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For more than 35 years, the Coastal Cruising Handbook has been an invaluable guide for every cruising yacht and launch owner, providing a wealth of detail about anchorages and facilities, much of this gained from personal experience and depicted on over 200 hand-drawn sketches. The aim of this extensively updated tenth edition is to continue to encourage boaties to explore the beautiful coastline and myriad islands between Cape Reinga and Cape Kidnappers. Whether planning ahead during cold winter evenings of resting at anchor in a... read more

Boaties' Tales is a collection of weird, wonderful and often hilarious stories about man's obsession with staying afloat - whether it's aboard a yacht, supertanker, fishing trawler or in the humble tinny. Author and veteran journalist Peter Jessup shares a lifetime of boating yarns from New Zealand and afar.

The guide covers in detail the harbours and coastline from Whangarei to Cape Reinga, and the Three Kings Islands. As with the Hauraki Gulf Boating Atlas, in presentation and content this is a guide produced to the highest international standards and will make an excellent gift.

"Shipwrecks of the Southern Seas tells 15 fascinating stories - some iconic, many little known until now - of shipwreck, mutiny, piracy and marooning in the region of Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific, concentrating on stories from the age of sail and steam. Gripping, engaging storytelling is the key to this book. These stories cover the gamut of human emotion and character: survival, courage, cowardice and treachery, as well as humour, mystery and the absurd. Featured stories include the wreck of the Batavia in the Abrolhos ... read more

For new boating enthusiasts - even if they've been at it awhile - there are scores of burning questions.If one boat has a round bottom and another's is veed, what difference does it make in the way they perform? What are the advantages of a cutter rig over a sloop? Why does one sailor swear by a full keel, while others won't have anything but a fin keel? Why does one powerboat have more flare in its topsides than another? And what is flare? Why do some hull shapes look "right"? How big an engine and propeller will it take to move t... read more

Commonsense Ways to Prevent, Diagnose, and Repair Engines and Mechanical ProblemsThis title offers work-around solutions and emergency repairs that will get your boat home when all else fails. Practical Boat Mechanics belongs onboard every boat that has a gasoline, diesel, inboard, or out-board engine. This practical collection of fast fixes enables you to repair failed machinery with basic tools under adverse conditions. Designed and written for non-mechanics, it includes troubleshooting charts of mechanical fixes.

First published 1972. A navigator's guide to the north-east coast of New Zealand and anchorages from Three Kings Islands to Cape Kidnappers. This publication is modelled on the Clyde Cruising Club's Sailing Directions for the West Coast of Scotland.

A useful study guide and reference book to those rules and regulations which are applicable to all commercial and pleasure boats on New Zealand waters.

This is a comprehensive and informative guide to open-water survival, blending science with the authors' own research and examinations of real-life survival accounts. It provides up-to-date information on sustained survival in cold water a common sense approach to survival gear.

"The Learn in a Weekend" series is a unique concept for busy people. With the help of an expert coach you can learn a sport or hobby in the shortest possible time. Tackle the techniques and master the skills of dinghy sailing with this highly visual hour-by-hour guide.

This beautifully photographed book enables the reader to step back in time, to a world when tall ships were the means by which continents were discovered, trade routes were opened up and new worlds were colonised.Today, the sixteen square-rigged tall ships that make their home in Australian and New Zealand waters have vastly different backgrounds and are used for a wide variety of purposes. From replica ships like the Bounty and the Endeavour to modern purpose-built sail training vessels like the Spirit of New Zealand, each ship in... read more

Henry Winkelmann is probably the greatest marine photographer this country has known, and here a broad selection of his classic yachting images has been put together in a single volume. They range from the mid 1880s through the heydey of mullet boat racing before the First World War and end with images taken just before his retirement in the mid 1920s. Many famous yachts are captured here

The inaugural title in our exclusive new series of books about traditional boats and traditional seamanship. Wooden boats didn't disappear with the invention of GRP. Building them is a classic craft that attracts people with a keen interest in traditional boats and is a thriving activity amongst professional craftsmen and DIY boatbuilders alike. This thoroughly modern book aimed at the novice builder and accessible to the amateur takes a fresh new approach to a timeless activity. The focus is on classic boat construction an... read more

This book is an exuberant celebration of sailing in all its glory. Many of the world's most outstanding photographers from Beken of Cowes, Carlo Borlenghi and Gilles Martin-Raget to Rick Tomlinson, Franco Pace and Stanley Rosenfeld, present their tribute to the exciting world of sailing in an impressive galley of amazing action images. SAIL showcases the sweeping lines and glamorous settings of yachts of all sizes and types: cruising and racing beauties, legendary yachts from this century and the last, mono and multihulls, round t... read more

DoP 2007, Auckland Softcover Following on from Boating Fun, Mike and Dee take sailors who have mastered basic sailing skills to the next level. With years of sailing and teaching experience, the authors write with integrity and a clarity that makes what can be a confusing array of information understandable. The book includes information on charts, plotting courses, meanings of the various signals seen on the water, boat maintenance and safety issues. Activities for testing skills are also included; practice makes perfect and ge... read more

With this cruising and fishing series you need only one source of information to make your boating trips more enjoyable. The series features charts prepared by the Royal New Zealand Navy that are easier to use than traditional charts and contain additional information on location of supplies for food, fuel and water, fishing spots, dive sites and boat ramps.

DoP November 2009, Wellington 275x210mm /240pp Hardcover The cargo and passenger vessels recorded in this book have provided regular and scheduled services across Cook Strait since the late 19th century, establishing and maintaining the vital link between Wellington and the South Island ports of Lyttelton, Picton and Nelson. Many will forever be a part of our nation's history. Most are forgotten in time. Described are the ships that, year after year, in war and peace, carried our commerce and families between north and south.... read more

This story covers fifty eight years of maritime history, from the last six months of the second world war until the year 2002. In December 1944, a young Scot began a seagoing career with one of Britain's oldest shipping companies, Alfred Holt &. Company, the Blue Funnel Line of Liverpool, which took him around the globe to many remote places.

With every scrap aloft, carrying more sail than many larger keel yachts, and the crew driving her as fast as possible on the edge of control, no other yacht captures the attention quite like an 18-footer in full flight. This is as true today as it was 100 years ago. From its origins in the 1890s as an over-canvassed, over-crewed 18-foot dinghy to the 7-man skiff types of the 1930s , and from the trapeze-driven moulded veneer creations of the 1950s to the carbon fibre flying machines of today, the 18-footer has retained its appeal ... read more

The first complete how-to guide for building the latest generation of quick and easy boats. In Ultrasimple Boatbuilding, renowned designer Gavin Atkin shows you how to create elegant, seaworthy plywood boats with a minimum of time, experience, and expense. Using clearly written and illustrated step-by-step instructions, Atkin explains the basics of stitch-and-glue construction, tools, materials, shop safety, and more, as he helps you choose and build the simple boat of your dreams.