Bill Tyrrell's elderly cutter Vixen sails across the North Sea as part of a sail training fleet, but something snags the propeller when they tie up next to the big Russian barque - a body ...Looks like Bill's past is about to catch up with him!

A Poet, an explorer and an expert on a very particular kind of duck, George Devis has been visiting Ethopia to spend time with his sister and her Country and Western singer boyfriend, where they work on an aid project. He sets off with their two sons to return to England as pirates attack the settlement and the couple suffer a gruesome death. Determined to uncover what really happened, he befriends a Boston journalist on the trail of the criminals. First off, a gruelling transatlantic slog to publicise the cause - during the long journey shots are fired at their boat and the journalist dies. George finds himself enmeshed in a deadly international conspiracy.

Working hard in the harsh Australian sun, the crew of the Pollux are preparing for the Americas Cup. Surrounded by shark infested seas, the tenision is heightened by a bitter rivalry. The last thing needed is a man overboard in these dangerous waters.

The hero of this book is James Dixon, he owns an eighty-foot Formula One catamara - Agnes. During a race his boat is sabotaged in a plot to kill him - but he remains unhurt. Thestory really begins when he investigates who wanted to murder him.

The Sydney Hobart yacht race is world famous: the crowds at the Boxing Day start; the Harbour full of colour; giant super-maxis competing for line honours and glory. But in the wrong weather it can be deadly. No one will ever forget the carnage of 1998.

Lord of the Isles Voyage: Western Ireland to the Scottish Hebrides in a 16th Century Galley. This is the maiden voyage of Aileach, the first Highland Galley built in three hundred years. Wallace Clark sailed from Ireland to Stornoway in six weeks, crewed with descendants of the clansmen. Western Ireland To The Hebrides In A Sixteen Oar Galley

Yacht broker and freelance writer Dom Degnon's breezy account of his extended voyage provides entertaining adventure and a refresher course in geography. One unidentified year, with Celia Lowe as crew mate, he set out from New England in Taku, a 41-foot ketch; first stop, the Caribbean, where they picked up additional crew before sailing throught he Panama Canal and on to Tahiti, Samoa, Tonga, and Fiji. In everyport they met other yachties-long-distance, blue-water cruising has its own culture. They spent six months in New Zealand, fitting Taku and sightseeing. Next, the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guines and Australia where they has a rough time finding theor way through the Great Barrier Reef in a storm. Then they headed home via Indonesia (Bali), the Red Sea and the Suez Canal. 

When there is a knock on his door at night Douglas opens it to find a tall dark girl there. She gives him a package and tells him he must come to Greece. His brother is ill and needs him. Leaving his orderly, comfortable life Douglas travels to Greece where he becomes embroiled in a dark plot to destroy the manuscript for a book on a secretive neo-Nazi party that his brother has written. On his brother’s yacht with the aid of Peter’s friends Darcy and Europa he must out-run his pursuers through the Greek islands and try to piece together what is going on. He must also come to terms with his brother and their troubled early years. It is a voyage he is not ready for and one which will change his life.

Travelling along the British coastline, Sea Charts of the British Isles showcases a beautiful collection of charts containing a wealth of information about Britain's maritime history and the story of charting and surveying itself. The great names in British chart-making are all included, such as Captain Greenvile Collins, Professor Murdoch Mackenzie and his nephew of the same name, Graeme Spence and William Bligh who between them created the first structured attempts to survey and chart particular areas of the coast of mainland Britain as well as the more remote islands. 

Examples include several from Collins' 'Great Britain's Coastal Pilot', such as charts of Edinburgh and the Forth, the Orkney Islands, the coast of Ireland and the River Thames; the Chart of the Coast of Wales in St George's Channel and that of Milford Haven by Lewis Morris; The River Clyde and Glasgow by John Watt; and the Observation by Trinity House Pilots and Surveyors of the Downs covering the coast of Kent and the Goodwin Sands, as well as charts by other well-known European chart-makers such as the magnificent example of the Coast of England from Dover to the Isle of Wight showing the Cinque Ports by Lucas Janszoon Wagenaer that dates from 1583.
The author has researched maritime archives such as the Admiralty Library, the National Maritime Museum, the Pepys Library, the UK Hydrographic Office and the National Archives to reveal their unseen nautical records and portray the development of the sea chart.

 

Celebrating The Life of ‘The World’s Greatest Yachting Cartoonist’
by Mike Peyton

Published to celebrate the life of Mike Peyton, ‘the world’s greatest yachting cartoonist’, this second edition features personal tributes from some 12 other successful and well-known sailors (including Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, Sir Ben Ainslie and Tom Cunliffe). They all recognise Mike’s observational talent and comment on how sailors see themselves (or their friends) in his cartoons.

Along with 80 of his incomparable cartoons, Mike Peyton recounts how he became a yachting cartoonist and his fifty years of sailing. So as well as chuckling at the cartoons themselves there is the opportunity to learn from Peyton’s 50 years of experience of sailing different boats, meeting a variety of sailors, and getting into – and out of – some truly hilarious situations.