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The Sea Among the Rocks
Publisher: Pottersfield Press$19.95A rich & textured story of fishermen, farmers, housewives, island dwellers, lighthouse keepers, miners and more who live in our Atlantic region.
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Sailing in Circles, Goin’ Somewhere Not Your Typical Boat Story
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$22.95Not all dreams have happy endings. Sailing in Circles, Goin’ Somewhere is the funny, bittersweet memoir of a Prince Edward Island man who, over seven years, builds a classic 1930s wooden sailboat and, in 2004, attempts to circumnavigate eastern North America. The author leaves a small fishing port on the Island and tracks along the rugged coast, up the St. Lawrence River, and through the Great Lakes. Alone, he encounters heavy fog, near-collisions with freighters, mechanical breakdowns, enormous seas, several brushes with disaster, and even a hostile reception at one French-speaking port. He meets odd and curious people. It all comes to an inglorious and mundane end when the author and his boat, the Arja D., are stuck in, of all places, Peoria, Illinois. Was it worth it? Maybe.
Written by Finley Martin, a respected Island fiction writer, this finely crafted and humorous book will appeal to adventurers, sailors, and lovers of a good yarn.
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Sails of Fundy
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$16.95A native of Kentville, Nova Scotia, Stanley T. Spicer is a graduate of the University of New Brunswick, Acadia University and Springfield College. He was New Brunswick’s first provincial Director of Physical Eduacation and Recreation from 1947 to 1966 before joining the federal Fitness and Amateur Sport Branch in Ottawa where he served until 1979. He was the first person from the Atlantic Provinces to receive the Honour Award of the Canadian Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation. Spicer is the author of numerous articles for Canadian and American publications and five previous books, including The Saga of the Mary Celeste.
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Shipwrecks and Seafaring Tales of Prince Edward Island
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$19.95In the 450 years since Jacques Cartier’s arrival, Prince Edward Island’s history has been tied to the sea. From the first explorers to immigrants, traders, sailors, and fishermen, thousands of seafaring people and their ships have come and gone–many lost to the relentless ocean. Their stories, though, survive in legends and folklore, in archives and family histories.
From PEI author Julie V. Watson comes the telling of these legends in this new edition of Shipwrecks and Seafaring Tales of Prince Edward Island.
Now with a new cover.
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Heroic Rescues at Sea
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$24.95The sea can be a treacherous place. Fortunately for those who face disaster at sea there is a highly trained group of people who make it their life’s work to race to the rescue. These are the marine search and rescue workers of the Canadian Coast Guard. They do what most of us would not even contemplate; brave the elements in their rescue vessels, often acting as paramedics, midwives and firefighters on the water. They go out in unimaginable conditions and search long, harrowing hours for missing ships and sailors. These are their stories.
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Sable Island Shipwrecks
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$17.95Over 300 ships have gone down on Sable Island. The first known wreck was in 1583. This best selling book tells the stories of disaster, danger, rescue and survival.
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Sea Change A Man, A Boat, A Journey Home
Publisher: Islandport Press$19.95In this fast-paced book, author Maxwell Taylor Kennedy relates the harrowing voyage to deliver his boat, Valkyrien, a 90-foot dilapidated wooden schooner, from San Francisco to Washington, DC.
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Titanic A Century of Remembrance
Publisher: Chronicle Herald$17.39On April 10, 1912, Titanic set sail from Southampton, England, bound for New York on its maiden voyage. The disaster that followed will be forever etched in history and seared on the psyche of Nova Scotians. One hundred years ago, when Titanic met its fate, we delivered the news as a breathless world waited. One hundred years later, as the world again turned its gaze toward Nova Scotia, The Chronicle Herald delivered an enduring tribute to an unthinkable tragedy. In words, pictures and graphics, we present a lasting collection of a century of news.
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Build the New Instant Boats
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books$21.95Harold “Dynamite” Payson was a lobsterman off his native Maine coast for many years before becoming a full-time boatbuilder; the sea and his shop have kindled in him a fond respect for the simplest, most direct course to one’s desired destination. This philosophy he has imparted in two previous books, Instant Boats and Go Build Your Own Boat!, and in many articles for National Fisherman, WoodenBoat, and Small Boat Journal.
