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HMS Warrior; Britain's First and Last Iron-Hulled Warship

By: McIlwain, John

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Andover, Hampshire, Jarrold Publishing: 2005

Seller ID: 011880

ISBN: 0-85372-537-3

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Softcover booklet of 32 pp. Many colour photos. Launched 29 December, 1860. Ended active service 31 May, 1883. Restored and returned to Portsmouth 16 June, 1987.
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Around in "The Glory"; Chronicle of the 42nd Voyage Around Cape Horn

By: McLaughlin, Daniel Carlton

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Grand Manan Island, N.B., Grand Manan Museum: 1994

Seller ID: 011084

ISBN: 1-895825-04-0

Binding: Soft Cover, Stapled

Condition: Very Good

White softcover showing sailing ship. The author's account of his first, and his father's 42nd, trip around Cape Horn. 47 pp.
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Jane's Surface Skimmers; Hovercraft and Hydrofoils

By: McLeavy, Roy (Ed.)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., McGraw-Hill Book Company: 1972

Seller ID: 005945

ISBN: 07 032164 7

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original dark blue cloth on boards. Unclipped DJ has one short top edge tear (repaired). No writing. Large format, heavy book will need extra postage. An international survey of Skimmer technology for military and civil application. Yes, you can buy your Exocet all-weather, anti-ship missiles here ! How about "A Magic Carpet for Modern Persia; For Strike and Off-shore Interception with Surface-to-surface Weapon Systems" ? My first exposure to blatant advertising for military purposes. Air cushion vehicles, Air cushion vehicle operators, Heavy load carrying systems, Air cushion lan...
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Multihull Seamanship

By: McMullen, Michael

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: New York, David McKay Company, Inc,: 1976

Seller ID: 011121

ISBN: 0-679-50622-5

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Blue cloth on boards. DJ nearly complete, but badly torn and heavily taped. Letter to John Earle, of Chelsea, VT., from Richard C. Newick (1926-2013), a builder of multihull boats, compares the VALS and NATIVE designs (laid in). Newick reports he has just started sketching a 40-42 foot boat of the NATIVE design for an Italian client, with an extra 4 feet added just abaft the main cabin. Newick is referred to twice in Acknowledgements and 3 times in the Index. This book is an obvious effort to report accurately on current construction of multihills. There are 104 photographs and drawings, with...
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Famous Harbors of the World

By: Moran, Eugene F.(Sr.)

Price: $75.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Random House: 1953

Seller ID: 000254

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Good

Original grey-green cloth with white lettering and black cover design, no DJ. Hinges stiff from gluing, but seem secure. One signature misaligned originally, but not serious. Colourful pictorial EPs. 99 pp. with index.
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Wake of the Great Sealers

By: Mowat, Farley

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland and Stewart, Ltd.: 1973

Seller ID: 011825

ISBN: 0-7710-1527-5

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Grey cloth on boards. DJ has a few very small edge nicks. By the time you've read to Page 8, you'll vow with Aunt Gerti Hann, "...I was barn in Swains Tickle, and that's the place they'll lay me down." 157 pp.
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In Yankee Windjammers (Two Books in One)

By: Nordhoff, Charles

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Dodd, Mead, and Company: 1940

Seller ID: 009032

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original dark blue cloth on boards. In two books: In a Wooden Battleship, and Whaling. Book is sound and clean. DJ has served well, but shows overall wear. Edited by the author's grandson from three books into this one. Over 220 pp. on Whaling. 401 pp. Heavy book will need extra postage.
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Norie's Nautical Tables; with Explanations of Their Use; New Revised Edition

By: Norie, J. W.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Imray, Laurie, Norie and Wilson, Ltd.: 1954

Seller ID: 002738

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Original black cloth on boards. Chart of English Channel laid in. Tables, tables, and more tables. 522 pp. plus Longitude and Latitude Section (101 pp.). Minor edge foxing. Previous owner's name blacked out. Please inquire for postage.
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William Dampier, Buccaneer Explorer

By: Norris, Gerald (Ed.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Folio Society: 1994

Seller ID: 008026

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Original illustrated gold cloth on boards. No writing or damage. William Dampier, born in 1651 in Somerset, was an all-round sailor, privateer, and researcher. He was the first Englishman to map parts of Australia and New Zealand, and to sail around the world three times. His descriptions of flora and fauna are colourful and numerous. Reading this book could be compared to an extended cruise of several continents. 268 pp. with index.
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High Boats; A Century of Salmon Remembered

