On Friday 14 June 1968 Suhaili, a tiny ketch, slipped almost unnoticed out of Falmouth harbour steered by the solitary figure at herhelm, Robin Knox-Johnston. This title provides an account of one of the sea adventures.

A nautical logbook, presenting information and data columns that are needed to keep a comprehensive cruising record. The volume is spiral-bound so that it will lie flat on the chart table, and it has waterproof covers.

Product Description: Presents a fascinating look at developments in ships and shipping over the last hundred years by drawing together all the events and achievements, the triumphs in design and leadership, and the naval battles and marine disasters.

Product Description: This logbook is not only a convenient place to keep all the specific notes that need constant referral during a long voyage, but also a sailing record of the boat, ports visited, interesting sights, and people invited aboard. This revised edition includes new material relating to the advent of GMDSS...read more

Product Description: Originally published in 1970, Robin Knox-Johnston's A World of My Own has become a treasured classic - the dramatic account of the first nonstop, single-handed voyage around the world, for which Knox-Johnston won the Sunday Times Golden Globe trophy...read more

Product Description: The voyage of Christopher Columbus in 1492 is one of the most significant journeys ever made by man. It led directly to the colonization of America by Europeans, something that has had an enormous impact on the modern world. But who was Columbus? How did a relatively poor Genoese seaman persuade the monarchs of Spain, one of Europe's mightiest nations, to back a scheme based on a totally inaccurate assessment of the size of the world? How did Columbus, who was not a trained navigator, manage to make his way across the Atlantic Ocean and return safely to Spain? Where did he make his first landfall in the New World? To answer these questions it was necessary to have an all-round understanding of 15th-century navigation...read more

Product Description: An account of the Greenland expedition undertaken by Bonnington and Knox-Johnston. Travelling in the famous wooden yacht "Suhaili", they pooled their mountaineering and sailing skills to navigate to, and then climb, the peaks of the uninhabited, ice-bound East Greenland coast.

Traces the history of yachting, from its beginnings in seventeenth-century Holland to the present, describing the development of yachts and yacht clubs, famous races and records, famous yachts, and the colorful characters of yachting