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According to the author, Des Pawson, a professional ropeworker with more than a quarter-century experience, the objective of the publication is to make readers confident enough to enter the magic world of knot making. Des Pawson wrote several books on the subject of knot making and has included the best of those books into this one.

Since the explanations and descriptions provided in the pages of the book are very detailed and easy to understand, it can be used as a first guidance manual for the newcomers, before they proceed with learning further. The volume shall be treated as a sort of recipe book to making knots designed by the author. In fact, the content presents an excellent and carefully selected collection of the most interesting knots, providing the readers with the basics of their design, and detailed and informative illustrations giving step by step instructions.

As a result, the reader can start making knots by themselves, without having to go through numerous instruction books. Even though there are so many publications available today on the subject, this one is among the most popular books, greatly appreciated by all enthusiasts of knot making and we recommend it to you.

Here is one of the most old and rare titles available on the website, it was first released in 1891 and written by the professional Captain Howard Patterson. The main idea of the author is to give clear and understandable explanations of the essential maritime terminology to the people having little to no experience and knowledge. There are five main sections in the dictionary.

The first section is dealing with the various parts of the ship, including the rigging, sails, spars etc.; note that the nautical expressions are also covered. The second section is dealing with the shipbuilding, covering both metal ship construction and wooden one, used to be mostly used at those times. The third section is in fact a good digest on the nautical astronomy and ship navigation.

Steam engineering terminology has been covered in the fourth section of the book, addressing the various parts of the marine boilers. Finally, the closing section of the dictionary has been devoted to the naval terms including, but not limited to the main particulars of the naval ships, ordnance, uniforms and other important aspects. There are many modern electronic dictionaries available today, but this one is a real treasure for the collectors.

As we all know from the school, water occupies the majority of our planet, covering more than seventy percent of its surface. The oceans, seas, lakes and rivers provide the enormous number of different and interesting venues for sailing activities, literally everywhere in the world. It also provides a sort of highways to be used by the offshore sailors when traveling from one place to another, the playing field for the racing sailors, and peaceful setting for pleasure, much appreciated by the cruising sailors.

And, of course, it provides all above people with the great break from living ashore. The author of this volume has spent many years in the sailing industry working in the different parts of the world and is now sharing his experience with the people having same passion for sailing. The exhaustive and colorful information on the best selected sailing destination has been provided.

You will definitely be pleased with the number of destinations and the descriptions provided by the author – most probably, they will make you head out immediately. We recommend the publication to all people in love with sailing, with the hope that it will lead them to the new and fascinating places.

More than a century ago the best and largest ocean liner in the world, got wrecked by a huge iceberg; this disaster resulted in the tragic loss of a nearly 1500 human lives. The story of Titanic was always very interesting to the people, and there are so many movies, books and songs dedicated to the subject tragedy. People still dream of raising the sunken ship from the seabed; however, no one has ever dared to do that.

Needless to say that Titanic is maybe the most famous ship ever, with the name known literally to anyone in the world. From the keel laying day on 31 March 1909, the popularity of the future liner grew so fast due to the numerous advertisement all around the planet. Even so many years after the tragic loss, Titanic is still in the heart of everyone with passion to the sea. There are new facts discovered every year and new photographs, of higher quality, do appear on a regular basis.

This book is covering a huge number of interesting facts and as such shall be on the bookshelf of any Titanic fan. It will keep the readers flicking through all its pages, giving them perfectly selected facts, including serious historical facts and those quite funny ones; check the book and you will not be disappointed.

This is one of the best volumes available today on the knots, and that is why it gained such popularity among the readers all around the planet. The content provides the absolutely completed coverage of the knots, justifying the Knot Bible title given to this volume. The author has covered the knots and splices, whipping, bends and even decorative knots commonly found on board yachts and boats.

The publication will therefore be appreciated by all people willing to be able to master any knot – the detailed step by step instructions provided here will be very helpful. There are more than two hundred knots covered here; prior to explaining the making process, the author analyzes the strength of each know and its reliability together with the usefulness and ease of making for each particular know.

Numerous photographs supplement each of the instructions showing the process and making it even easier to follow, so be sure you will make your first knots nearly immediately upon reading the appropriate chapter. In addition to that, the author uses the instructive diagrams providing extra information, and newly introduced know-how sections making reading the book even more interesting.

Some fifty years ago, nine mariners set off on the absolutely most daring sailing race of those ever held. The idea was to perform a unique single-handed round-the-world voyage, and it was intended to be non-stop one, adding even more difficulty. It should be noted that no one had ever dared to accomplish such a trip before and they were the ones to change the very face of sailing.

However, the sad truth was that only one of them managed to complete the voyage successfully and have glory and fame, while the other eight people had no reward but the failure and even death. The author of the book, Peter Nichols, made a good attempt to tell the story of the subject voyage. The readers have already named this volume extraordinary since it chronicles the historic contest of the human against the ocean, the human without any contemporary electronic means of navigation, mobile communication, satellite service, positioning systems and other things like that.

The publication will be appreciated by the people with the interest in the maritime history and prominent people of the past times – needless to say that the story of those nine men deserves our attention, so read this book and you will be impressed. The book is presented in both pdf and epub formats.

This publication will tell you about the battle of the human with the nature, namely with the Atlantic Ocean which has always been treated as the most dangerous one, and it still presents deadly challenge to the people crossing the oceans. The publication is truly delightful thanks to how the author chronicled the entire history of human attempts to cross the Atlantic Ocean from the very early times of navigation and up to the latest attempt to cross the Atlantic on the small fast boats.

The period in between includes the fascinating stories of the discoveries and slave trading, emigration and passenger cruise shipping, and of course wars. For people, this ocean has been a testing ground for the ship design and technologies. These design features and technologies are also dealt with in this book, together with all other important and interesting topics including but not limited to the small boats and yachts, early steam ships, unconventional crafts, winds, wild seas, currents, disasters and future prospects. The content is rich with information provided by the historians and experienced mariners and other shipping industry people, it is very reader-friendly and full of informative historical images.

The present publication was created wit the ultimate intention of the author, William Longyard, to try and reach back through five centuries in order to gather an excellent collection of the interesting and fascinating sea adventures. The main heroes of these stories are watercrafrs, staring from the small sailboats and canoes.

Among the prominent seafarers of the past and their vessels covered in the publication there are kite-powered kayak boat of Ed Giller, then you will read about the Gladys Gradely's attempt to be the very first woman to sail across the Atlantic Ocean on her own and with no help, Hugo Vihlen crossing the ocean in the small, just six-foot sail boat named April Fool, and many other stories, each of them will for sure be of interest to all sea enthusiasts.

The book is great as it shows, on the basis of the experience of its heroes, that the oceans can actually be crosses by people who dare. This book will teach you something you may not find in other publications dedicated to the marine history. In fact, very limited number of the reference publications will make for such riveting and fascinating reading, that is why you' better take this one and have a close look inside, you will not get disappointed.