If you don’t know your Anti-foul from your Americas Cup or your binnacle from your baggywrinkles then this might well be the book for you. Unlike most nautical dictionaries it contains some of... More > the better known races and regattas.
Armed with this book next time the captain yells at you to go to the bow of the boat you will (after a suitably long pause whilst you look things up) know that he wants you to go to the pointy bit at the front.< Less
If you don’t know your Anti-foul from your Americas Cup or your binnacle from your baggywrinkles then this might well be the book for you. Unlike most nautical dictionaries it contains some of... More > the better known races and regattas. Armed with this book next time the captain yells at you to go to the bow of the boat you will (after a suitably long pause whilst you look things up) know that he wants you to go to the pointy bit at the front.< Less
Warning! This book is not suitable for youngsters or those of a delicate disposition. Some of the language used would (to borrow a phrase from P.G. Woodhouse) barely have been tolerated in the... More > fo’c’sle of a whaler. It contains several poems of questionable taste and some of the contents could be taken to be condoning, or even glorifying, drunken behaviour.
That said, the general consensus from those that have seen the preview is that it is pretty funny. A lot of the poems are to do with sailing and the sea but there are poems on canoeing, narrow boats, kayaks, coracles and even the titanic so hopefully most nautical tastes will be catered for.< Less
A dictionary layout of nautical definitions from wikipedia.org (August 2011). Text is accompanied by over 50 illustrative and interpretive images. Pocket size printing.
Warning! This book is not suitable for youngsters or those of a delicate disposition. Some of the language used would (to borrow a phrase from P.G. Woodhouse) barely have been tolerated in the... More > fo’c’sle of a whaler. It contains several poems of questionable taste and some of the contents could be taken to be condoning, or even glorifying, drunken behaviour.
That said, the general consensus from those that have seen the preview is that it is pretty funny. A lot of the poems are to do with sailing and the sea but there are poems on canoeing, narrow boats, kayaks, coracles and even the titanic so hopefully most nautical tastes will be catered for.< Less
Two Science Fiction stories from Nickolaus Pacione, horrormasters.com featured author and one of the stories in the set is a never before published epic titled Norwood's Discovery. The first of the... More > collection is a short story that follows up LAKE FOSSIL, and the second revolves around a novelist who moonlights as an adventurer. Two stories ..... one imagination.< Less
This is a terse dissertation on nautical history and its achievements for the navy and the sailor as an icon of American history. This guide should be uses as a field manual to the U.S.S. North... More > Carolina.< Less
This is a terse dissertation on nautical history and its achievements for the navy and the sailor as an icon of American history. This guide should be uses as a field manual to the U.S.S. North... More > Carolina.< Less
