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Cruising Logbook - Spiral Bound from WEEMS And PLATH
The Cruising Log provides ample space for recording information about your nautical excursions, as well as guest registry. Quick reference pages are provided on such topics as: Rules of the road, radio procedures distress signals, weather reference, and more, as well a space for you to record vital information about your vessel. Embossed cover made of flexible, heavy waterproof material.
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Gulf Islands Cruising Guide from ROBERT HALE
covers the waterways from Juan de Fuca Strait to Comox including Hornby and Denman and Lasqueti Islands.
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DVD-Garmin GPS MAP 3006 from BENNETT MARINE
DVD-GARMIN GPS MAP 3006|DVD-GARMIN GPS MAP 3006.
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Boater's Pocket Reference from ROBERT HALE
Thomas McEwen. A pocket-sized alternative to Chapman, jam-packed with information boaters need to know! Includes a wealth of how-to info, plus reference facts, figures, formulas, graphs and tables about boating. Paperback . 3 1/4"W x 5 3/8"H x 15/16"D. . 766pp.
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Fiberglass Boat Repair and Maintenance - Book from WEST SYSTEM
WEST SYSTEM® Technical Books—Guide you through a wide range of projects and repairs These books are chock-full of important of information on recommended product usage, applications, and step-by-step instructions for a wide variety of projects, including blister repair, deck reinforcement, lamination repair, closing of punctures and holes, dry rot repairs and more. Specific step-by-step instructions. Helpful illustrations.
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Cruising Guide to Caribbean Marinas and Services from CRUISING EQUIPMENT
Instead of having to gather all the proper charts of the area you plan to navigate separately, a quality chartbook binds them all together in a convenient and easy-to-reference package. Additionally, chartbooks can be an excellent space-saver since they slip easily onto a shelf with other large format books rather than needing to be stowed in individual storage tubes like conventional charts.
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The Dashews' have created what is justly called an encyclopedia for the wealth and breadth of information on cruising they provide here. They have succeeded in creating a comprehensive guide for anyone planning to cruise for several weeks, months or years. Author: Steve & Linda Dashew Beowulf, Incorporated.
Part No: BEO003
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Practical Seamanship: Essential Skills for Modern Sailors. This foundational book for sailors focuses on comfortable, safe and enjoyable boating. From anchoring off coral reefs to avoiding collisions, to docking in difficult situations, it is filled with easy-to-use check lists and executive summaries that offer essential skills for modern sailors. Authors: Steve Dashew, Linda Dashew Publihser: Beowulf Inc.
Part No: BEO001
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Often generalized weather forecasts can lead boaters into treacherous waters. However, with recent technological advances, including the internet, weather faxes and more, predicting changes in weather and approaching storms is becoming simpler. The Dashew's (authors of Offshore Cruising Encyclopedia) created this handbook to help you use the new technology in conjunction with reliable old techniques.
Part No: BEO004
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Whether you're a coastal or offshore cruiser, you'll find your most pressing concerns treated with the know-how that makes for skillful, confident cruising in Nigel Calder's Cruising Handbook. The first half of the book includes an easy-to-use tabular method for evaluating a boat's suitability for cruising; ideas for workable deck and interior lay-outs and organization; how to choose and configure suitable boat systems for cruising; and how to install gear for trouble free operation.
Part No: 0071350993
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Sail and Rig Tuning This book will teach you how to trim your sails and rig in the best possible way with a concentrated and thoroughly illustrated manual that systematically shows you how. The author has been sailing for more than 20 years and has logged close to 40,000 nautical miles, including two Atlantic crossings. Author: Ivar Dedekam. Fernhurst Books.
Part No: FER009
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Sailing Fundamentals have been extensively pretested by ASA professional instructors to ensure that it offers the fastest, easiest, most systematic way to learn basic sailing and basic coastal cruising. This book covers every aspect of beginning sailing-from hoisting sail to docking and anchoring-and specifically prepares the learner to qualify for sailing certification according to international standards.
