Kategoria BISAC: Sports & Recreation >> Water Sports - Boating

This book may be of interest to anyone interested in buying a boat built outside the EU and importing that boat into the EU. Details of suppliers, discounts for equipment and materials and tips accumulated from various advisors and years of research are described. Skylark's original survey for US insurance, tips for clothing and personal comfort, preparing the boat for an Atlantic crossing to Europe and a report of one boat's experience meeting the EU regulations to obtain a CE mark for a US-built 1973 Pearson 36-1. George DuBose is a well-known music photographer with over 300 record...

Live the cruising life without being wealthy

Thousands of ordinary people are living their dreams of sailing the world thanks to The Cruising Life, and this completely updated Second Edition aims to help thousands more find adventure over the horizon. Even if you've never sailed before, this A-to-Z guide can have you cruising to exotic ports within five years.

Your adventure begins right at home, practicing to live a sensible life with only the essentials, as described by lifelong sailor Jim Trefethen, who relishes the cruising life in retirement. Along your path to...

How-to guidance for retiring on a boat--for aging captains and landlubbers

Have you ever thought you might want to retire on a boat? Of course you have or you wouldn't have picked up this book Whatever form your yearning for aquatic retirement takes, Jim Trefethen can help you realize the dream.

After sailing together for over 40 years, the Jim and his wife have learned the secrets of living a content and productive life. Here Jim shares those secrets, including:

● Making sure you really want to do it: then make sure you are...

In the 1920s, an upstart West Coast college began to challenge the Eastern universities in the ancient sport of crew racing. Sportswriters scoffed at the "crude western boats" and their crews. But for the next forty years, the University of Washington dominated rowing around the world.

The secret of the Huskies' success was George Pocock, a soft-spoken English immigrant raised on the banks of the Thames. Pocock combined perfectionism with innovation to make the lightest, best-balanced, fastest shells the world had ever seen. After studying the magnificent canoes built by Northwest...

This book has been used for 30 years, updated periodically as needed. More than 20,000 students have successfully learned ocean navigation from these materials and gone on to cross oceans or circumnavigate the globe. This book covers how to find position at sea from timed sextant sights of the sun, moon, stars, and planets plus other routine and special procedures of safe, efficient offshore navigation. No previous navigation experience is required. The only math involved is arithmetic (adding and subtracting angles and times). This is a practical, how-to-do-it book, which also includes...

Experts agree that if you set a goal and track your progress, you'll succeed where others fail. Regular, moderate exercise is generally recognized as the closest thing to a fountain of youth, and "A Row a Day for a Year," by author D.P. Ordway, supports your ability to enhance your energy, fitness, and health by rowing each day for a year.

A month-by-month exercise journal, each month begins with quotations from the medical community and sages alike reminding you that regular, moderate exercise is essential and beneficial. A short article before your entries discusses rowing, training,...