Yachting Monthly's Confessions

Author: Paul Gelder
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472901681
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 97

Book Description
This is a wonderful cherry-picked collection of humiliating misadventures from the enduringly popular Confessional column of Yachting Monthly magazine. For over 25 years, yachtsmen have clamoured to tell the world about their most embarrassing exploits and their most shameful blunders, and the cream of the crop are collected together here in the hope that the rest of us can learn from their mistakes instead of our own - or at least have a good laugh at their expense! Shipwrecks, strandings, mutiny, getting locked in the lavatory... you couldn't make them up. Counted among the contributors are no less than four former editors of Yachting Monthly, which goes to prove that worse things really do happen at sea! Accompanied by cartoons from the inimitable Mike Peyton, this collection deserves a place at every bunkside.

Yachting Monthly's Further Confessions

Author: Paul Gelder
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 147290169X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 97

Book Description
There were too many degrading disasters, mortifying mishaps and groan-worthy gaffes for one collection, so following on from Yachting Monthly's Confessions, here is another wonderful collection of humiliating misadventures from the enduringly popular Confessional column of Yachting Monthly magazine. For over 25 years, yachtsmen have clamoured to tell the world about their most embarrassing exploits and their most shameful blunders, so here is another crop of entertaining examples, so that the rest of us can learn from other people's mistakes instead of our own - or at least have a good laugh at their expense! Accompanied once more by cartoons from the inimitable Mike Peyton, this collection helps to prove that worse things really do happen at sea!

Yachting Monthly's Confessions

Author: Paul Gelder
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472901673
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 97

Yachting Monthly's Confessions

Author: Jane Russell
Publisher: Adlard Coles
ISBN: 9780713653571
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 96

Book Description
Yachtsmen own up to their sailing sins

The Insiders' Guide to Becoming a Yacht Stewardess 2nd Edition

Author: Julie Perry
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
ISBN: 1614487863
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 369

Book Description
Since 2006, The Insiders’ Guide to Becoming a Yacht Stewardess has been a must-read guide for hopeful, young travelers and those intrigued by a career path in the super-yacht industry. Hundreds of yacht crew in the industry today used Julie’s book to get started---and succeed---working aboard yachts. Entertaining and educational, this book not only covers who owns luxury yachts, where they travel, and what taking care of their eccentric owners is like, but it describes the awe-inspiring benefits of the job, the skills required, and a clear-cut roadmap for how others can do it, too. If the terrific pay and benefits that come from accompanying celebrities and dignitaries on their private journeys around the world appeals to you, consider Julie Perry your new career coach. Let her guide you to the sea of opportunity that awaits young travelers in one of the world’s most adventurous and mind-boggling industries: LUXURY YACHTING.

The Sailor's Sin Bin

Author: Theo Stocker
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1399402862
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 129

Book Description
A new collection of sailors' brilliantly funny, real-life blunders, from the pages of Yachting Monthly. The book compiles the best of the short real-life confessions from sailors from Yachting Monthly's Confessions feature, many of them illustrated by original cartoons. These cautionary tales are arranged into themed chapters, for the amusement and edification of readers. Worse things happen at sea, so the saying goes. This book relates the embarrassing blunders and shameful shenanigans of real sailors to whom the worst did happen. Even in a world of satellite navigation and social media, shipwrecks, collisions, getting stuck in the toilet and cases of mistaken identity can and do happen. They remain hidden until the skipper can bear the guilt no longer and must unburden their souls. The resulting stories are outrageously funny, while allowing the rest of us to thank our stars it wasn't us and to learn from others' mistakes. The Yachting Monthly Confessional has been offering absolution for almost half a century. This hilarious collection is the cream of the crop from the last few years, illustrated by the brilliant cartoons of Bill Caldwell, and deserves a place on every sailor's bookshelf as the definitive guide of what not to do at sea!

The Unofficial Rules of Sailing

Author: Jim Crawford
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 140812677X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 97

Book Description
This is an illustrated comic take on the rules of sailing – poking fun of right of way rules, racing rules, and etiquette will instantly 'speak' to sailors at all levels of experience. Jim Crawford turns a humorous eye on right-of-way regulations, racing rules, high seas perils and more in this witty collection of sardonic cartoons.

Adventures of a Reluctant Boating Wife

Author: Angela Rice
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408184206
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 97

Book Description
'When I was first invited by a new – and handsome – man to the local Yacht Club to see his boat, I happily conjured up alluring pictures of me in an expensive bikini and a great suntan. It didn't occur to me that 'see my boat' might actually mean going out in the thing... Before she knew it, Angela Rice had agreed to a sailing trip on the notorious west coast of Scotland – and to marry her skipper. The voyage did nothing to allay her primal suspicion of anything afloat. But years later, one sunny Boat Show day, she discovered the lifestyle lure of powerboats – so much less daunting than their sailing counterparts. She cajoled her man into crossing to the dark side, with wild promises of becoming competent. And slowly but surely, reluctance gave way to relish, scepticism to skippering, the Solent to the Seine... Originally published as a series in Motorboat & Yachting magazine, and illustrated with wonderful cartoons by David Semple, this is a funny and engaging account of one woman's relationship with the sea, a boat and her husband.

Hunt's Yachting Magazine

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Yachting
Languages : en
Pages : 626

Book Description

Hooked on the Horizon

Author: Tom Dymond
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781916900103
Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Three vast oceans, two young men and one dubious idea - to sail around the world. When a sailboat barely bigger than a bathtub pottered into the English Channel, James and Tom began the adventure of a lifetime. In their little boat Blue Eye they set sail, ladened with the notion that happiness and freedom loitered just over the horizon. And yet as they journeyed between continents and across oceans, they found they were still anchored to their old unsatisfied selves. Hampered not only by the storms of the Atlantic Ocean and the pirates of the Red Sea, the craving nature of the human mind also threatens their bid to circumnavigate the world. From the Caribbean to the Suez Canal, James and Tom chase one sunset after the next, convinced a treasure trove of fulfilment lies waiting beyond the horizon. What will it take for them to discover that the sea is not always bluer on the other side? Hooked on the Horizon is Tom Dymond's travel memoir of sailing Blue Eye around the world. If you like being transported across oceans, escaping to far-flung paradises, and finding humour and philosophy in between, then you'll love the story of Blue Eye's adventure.