WINDJAMMERS The Final Story
Robert Carter
Rosenberg Publishing Sydney Australia; 2004
A collection of stories, anecdotes, diary extracts, poems recorded first hand from the last commercial sailing ship sailors. Illustrated with 42 paintings and 32 photographs.
( ID: 97   Added: 1-Mar-2004 Hits: 567 )

The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
Edited by Peter Kemp
Oxford; 1979
( ID: 66   Added: 4-Aug-2000 )

The Pocket Price Guide to British Painting 1830-1980
Antique Collectors Club
Antique Collectors Club; 1990
( ID: 69   Added: 4-Aug-2000 )

Honoured By Strangers
Roy Bainton
Airlife Books, Shrewsbury England www.airlifebooks.com; May 2002
This is the biography of Captain F.N.A. Cromie, CB DSO RN, British submarine pioneer, decorated by Tsar Nicholas II, who ran the RN submarine flotilla in the Baltic during the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, and was murdered in the British Embassy in Petrograd in 1918. 349 pages, with photographs, maps. $26.95 US £18.99 UK ISBN No. 1 84037 196 X
( ID: 93   Added: 13-Mar-2002 )

Self Steering You Can Build: A Do it Yourself Manual for the HV-101
William A. Wensel
Back Yard Publisher; 1976
Not much has changed in sailing or the wind since this book was written in 1976. The materials are still available. The horizontal windvane is best suited for a tiller steered boat.
( ID: 90   Added: 28-Jun-2001 )

Takashi's Voyage : The Wreck of the Sindia
Lucinda Hathaway
Down the Shore Publishing; 1995
Children's Historical Novel based on the wreck of the Bark Sindia in Ocean City, NJ. Includes a glossary and an historical afterward and a chance for 8-11 yr. olds to enjoy a bit of sea history.
( ID: 94   Added: 19-Apr-2003 )