By: Norris, Pat Wastell

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Madeira Park, B.C., Harbour Publishing: 2003

Seller ID: 007630

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Original blue cloth on boards. Unclipped DJ. No writing or damage. A look back to the good old days of salmon fishing in British Columbia. ISBN 1-55017-289-1. 232 pp.
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Cape Breton Ships and Men

By: Parker, John P.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Ltd.: 1980

Seller ID: 007111

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original illustrated cover trade paperback. ISBN 0-07-077872-8. I found the drawings which show the steps in building a ship especially interesting. One of the classics of Maritime history. 199 pp.
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Sails of the Maritimes

By: Parker, John P.(Master Mariner)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Aylesbury and Slough, Hazell Watson and Viney Ltd.: 1961

Seller ID: 013232

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original grey cloth with blue ship and lettering on boards. The story of the three-and four-masted cargo schooners of Atlantic Canada, 1859-1929. 226 pp.
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Rudiments of Naval Architecture: Part I Only

By: Peake, James

Price: $100.00 USD

Publisher: London, John Weale: 1849

Seller ID: 002369

Binding: Flexible Blindstamped Cloth

Condition: Good

Original green blindstamped cloth on flexible card. Part I only. Binding of foldout plates at rear is loosening, and Plate C of the original six is missing. In 21 parts on 132 pp. plus plates. Recto and verso covers are identical except for pastedown title plate, and wraparound spine belies the theory that this particular volume was ever bound with others. Intact except for Plate C, with only previous owner's name and light corner tip wear as faults.
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Sailing Yacht Design

By: Phillips-Birt, Douglas

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Camden, ME, International Marine Publishing Company: 1973

Seller ID: 006752

ISBN: 0877420173

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original bright orange cloth on boards. DJ very good and matching in color. Revised with added material. Speed and resistance, Midships, Hull form, Keel, Stability, Balance, Rating, Rigging, Sail and power, Calculations, Design, Appendices.103 diagrams. 348 pp.
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Sixteen Sail in Aboukir Bay

By: Plowman, Stephanie

Price: $150.00 USD

Publisher: London, Methuen and Co. Ltd.: 1956

Seller ID: 002371

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original blue cloth on boards. Pictorial DJ. Previous owner's name, and initials on foot. Tiny chip missing from DJ (See PHOTO). A first-person fictional account by a man who sailed with Nelson. 204 pp.
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Lion in the Bay; The British Invasion of the Chesapeake

By: Quick, Stanley L. With Reid, Chipp

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Annapolis, MD, Naval Institute Press: 2015

Seller ID: 011894

ISBN: 978-1-61251-236

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Blue paper boards. No writing or damage. War of 1812. 266 pp. with index.
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A Century of Sailing 1892-1992; A History of the Oldest Yacht Club on Canada's Pacific Coast

By: Reksten, Terry

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Victoria, B.C., Orca Book Publishers: 1992

Seller ID: 006944

ISBN: 092050180X

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original photo cover trade paperback. Congratulatory letters bound in from Prince Andrew and Lieut.-Gov. Lam preface this celebration of a century of sailing. Many photos as well as explanatory text make this a useful historical reference for Victoria and the area. No writing and no damage. 242 pp.
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The Newfoundland Fish Boxes; A Chronicle of the Fishery

By: Roberts, Dr. Harry D. With Nowlan, Michael O.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Fredericton, N.B., Brunswick Press: 1982

Seller ID: 013429

ISBN: 0-88790-113-1

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Blue cloth on boards. Wonderful colour drawings add interest to the descriptive text to tell the story of this long-past industry of the Maritimes. Official numbers, measurements, and weights are shown in addition to details of construction and last voyages. 110 pp.
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The Golden Age of Sail

By: Ross, David

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Amber Books, Ltd.: 2013

Seller ID: 010082

ISBN: 978-1-78274-069

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

White paper on boards. Unclipped DJ. An illustrated guide to great sailing ships from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. 224 pp. with index and bibliography.
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A Spirit Deep Within: Naval Architect W.J. Roue and the Bluenose Story

By: Roue, Joan E.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Hantsport, N.S., Lancelot Press: 1995

Seller ID: 013359

ISBN: 0-88999-561-3

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Dark green pictorial softcover with photo on the front, and white lettering. Mark where price tag was removed, and tiny crease in top right corner of cover. Slight wear at bottom corners. No marks or writing. The author was the great granddaughter of William James Roue, the architect of the Bluenose - this is the story of his career. 104 pp. including Appendix.
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