Watergeuzen and Cornelius in the former Spanish sloop renamed Wyntie Bosch operated out of North Carolina and sailing the Caribbean.Together the Bogardus brother traded tobacco for arms on the Dutch island of Stint Eustatious also known Golden Rock, fought Native American tribes in North Carolina and captured Spanish and French ship to take as prizes.Standby for high adventure from the golden age of pirates and privateers as told in fiction by Ephraim Bogardus.The author of this tale, James B. Battles, is a retired Navy Captain. Captain Jim is a sailor of sloops in the Chesapeake Bay and the Caribbean. He is also a family historian. He has applied his sailing skills with his historical expertise to create a historical novel about one of his ancestors, Ephraim Bogardus.
Inexplicably out of print since the late 1940s, Messing About in Boats is one of the most charming and evocative accounts of work and leisure afloat in the years either side of the Great War. John Muir describes working and sailing in English waters, from the North Sea to the Bristol Channel, in an age long before the marina, GPS and radio.
"A detailed collection of the best canoe routes in Ontario"--
S.D. "Doc" Regan, writer of maritime and nautical affairs, ineptly taught himself to sail upon his retirement as a professor and university dean. His original dinghy provided ample opportunity to capsize, founder on rocks, end up on the lee shore, and embarrass the alleged scholar in front of large crowds. Despite his scholarly papers and books, Doc sardonically proffers a humorous voyage through his trials and tribulations manning the helm. Described as the "worst sailor still alive to tell the tale", Doc and his dinghy, ZONONA, and his West Wight Potter, GENNY SEA, have plied the lakes, rivers, and ponds of Iowa and Minnesota creating an inundation of laughable experiences. Boat builders and skilled sailors shake their heads and mutter that no one is THAT stupid.Always considered a bit of a class clown, Regan has baffled nuns, teachers, professors, and academia with his humor and self-deprecation. He has regaled many dock-side bars with his hilarity and wit as well as university gatherings. He is often sought as a speaker, especially by military and veteran groups.Doc has written "In Bitter Tempest: the biography of Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher", "Pioneering Spirit: the history of Upper Iowa University", and multitude of naval historical articles ironically because his doctorate and specialty is educational psychology to which he has written two dozen professional papers.
A pack of 10 charts for the Suffolk and Essex Coasts. The latest depth surveys have been applied. The latest wind farm information is included where relevant. There has been general updating throughout.
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