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Boat Modeling the Easy Way
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books$21.95A fitting sequel to his popular Boat Modeling. Build nine models using the lift method: a tugboat, an English cutter, a lobsterboat, sardine carriers, a fishing schooner, a torpedo-stern launch, a Friendship sloop, and a day cruiser.
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Rowable Classics
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books$32.95Darryl J. Strickler tarted building boats and sculling at the age of 12 and still is rowing more than 50 years later-always in wooden boats propelled by wooden oars.
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Iain Oughtred
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books$32.95Britain’s wooden boat revival was a long time coming, but when it arrived there was one name that stood out above all others: Iain Oughtred. A former dinghy racer turned boatbuilder and designer, Iain developed a cult following both for the beauty of his designs and the quality of his drawings. Challenging the view that building boats was the province of the wealthy, he created exceptionally appealing yet inexpensive wooden boats ideal for amateur construction, often basing the designs on traditional local craft. Still going strong, his designs now number more than 100 and are built around the world by amateurs and professionals alike.
This beautiful and comprehensive book traces the life of this most enigmatic of designers, from his roots in Australia to the wilds of Scotland. His most popular designs are brought to life with gorgeous photography, often set I the stunning Scottish landscape where he is based, and supplemented with an extensive plans section. Including interviews with family, friends and fellow designers, the evocative text provides both a moving personal biography and a comprehensive overview of one extraordinary man’s life work.  Â
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Boat Modeling with Dynamite Payson
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books$24.15Step-by-step instruction, illustrated, beginning with the basics and working toward advanced hull shapes and techniques by a gentleman who knows his stuff.
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Lofting
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books$21.95Allan Vaitses is an able and versatile builder, having a marvelous ability to devise solutions for the dilemmas that arise in boatbuilding.
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Canoe Rig
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books$38.45Author/illustrator Todd Bradshaw was born in Waterloo, Iowa. He and his wife, Marite, make their home in Madison, Wisconsin, where Todd builds sails for a living under his shingle Addiction Sailmakers. Addiction was the name of his wooden Star-class sloop. She was rescued from oblivion, fully restored and then struck by lighten. For fun Todd rebuilds old boats, and designs new ones. His background in art and music, as well as having owned backpacking and canoeing businesses, are just some of the puzzle pieces that have converged to create this book.
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Boatbuilding Down East
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books$38.45The Maine lobsterboat is known and admired all over the country. This is a book on how to build one of these beautiful boats from start to finish. Over the years, many hundreds of these craft have been built so hat the methods of construction details have been worked out and refined to an unusual degree. For their size, these lobseterboats withstand some of the harshest possible use, as most of them fish all winter off the stormy coast of Maine. Such a boat has to be good to survive.
There are differences in the boats from one part of the coast to another, and from one boat to another within an area. But the boats from Beals Island and Jonesport have always been highly regarded, especially for their graceful good looks and high speed. The late Will Frost’s boats were always advanced for their day, and it was not at all strange that during Prohibition his shops on Beals Island and Jonesport were engaged to build some fast, high-powered rumrunners. His influence has much to so with the modern Maine lobsterboat as we know it today.
Not a little of Will Frost’s thinking about lobsterboats was passed on to his grandson Royal Lowell, the author of this book.
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Line:Tying it Up, Tying it Down
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books$14.95Jan Lee Adkins was born on the Ohio River in West Virginia and raised in Wheeling. He studied architecture at Ohio State University and apprenticed as a designer for several years. He shifted his major to literature and creative writing and graduated, after more than eight years of university, with a plain BA.
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Building Small Boats
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books$43.95Greg Rossel grew up cruising the waters of New York Harbor and spending time in the boatyards on the south shore of Staten Island where economics (more than anything else) made wooden boats the craft of choice. He makes his home in Maine where he specializes in the construction and repair of small wooden boats, as well as writing for several publications. Greg has been an instructor at WoodenBoat School in Maine since the mid-1980’s, teaching lofting, skiff building, and the “Fundamentals of Boatbuilding”.
