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Yacht Racing Association Of Long Island Sound, Inc Year Book 1965-66
by Yacht Racing Association Of Long Island Sound
A Collection Of American Yachting Papers Dating From 1890 To 1903, Mainly For the New York Yacht Club
by New York Yacht Club
Yachting Books & Ephemera
1938. Boston Yacht Club
Boston: published by the secretary, 1938. 15.6 cm, pp. 80; folding color plate of code signals, folding color plate of storm signals; original green cloth stamped in gilg white, blue, and red. Fine copy. Containing the club's by-laws, committees, lists of yachts and members, house rules, racing rules, etc.
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NZ$77.92
From 60o north to 60o north. A cruise from Bergen to Oslo
by Chubb, Percy, 2nd
Toronto, New York, & London: published for the author by D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc, 1951. Edition limited to 250 copies, 12mo, pp. [12], 52; frontispiece of the Laughing Gull, a 44-foot Sparkman & Stephens designed yawl; 7 illustrations mostly from photographs on 5 plates (including a map of the cruise); Laughing Gull sailplan taped to front endpaper; previous owner's sticker on front free endpaper, underneath which an inscription by Chubb "For that old sea dog, Henry Thorn, with best regards, Percy...
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Deep Sea Sailing
by Erroll Bruce
Hutchinson, UK, 1973. Reprint. Hardcover. Good/Good. Hardcover. 248 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Hutchinson, UK, 1973. Reprint. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in good condition and comes in good dust jacket. More specifically: Boards have no wear, rubbing or soiling. Edges of dust jacket have light bumping and minor chipping. . Edges of pages are moderately soiled. Water stain along bottom edge of dust jacket. Front free end page has been removed. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Ships...
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Deep sea sailing
by BRUCE, ERROLL
London: Stanley Paul, 1961. 8vo, 244pp., plates, illus. in text; spine faded, else very good in orig. green cloth. Text book for preparing for and coping with heavy weather at sea.
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NZ$29.22
Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, Bristol, R.I. sole manufacturer of the Herreshoff patent safety coil boiler, builders of steam vessels, yachts, launches, portable, stationary and marine engines, pumps, propeller wheels and safety valves ... John B. Herreshoff, president and treasurer
by Herreshoff Manufacturing Co
New York: Beadle & Broun, stationers, 55 Exchange Place, n.d., 1880. Tri-fold leaflet on India paper (approx. 8½" x 5¼" folded), printed in red and blue; 4 wood-engraved illustrations; near fine condition. An early Herreshoff promotional - the company was founded in 1878 - touting the company's hulls, engines, boilers, and propellers.
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NZ$487.02
The Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race Second Edition (Inscribed and signed by Author)
by Ludeke, Michael
Hobart: Ludeke Publishing. 2009. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition - Card Covers. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Inscribed to a previous owner and signed by the author. 270 pages. Uncovers the race's origins with analysis of each race. Includes personal stories of the individual legends and yachts from the event's history. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 2nd Edition. Softcover.
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NZ$100.13
Account of the voyage of the schooner 'Albatros'
by Still, Richard, ship surgeon & ordinary seaman
[California: privately printed, 1955. 11" x 8½" mimeograph typescript, 2 leaves of introductory matter, plus 29 leaves of log; half-page sketch of Albatross; post-bound in green wrappers; some toning of the text; very good. Account of a trans-Atlantic voyage from Rotterdam to Barbados in the Caribbean, via Falmouth and Maderia (of which there is a good account), from July 31 to September 9, 1955. A well-written account of a relatively tame voyage, but the interest in Albatross runs deep. The owner was...
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The strange last voyage of Donald Crowhurst
by Tomalin, Nicholas, & Ron Hall
New York: Stein and Day, 1970. Second printing, 8vo, pp. 317, [1]; plates, charts, and illustrations throughout; a near fine copy in slightly worn and creased dust jacket. Documented madness. The story of an English sailor who entered the London Sunday-Times singlehanded around the world race, and who, having gotten to the South Atlantic from England, decided he could sail around in circles until the rest of the fleet re-entered the South Atlantic from the Indian Ocean, and thereby rejoin the fleet and...
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Manuscript journal recounting a voyage from Wilmington, NC to Cuba via Nassau, and back on the steam yacht Oneida
At sea, and on Cuba: February 16 - April 26, 1892. Small quarto ruled record book, bookseller's label of Corlies Macy & Co., Stationers, New York on the front pastedown, and containing approximately 145 pages by an unnamed passenger, recounting the voyage; the journal is enhanced by occasional, if somewhat amateurish drawings of events and curiosities described, including a waterspout, and a plan of Baracoa Harbor on the eastern end of Cuba; original half black calf, marbled boards; rubbed and worn, but...
