NAUTICAL GIFTS

Raster & Vector Charts for United States Waters: Managing the Waterway: Electronic DVD Charts 2011 Edition
$39.95
Raster & Vector Charts for United States Waters: Managing the Waterway: Electronic DVD Charts 2011 Edition. NOAA and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Over 3, 000 Electronic Charts for Marine Navigation. 170-plus Government Pubs, Reference Texts, and Nautical Calculators. Organized by region: -New England (214) charts, -New York, New Jersey, New York Canals, and Great Lakes (697 Charts), -Chesapeake & Delaware Bays (138 Charts), -Intracoastal Waterway (ICW) (199 Charts), -Florida Keys (78 Charts), -Gulf of Mexico (220 Charts), -Alaska (393 Charts), -West Coast (293 Charts), & Pacific & Caribbean Islands (U.S. Possessions) (147 Charts).

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Everyday Knots: For Fisherman, Boaters, Climbers, Crafters, and Household Use
$14.95
Everyday Knots: For Fisherman, Boaters, Climbers, Crafters, and Household Use. Provides easy to follow, step-by-step diagrams and instructions for tying over eighty knots. Over 400 full color illustrations and photographs guide the reader through the stages of tying each knot correctly. Included are overhand knots, figure of eight knots, bowlines and sheet bends, crossing knots, and more. For fisherman, sailors, climbers, crafters, and gardeners-or for anyone who just wants to use the best knot for any household task-no book could be more illuminating or easier to use.

American Lighthouses: A Definitive Guide 2nd Edition
$21.95
American Lighthouses: A Definitive Guide 2nd Edition. This book tours the beautiful and historic navigational beacons that dot the coasts and lakes of the United States. This guidebook illustrates more than 500 lighthouses, detailing their history and architecture and providing full information on visiting or just viewing them. For lighthouse lovers and maritime history buffs alike, this is the most comprehensive guide to the lighthouses of America. Inside the pages you will find practical information including: Directions to the lights, Details on access and visiting hours, Advice on the best vantage points for viewing and picture taking, and nearby sites of interest.

Escape from Someday Isle: Articles, Tips, Letters and Photos from the Bible of Onboard Living: The Best of Living Aboard
$18.00
Escape from Someday Isle: Articles, Tips, Letters and Photos from the Bible of Onboard Living: The Best of Living Aboard. Anyone who hopes to live aboard or cruise full time someday will want to talk to others who have already lived this dream. If you're planning, hoping or dreaming of a live aboard lifestyle, this is one book you don't want to miss. With this book you can learn what it's like to simplify your life to live aboard a boat. It's a how-to guide, but also a manual on recognizing and setting life's true priorities.

Keepers of Valor: Lakes of Vengeance: Lakeboats, Lifesavers & Lighthouses
$16.95
Keepers of Valor: Lakes of Vengeance: Lakeboats, Lifesavers & Lighthouses. This book is a collection of true stories of real adventures, of real people and actual places on the Great Lakes. This book outlines the sagas of some of the most obscure and thrilling events that can be told of the lighthouse keepers, lifesavers and lake mariners. Learn about the keepers of valor, people who in the face of what seems like an insane lake, performed acts of courage that often defies expectations. These individuals find valor within their souls and remain true to it, often with a frozen death hanging over them at every moment. Sometimes the person wins, sometimes the lake wins, but the story is always inspirational.

The Klutz Book Of Knots: How To Tie The World's Most Useful Hitches, Ties, Wraps, and Knots-A Step-By-Step Manual
$10.95
The Klutz Book Of Knots: How To Tie The World's Most Useful Hitches, Ties, Wraps, and Knots-A Step-By-Step Manual. A fully illustrated step-by-step guide to the tying of the worlds 24 most useful knots. Carefully selected from a total of over 4,000, these are the All-Stars, the knots you need n the daily battle with the self-untying shoe lace, the dirt-level clothesline, the pop-up trunk lid and the rest of the modern everyday forces of chaos. It's a tool, meant to be used as well as read. Each of the board pages is specially die-cut so that the knots can be practiced directly next to their illustrations.

Mid-Atlantic Lighthouses Hudson River to Chesapeake Bay
$19.95
Mid-Atlantic Lighthouses Hudson River to Chesapeake Bay. Our nation, when in its infancy, owed much of its prosperity to light-houses, which were constructed thanks to the unwavering vision of President George Washington. When he first swore his oath of office, only a dozen lights safeguarded our coastline. Within ten years, that number had more than doubled. Maintaining the general's spirit, Mid-Atlantic Lighthouses takes readers on more than just a regional tour; it traces the beginnings of our country and the role lighthouses played in that drama. Built in 1797 under direct orders from Washington, Long Island's Montauk Point Light provided countless immigrants with their first sight of America and has become a lasting symbol of freedom. Descriptions of forty-nine lighthouses (and four lightships) include, for lights open to the public, driving directions and details on visiting. Together with striking photographs and regional locator maps, these profiles offer a comprehensive examination of awe-inspiring Mid-Atlantic landmarks.

Staying at A Lighthouse: America's Romantic and Historic Lighthouse Inns 2nd Edition
$11.95
Staying at A Lighthouse: America's Romantic and Historic Lighthouse Inns 2nd Edition. Staying at a lighthouse takes you on a guided tour of more than two dozen towers that welcome you to spend the night. This book highlights brief histories of the lights and their surrounding areas, descriptions of the accommodations and what you can expect, directions, seasons of operation, rates, and more. From romantic bed-and-breakfast inns to rustic and remote towers to keepers' quarters well-suited for families and groups, these unique overnight havens provide some of the most sought after lodgings in the country. A handful even allows to perform various keeper's duties-raising the flag, recording the weather, and other odd jobs-to help maintain the properties. All provide spectacular scenery, historic surroundings, and a rare opportunity to experience the serenity and simplicity of a keeper's life.

Lighthouses Watchers at Sea
$15.95
Lighthouses Watchers at Sea. As early as 280 B.C., the Egyptian lighthouse known as the Pharos stood guard over the Mediterranean. since then, a single lighthouse has often been the sole source of assistance to storm-blown travelers on the high seas. Against impossible odds, lighthouse architects and keepers have risked their lives in the creation and maintenance of these awesome structures. This book highlights the history of lighthouses-from the struggle to build invincible towers, through the heroic rescues of lost ships and drowned sailors, to the haunted tales surrounding these isolated structures.

Seaway Trail: Lighthouses 4th Edition
$5.95
Seaway Trail: Lighthouses 4th Edition. The scenic Seaway Trail and its historic lighthouses on the trail, 504 miles in length, follows four major waterways in upstate New York and Pennsylvania-Lake Erie, the Niagara River, Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. The Seaway Trail, already America's longest designated National Recreation Trail for mixed travel uses, became one of America's Byways in September 1996. The Seaway Trail is suitable for driving, motorcoach touring, bicycling, and pleasure boating. Conveniently accessible to the New York State Canal Recreastionway system, boaters can reach and explore the Seaway Trail from any of the Great Lakes as well as from New York City and Montreal.