Pacific Islands

Starbound (Circumnavigation) – Gordan and Nina Stuermer – 1977

Published by David McKay, New York a first edition 1977. Large octavo, 330 pages with numerous photographic illustrations taken on their voyage. Very good condition.

Gordan and Nina Stuermer decided to give up a “normal” life to sail on the square-sail ketch “Starbound”. The circumnavigated the globe in two and a half years with their teenage son. But not after living on and growing accustomed to the vessel for seven years.

They set of around the world from Annapolis, Maryland in October 1973 … down the Chesapeake Bay and off to Bermuda. Some tips on how to deal with the Panama Canal (should you be lucking enough to need them) and then into the Pacific and the beautiful island nations. Tips on the inside of the Great Barrier Reef and arriving at Dili just in time for a revolution. And further remarkable adventures ensue. Useful appendices for those with ambitious plans including the preserving of meat and other produce onboard.

Circumnavigating … a comprehensive account

$30.00

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By Way of the Wind – Jim Moore

A first edition published by Sheridan House, Dobbs Ferry, New York in 1991. Octavo, 215 pages, illustrated with the authors photographs and with endpaper maps. Very good if not fine condition

Jim Moore and his partner Molly gave up a normal life in Portland Oregon to build their dream boat a 36 foot fibreglass Cascade Sloop to be named Swan. It took them four year to get it all shipshape.

They set off in 1977 across to Hawaii, Christmas Island, Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, Lord Howe island, New Zealand and then on to Sydney. It was 1989 by the time they sailed round Cape York and on to their second Christmas Island before Mauritius, Cape Town St Helena and up to the West Indies and a stop off in Tampa. Back through the Panama and back to Hawaii and on home.

Entertaining circumnavigation .. including getting stuck on the Mooloolaba sand bar!

$30.00

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Come Aboard – Eric Hiscock – First Edition 1978

Published by Oxford University Press a first edition 1978. Octavo, 237 pages with 43 coloured photographs by the Hiscock’s and seven charts. Very good near fine condition.

In 1976, Eric Hiscock and his wife set off on their third circumnavigation of the world.

They traveled west from New Zealand in the jib-headed ketch Wanderer IV via the Durban to England, the Canaries and a stop off in the West Indies before through the Panama and across the Pacific taking in the Marquesas, Tahiti and Fiji.

Nicely illustrated and with good technical dialogue.

Fine sailing third time all the way

$30.00

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Captain Cook – Alistair MacLean – First Edition 1972

Published by Collins, London in 1972 a first edition. Octavo, 192 pages, nicely illustrated with endpaper maps. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket …

A best selling fiction author MacLean writes a riveting narrative for this factual book on Cook. Beautifully illustrated throughout and a well rounded approach to the whole of Cook’s exploits.

Cook all Over … by MacLean

$40.00

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The Epic Voyage of the Seven Little Sisters – A 6,700 Mile Voyage Alone Across the Pacific – William Willis – 1955

Published by Hutchinson, London a first UK edition 1955. Octavo, 243 pages, nicely illustrated with photographic images, charts and sketches. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.

Further and faster than the Kon-Tiki … William Willis achieved the impossible in 1954 sailing his incredible raft for Callao, Peru to Pago Pago in British Samoa.

Strap those logs tightly next time you raft!

$25.00

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Rahui – Colin Iles

Published by Reed , Wellington 1975 a first printing. Octavo, 194 pages endpaper maps, nicely illustrated. Very good near fine condition.

In 1969 Colin Iles decided to give it all up in England and move to New Zealand. To get there he bought the “Clarinda” although he had never sailed before. He took a mate of similar expertise and off they went across the Atlantic.

They took on a more cluey American in the West Indies and had a great time among the islands before heading off through the Panama. Then down through the Marquesas, Tahiti, Cook Islands and Tonga experiencing the beauty human and natural of those exotic islands.

In NZ Colin met Rahui a hula dancing nurse from the Cook Islands. They became a pair and went on a Honeymoon Cruise to Fiji, New Hebrides, Solomons, New Guinea and Cairns.

After all that they went to live in England. Rahui wanted to see Hadrian’s Wall and they settled in the Midlands where Colin managed Ruhui’s popular hula dancing act!

Life changing voyages – romance in the Pacific

$25.00

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Starbound (Circumnavigation) – Gordan and Nina Stuermer – 1977

By Way of the Wind – Jim Moore

Come Aboard – Eric Hiscock – First Edition 1978

Captain Cook – Alistair MacLean – First Edition 1972

The Epic Voyage of the Seven Little Sisters – A 6,700 Mile Voyage Alone Across the Pacific – William Willis – 1955

Rahui – Colin Iles

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