NAUTICAL BOOKS

LAKE ERIE and LAKE ST.CLAIR PORTS O’CALL, By Lakeland Boating. (AS OF JULY 2010 NO LONGER AVAILABLE PUBLISHER OUT OF STOCK INDEFINATELY)
$47.99
(NO LONGER AVAILABLE PUBLISHER OUT OF STOCK INDEFINATELY AS OF JULY 2010) LAKE ERIE and LAKE ST.CLAIR PORTS O’CALL, By Lakeland Boating. Thousands of updates! Includes 24" x 36" chart, every port on the lake, up-to-date marina listings, where to eat, what to do, current color aerial photos of each port, harbor highlights labeled on photos, waypoints for every harbor, cruising tips, getting through customs, golf courses, and boat ramps. Also a great nautical christmas gift or nautical stocking stuffer!

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.

Sailors' Wisdom: Day By Day
$35.00
Sailors' Wisdom: Day By Day. After the international success of Abrams’ The Sea and The Sea Day by Day, Philip Plisson presents his best photographs in Sailors’ Wisdom: Day by Day. A master of marine photography and an Official Painter of the French Navy, Plisson presents the sea in all of its diverse moods, states, and colors. Raging and lawless or subsiding complacently, the sea continuously fascinates and bewitches in its many roles, creating and destroying, providing and consuming, charming and provoking. Throughout the year, waves, swells, lighthouses, sails, and boats in oceanic lights will fill the days with dream and escape. With its smaller format and a bounty of extraordinary photographs accompanied by proverbs from sailors, this book is a perfect gift for all seafarers and lovers of the sea.

Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence to Montreal Ports O' Call by Lakeland Boating.
$47.99
Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence to Montreal Ports O' Call by Lakeland Boating. New for this edition: Daily logs: Trent-Severn Waterway, Rideau Canal, St. Lawrence to Montreal, Ottawa River. Includes 24" x 36" chart, every port on the lake and beyond, up-to-date marina listings, where to eat, what to do, current color aerial photos of each port, harbor highlights labeled on photos, waypoints for every harbor, boat ramp locations, cruising tips, border crossings, and fishing hotspots. Also a great nautical christmas gift or nautical stocking stuffer!

Managing The Waterway - Cruising Guide Biscayne Bay to Dry Tortugas, FL
$24.95
Managing the Waterway: Biscayne Bay, FL to Dry Tortugas, FL An Enriched Cruising Guide for Florida Keys Travelers By Mark and Diana Doyle. Compiled in Spring 2006, this all-new guide has the most up-to-date information following Florida's especially destructive 2005 storm season. Based on their popular MTW format, MTW:KEYS additionally includes 90 pages of annotated NOAA charts (highlighting waterside references such as marinas, anchorages, waypoints, routes, dive & snorkel sites, crossovers, routes to southwest Florida, etc.) and annotated County maps (featuring 181 shoreside services in 19 categories including grocery, hardware, and marine stores; libraries, post offices, and laundries; pharmacies, hospitals, and animal hospitals). Also a great nautical christmas gift or nautical stocking stuffer!

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.

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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.

Eastern Great Lakes Lighthouses Ontario, Erie, and Huron 2nd Edition
$19.95
Eastern Great Lakes Lighthouses Ontario, Erie, and Huron 2nd Edition. Eastern Great Lakes Lighthouses is a fascinating guide to the most significant lighthouses on Lake Ontario, Erie, and Huron. The stories of sixty lighthouses come to life. Each light-from Thirty Mile Point Light on Lake Ontario to Imperial Towers on the Canadian side of Lake Huron-tells a story of survival against the elements. Learn the rich history behind these majestic sentinels, and about visiting them. This book includes practical information, including: a regional map showing the location of each light, directions to the lights, details on access and visiting hours, and advice on the best vantage points for viewing and picture-taking.

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.

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The Boating Companion: All you Need To Know For Life On The Water
$19.95
The Boating Companion: All you Need To Know For Life On The Water. Your step-by-step guide to: Planning, Packing, Equipment, Clothing, Weather, Sea Life, Signaling, Navigation, First Aid, Cooking, Troubleshooting and more! This is the only book you will ever need for life on board a boat. Whether you're sailing on the open sea, having fun on a lake, or cruising down a river, you'll find plenty of advice, techniques, recipes, tips, skills and things to do to keep you informed and entertained. Simple and concise enough for beginners, it's also a valuable source book of essential information for seasoned sailors. Plus the unique zipper enclosure and splash-proof plastic cover make it as rugged as you are. Everything you need is in this handy guide, so if your going boating, sailing, canoeing, or rafting, don't leave home without it.

Great Lakes Lighthouses Bright Lights, Dark Nights
$19.95
Great Lakes Lighthouses Bright Lights, Dark Nights. On both sides of the American and Canadian border experience the beauty and rich history of lightkeeping on the Great Lakes. Elaborate shipping networks were created by early settlers because of the rugged rocks and vast forests of the Great lakes region. The remarkable stone, brick and wood lighthouses in this book were erected to light the night and guide lakefarers in their schooners, steamers, brigs, barques, and sloops. Many of these noble structures have fallen into disrepair or have been torn down in the name of progress, but the surviving lights have become monuments to an exciting period in our history and points of pilgrimage for millions.

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Lighthouses of New York Greater New York Harbor Hudson River & Long Island
$15.95
Lighthouses of New York Greater New York Harbor Hudson River & Long Island. From the late 18th through the early 20th centuries, lighthouses served as primary aids in navigation for mariners transporting cargo and people along our busy waterways. They helped ships reach their destinations safely, thus enabling maritime commerce and travel to flourish as our country expanded. Today mariners rely more on sophisticated electronic navigation systems and less on lighthouses to guide them safely into port. The purpose of this book is to introduce the reader to all the remaining lights in the waters of New York Harbor, the Hudson River, and Long Island, and show their diversity. Most of the lights are currently active aids to navigation, working in concert with modern electronic navigation.

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.

The Erie Canal: Exploring New York's Great Canals; Includes Oswego, Cayuga-Seneca & Champlain Canals
$19.95
The Erie Canal: Exploring New York's Great Canals; Includes Oswego, Cayuga-Seneca & Champlain Canals. The story of the 363-Erie Canal, completed in 1825, is a tale of achieving the impossible. This first water link between the Atlantic seaboard and the Great Lakes was a marvel: it opened new vistas, changed lives, and forever changed New York State and the entire Nation. Today, the Erie Canal has been rediscovered, reenergized, and declared a National Heritage Corridor. It takes boaters, bikers, and walkers back in time to a slower, more reflective era even as it connects small New York towns with the waterways of the world. Each chapter details the area's history, lodging, restaurants, culture, recreation, and shopping with an emphasis on key historic sites, museums, attractions, and parks. As in all Great Destinations guides, this book has more than 100 photographs and many detailed maps help you plan a memorable trip.

Day Hikes For All Seasons: An Adirondack Sampler
$11.95
Day Hikes For All Seasons: An Adirondack Sampler. An Adirondack Sampler: Day Hikes for all Seasons decribes a cross section of hikes in all kinds of terrain, in all regions of the Adirondacks. For those who have little knowledge of the area, this book is the ideal traveler's companion to some of the nicest places that can be reached easily on foot in the six-million-acre Adirondack Park. For those who know the Adirondacks well, the sampler serves as a reintroduction to old but forgotten favorites. Each hike description includes round-trip distances, practical advice, elevation changes, and map references, and most of the trips can be completed in six hours or less. This book is a favorite with beginner hikers, family outing enthusiasts, and winter snowshoers.

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.