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How to Build the Ocean Pointer
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books$19.75David Stimson grew up on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and learned boatbuilding while working in the local boatyards. During this time, he developed an eye for boat design from Merton Long, a retired catboat builder who became his friend and mentor. David’s love of traditional boats was further inspired by the writings of John Gardner and Pete Culler in the 1970’s and by WoodenBoat Magazine. He now lives in Boothbay, Maine, with his wife, Tamora and two teenage boys, Abraham and Nathaniel. He is a sailing charter captain during the summer, and designs and builds boats at Stimson Marine, Inc. in Boothbay.
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Fifty Wooden Boats A Catalog of Building Plans
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books$15.95This is the first of three major catalogues compiled by the editors of WoodenBoat Magazine. The other books in this series are ‘Thirty Wooden Boats’ and ‘Forty Wooden Boats’.
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Keeping the Cutting Edge Setting and Sharpening Hand and Power Saws
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books$10.95Harold H. “Dynamite” Payson is a professional boatbuilder who specializes in light plywood construction, though in the past he build traditional plank-on-frame craft. Most of his boats-among them the famed Gloucester Light Dory and the Instant Boat series-are from the board of Philip C. Bolger. Many of the prototypes of Bolger’s small boats have been built by Payson as part of their continuing association. Dynamite is a retired lobster fisherman, a saw sharpener, and the proprietor of H.H.Payson & Co., which offers boatbuilding plans for sale to the average boatbuilder. He is the author of Instant Boats, How to Build the Gloucester Light Dory, Go Build Your Own Boat!, Build the New Instant Boats, and a number of magazine articles. He lives and works in South Thomaston, Maine.
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Forty Wooden Boats A Third Catalog of Building Plans
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books$14.25This is the third major catalog of boat plans compiled by Cynthia Curtis, Doug Hylan and Mike O’Brien. Other books are ‘Fifty Wooden Boats’ and ‘Thirty Wooden Boats’.
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Featherweight Boatbuilding
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books$21.95Using the Wee Lassie as an example, the author opens your eyes to the natural beauty around you. A practical and beautiful craft, this lightweight and strong double-paddle canoe will carry you to waterways that are inaccessible in most boats.
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How to Build the Gloucester Light Dory
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books$10.95A shop manual on building an exceptional rowing dory. Designe by Philip Bolger, this dory is fast, seaworthy and a delight to row. Simple plywood cosntruction.
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The Dory Model Book
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books$21.95Three traditional Down East boats are featured: a Banks dory, a Friendship Dory, and a Friendship dory skiff. All are based on authentic boats and built with the same care as a full-size boat.
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How to Build the Haven 12-1/2 Footer
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books$16.50Step-by-step boatbuilding in the Herreshoff tradition.
This is Joel White’s keel/centerboard variation of the famous Herreshoff 12 1/2. Each step in this unique process is carefully explained and illustrated. This book, in combination with detailed construction plans, provides a thorough guide for advanced amateurs. No lofting is required.
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Building the Nutshell Pram
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books$10.95A step-by-step construction manual for this very popular Joel White design, for oar and sail. Part of the popularity is due to the ease of construction, especially the bow. This instruction book is beneficial for anyone who wishes to build the pram from scratch using WoodenBoat’s full-scale plans.
We also have full-sized pre-cut kits, a video, a model kit and building plans.
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Thirty Wooden Boats A Second Catalog of Building Plans
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books$14.25Cynthis Curtis, Mike O’Brien, and Paul Lazarus have endeavored to provide readers with as much information as possible while maintaining an open and strongly visual format.
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Women at Sea in the Age of Sail
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many women experienced firsthand the perils and pleasures of life at sea. These venturesome women went to sea largely to be with their captain husbands and many proved themselves useful far beyond their roles as companions. Luckily for us, many of these seafaring women kept journals. Here, these women recount, in their own words, their impressions of the exotic places they visited, the homes they made and the children they raised afloat on the seas.
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Kayakcraft
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books$21.95Ted Moores operates the Bear Mountain Boat Shop in Peterborough, Ontario with his partner, Joan Barrett. In 1972, Ted pioneered the woodstrip-epoxy boatbuilding system for canoes and, since then, has promoted the fine art of wooden canoe and kayak construction.
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Ten Wooden Boats You Can Build
$27.45The beauty of this book is that the construction bugs have already been worked out of the designs. Plans, step-by-step instructions, material lists photographs and detailed diagrams.
