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This book describes the sailing adventures on board yacht Baringo in Hong Kong and Asia, including Malaysia, Thailand, North Borneo and Philippines. While working in Hong Kong the author and her husband enjoyed local and offshore racing as well as cruising the local islands and anchorages. It is also the story of our early sailing years and our later circumnavigation over eight years from 2010 starting in Hong Kong and finishing in Singapore in 2018....
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Captain Joshua Slocum's solo voyage around the world in the 37-foot sloop the Spray in 1895 undoubtedly stands as one of the greatest sea adventures of all time. His classic narrative of this 46,000-mile circumnavigation of the globe continues to enjoy immense popularity throughout the world.
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The ‘Integrity’ was one of the best-known American sailing craft of the 1960s, built in a famous boatyard in Dartmouth, New England, not far from where Slocum built the Spray, she was the dream boat of her owner, Waldo Howland. She cruised the West Indies and crossed the Atlantic to visit Ireland and the English south coast. Then she was sold and there began a chain of events which led to adventure, chicanery and eventually tragedy. Abandoned...
24) Canoe Trip
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Each year Dave Curran travels alone by canoe into the Maine wilderness. He's paddled the Seboeis, the Allagash and the Moose. Despite the foolhardiness of such an adventure, he prefers to go alone. It's easier to plan, and going alone he's more focused, less distracted. He goes for the challenge, battling weather, bears, black flies, mosquitoes, getting lost. He goes for the scenery, the wildness, the silence, the peace.
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Surfing is more than just a sport; it is a cultural phenomenon. From its mystical beginnings in Polynesia, surfing has evolved into a worldwide passion, establishing its own roster of legends and seeping into our society-in movies, in fashion, in music, and in language. Hawaiian Duke Kahanamoku, the "father of surfing," helped elevate the sport beyond its Pacific Islands origins more than a century ago, and his torch has been carried on by a long...
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Everything you need to know about waves Classic surf trips, from California to Cornwall Iconic surf movies and legendary image-makers Profiles of surfing greats, including Miki Dora, Nat Young, and Kelly Slater Practical advice-from becoming a greener surfer to travel essentials and how surfing conquered the world!
It was the sport of Polynesian princes whose names have been lost to history. It is a lifestyle, an art, a sacred rite, a belief system-a...
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Discover the fitness secrets to burning off those extra unwanted pounds, reverse aging and build lean muscle with this definitive guide to staying fit, healthy and ripped through your 40's and beyond!
Are you struggling to come to terms with your declining levels of fitness as you hit your 40's? Do you want to uncover proven ways to maintain your flexibility and stay supple while taking your body to new heights of physical fitness?
If you answered...
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* El buen pescador sabe que, para obtener una buena presa, necesita un buen material, pero no basta sólo con eso: la elección de los cebos y las carnadas es determinante en esta tarea.
* ¿Deben encarnarse cebos animales o vegetales en los anzuelos? ¿El momento del día ha de determinar la elección del engodo?
* Con esta obra, todos los pescadores -principiantes o veteranos- tendrán en las manos una guía completa de las técnicas de cebado:...
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For 15-year-old Emma Wilson, everything is changing. Uncomfortable at home and in school, Emma's growing up, and feels isolated from her friends and family. Things go from bad to unfathomably worse when Emma inadvertently causes an accident that kills her increasingly distant father on a spring break canoe trip meant to bring them closer together. Suddenly, Emma's efforts to reconcile with her father as a parent and a person have to happen without...
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This book is for the young and young-at-heart, who yearn for adventure. It is, written for those women considering a life-changing direction and those seeking a career at sea. It is not an instruction book, but you will learn from the experience of other blue water women what you need to know to have your own adventures.
Interviewed within are other blue water sailing women. Shared advice and experiences show you how to make the most of your adventure...
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This is a book about my sailing voyage from San Francisco, California to Long Island, New York via the Panama Canal, "The Voyage". The journey was chronicled in the my Sailing Intermezzo blog as it progressed from its beginning in October 2015 to its end in August 2019. The blog was written as a travelogue and I wrote little about my personal life or how I was feeling along the way. This book fills in those gaps and tells a more complete story, a...
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What makes travel special? Perhaps the chill realization that a polar bear's eyes are fixed on you. Maybe it is the chance meeting with a man who buries sharks in a beach, only to dig them up months later, not out of morbid curiosity, but for food. Perhaps it is the undulating wing-beat of a dark shell-less gastropod in the canal of a 17th Century French sea port, or the criminal history of a rusting ship with a tree growing from its hold.
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Oh, how I wished I would have had this book when I first got started! I literally held my paddle in the wrong direction for an entire season. Paddle boarding has quickly become one of my favorite self-care activities. Out on the water, I truly feel at peace and can leave my worries behind-even if just temporarily. This book is for those who are just getting started in paddle boarding or maybe even just considering it. Avoid common mistakes and feel...
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Paddling South Carolina features 40 paddling adventures, offering destinations across the state. With a focus on recreational paddling, all trips avoid complicated put-ins, portages, and dangerous expert sections but offers concise paddle summaries, excellent route descriptions, GPS coordinates, and sidebars on geology and wildlife. Lakes, rivers, and other bodies of water are featured.
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Yoga for Paddling is a visual, instructional guide designed to walk readers through 30-35 yoga poses that are effective in stretching the muscles that paddlers use most, and strengthening the muscles that they use least. The book includes chapters on anatomy and alignment principles specific to the movements of paddling for kayakers, canoeists, and SUPers, and includes tips on proper paddling technique, performance focus, relaxation, and short stories...
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Colorado may be a skier's paradise, but once the snow melts, it makes an abrupt transition into an exciting home for paddlers. Countless lakes and reservoirs offer flatwater paddling with mountain views in every direction. And there are stretches of river perfect for everyone: learning-appropriate sections for beginners, quality areas sure to thrill intermediates, and, yes, some of the most challenging whitewater anywhere on earth. Paddling Colorado...
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Although the theme of Sixty Years behind the Mast is sailing, blue-water cruising in particular, it is much more than just about sailing. First, it is hoped the book will be added to the libraries of many blue-water sailors. For example, on the author's forty-foot yacht, AEOLUS, its library included three or four dozen sailing books including Joshua Slocum's Sailing Alone Around the World (1894) and Richard Henry Dana's Two Years Before the Mast (1840)....
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