Search Results: yacht from Naval Marine Archive

Thomas Manning, New York, 1897, illustrated chromo-lithograph of club flags and private signals of owners, register of yachts steam and sail and clubs. Advertising of supplies and uniforms of the time. Good cover soiled and back spine cracked. inside pages very good. Rare ed. heavy, will require more postage.

Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1962. 1973. very good/very good. Richard Baum’s very readable yachting passages in all sorts of weather and conditions. 200 pages

BBC, 1981. 1st. good/good. Claire Francis discusses six themes explored in her voyages.  Additional essays expand on specific aspects of the sea, including the history of ships, war at sea, oceanography, early navigators and the biology of the deep sea.  Extensively illustrated with photos and drawings.  280 pages

Historical Association of Southern Florida, Linvingstone Pubs, Narberth, PA. republished 1930 edition, xv, 384, [34] leaves of plates, ill. bw, very good. Munroe's autobiography, The Commodore's Story, was published in 1930. Written with the assistance of Vincent Gilpin, it is one of the few first-hand accounts existing of pioneer days in Miami-Dade County. Munroe pioneered development of the "Presto" type of sharpie in Florida. Preface by Herbert L. Stone.

Norton, London, New York, 1991, by Larry Pardey. first edition, 518 p., includes index, b/w drawings and photographs. very good, very good minus slight creasing of dj. Master craftsman explains time, money, materials and how to complete each stage of building a classic wooden hull. Heavy will require extra postage.

Hutchinson, London, 1956 Book Society remmendation, 244 pgs. bw photos with colour frontepiece. Adventure story of building and sailing a raft across the Pacific.
 

Putnam's Sons, 1988. 1st. fine/near fine . price clipped

George Allen & Unwin Ltd, London, 1971. 1st thus. very good/g+ . bw. inscribed

Sheridan House, 1980 edition, with a foreward by Boris Lauer-Leonardi. Very good/ good mylar,189 p.,bw illustrations - 145 rare photographs and drawings. Yachts during the time span from 6,000BC to the steam yachts of 1920's. Selections from yacht racing for the America's Cup and ocean racing. Heavy - require more postage.

Macmillan, NY, 1964. 1st. fair.

Hamilton Yacht Club, 1988, very good, xvi, 157 p., ill. bw photos. 29 cm. A history of the yachts and yachtsmen of Hamilton since the club was established in1888. Penny as past Commodore and historian of the Royal Hamilton Yacht Club describes: The Halcyon Years; Disaster; Empire Games, Depression; Golden Jubilee; A War; Yachting Decline; Revival of Yachting; The Evergreen Decade; The Agony and Loss and the Struggle to Survive.

McBride, Nast & Co., 1913 edition, 6 p. , 363 p. b/w illus., plates, diagrams, includes index, good plus, slight wear to boards, signature on inner front bd., minor spotting on back, edges of glossary and index. Chapters on selection of boat, navigation, meteorology, knots, rules of the road and motors.

Random House, New York, 1972 . 1st. very good/very good, price clipped. A beautifully illustrated book on the world of sail, wind and water. Beiser discusses every aspect of sailing from the boat itself to seamanship. 251 pages

Time-Life Books, 1976. 1st. fair -. ex-lib Water sports from fishing, canoeing, water-skiing and windsurfing. One of the Time Life Library of Boating series.  175 pages

Peter Davies Ltd., London, 1935, xii, 376 p. ; 28 cm ill. b/w., ports, diags., includes index. Good plus, wear on the spine and corners, previous owners name, In this volume some of the best designers of fast racers and best cruisers have provided plans - Herreshoff, Reimers, Stephens, Mylne, Burgess, Gruber, and Roue. there is more is the power craft section. Heavy will require extra postage.

International Marine Press, Camden, 1993, ill. b/w; xvii, 270 p. 25 cm; includes index and glossary; very good/very good. Provides the basic skills of renovating a wooden boat, with advice about the purchase of boat to fix up and then how to proceed as well as maintenance.

Little Brown, Boston, 1894, vol 2 only of two, xvi, 456 p. ill. with colour plates of flags and burgees, and b/w plates, sketches, lines and charts; includes index. Part of the The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes, good rebind, library imprint, former owner's names inked out. This Vol II: Royal yachts and English yacht clubs, Scottish clubs, Irish clubs, Thames clubs and Windermere, yachting on the Norfolk Broads, yachting in America, yachting in New Zealand, foreign and colonial yachting, some famous races, racing in a 40-rater in 1892, yacht racing in 1893, the American yachting season of 1893, the America Cup races 1893, Appendix - the 'Giralda'.

Castle Books, 1987. 1st. very good/ very good. previous owner's inscription on end paper. A compendium of yachting stories and events from 1895 to 1911.

New York, Cassell & Company Ltd., 1988. This is the New and Revised Edition with "The Season of 1887", not the Limited Edition. 27 x 19 cm. 200 p. Includes illustrations, maps, and diagrams. Frontispiece of The Yacht Mayflower in 1886 with 140 line drawings of yachts at sea in-text with other engravings and decorations including one of the Americas Cup. The text is divided into several sections, The History of American Yachting from the early days of the New York Yacht Club to 1885, The Mayflower and Galatea Races of 1886, American Steam Yachting, British Yachting and American Yachting in 1886 and 1887. This copy remains in a good condition. The blue cloth boards are rubbed at the edges and have sustained some tearing along the top and bottom edge of the spine. The binding is tight and the text remains in a clean condition. Heavy extra postage at cost. Heavy requires more postage.

Boston Mills Press, Erin, ON 1983, 1st ed. 172 p., 29 cm, includes index.Very good/ very good - (¼ inch minor tear repaired). In the early years of the 20th century the wealthy of the US and Canada owned private luxury steam yachts fitted with ornate staterooms, dining saloons and even marble fireplaces. During WWI and WWII, 21 of these elaborate vessels were pressed into service by the Royal Canadian Navy. Five of them served during WWI and their story is told down to 1946, at which point the author backtracks to follow the story of the sixteen yachts that fought in WWII. In some cases Canadians traveled to neutral USA to purchase vessels in secret; yachts that were then fitted out to hunt for U-boats and escort convoys to England.