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In four dozen meticulous, informative and annotated drawings Gloria Wilson has recorded, both afloat and ashore, the functional beauty of the fishing boat in both timber and steel-mainly of eastern Scotland (with a few craft from Yorkshire, where the artist now lives).

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Unavailable since 1972, a first-hand account of the first open boat voyage, in a Drascombe Lugger, from England to Australia.

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An updated new edition of this manifesto by one of England best-loved designers of cruising yachts, featuring a new photo gallery, and a thoughtful and illuminating Foreword by Ed Burnett, one of today's foremost designers of yachts in the classic English idiom.

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Martin O'Scannall's engaging account of his forty-year affair with a modest but beautiful Edwardian gaffer, from her acquisition, through her restoration, and on to voyages throughout the British Isles and mainland Europe.

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Inexplicably out of print since the late 1940s, Messing About in Boats is one of the most charming and evocative accounts of work and leisure afloat in the years either side of the Great War. John Muir describes working and sailing in English waters, from the North Sea to the Bristol Channel, in an age long before the marina, GPS and radio.

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In his lone six-year voyage from England to New Zealand in the 1950s, in a 1908 yawl designed by Albert Strange, the author discovers both the world and himself.

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The improbable, yet true, and highly readable story of a Hull steam trawler, her industry, and her people, from her launch in 1906, through fishing, wars, sealing, whaling and exploration, to her final resting place on the edge of the Antarctic.

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This is West Country boatbuilder Luke Powell's account of his life building and sailing traditional wooden boats, and includes the entire fleet of his Scillonian pilot cutters built prior to 2012, when this book first appeared.

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Will Stirling describes and illustrates the many arcane tasks which can daunt the beginning boatbuilder. He has been building clinker dinghiesfor many years and has learned how to avoid the mistakes which lie in wait for the unwary. Benefit from his experience, and draw inspiration from his many mouthwatering photographs of finished boats.

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Gloria Wilson documents the Peterhead yard of Richard Irvin & Sons, and the wooden craft for which it became renowned. Some one hundred of her photographs accompany her account of the boats and the people who made up a distinctive and now disappearing maritime culture.

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In "Good Little Ship" Peter Willis analyses a classic of maritime literature Arthur Ransome's "We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea" and tells the story of the "Nancy Blackett", Ransomes own boat which appears as the "Goblin" in his story, and survives today as an ambassador for Ransome and his tales.

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David Hillyard built affordable wooden yachts for the masses, from 1906 to the 1960sabout 800 of them, many of which survive. The company he founded survived for more than a century. This is the story of a unique and significant chapter in the story of British sailing.

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James Wharram's account of his life dedicated to designing, building, and sailing worldwide, craft of the Polynesian double canoe form.

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Fishing boats of the North Sea have always been fundamental to my existence, writes Gloria Wilson in her Introduction. I have chosen those which, for me, are the most likeable and pleasing, predominantly the classic, cruiser-sterned wooden-hulled seine netters and dual-purpose craft which are splendid sea boats and have such beautiful hull forms.

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This book is a conversation with the past, conducted in a very old, engineless gaff cutter, armed with the Admiralty Pilot, a gallant crew, and a sense of the ridiculous.

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Erlings Tambs's charming and modest account of how, with great fortitude, resourcefulness and good humour he and his wife reached New Zealand in their Colin Archer vessel, with many delightful human encounters along the way, to arrive with one more in the family than they started with.

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'Lugworm on the Loose' describes how Ken and B quit the rat race and explored the Greek islands under sail. 'Lugworm Homeward Bound' recounts their voyage home from Greece to England. 'Lugworm Island Hopping' has Ken and B exploring the Scilly Isles and the Hebrides.

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Edward Allcard's epic two crossings of the Atlantic in the mid-twentieth century in his thirty-four-foot, forty-year-old yawl Temptress

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Ben Lowings examines David Lewis's lifetime of adventure forensically yet sympathetically, to comprehend his determination. Lewiss achievements garnered him awards and honours, but their price had ultimately to be paid by the succession of families he created, then broke apart. We may legitimately ask 'was it really all worth it'

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First published to huge acclaim during the war it describes, Very Ordinary Seaman relateswith humanity, humour and the authority of experiencelower-deck life in the British navy, from basic training to service on a destroyer protecting a convoy to Arctic Russia, a mission from which many did not return.