The Sailing Bible is a user-friendly, hands-on manual packed with detailed step-by-step diagrams, lively action photos, and helpful advice on getting the most out of your sailing at whatever level. Whether just learning the basics or wanting tips on sailing with the best, this is the book that will give you all the answers you are looking for.

* Covers dinghies and yachts * Cruising and racing * Launching, helming, trapezing, and capsizing

* Racing techniques and tactics * Buoyage, tides, charts and navigation

* Anchoring and marina berthing * Knots, ropes and flags * Boat etiquette and seamanship

* Rules of the road, safety and emergencies * Boat maintenance and repair

The Sailing Bible is your ideal companion to safe and enjoyable sailing.

Fully Illustrated Hardback 399 pages

Designed for easy reference, with over 500 colour photographs and explanatory illustrations, it presents clear and comprehensive guidance on the different parts of a boat, choosing a boat for pleasure and performance, how a boat sails, its fittings and equipment, how to anchor and pick up a mooring, handling ropes navigating, understanding tides and buoyage, using radar, reading the weather, safety at sea, care and repair of the boat, buying, selling, chartering and insuring.

The Sailing Handbook is ideal for novices of all ages.

Dinghy cruising is a magical way of exploring new coastlines and experiencing nature at close quarters.

For families or solo sailors alike, it offers memorable adventure at affordable cost and within the freedom to pull up at any time on any beach or riverbank that looks alluring.

Here Margaret Dye shares the knowledge gained from many years' hard-won experience to help others enjoy the experience of cruising in a dinghy to the full. With its practical advice on how to prepare and equip the boat and tips on how best to crusie in a dinghy, this book will appeal to anyone of any age who longs for the freedom to go where they like when they like on the water.

Paperback 224 pages 216x138mm B/w photos & linedrawings

It is an anthology of articles, each dealing with a particular stretch of coast around Britain, that were first published in the Canoeist magazine.

Designed to provide guidance for sea kayakers, Stuart Fishers commentary is a fascinating read for anyone interested in Britain's long and varied coastline.

The text is fully illustrated with coloured mapping and the author's photos.

A4; 357pp; Soft Cover; Full Colour

Introducing children to sailing, ideas to keep them from getting bored on board, and tips for turning a mutineer into a midshipman; Safety and suitability of different types of yacht; features to look for and those to avoid; Dinghies suitable for use as both a tender and sailing craft; personal safety and an in depth look at different types of childrens' lifejackets; Ideas to help you cope with seasickness, or even avoid altogether; Absolutely everything you need to know about sailing or cruising with a baby; Ocean cruising with kids, including home education.

For anyone learning to sail in either dinghies or yachts, this book is easy to read with lively colour illustrations. It covers how to start sailing, the different kinds of boat, rigging and launching a dinghy, getting going in a yacht, how a boat sails, handling ropes and tying knots, the effect of the tide, the weather, living aboard a yacht and what is a chart.

Here is the most successful sailing guide ever published, over a million copies have been sold worldwide. Now in paperback for the first time, it is unique in taking the reader step-by-step through the basics of learning to sail with the aid of superb colour photograph sequences.

The beginner will learn all aspects of sailing from rigging the boat to launching from the beach or pontoon to hoisting a spinnaker, trapezing and recovering from capsize.

Paperback 160 pages 230x195mm colour photgraphs and diagrams throughout.

"All the essentials are covered with lucidity.. after you pass you won't throw it away" Cowes Yatching

Since the first edition was publsihed, Pass Your Day Skipper has helped thousands of students through their shorebased Day Skipper course. Both concise and comprehensive, this crammer covers all the essentials of the RYA syllabus, arranged and highlighted to make revising easier and now updated and improved for the second edition.

Thoughout, the theory is set in a practical seagoing perspective, and helpful tips on exam tactics are also provided. And to relief the tension of all that swotting, each section is enlivened with some of Mike Peyton's best loved cartoons.

Paperback 210-148mm

Pembrokeshire is paradise for the outdoor water enthusiast.

This book gives useful, practical information for the yachtsman, motorboater, dinghy sailor, fisherman, surfer, bather, kitesurfer, sea kayaker and all who work or live near the sea in Pembrokeshire.

Fully illustrated in colour with plans and photographs

A4. Soft Cover. 104pp

The Shell Channel Pilot stands alone as the ultimate authority on cruising both sides of the English Channel. Ever since the 1930s, when Adlard Coles published the original version, it has been steadily upgraded and updated. The work never ceases. Under the Imray / Cunliffe house flag since 1992, it represents more than eighty years of effort.

This is the sixth Imray edition, indicating that the book is re-issued every three years in the untiring endeavour to keep it up to date. This time, the text has been organised into defined sections. Each is prefaced by passage notes which are more comprehensive than previously, lifting the work far above any simple harbour guide. Also included is advice about Channel-crossing navigation, regulations, health and paperwork on both sides of the water. Best of all remain the pilotage notes, the plans, the aerial and approach shots for harbours great and obscure, plus the author's frank remarks about shoreside facilities. The net result is unique - rigorous navigation advice to pilot you safely through the rocks, spiced with a light touch guaranteed to raise a salty chuckle on winter evenings while you plan next summer's voyaging.

As a guide and a shipmate, there is nothing like it.

