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New Books and New Editions!

Recently, some fantastic new books have come into the store.

New Editions

instant-weather-foreasting5thInstant Weather Forecasting
Alan Watts

This is a fantastic resource for any sailor or cruiser. Each pair of pages discusses a type of weather, and provides a photographic example. This is a fantastic onboard reference for judging weather by sight, and is also good for looking at the weather before heading to the yacht club.

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The Complete Rigger’s Apprentice
Brion Toss

This is a great reference for anybody who works on (or is interested in) rigging sailboats. There are major changes in this 2nd edition, Toss has incorporated much of the content from his second book, The Rigger’s Locker. He also incorporates an entirely new section on splicing and dealing with braided line. The rest of the book is retained from the original edition, and describes all facets of working with and maintaining various types of riggings. This includes single-hulled vessels, and multi-hulled vessels.

destroyer-hmcs-haida-warshipDestroyer HMCS Haida
Rindert van Zinderen Bakker

The sixth in a series of glossy books looking at warships, this provides an in-depth discussion of HMCS Haida specifically, and Tribal class destroyers in general. It is filled with amazing images, photos and schematics that span its entire career from construction, to its current life as a museum ship in Hamilton, Ontario. Highly recommended for warship and Canadian naval history enthusiasts.

 

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How to Read Water
Tristan Gooley

This is the third book by Gooley, who is also the author of The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs and the Natural Navigator. This book is in the same narrative style as the others, teaching lessons about how to navigate and read the environment, interspersed with anecdotes and stories from his experiences. This book teaches you how to gauge depth, navigate, read the weather, as well as other skills. It further deals with bodies of water of every size and shape from the ocean, to bays and inlets, rivers, streams and ponds. Highly recommended for those who love being in nature.

History-Sailing-100-objectsA History of Sailing in 100 Objects
Barry Pickthall

This is a fantastic new coffee table book. It’s great for history enthusiasts, and especially for children and teens. Not everybody has access to a maritime museum, to be able to see these kinds of objects in person. Barry Pickthall brings a collection of 100 important objects to the reader, and explains theirs significance. These objects describe all kinds of sailing communities and cultures from the Royal Navy, to racers, to Polynesia, and has selected from thousands of years of maritime activity.

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