Part No: ASA001
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![Troubleshooting Marine Diesels from BOOKS]( "Troubleshooting Marine Diesels from BOOKS")
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This simple, hands-on guide to practical diesel engine care makes repair and maintenance more user-friendly than ever before. Now, even boat owners who grew up with gas engines can set aside their fears about tinkering with diesels. Author: Peter Compton. McGraw-Hill Professional.
Part No: 0070123543
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How to install wiring, makegood, safe connections, troubleshoot problems, avoid shore power problems, lightning protection, and much more. From the popular Sailboat Library series. Clear, easy to follow drawings.
Part No: 0070366497
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Bob McNally's Complete Book of Fisherman's Knots, Fishing Rigs, and How to Use Them Presenting all known knots and fishing rigs of practical value. Includes nearly 200 knots and rigs for all fresh and saltwater fishing. Knots for spinning, baitcasting, trolling, and fly fishing. Connections for wire cable. Detailed knot tying and fish rig making from A to Z. Filled with over 600 illustrations. Paperback.
Part No: 72150
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![Why Didn't I Think of That? from BOOKS]( "Why Didn't I Think of That? from BOOKS")
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Cruising on a small boat is a continuous learning experience. Sometimes you discover answers on your own, but more often the best lessons come from tested advice and ingenious solutions from sailors you meet along the way. Enjoy 1,198 hints from 222 cruisers on everything from anchors to bilge pumps, interior modifications to toilet overflow. This book definitely belongs on board.
Part No: 0070532214
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![Boat Navigation For Rest of Us from BOOKS]( "Boat Navigation For Rest of Us from BOOKS")
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This book explains in plain, simple language exactly how to find where you are and get where you want to go with a minimum of fuss, and contains many useful but relatively unpublicized methods specifically designed for use aboard the nation's 20 million small power and sailboats. This is the first book to teach small-boat navigation the way most people actually navigate, combining electronic aids like radar, GPS, and Loran with commonsense visual piloting and seat-of-the-pants chart work.
Part No: 99W 007137226
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This book is a comprehensively revised and expanded edition of the all-time best-selling reference book for all kinds of fishing. Ever since its first edition two decades ago, Vic Dunaway's Complete Book of Baits, Rigs and Tackle has established itself as the one book covering all the key mechanics that are so important to fishing success at every level of interest or experience, from polefishing to big-game angling. Vic Dunaway, Dan Dunaway.
Part No: BRT
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Six Ingredients or Less: Over 600 Quick and Easy Receipes Using 6 Ingredients or Less Over 600 tested recipes to help "make simple meals great and great meals simple". As practical and handy cookbook as a cookbook can get.
Part No: 99W CJB001
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Vic Dunaway. This practical guide covers many shallow and deep-water fishes that's you’ll find in the Atlantic from Canada to the southern tip of Florida. Detailed ranges, habitats, game quality, food quality and record sizes.
Part No: SFA
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Kovach has a number of popular California fishing titles out, and hosts one of the more amusing TV fishing shows. This is a good choice for those who enjoy the saltwater scene. Author: Ron Kovach. Marketscope Books.
Part No: SFC
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The best handbook on chart usage, from one of the most trusted names in boating. In 2000, the U. S. government ceased publication of Chart No. 1 is not just reborn but expanded and improved in How to Read a Nautical Chart. The demand for a book like this has never been greater. 1, including a more intuitive format, crucial background information, international chart symbol equivalents, electronic chart symbology, and thorough explanations of the practical aspects of nautical chart reading.
Part No: 0071376151
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A step-by-step guide with full color photos makes it easy to learn over 70 useful and decorative knots. You will be able to tie the right knot for any situation. Authors: Mario Bigon, Guido Regazzoni, & Kennie Lyman. Morrow, William & Co.
Part No: MOR013
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The Complete Sailor goes beyond other learn-to-sail books to cover navigation, boat design, and seamanship. Encyclopedic in scope yet warm in style, in conveys the magic as well as the techniques of sailing. Among other topics covered: Anchoring, Ropework, Rigging, Weather, Rules of the road, Trailering, Working the winds. The Complete Sailor takes you from the first sail to a mastery of small-boat handling.
