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  • Wind of Peace

    The True Story of One Family’S Sailing Adventure and the People, Places, and Challenges Encountered Along the Way

    Realizing that the time is right to act on their crazy idea of pulling their two daughters out of school for a year, shut down the house, and embark on a sailing sabbatical, Elli and her husband David, pitch the idea to their daughters. With just a few months planning time available, what follows is a mad rush to take sailing lessons, buy and equip a boat, devote countless hours to researching ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • The Reluctant Mariner

    The Reluctant Mariner tells of an Australian couple's five-year circumnavigation of the world in a 12.2-metre long, steel-hulled ketch called Onawa. The author, Joanna Hackett, was once a self-proclaimed landlubber who had never even considered sailing off over the horizon in search of adventure but, having married a man keen to do just that, was willing to "give it a go". Her candid account, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Under the Arms of the Sky

    A Sailing Adventure

    by Kate Macready ...
    This is the journey that saw Kate and Hugh step outside their comfort zone in every respect. Ditching jobs, saying goodbye to family in Sydney, and reducing their worldly belongings to what fit on a 13m sailing boat. It was a huge leap of faith for a new couple in their 30s. Throwing off the dock-lines to sail to...well, they really didn't know where at the time.While they enjoyed hundreds of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Sailing with Impunity: Adventure in the South Pacific

    Sailing with Impunity covers a 14-month, 13,000-mile adventure with Mary and Bruce Trimble from Seattle to legendary South Pacific Islands and home again. From magical sights and scents of their first tropical island landfall to the bustling, colorful Tahitian markets. From sudden midnight squalls and weathering a cyclone in Samoa to pristine anchorages in the Kingdom of Tonga. The memoir frankly ... Read more

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  • Sailing to Jessica

    by Kelly Watts ...
    At 35-years old, Kelly and Paul Watts sold their home and quit their jobs to sail around the world, without any sailing experience. Two days after purchasing their forty-two-foot sloop, they got caught in a forty-knot gale off the coast of Cape Fear, NC.  Their sails ripped; the engine overheated; the GPS broke; they suffered hypothermia and severe seasickness.  And yet they persevered on their ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Beer in the Bilges

    Sailing Adventures in the South Pacific

    In the early 1980s, after the sexual revolution and before the explosion of the electronic age, the remote islands of Polynesia begged to be explored. For three experienced sailors who dreamed of sailing through the idyllic South Pacific, it was a perfect time to embark on a quest through some of the most amazing cruising destinations in the world.As New Zealander Hollywood Bob Rossiter, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • A Star to Sail Her By

    A Five-Year Odyssey of Adventure and Growth at Sea

    by Alex Ellison ...
    In 2003, casting their fortunesand their livesto the wind, the Ellison family embarked on what they thought would be a one-year voyage on their forty-seven-foot sloop, Promise. Five years and more than 25,000 nautical miles later, the family of four returned to the United States and dry land.In this memoir, author Alex Ellison chronicles his familys adventures on the seas. Culled from a detailed ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Missives from Maravida

    A Family's Caribbean Sailboat Adventure

    298 photos! Missives from MARAVIDA: A Family’s Caribbean Sailing Adventure documents the extraordinary journey I took with my husband and our two children. Our adventure is chronicled in the e-mail messages I sent to family and friends after we met up with MARAVIDA in Trinidad. It is supplemented with pictures, general information about the locations we visited, and web links. I’ve done my best to ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Snow Petrel

    (A father-son voyage to the windiest place on the planet)

    by Jon Tucker ...
    When Ben Tucker and his kid brother Matt decided to sail south in search of icebergs on Ben's small home-built kiwi sloop, their father Jon was allowed to come along as their cabin-boy, on a promise of good behaviour.The unfolding adventure took them through thick pack ice to become trapped at the windiest place on the planet, a remote location in East Antarctica.'Snow Petrel' is proof of what ... Read more

    $4.30 USD

  • Two Clowns Cross the Pacific in a Small Boat

    by John Champion ...
    Tells of a sailing journey from San Diego to Australia in a 40 foot sailing boat. Covers Mexico, French Polynesia, Cook Islands, Tonga and Fiji. Also has a chapter on various events "that were too much fun," for the crew. Includes useful detail on various formalities required in the respective ports of call. Chapters on each of the destinations mentioned above and a final chapter on comical (in ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Sail of Two Idiots: 100+ Lessons and Laughs from a Non-Sailor Who Quit the Rat Race, Took the Helm, and Sailed to a New Life in the Caribbean

    “It was the best of dreams, it was the worst of dreams, it was an age of consulting the nautical experts, it was the age of landlubber foolishness, it was the epoch of determination, it was the epoch of despair, it was the season of hurricanes, it was a spring of beachcombing…”If you dream about chucking it all away and sailing toward an island life, read this firstRenee and Michael didn’t have ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Don't Hold Back: Adventure at Sea

    by John Dalton ...
    DON'T HOLD BACK is a must read for all who hear the call of adventure. Tears, terrors, joy and laughter entertains the reader as he follows John around the world on his boat, Moondancer. After years as a ski bum and white water kayaker in the Rocky Mountains, John undertakes his greatest challenge of all, the Worlds Oceans. He quits his job, buys a boat and begins living the Dream entertained by ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus