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  • Sails Full and By – Dom Degnon

    Sails Full and By – Dom Degnon

    Published by Sheridan House, Dobbs Ferry a first edition 1995. Octavo, 244 pages illustrated. Very good near fine condition.

    A seven-year circumnavigation in the 41 foot ketch “Taku”. A full crew of friends and family who come and go during the “voyage”.

    With more time than some they have more time for the exotic .. and in the Pacific Ahe, Tahiti, Samoa, Sunwarrow, Tonga, Fiji and New Zealand. Then off to the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea and then difficulties with the boat and they just made it to Australia’s Lizard island. And then more ….

    A long time around the world an unusual narrative

    $30.00

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  • Sea Change – Alone Across the Atlantic – Peter Nichols

    Sea Change – Alone Across the Atlantic – Peter Nichols

    Published by Viking a first edition 1997. Octavo, 238 pages. Very good if not fine condition.

    A different sailing book. There are no pictures or maps here. Maybe therefore it is not surprising that the writing is special. Peter Nichols sailed with his wife. Sadly, they separated after a west to east Atlantic crossing. This book reflects on his single-handed return voyage in the 27-foot engineless “Toad” which had a habit of springing leaks.

    Interspersed throughout are references to classic sailing accounts … Chichester, Blyth, Moitessier, Knox-Johnston, Ridgway et al.

    Interesting for an experienced maritime reader most useful of an introductee.

    Nichols a personal challenge – knowledgeable author.

    $25.00

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  • Pacific Odyssey [Three Years in the Pacific - Easter Island, Samoa, Tuvalu etc] – Gwenda Cornell – 1985

    Pacific Odyssey [Three Years in the Pacific - Easter Island, Samoa, Tuvalu etc] – Gwenda Cornell – 1985

    Published by Adlard Coles, London in 1985 a first edition soft cover. 218 pages, double page map and black and white illustrations.

    A super Pacific voyage taking in Easter Islands, Samoa, the birth of Tuvalu and the nose flute playing in Tonga. Three years in all were spent in the Pacific in what would be a six year round the world adventure.

    A sailing adventure to die for and a well written narrative.

    $25.00

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  • Small Boats and Big Seas [A Hundred Years of Yachting – Edited by Ralph Stephenson

    Small Boats and Big Seas [A Hundred Years of Yachting – Edited by Ralph Stephenson

    First edition published by Oxford University Press, Melbourne in 1978.

    Octavo, 189 pages, nicely illustrated, a pretty good copy in a nice dust jacket.

    Numerous small boat accounts by well known names from the early days – Slocum, Vanderdecken, Knight etc to the mid period – Jack London, Fox, Villiers and Richards to more modern times with Moitessier, Tetley, Whitaker etc …

    Wonderful collection of salty water adventurers.

    $25.00

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  • Rough Water – Stories of Survival from the Seas – Clint Willis

    Rough Water – Stories of Survival from the Seas – Clint Willis

    A worthy soft cover published by the aptly named Adrenaline Books, New York in 1999. Octavo, 356 pages, fancy wrap card covers add to sturdiness. Very good to better copy.

    Interesting mix of fact and fiction from Shackleton, Knox-Johnstone, Trumbull on the raft with Patrick O’Brian and Wauk (Caine Mutiny – let’s not forget Bogie!) then on to cold water and David Lewis etc. Glossary and bibliography at the end all help those new to the water.

    Survival at sea all from your armchair

    $25.00

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

    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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