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![Jeff Davis's log. Autobiographical reminiscences of the yachting editor of the Providence Journal and Evening Bulletin. With seventeen pen and ink illustrations by George Gale. [Introduction by David Patten.]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/644/461/1362461644.0.b.jpg)
Jeff Davis's log. Autobiographical reminiscences of the yachting editor of the Providence Journal and Evening Bulletin. With seventeen pen and ink illustrations by George Gale. [Introduction by David Patten.]
by Davis, Jeff
Providence: Providence Journal Co, 1937. First edition, 8vo, pp. [80]; text in double column; original embossed blue paper wrappers with the signature at the top of Edward Leahy, Jr., son of U.S. Senator Edward Leahy who was killed at the very end of Word War II in the submarine Herring in the North Pacific.
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A narrative of the cruise of the yacht Maria among the Feroe Islands in the summer of 1854
by [Davenport, A. H., & E. H. Greig]
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1856. Second edition, large 8vo, pp. [4], 89, [1]; engraved vignette title page, engraved map, 10 tinted lithographed plates, including one folding of whale hunting in Westmannshaven Bay, and a tinted lithograph vignette at the foot of page 84; a very good copy in original blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine. See Abbey, Travel, 81 (the only color plate travel book listed for the Faroe Islands).
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NZ$1,655.88
![Log of the Sara B. The log of a trip from Virginia to Florida to Nova Scotia to Virginia in a 22-foot sailboat [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/670/693/1290693670.0.b.jpg)
Log of the Sara B. The log of a trip from Virginia to Florida to Nova Scotia to Virginia in a 22-foot sailboat [cover title]
by Williams, E. Gantt
N.p., n.d. [Newark, Del.: Mary B. Williams, 1990. 4to, 11" x 8½", pp. [4], 125; drawings and charts in text; photocopied and spiral-bound in blue paper wrappers; very good. "When I read this log after my brother's death in an automobile accident, I realized that Gantt had not only lived the dream of the typical weekend sailor (to take a year off and sail to distant places), he had also captured the experience in the type of detail that would enable such a sailor to identify with it, and that would give...
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Yacht racing rules and tactics
by AYMAR, GORDON C
Princeton: D. Van Nostrand Co, 1954. First edition, 4to, 143pp., 132 photographs and diagrams; near fine copy in a chipped jacket. A Van Nostrand Sporting Book, edited and designed by Eugene Connett.
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The yachts and yachtsmen of America ... being a history of yachting and of yacht clubs, as well as of the various yachts, with biographies of the founders and members of the different clubs of the United States and Canada
by Mott, Henry A
New York: International Yacht Publishing Co, 1894. 2 volumes, large 4to, pp. [8], 366; [367]-692; 87 photogravure plates of yachts by Frederiksen, Bruce, Bolles, Stebbins, and Johnson, (numbered I - LXVIII, without plate LXI which was not published); plus 13 more photogravure plates of yacht clubs, 42 half-tone portrait plates of club officers, many more, smaller half-tone portraits in the text, and nearly 600 wood-engraved illustrations throughout, some quite large. This work can be found bound...
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![Yachting yarns. By a member of the E[astern] Y[acht] Club](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/637/693/1290693637.0.b.jpg)
Yachting yarns. By a member of the E[astern] Y[acht] Club
by [Pickman, Dudley Leavitt.]
N.p. [Marblehead?]: [privately printed], 1932. First edition, 12mo, pp. [34]; text within ruled borders; 2 plates, handcolored private signal; near fine in original printed blue paper-covered boards. From a prominent Massachusetts family, grandson of Dudley Leavitt Pickman, the famed Salem merchant, Dudley Leavitt Pickman (the grandson) was a fixture in Boston business and social circles, and a large donor of family art and antiques to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, as well as a trustee of Salem's...
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NZ$292.22
![The Royal Ocean Racing Club ... Results of R.O.R.C. races and points championships [wrapper title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/415/433/1489433415.0.b.jpg)
The Royal Ocean Racing Club ... Results of R.O.R.C. races and points championships [wrapper title]
Gillingham, Dorset: Blackmore Press, 1964. 8vo, pp. 20; original blue printed wrappers; near fine. Laid in is a folio bifolium being an Agenda for the RORC Annual Meeting with balance sheet, income statement, and a calendar of the year's events.
