Yachting

My Old Man and the Sea [Cape Horn] – David and Daniel Hays

Published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, North Carolina a first edition 1995. Unusually printed in Australia by the Australian Print Group.

Slim Octavo, nice production with a number of special charts and diagrams of the boat design etc .. no photographs … must have forgotten the camera. Very good if not fine condition.

A very nicely put together record of a father and sons voyage from New London, Connecticut through the Panama, down around the Horn and home. Oh … and with the Galapagos and Easter Island on the way.

David and Daniel Hayes not only sailed together but they built together the 25 foot Sparrow which was to look after them all the way.

A very good account and some excellent technical content.

Strap yourself in for the Horn with Hays and Hays

$25.00

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Alone Against the Atlantic – Garry Spiess

First UK edition published by Souvenir Press, London in 1982.

Octavo, 224 pages nicely illustrated especially images of the build. End paper maps, nice technical appendices make the book complete. Very good near fine copy, quite an attractive two tone blue cloth covered board binding with lovely gilt image of the little vessel .. all hidden by a perfect dust jacket.

Gerry Spiess was a schoolteacher in Minnesota … his dream was to sail across the Atlantic in the smallest boat practical. So he started making it in his garage out of recycled plywood and the likes. The Yankee girls was ten feet long ad half as wide. He built it , sailed it and made it from Chesapeake bay to Falmouth. Wow and what a voyage. Juts look at the images of the boat!

Spiess inspires – get some packing crates today!

$30.00

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Call of the Sea – France and Christian Guillain

Published by Victor Gollancz, London 1976 a first English edition having been published in France in 1974. Translated by Caroline Hillier who captures the emotion well. Octavo, 272 pages well illustrated. A very good near fine copy.

This is the first English translation of a French best seller. France and Christian Guillain set off for Tahiti from the Mediterranean with a baby of just a e weeks. This is a very joyful account despite the unusual calamities that befell them along the way. Stranded in the mouth of the Ebro, sea monsters of the Cocos the dreariness of the doldrums. Nice family photographs .. so French.

French couple take their young family on the voyage of anyone’s lifetime and more …

$25.00

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Travellers on a Trade Wind – Marcia Pirie

Published by Frontier a first edition 1992. Octavo, 296 pages well illustrated with photographs and charts and the most endearing sketches by the author. A very good if not fine copy.

Marcia and David Pirie gave it all up to sail their home-built ketch “Moongazer” round the world. An not the usual way … the total voyage took in some 70,000 miles of sailing. Not happy with the usual route after the Panama they sail north from the Marquesas through Hawaii up to the icy waters of Queen Charlotte Sound. And then much more.

Take nine years off and follow the route of Marcia and David!

$30.00

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The Singlehanders – Peter Heaton

Published by Michael Joseph, London in 1976 a first edition. Large octavo, 208 pages nicely illustrated. A very good if not fine copy.

Peter Heaton’s well thought through book on the evolution of the singlehanders.

In the 19th century stockbroker Richard McMullen became a singlehander because he sacked his two hands for being idle and insolent. Those that more carefully planned their way into it are categorised as Pioneers (1876-1899); Romantics (1900-39); Escapists (1940’s and 50’s) and those from the Competitive Era. As well as the individual exploits the issues of loneliness etc are explored.

Great photography and technical diagrams.

Singlehanders covered well by Heaton

$25.00

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Fair Winds and Far Places – Zane Mann

Published by Dillon Press, Minneapolis a first edition 1978. Octavo, 272 pages well illustrated and well written. Very good near fine condition.

If you are exhausted from reading about the drama of round the world sailing then this will give you some respite. Zane Mann came across the beautiful fifty foot sloop “Serenity” and it changed his life. The next three years were spent in the Caribbean and this is the account of his sailings and exploits

Zane Mann gave it all up for the Caribbean … and the lobsters!

$25.00

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My Old Man and the Sea [Cape Horn] – David and Daniel Hays

Alone Against the Atlantic – Garry Spiess

Call of the Sea – France and Christian Guillain

Travellers on a Trade Wind – Marcia Pirie

The Singlehanders – Peter Heaton

Fair Winds and Far Places – Zane Mann

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