Part No: 70571317
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Jointly adopted by the American Red Cross and the US Sailing Association, this booklet teaches the principles of safe, successful sailing more clearly and faster. Lots of easy-to-grasp illustrations take the beginner through the basics. Self-test is included. Author: Derrick Fries, Illustrator: Burt Bilbrey. US Sailing.
Part No: 99W 1-882502-
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A proven navigation tools used by the US Coast Guard, US Coast Guard Auxiliary and US Power Squadron. Navigation Rules feature U. S. Buoyage System, inland and international rules, right-of-way, lights, sound signals and bridge signals. All presented in graphic summary and easy to read.
Part No: 99W 125
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All the piloting information you need at your fingertips: dead reckoning basics, true and magnetic compass relationships, position finding, estimating distance off, current and leeway corrections. Helpful hints on chart reading, preparations, and checklists, fog navigation, and depth soundings without a fathometer.
Part No: 126
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A comprehensive guide incorporating the International Maritime Buoyage System and COLREGS. Clarifies differences between Cardinal and Lateral buoyage systems and buoyage regions, key to reducing confusiong and danger when entering unfamiliar waters or busy harbors.
Part No: 127
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Contains the basic information in clear, concise, tabbed sections for vessel, fuel, maintenance, inventory and radio log info. 124pp.
Part No: 1.11
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The Inside Passage to Alaska is one of the world's most spectacular trips for cruising boaters. Each summer Alaska's sheltered waters, picturesque islands, deeply cut fjords, icebergs, and tidewater glaciers-along with outstanding flora and fauna-draw hundreds of adventurers who experience the beauty and challenges of this magnificent wilderness. "Exploring Southeast Alaska - Second Edition" covers in unique detail every harbor and cove between Dixon Entrance and Skagway.
Part No: 9781932310245
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Exploring the North Coast of British Columbia These guides convey an enormous amount of information about some of the most variable cruising areas in the world. Charts and diagrams of shorelines and underwater features are especially readable. Routes and anchorages from the famous Nakwatko Rapids to Dixon Entrance at the Alaska border; routes through the previously uncharted Spiller Channel and Griffin Passage. A chapter on the beautiful South Moresby Island of the Queen Charlottes.
Part No: 0-938665-80-4
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Presents a complete picture on how to maximize the use of a marine radar system for collision avoidance and navigation.
Part No: 1-932310-05-3
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The book balances the exotic with the familiar, from tropical corals and rare fossils to everyday clamshells and barnacles. In her introduction and captions, marine geologist and paleontologist Sandy Carlson introduces the reader to seashells in all their variety, explaining why they look as they do. Both an art book and a contemplation of nature, Seashells combines aesthetic delight in natural things with scientific fact and philosophical wonder. Author Josie Iselin.
Part No: 9780810993273
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A User’s Guide for the 21st CenturyBased on the eco-friendly website of the same name (www. From disaster relief to sustainable business, community gardens to climate change, it’s full of information from a small army of contributors around the world. New concepts are introduced such as harvesting rainwater and zero-energy houses, what’s happening right now to create an environmentally and economically sustainable future, and what stands in opposition. Divided for easy reference. Abrams, Inc.
Part No: 9780810992962
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The Lazy Environmentalist: Your Guide to Easy, Stylish, Green Living The Lazy Environmentalist provides comprehensive guidance to fashion-forward consumers who are as concerned about the long-term health of our planet as they are about the design of their bathroom fixtures. Author Josh Dorfman, Sirius Satellite Radio host. 271 pages .
Part No: 9781584796022
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![Marine Cuisine Barbeque Cook Book from MAGMA PRODUCTS]( "Marine Cuisine Barbeque Cook Book from MAGMA PRODUCTS")
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From Cornish game hens to great hamburgers, pop open the Magma Marine Cuisine® BBQ Guide and Cookbook. 130 pages of tested recipes for onboard cooking. Helpful hints on using your barbeque.
Part No: 99W A10-270
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