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Product Description: From the people behind the UK's leading sailing magazine for cruisers comes Crash Test Boat, a dramatic documentation of controlled sailing disasters which has the potential to save the lives of each and every seaman who buys it.Crash Test Boat is unique in its field, with no other title on the market aimed at explicitly revealing at first hand what happens when a boat encounters a major disaster...read more
By Paul Gelder (editor) and Mike Golding (foreword by)

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9781408157275 | Adlard Coles Nautical, September 5, 2013, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: From the people behind the UK's leading sailing magazine for cruisers comes Crash Test Boat, a dramatic documentation of controlled sailing disasters which has the potential to save the lives of each and every seaman who buys it.

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9781550174335 | Ill edition (Harbour Pub Co, January 1, 2009), cover price $32.95

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9781550175981 | Reprint edition (Harbour Pub Co, February 15, 2013), cover price $24.95

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Product Description: Finalist, 2012 WILLA Literary Awards, Creative non-fiction Finalist 2012 IPBA Next Generation Literary Awards, Non-Fiction Finalist 2012 IPBA Next Generation Literary Award - Memoir Lin Pardey and her husband Larry are internationally famous for their sailing adventures...read more

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9781929214679 | Pardey Books, June 1, 2011, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Finalist, 2012 WILLA Literary Awards, Creative non-fiction Finalist 2012 IPBA Next Generation Literary Awards, Non-Fiction Finalist 2012 IPBA Next Generation Literary Award - Memoir Lin Pardey and her husband Larry are internationally famous for their sailing adventures.

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Product Description: Now in paperback, Daniel Robb’s Sloop proves he “is a craftsman… with words as well as with a hammer, as he constructs a charming tale that both details the technical nature of boatbuilding and captures the essence of the past, present, and future of a New England maritime community” (Publishers Weekly)...read more

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9780743202510, titled "Sloop: Restoring My Family's Wooden Sailboat-An Adventure in Old-Fashioned Values" | 1 reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, September 21, 2009), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Now in paperback, Daniel Robb’s Sloop proves he “is a craftsman… with words as well as with a hammer, as he constructs a charming tale that both details the technical nature of boatbuilding and captures the essence of the past, present, and future of a New England maritime community” (Publishers Weekly).

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Product Description: When Daniel Robb set out to rebuild a family sailboat that had been deteriorating for years, he couldn't have anticipated what he was getting into.When Daniel Robb set out to rebuild a family sailboat that had been deteriorating for years, he couldn't have anticipated what he was getting into...read more

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9780743202398 | Simon & Schuster, June 3, 2008, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: When Daniel Robb set out to rebuild a family sailboat that had been deteriorating for years, he couldn't have anticipated what he was getting into.

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9788854403277 | White Star Editions, November 6, 2007, cover price $40.00

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A valuable resource for boat buyers and would-be sailors surveys boatyards in Europe, Canada, and the United States, analyzing designs and construction while revealing the secrets of the world's top twenty builders.

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9780920256442 | Rei sub edition (Albatross, March 30, 2003), cover price $65.00 | About this edition: A valuable resource for boat buyers and would-be sailors surveys boatyards in Europe, Canada, and the United States, analyzing designs and construction while revealing the secrets of the world's top twenty builders.

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Product Description: The definitive guide to building this classic watercraft. (SEE QUOTE.) (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781558211667 | Lyons Pr, June 1, 1992, cover price $29.95

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9781585745906 | Rev upd edition (Lyons Pr, December 1, 2002), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The definitive guide to building this classic watercraft.