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NZ$48.70
Constitution, by-laws, sailing regulations, &c. of the Warwick Yacht Club, of Providence
by Warwick Yacht Club
Providence: J. A. & R. A. Reid, printers, 1876. 16mo, pp. 41, [1]; pages ruled in red throughout; 2 chromolithograph plates of burgees and private pennants, lists of members and officers; original pictorial blue cloth stamped in gilt on the upper cover with the club's monogram; some light staining to the upper cover, but generally very good. The Vice-Commodore Rowland Gibson Hazard's copy, with his bookplate. Hazard (1801-1888) served three terms in the R.I. House of Representatives. Not in OCLC.
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NZ$292.22
From Newport to Perth: the new challenge
by BOTTINI, MARGHERITA, Berekely Crane, & Bruce Stannard
[London: Nautical Books, 1986. First English edition, 4to, 200pp., illustrated in color throughout; fine copy in the jacket. Much of the text is devoted to the successful Australian challenge in 1983, the preparation for its defense in 1987, and the challengers.
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NZ$146.11
Woodbury's patent spring traveller, the greatest improvement ever invented for the saving of sails, rigging, and spars
by Coffin & Woodward
Boston: Coffin & Woodward, n.d., 1870. Octavo bifolium, pp.[4]; wood-engraved illustration of the traveller on the front, back panel soiled; all else very good. Includes a notice "important to owners and masters of vessels," a price list, testimonials, and ordering information.
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NZ$97.40
Collected logs trans-Atlantic 1977. A compendium of smooth logs of racing and cruising passages by fourteen yachts from Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts to Plymouth, England 12 June to 20 July, 1977. Sponsored by the Royal Western Yacht Club, Manchester Yacht Club, Cruising Club of America (Boston Station). On the occasion of the Royal Western's sesquicentennial celebration
by [White, Lawrence W.]
1978. 4to, 47 photocopied leaves in all; tables, 2 charts; fine in black cloth binder. Of the 6 yachts that raced and the 9 yachts that cruised, the logs (smooth or otherwise) of 11 yachts are included. Title page with 4 (different) ownership stamps of Lawrence W. White who cruised over in Witchery.
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NZ$146.11
Second Year. Who Won? The Official Pocket Yacht Record and Quick Reference Guide for 1888
by Summers, James C
New York: James C. Summers, 1888. 16.5 cm., pp. 234, [2]; half-tone frontispiece of Summers (loose, but present), 11 color litho plates of burgees, pennants, flags of all nations, etc., large folding composite plate of 8 yachts (torn at folds), folding chart of New York Harbor (also torn, but complete), numerous advertisements; original pictorial chromolithograph boards, red cloth shelf-back. a chronological record of important yachting events including the America's Cup.
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NZ$175.33
Reading the Glass: A Captain's View of Weather, Water, and Life on Ships
by Rappaport, Elliot
New York, NY: E. P. Dutton, 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good +. 8vo (24 x 16 cm). 323 pp. Blue cloth covers with silver gilt titles to spine. Text block tight and unmarked. Unclipped DJ.
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NZ$25.41
Notes of a yacht voyage to Hardanger Fjord, and the adjacent estuaries. By a yachting dabbler
by [Rothery, Charles William.]
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman; Kenwick: James Ivison, n.d., 1855. First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], xxvii, [1], 105, [5]; folding color map, 13 plates, 13 tinted lithographs (3 mounted, as issued; 1 double-page); original blue pictorial blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; light wear; very good and sound. Abbey, Travel, 256 (giving the date as 1850). Toy 938 (misdating the book 1885).
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NZ$974.05
Wind and Sailing Boats The structure and behavior of the wind as it affects sailing craft
by Watts, Alan
Newton Abbot: David & Charles. 1973. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm].. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Diagrams and maps. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 224 pages. . Reprint. Hardback.
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NZ$22.25
Stonington Regatta! A regatta will come off at Stonington, on Thursday, August 4th, at 11 o'clock A.M. open to all boats and vessels, under the following classifications and regulations
Westerly, R.I.: J. H. Utter & Co., n.d., 1890. Broadside (approx. 12¾" x 7½"); details measurement rules, prizes, and sailing directions all in a single column beneath the running head; lightly toned, previous folds, else near fine. An 'X' in the margin next to the section on rules, is keyed to an 'X' at the bottom where it is written in ink: "The 2, 3, 4 class boats allowed to shift ballast; but not to take any in, or discharge, during the race." James I. Day, C. T. Stanton, and H. L. Niles comprise...
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