Modern Era Voyaging

Trade Winds and Turtles – Dan Mulville – First Edition 1960

Published by Putnam, London in 1960 a first edition. Octavo, 248 pages with frontispiece of the boat and two charts. Very good near fine condition.

Dan Mulville bought an old French fishing boat “L’ Adventurier” in the Canary Isles. With a new friend he made for the West Indies and had one great adventure … involving bar fights, smuggling and shark fishing. A different sort of sailing book

Irish born Dan Mulville left school and joined an insurance company. It didn’t last long … and that was his last proper job. He was in the RAF during the war. Afterwards he delivered yachts for rich Greeks, cars for London motor firms and boasted a fine wine cellar. We like the cut of his jib!

Sailing and the wild life in the West Indies.

$25.00

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The Misty Islands – Miles Smeeton – First Ed 1969

Published by the Nautical Publishing Company (Captain’s Row, Lymington) in association with Harrap, London.

Octavo, 214 pages nicely illustrated and with endpaper maps. Very good near fine condition.

The Smeeton’s experienced sailors spent a year in Japan after a prior voyage before they set sail for Southern Ireland via … the Aleutians, Alaska, British Columbia … the down the west coast and through Panama to the West Indies. Heading north to colder foggier climate past Labrador and across to round Iceland before heading near south to the Hebrides and the final leg. Much about the sailing and the stopping’s off along the way. A special record.

Unusual voyage and a liking for colder water

$30.00

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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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Vagabonding Under Sail – Crealock – Sought After First Edition 1952

First edition sailing classic published by Peter Davies, London in 1952. Octavo, 304 pages with illustrations and endpaper maps. Very good copy with the odd mark and minor tape ghosts to the endpapers. Good complete dust jacket with small closed tears at spine ends.

Four young men escape the torment of everyday life. They buy a 42 foot cutter, the “Content”, fix her up and off they go. To Vigo (Voyager loves the great seafood there), Lisbon and Gibraltar . then off to the West Indies via Las Palmas. Finishing at New York looking pretty good. They took there time, which always makes for a good story.

Sought after sailing classic in first edition

$60.00

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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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Icebound in Antarctica – David Lewis and Mimi George

Published by Heinemann in Australia a first edition 1987. Octavo, 242 pages with many great colour photographs by Mimi George. Very good like new condition.

In 1982 David Lewis and his partner Mimi George and four others sailed to the Antarctic in the “Dick Smith Explorer” … it got tricky and they got well and truly stuck

Ice everywhere

$30.00

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Trade Winds and Turtles – Dan Mulville – First Edition 1960

The Misty Islands – Miles Smeeton – First Ed 1969

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

Vagabonding Under Sail – Crealock – Sought After First Edition 1952

Rahui – Colin Iles

Icebound in Antarctica – David Lewis and Mimi George

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