Aerial photos by Patrick Roach The South coasts of Devon and Cornwall are the first or the last many mariner has of England. Whether running up-channel, bound east for London and Northern Europe, or beating ever westwards out into the stormy Atlantic, these shores have been a haven, a guide and occasionally, the source of ruin. All we who have made the traverse or have sought shelter in the multitude of harbours between Portland Bill and the Isles of Scilly, have had to carry out our pilotage from the decks of a vessel of some sort. How often we have longed for the wings of a sea eagle, to see what we cannot see. Powered flight has finally given us this chance, and Patrick Roach, the maestro of the airbourne camera has so excelled himself with this series of images that our mutual friend the publisher has had little choice but to bind us into one volume to share the wonders he has revealed. So stretch out your wings, give a wild seagull's cry, and let's take to the skies together, bound out for the far west.

Maritime Britain by Paul Heiney is an attractive, readable and highly informative celebration of the maritime heritage of the UK. Our coastal museums, historic ships and lighthouses open to the public are there for you to visit and this book will tell you where. It covers the UK in seven regional sections, and each includes a gazetteer of contact details and opening times.

Along the way Paul tells us about the nautical history of the places featured and provides fascinating insight into Britain's lighthouses, the herring fleet, Cornish shipwrecks, the Armadas legacy, Lord Nelson's birthplace, Shetland & Fair Isle sweaters, the tea clippers, Thames barges, the Scottish fisheries and much more.

This is a unique book of equal fascination to tourists, historians, students and maritime enthusiasts, as well as being of interest to walkers, families and schools looking for days out.

'Sailing Bible' The Times

'First rate reading for serious planners and hopeless dreamers alike' Practical Boat Owner

Since it was first published, "Sell Up and Sail" has become the bible for those cruising as a way of life, whether short or long term. It asks all the right questions, and provides the answers from first-hand experience. Whether choosing a boat, deciding what to take and what to leave behind, avoiding mistakes and pitfalls, preventing ill health afloat, or provisioning in far flung places, this book will show how to get it right before you go and ensure your chosen life is as relaxed, enjoyable and stress-free as possible.

This edition has been updated and revised to include far-reaching changes in navigation, electronics and communications as well as bureaucracy and other recent developments..

One of the joys of owning a small boat is in visiting new waters and different areas around our extensive coast. However, finding suitable sites can be a problem. This books deatils availability, contact telephone numbers, charges if any, suitable for different types of boat.

Suitable for all types of samll boat - sailing dinghies, runabouts and skiboats, fishing boats, trailer sailers, inflatables and small cruisers this book will be invaluable in helping you launch and recover your boat easily around Britains fascinating coastline.

The author provides more detailed coverage of the coasts of Mecklenburg and Vorpommern to the Polish border, an area that has seen many changes in the last decade. This new edition is published in full colour and includes an almost completely new set of photographs from the author and up-to-date aerial photos by Patrick Roach.

The Baltic is becoming an increasingly attractive cruising destination and this new edition provides excellent coverage of the popular routes in and around the western end.

A4. 264pp. Soft cover. Full colour.

How to maintain, repair and improve your boat's essential systems

If it's on a boat and it has screws, wires, or moveing parts, it's covered in the "Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual". Packed with new and updated information, this third edition maintains the book's highly praised tradition of rich illustrations, clear text, and diagnostic troubleshooting charts, and brings boaters completely up to speed with the technological advances of the past decade.

Simple, clear and abundantly illustrated, it is the key to understanding and customising all aspects of a boat's electrical systems.

This new edition includes new battery, alternator and other technologies as well as new 3D perspective drawings and a colour wiring section.

Wing explains DC and AC wiring materials and systems, batteries, alternators, inverters, generators, corrosion control, and alternative energy installations (solar, wind and water). There are detailed instructions for wiring radios and navigation equipment, installing cabin lights, navigation lights, burglar alarms, battery charge indicators, bilge alarms, and extensive tables summarise the most important specifications in a handy quick-reference format.

This book, from an author who specialises in making the complex simple, will be a godsend for all boatowners.

Indispensable for prospective boat buyers and cruisers, whether coastal or world-girdling, it covers all the technical and practical aspects of cruising yachts and systems in one unique book.

Nigel Calder, one of the most respected nautical how-to authors with extensive cruising experience and a rare ability to reduce complexities to simple explanations, explains not only how to select and equip a yacht for coastal or offshore cruising, but also how to sail and navigate it, addressing the concerns of beginners and experienced owners alike.

This is the book the cruising world has welcomed as a must have reference. There is, quite literally, nothing else like it.

'The indispensable crew - no boat should sail without Calder aboard' Yachting Monthly

'This is the one book you would choose for your desert island shipwreck scenario - it would solve all your problems!' Kelvin Hughes

Paperback 120 pages 160x217mm

This book is the prefect companion to Alan Watt's bestseller "Instant Weather Forcasting". Its easily accessible format and revelutionary presentation has established the author's reputation as a laymen's meterologist.

This bestseller gem of a book will be invaluable to anyone participating in outdoor activities including holiday makes.

Now here, at last, is a wonderful collection of Mike Peyton's light hearted and amusing recollections of time spent messing about in boats, all illustrated in his unique cartoon style.

A perfect bunkside read for seafarers and landlubbers alike.

This time turning his humorous eye to the scrapes people get into when let loose on the open water, Jake has us chuckling, blushing and recognising ourselves or fellow crew coming unstuck in the maritime mayhem he highlights with his witty pen and captures so admirable with his hilarious illustrations.

A great read for the armchair sailor- but you may decide that the armchair is the safest place to stay.

Paperback 128 pages 198x130mm

Comment:-

'I have just picked myslef up from the floor and wiped the tears from my eyes after reading another gem from Des'

Paperback 96 pages 110x190mm illustrations and cartoons.