Written by our very own Joshua Colvin, editor at Small Craft Advisor magazine. Come aboard for an around-the-world sailboat race that features a colorful cast of characters, including billionaire investor Chester Rockerfeller, actor Max Mogul, the impatient speedster Wanda Wetbottom, and the unlikely heroes, the ancient mariner Rusty Hooks and his dog Old Blue.
Perfect for ages 3-7. Hardbound, all color, 8 x 11 on 70-pound paper. Signed by the author.
From book:
"Oh and there’s one other competitor, someone I almost forgot.
But even if he started a month before the others,
experts say he’d still be a long shot.
He’s an ancient mariner whose name is Captain Rusty Hooks.
He sails a teeny, tiny, sloop, all weighted down with books."
"After spending decades sailing in the same area, I considered it a good idea, for personal reasons, to leave it all behind and take a cruise. Join me as we go back to 1981, and pass under the Golden Gate in a small Bear class sloop out into the unknown."
From the author of The Gentle Art of Pottering comes a new book about his adventures sailing alone with just the basics.
Paperback. 153 pages.
Harlan and Annna Hubbard, newly married in middle age, build the boat of their dreams and drift down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. For seven years the Hubbards make their home on their little boat, drifting with the river, camping on the land.
From the editors of Small Craft Advisor magazine, Small Boats Big Adventures compiles seven years of interviews with small-boat adventurers, writers and designers. Includes interviews with Phil Bolger, Larry Brown, Sven Yrvind (Lundin), and 12 others. Includes a 3-page preface and many photos.
166 pages. Soft cover.
Here's a VERY small-boat specific title you won't find many other places. Author Joe Farinaccio sits down with experts from all over the sailing world and talk small trimarans. Interviews inlude: Russel Brown, Dick Newick, Chris Ostlind, Chuck Leinweber, Gary Dierking and many others. Boats discussed include: Magnum, Windrider, Rave, Weta, Tremolino and many others.
One of our readers down in Jamaica told us about a book we should offer—one he said any small-boat sailor should enjoy. We finally tracked its author Gary Sack, down, and with our encouragement he has released a new third edition of his Ten Years in a Twenty Foot Boat.
As the book cover says, this is a story about a young man and his love of a small boat (Vivacity 20 bilge-keeler). Follow the little sailboat Melody as they adventure boldly far and wide throughout the Americas.
This new large-format soft cover (8.5 x 11) edition is more than 250 pages, with illustrations, and it features a wonderfully detailed appendix with definitions and explanations of technical terms. Each copy is also signed by the author. $22 + shipping.
This is Henry M. Plummer's idiosyncratic log of his 1912-1913 sailing adventure in the Mascot, a 24-foot Cape Code catboat. With his son, Henry Junior, and Scotty the cat, Plummer worked his way down from Buzzard's Bay, Massachusetts, to Miami, Florida, and back – a round trip of nearly 3,000 miles.
The gorgeous new book covers canoe yawls in detail, with chapters like "the Four Pioneers" "The Golden Age," "Why the Canoe Yawl?" and "The Canoe Yawl Today." The book is full to the gunnels with fantastic color and black and white illustrations of famous or important canoe yawl designs, plans, photos, charts and graphs. There's even a forward from small-boat designer Iain Oughtred.
Here's the description from the publisher: The Canoe Yawl was developed from the sailing canoe in late Victorian times to better suit the conditions encountered on Britain’s coasts and larger estuaries, and in this history, study and present-day survey Richard Powell, Technical Secretary of The Albert Strange Association, makes its case to be the best type today for the single- or short-handed coastal cruising sailor. The story of this modest yet seaworthy family of boats is described from its emergence with the Victorian pioneers of leisure sailing, through its hey-day around the turn of the twentieth century, its decades in the doldrums following the Great War, and its remarkable and welcome revival in recent years using both traditional and modern materials. Profusely illustrated with the author’s drawings, original design drawings, and photographs—spanning the past century and a half—The Canoe Yawl is an essential addition to the literature of traditional sail.
ISBN 978-1-907206-31-3; 216 x 216mm, 160 pages, profusely illustrated in colour and monochrome. Softcover with sewn binding, cover flaps and matt lamination.
Just released, Roger Barnes' The Dinghy Cruising Companion is one of the most exciting small-boat specific books to come along in some time. 256 slick, well designed pages cover topics like Finding a Good Boat, Fitting Out, Mooring and Anchoring, Preparing for Open Water, Coastal Navigation, Keeping Comfortable and Safe, and much more. Countless color photos, maps and illustration are part of this full color, glossy text. This comprehensive guide is perfect for aspiring or already-enthusiastic dinghy cruisers. Published by Adlard Coles, UK.
From the author of Three Years in a Twelve-Foot Boat comes an expedition of even grander scope—this time with Ginny, his brave sweetheart. Together they fashion a tiny craft in which they row and sail from Florida to the Caribbean along the coasts of Central and South America. 241 pages first edition soft cover.
This book will appeal to anyone who has ever been drawn to the water and wondered about what it would be like to experience the personal freedom of being their own skipper on a small sailboat. If you're already sailing a small boat such as a Potter 15, but want to improve your skills and expand your horizons, you'll find this book quite helpful. The Gentle Art of Pottering will guide you through finding a boat, day sailing, cruising, and racing which are the major activities that sailors do. The subjects covered are extensive and detailed, but explained in the simplest of terms. The author, Mr. Bacon, has been sailing his Potter 15 for ten years. He has cruised his boat throughout the Pacific Northwest and raced successfully at both the Cruiser Challenge and Sail Havasu events. Mr. Bacon has been sailing small boats for over fifty years and resides in the SanFrancisco Bay Area.
Regular Small Craft Advisor contributor Steve Ladd's gritty memoir Three Years in a 12-Foot Boat, about his adventures, trials and tribulations on a 15,000-mile solo expedition in a tiny handmade boat. Ladd ranges from Montana to the pirate-infested coast of Panama and Colombia, across the Andes, and through the Carribean. Along the way he is robbed, capsized, arrested and befriended as he sails and rows through a tumult of uncharted adventures.
This version is an instantly downloadable ePub file readable on Kindle, etc. 388 pages.
