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This beautifully illustrated and very popular book covers the commonly used knots & splices. In colour, it clearly illustrates how to tie each knot through the use of clear, sequential diagrams and a step by step approach.

This is a step-by-step guide to taking professional quality underwater photos with a point-and-shoot camera. _x000D_Modern compact cameras are capable of capturing fantastic underwater images - and this book shows you how. Easy-to-follow techniques are accompanied by hundreds of photographs that show you how it is done and the results you can achieve. _x000D_There is advice for both beginners and more advanced compact camera users, covering topics such as what camera to buy and how to look after it, how to master settings for different cameras and how to compose great underwater photographs. _x000D_Perfect for divers and snorkelers, this book will take your photography to a new level.

Sailing, Yachts and Yarns is a selection of British sailing legend Tom Cunliffe's most entertaining, outspoken and instructive writing from the pages of Yachting Monthly magazine. Tom's regular column for this leading sailing magazine gives him free reign to explore a wide range of topics. He has a gift for capturing the magic of sail and finding pearls of practical wisdom in the most unlikely nautical adventures. Sailing, Yachts and Yarns is a wonderful miscellany of wit, wisdom and wonder. It will make you laugh and make you think - and make you want to cast off to enjoy the delights of life afloat.

This book is great for fixing marine diesel engines in yachts, motor cruisers and canal boats. The essential are all covered: good engine practice, preventative maintenance and troubleshooting. For those who want to know more, there is also information on fuel cooling, lubrication and instalation.

Perfect for anyone going afloat in a powered craft up to 30 ft long. A brilliant introduction for beginners and a great refresher for those more experienced.

The popular image of sharks is of a dorsal fin cleaving the surface as it rushes to its next kill, but this is a limited caricature. There are over 500 species to choose from, most of whom are far more frightened of humans than vice versa. In this beautiful book, diving veteran John Bantin recounts many tales of his diving with several species of sharks and other marine animals over the last 4 decades. Accompanied by his own stunning photography, the captivating, spectacular and sometimes shocking encounters show the reader what it is like to get up close and personal to these bizarre and beautiful creatures. The sharks covered range from the great whale sharks to the small blacktip reef shark, in locations extending to all corners of the globe.

Get out on the water and start navigating with Tom Cunliffe's classic guide to navigation and pilotage.

Yachting's favourite cartoonist, Mike Peyton's, fascinating memoir of his wartime experiences with the Northumberland Fusiliers, Intelligence Corps and Eighth Army - and finally the Red Army!

Using a combination of modern and traditional methods this book leads you through all the aspects of boat navigation.

A handy, splash-proof, on-the-water reference guide containing all the essential information for when you need it most about keeping your boat electrics running.

This book is a basic treatise on one of seamanship's key arts - anchoring - the skill that causes skippers of all levels of experience more worry than any other.

This book will teach you to be a good skipper. As a result your cruising will be safer, more efficient and more enjoyable.

This beautiful full-colour book covers knots, splices and whippings. It begins with the ten knots everyone should know. The other knots are grouped by use so that if, for example, you want to make a loop you have eight knots to choose from. Each stage of each knot is illustrated and its uses, strong points and weak points are highlighted.

A handy, splash-proof aide memoir with all the weather information people find hard to remember in an easy-to-read booklet.

A former Olympic Star helmsman shows you how to tune your keelboat or sportsboat, execute manoeuvres and tame the spinnaker.

This lavishly-illustrated, clearly-written guide to kayaking will have you out on the water fast - and in safety.

Two hundred and forty-odd pieces of cruising lore which will make your voyage easier, safer and more fun.