הספרים של הוצאת SHERIDAN HOUSE
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This practical guide to offshore sailing will appeal to all those sailors who have honed their skills as day sailors, racers and coastal sailors and are now planning to go further and become bluewater sailors. Ed Mapes has distilled his years of sailing and sail training experience in this book. He ...
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This completely redesigned new edition is a colorful photographic guide to predicting the weather in the hours ahead. The photographs are arranged in such a way as to illustrate the sky under a variety of weather situations, and a simple scientific introduction explains how to use the photos....
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Weather Wise is a highly practical, lively, and very accessible guide to weather phenomena for anyone who enjoys the outdoors. Suitable for sailors, walkers, climbers, skiers, fishermen, golfers and vacationers, it explains how forthcoming weather will affect them, as well as how to predict what is ...
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Instant Storm Forecasting is an invaluable reference for anyone pursuing outdoor activities. Its instructive photographs of cloud formations, helpful tables, and practical explanations provide the tools for all of us to assess our chances of being caught in a storm, and to judge how severe the storm...
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Around the end of the sixteenth century, several expiditions tried to establish a north-east passage to Asia, but fog, pack-ice, and the confusing geography of the coast of Russia proved consistently confusing. No one pursued a north-east passage with such tenacious skill as the Dutch sailing-maste...
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Captain Ian Tew spent ten years with Selco Salvage in Singapore travelling the seas and performing salvage operations from the UK coast to the South China Sea, from the Persian Gulf to the Southern Ocean. He worked in storm force winds as well as in tropical calms. In Salvage, he shares fascinating ...
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Offering advice to sailors on 'going green,' this timely book embraces the growing trend toward sustainable lifestyles and shows how 'clean boating' can be both practical and enjoyable.Sailing is by nature a sustainable activity, but polluted waters and crowded marinas, boatyards, and anchorages are...
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There are many frustrated sailors out there and with the baby boomers starting to retire many finally have the freedom to indulge their sailing dreams. This book is intended to guide them. Aimed at sailboat owners of all kinds, this reference book contains 200 entries packed with solid practical adv...
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In 1985, at age 18, Tania Aebi set out to sail around the world alone. She became instantly famous with Maiden Voyage, the best-selling book she wrote about the solo trip. In over twenty years of cruising by herself and with family, and leading ten-day flotillas to charter destinations in a ...
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Joshua Slocum's Sailing Alone Around the World is a classic, beloved by sailors the world over who have enjoyed this engrossing tale of a man who sails around the world alone in a small wooden sailboat built with his own hands. This edition is thoroughly annotated by teacher/journalist Rod Scher, wh...
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From John C. Payne, one of the foremost international authorities on marine electrical systems and electronics, comes a new title in his successful series of easy to understand yet thorough treatments of technical issues facing every boat owner. whether sail or power. Each volume is concise, compact...
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Now in its 18th year, The Mariner's Book of Days is an ever-growing encyclopedia of nautical fact, fiction, and folklore, and has been hailed as the best, most entertaining nautical desk diary and calendar to see print. An invaluable reference, each annual edition is completely different from its pr...
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The quintessential dream of sailing into a secluded bay off a beautiful deserted white sand beach with swaying palms is one that until recent years was a reality only for a very privileged few. Today, practically anyone can turn that dream into a reality. Navigation has never been easier with the ar...
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Since its publication in 1963 Sterling Hayden's autobiography, Wanderer, has been surrounded by controversy. The author was at the peak of his earning power as a movie star when he suddenly quit. He walked out on Hollywood, walked out of a shattered marriage, defied the courts, and, broke and...
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In Hand, Reef and Steer - winner of the Best Book of the Sea Award - Tom explains the different sailing characteristics of classic craft and shares his grasp of the special skills required to handle them. Specifically, he shares step by step advice on setting up the rig; sail handling skills ...
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Amyr Klink, whose sailing exploits have made him a hero in Brazil, tells of his daring single-handed circumnavigation below the Antarctic Convergence. Klink, who prefers to call his adventures organizational challenges , relies on methodical planning, innovative (and sometimes controversial) technol...
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Catamarans have come a long way from their origins the double canoes used by Polynesians and Micronesians as far back as the 1700s. The first modern, fast ocean catamaran was built in 1947 in Hawaii, and since then these craft have stretched the limits of speed and luxury for racing and cruising. Th...
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Since this book was first published in 1994, it has established itself as the most complete, most reliable, and most-read guide for those planning to sail across the oceans. Now in a handy paperback, this second edition is both completely updated with reference to the ever-changing technology, espec...
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This bestselling pocket-sized racing rules book has been fully revised for this edition. The entire 2009-2012 racing rules are included. In revising The Rules Book to take account of the rule changes, Bryan Willis has maintained Eric Twiname's unique method of presentation, which has proved popular ...
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Having spent more than a dozen years conducting boat inspections, delivery captain Ed Mapes saw just how unsafe and ill prepared some boats were for sailing offshore. This led Mapes to develop his own system for inspecting, repairing and fitting out boats, which led to Ready to Sail, a guide to gett...
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All along the Atlantic coast, from Newport to Nova Scotia, there are charming harbors that beckon you with names such as Sorrento, Friendship, Roque Bluffs, Seal Cove, Fishers Landing, and Birch Harbor. Dinghies are a mainstay of these harbors. These small boats, including prams, skiffs, and tenders...
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Practical considerations aside, there is something soul-satisfying about looking to the sky to plot one's course. And despite the proliferation of electronic navigational devices, celestial navigation remains an essential tool for those who do not wish to be caught short when modern technology fails...
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