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£10.00Close to the Wind
Read Moreby Pete Goss
Headline, 1998.
the 1996-1997 Vendee Globe single-handed round the world race, and Goss’s heroic rescue of a fellow competitor.
signed by the author.
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Sale£225.00£175.00Great Eights, the yachts and history of the International 8-metre Class
Read MoreVan Bueren, John Lammerts
Yachting Library, 2000.
with a wealth of colour illustration, a magnificent evocation of this great class of racing yacht, from 1907 to the present day
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£12.50Man Who Challenged America
Read Morethe life and obsession of Sir Thomas Lipton
by Laurence Brady
Birlinn, 2007
a fresh look at the life and sailing exploits of Thomas Lipton – a lively, entertaining and hugely informative biography
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£275.00Observer on Ranger during the races for the America’s Cup 1937
Read MoreDilke, Sir Fisher
London, Herbert Jenkins, 1938 -
£295.00On the Wind’s Highway, Ranger, Rainbow, and Racing
Read Moreby Harold S. Vanderbilt
Charles Scribner’s & Sons, 1939
even scarcer than ‘Enterprise’. the three-times defender of the America’s Cup recalls his racing career, together with a chapter on the evolution of the J-Class, sections on tactics, and an analysis of the Right of Way rules.
illustrated with a colour frontispiece portrait and more than 60 fine full-page half-tone plates, plus many charts and diagrams.
a fine book.
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£68.00Ship Would Not Travel Due West. Mariners Library edition.
Read Moreby David Lewis
Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963.
the first single-handed Trans-Atlantic race, and the return voyage, in the 25′ Vertue yacht “Cardinal Vertue”.
Mariners Library Edition no.47 – one of the scarcest in the series
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