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Product Description: In this groundbreaking book, David Gidmark reviews the early history of bark canoes, providing readers with an overview of construction methods and featuring the individual techniques of four traditional 20th-century Algonquin craftsmen and their assistants...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781552975695 | Firefly Books Ltd, March 1, 2002, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In this groundbreaking book, David Gidmark reviews the early history of bark canoes, providing readers with an overview of construction methods and featuring the individual techniques of four traditional 20th-century Algonquin craftsmen and their assistants.
9780811725040 | Stackpole Books, October 1, 1994, cover price $17.95

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9781557508478 | Naval Inst Pr, August 1, 1997, cover price $45.00

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9781557509871 | Naval Inst Pr, March 1, 2001, cover price $29.95

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Product Description: This book documents the construction of a Bering Sea style-kayak made in the community of Hooper Bay, Alaska, in October and November 1976 under the direction of Dick Bunyan. Written as journal entries, the text details construction from the initial splitting of the wood to the final fitting of the cockpit lashings...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780660175119 | Canadian Mus of Civilization, January 1, 2001, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This book documents the construction of a Bering Sea style-kayak made in the community of Hooper Bay, Alaska, in October and November 1976 under the direction of Dick Bunyan.

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Product Description: Gentle and timeless, this is a lyrical portrait of men who still practice the timeless art of designing and building handcrafted wooden boats at the Brooklin Boat Yard in Maine.

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9780385488129, titled "A Unit of Water, a Unit of Time: Joel White's Last Boat" | Doubleday, April 1, 1999, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: The author recounts the year he spent at the Brooklin Boat Yard in Maine observing legendary ship builder Joel White painstakingly creating his last great racing yacht as he fought a personal battle with cancer

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9780671785260, titled "A Unit of Water, a Unit of Time: Joel White's Last Boat" | Reprint edition (Washington Square Pr, May 1, 2000), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: When one of the world's great boat builders is diagnosed with cancer, he begins working on his last boat in the Brooklin Boat Yard, in a profound and moving study of the human condition.

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9780606200141, titled "Unit of Water, a Unit of Time: Joel White's Last Boat" | Demco Media, October 1, 2000, cover price $22.40 | About this edition: Gentle and timeless, this is a lyrical portrait of men who still practice the timeless art of designing and building handcrafted wooden boats at the Brooklin Boat Yard in Maine.

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9780613291231, titled "Unit of Water, a Unit of Time: Joel White's Last Boat" | Turtleback Books, March 1, 2001, cover price $33.05 | About this edition: Gentle and timeless, this is a lyrical portrait of men who still practice the timeless art of designing and building handcrafted wooden boats at the Brooklin Boat Yard in Maine.

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Product Description: Ted 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. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Jennifer Moores (photographer) and Ted Moores

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9780937822562 | Wooden Boat Pub, September 1, 1999, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Ted Moores operates the Bear Mountain Boat Shop in Peterborough, Ontario with his partner, Joan Barrett.

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9780071343282 | Intl Marine Pub Co, May 1, 1999, cover price $29.95

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9780071376167 | Intl Marine Pub Co, May 1, 1999, cover price $18.95

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9780913372807 | Mystic Seaport Museum Inc, August 1, 1998, cover price $39.95
9780870335112 | Tidewater Pub, July 1, 1998, cover price $39.95

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9780877422648 | Intl Marine Pub Co, August 1, 1990, cover price $29.95

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9780070698680 | Reprint edition (Intl Marine Pub, September 1, 1996), cover price $27.00

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Product Description: This guide to yacht designing includes discussions of contemporary design and materials as they influence the yacht designer's work. Written primarily for the beginner, the book first gives directions for the use of tools and suggestions for material and other equipment...read more

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9780393037562 | Reissue edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1, 1995), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: This guide to yacht designing includes discussions of contemporary design and materials as they influence the yacht designer's work.

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Product Description: This book offers the complete plans and detailed building instructions for an authentic Aleutian Kayak - the ancient voyaging and hunting craft of the nomadic Unangan of Alaska. Plans based on originals in museums in Oregon and California are included...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780070078932 | McGraw-Hill, June 1, 1995, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This book offers the complete plans and detailed building instructions for an authentic Aleutian Kayak - the ancient voyaging and hunting craft of the nomadic Unangan of Alaska.

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