Modern Era Voyaging

In the Wake of Bass and Flinders – 200 Years On – Bern Cuthbertson

This is a copy of the more upmarket account of Bern Cuthbertson’s adventures.

Softcover, perfect bound, 318 pages, illustrated, fold-out chart at the back. A special production for a soft cover, heavy quality paper etc.

Self-published by Cuthbertson in the year 2000. The author and his wife from Sandy Bay, Hobart.

The story of the re-enactment on the 200 year anniversary of the voyage of George Bass and Matthew Flinders in the whaleboat Elizabeth and the replica slop Norfolk.

200 year anniversary done and reported in style.

$45.00

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The Southern Cross – Australia’s 1974 Challenge for America’s cup – Hugh Whall

Bondy won the Cup for Australia in 1984 … it had been a long haul … this the book about the mighty effort made in 1974.

Published by Admiralty Publishing, Maryland, USA in 1974, a first edition.

Octavo, 172 pages, finished with the “Basic 12 metre formula”… learn it by heart. Nicely illustrated throughout from photographs taken along the way. Very nice copy.

The author a sailor of note, ex Fastnet, Sydney Hobart etc. From Rhode Island where he kept his hand in. Bondy … well we all know about Bondy.

A super book with good concentration on the design development and the desire to win at all costs.

The America’s Cup maybe the best thing invented in America..

$25.00

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Australian Shipwrecks Update 1622-1990 (Volume 5 and last) – Jack Loney

Published in 1991 a soft cover copy of Jack Loney’s final book on Australian shipwrecks … filling in many gaps and providing new information nor previously published. So completing what remains as the great reference guide to shipwrecks and we have some!

Perfect bound, 169 pages, self published. Illustrated cover and numerous illustrations mainly from period photographs in the text. Because the subject matter is spread over the whole period of the broader “Shipwrecks” works this edition has a slightly different approach with chapters such as … The Long Lost wrecks; then the updated list; then extension appendices on … threatened losses; scuttled vessels; the Riddle of the Submarine etc.

If its shipwrecks its Loney

$35.00

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Fatal Storm -The 54th Sydney to Hobart Yacht – Rob Mundie – First Edition 1999

For those that remember it, and for many impossible to forget, the storm that took six lives in the 1998 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race was beyond any expectations. Waves a high as 100 feet (half the size of the Sydney Opera House) pounded boats in the Bass Strait for more than a day. This is the record of those events.

Softcover, published by Harper and Collins in 1999. Large octavo, 317 pages with numerous illustrations many in colour. Very good almost as new condition.

Real life Fatal Storm – Sydney Hobart 1998

$30.00

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Close to the Wind – [Round the World Single Handed and Rescue] – Pete Goss

The story of adventurer Pete Goss’s involvement in the 1996/7 Vandee Globe – round the World single handed event France and back.

Only six finished and Goss was fifth … he had however to go back in the Southern Ocean to rescue Raphael Dinelli who would have died for sure without Pete Goss. He took Dinelli back to Hobart and continued on in the race alone. This is the same race that saw the famous capsizing of Tony Bullimore and, sadly the loss of Gerry Roufs.

Softcover, published by Headline in 1998. Large octavo, 282 pages nicely illustrated. A very good near fine copy.

Pete Goss received and deserved his Legion d’Honneur.

$25.00

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Chasing Liquid Mountains [Adventures of a Solo Yachtsman] David Adams

Only ever in soft cover this edition published by Macmillan in 1997. Octavo, 246 pages, nice illustrations, charts, images from colour photographs etc.

Australian adventurer, David Adams, was first across the line in the Class 2 of the BOC Challenge around the World single handed yacht race in 1995.

We love the title and from then on the book only gets better … if you need motivation to get out of bed this is the book for you

Highly respected liquid mountain chaser.

$25.00

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In the Wake of Bass and Flinders – 200 Years On – Bern Cuthbertson

The Southern Cross – Australia’s 1974 Challenge for America’s cup – Hugh Whall

Australian Shipwrecks Update 1622-1990 (Volume 5 and last) – Jack Loney

Fatal Storm -The 54th Sydney to Hobart Yacht – Rob Mundie – First Edition 1999

Close to the Wind – [Round the World Single Handed and Rescue] – Pete Goss

Chasing Liquid Mountains [Adventures of a Solo Yachtsman] David Adams

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