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We've started clearing out. If no one speaks up they'll go to the hospice.

 

Francis Chichester  Along the clipper way

                                The Lonely Sea and the Sky

                                 Gypsy Moth circles the World

 

Mary Blewitt         Navigation for Yachtsmen

 

Jim Murrant              Reaching for the limit

 

Bill Tilman           Mischief in Patagonia

 

Stephen Hawking   A Brief History of Time

 

John Glennie and Jane Phare   Spirit of Rose Noelle

 

Hamilton Adams ---- The Racing Schooner Westward

 

David Lewis          Ice Bird

 

 

Hindenburg - an illustrated history (OK it's an airship)

 

Alan Sefton - DB Yachting Annual (74 - I'm in it)

 

Peter Heaton - A History of Yachting in Pictures

 

L Francis Herresschoff - Common Sense of Yacht Design

 

Simon Charles - Cruising Guide to Cuba

 

Eric Bauhaus  - Panama Cruising Guide ( has a picture of our old boat)

 

Jaques Cousteau- The Ocean World.  This is a big glossy coffee table type book - great photography.

 

Bob Fisher - The Longest Race

 

Will Millar  - Messing about in Boats

 

Naomi James - At one with the Sea

 

Paul Rogers - Loner

 

Rob Mundle - Ocean Warriors

 

An unauthorised biography of Michael Fay

 

Joan Druett - Petticoat Whalers

 

Chris White - The Cruising Multihull

 

Kathleen Crane - Sea Legs  ( Excellent biography of a leading oceanographer)

 

Don't Shoot the Albatross - Nautical Myths and Superstitions

 

Alan Sefton - Sir Peter Blake

 

P A Eaddy - Neath Swaying Spars  (Trading Scows of NZ)

 

Eric Hiscock - Cruising Under Sail

 

John Ridgeway and Chay Blyth - A Fighting Chance (Rowing the Atlantic)

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I'll up date the list as some are gone. If you want them come and get them.

 

Current:

 

Fast light boats

Cousteau

History of yachting in pictures

hindenburg

Westward

Reachin g for the limit

Mischief in Patagonia

Panama CG

Stephen Hawking

Rose Noelle

Michael Fay

The longest race

Petticoat whalers

Sea legs

Peter Blake

Neath Swaying Spars

A Fighting Chance

Cuba CG

Ice Bird

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the Fay book


 


and if you still have these please


 


Francis Chichester  Along the clipper way


                                The Lonely Sea and the Sky


                                 Gypsy Moth circles the World


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Commonsense of yacht design is a rare book.  Used to be worth a lot of money , but book values have plummeted and  they don't seem to be worth much except intrinsic value now. 

 The book was a collection of articles LFH wrote for Rudder magazine in the ? 40's? 50's.

 Great reading , he's  quite the funny/ curmugeon  writer.

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