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£10.00Walker Amateur Boating Club – Membership Certificate
Read MoreWalker-upon-Tyne, 1873
original certificate admitting the renowned Tyneside shipbuilder Henry F. Swan to life membership of the Walker Amateur Boating Club, printed on vellum with names entered in ink and dated September 22nd 1873.
possibly dating from the formation of the club, as Henry F.Swan is also noted as being the president.
two file holes and without the club seal that is referred to as being affixed to the document.
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£35.00John MacGregor (“Rob Roy”)
Read Moreby Edwin Hodder
Hodder, 1895.
a substantial biography of the inventor of the “Rob Roy ” canoe, including accounts of his canoe voyages, other travels, military and family life, etc. etc.
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£35.00“Rob Roy” on the Jordan, Nile, Red Sea & Gennesareth, etc
Read Morea canoe cruise in Palestine and Egypt, and the waters of Damascus
by John MacGregor
John Murray, 1870.
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£20.00Voyage of Rediscovery, a cultural odyssey through Polynesia
Read MoreFinney, Ben, and others
University of California Press, 1994.
a 12,000 mile voyage by a Hawiaan crew in a replica Polynesian double canoe from Hawaii to New Zaland and back, to demonstrate that their ancient ancestors could have undertaken such voyages
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£28.00Sail and Oar
Read Moreby John Leather
Conway 1982
a detailed study of twenty-odd examples of small 11 – 20ft craft, mostly recreational, drawn from Britain and North America, both contemporary boats and older designs
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£95.00Model Racing Yachts
Read Moretheir architecture, design, construction and handling
by B.H. Priest & J.A. Lewis
Model Aeronautical Press, [1966]
an important and elusive work on the model racing yacht.
included with the book is a very large blueprint plan for the B.H.Priest designed model yacht ‘Highlander’, and five other folding plans.
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£275.00The Canoe Aurora; a cruise from the Adirondacks to the Gulf
Read MoreNeidé, Dr. Chas. A.
New York, Forest and Stream Publishing Co., 1885 -
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