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A Cook's Tour Of The Eastern...
Maryland's famed tidewater region is a wellspring of gourmet delights. One of our most popular titles, A Cook's Tour of the Eastern Shore has earned a reputation as the cookbook of regional fare. Included are recipes for fish, crabs, clams, and oysters; breads, pones, beaten biscuits, vegetables, sauces, salads, candies, cookies, cakes, and icings—some...
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A Star To Steer Her By: A Self...
A Star to Steer Her By: A Self-Teaching Guide to Offshore Navigation A beginner's text, giving straightforward explanations of everything you need to know to find your way across the bay or around the globe, this book takes you step-by-step through celestial navigation. You'll learn how to use the Nautical Almanac, chronometer, sextant, star finder,...
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Advanced First Afloat (5th Edition)
Since its first publication in 1972, more than 30,000 blue-water sailors have looked to this book when injury or illness struck at sea. Virtually every accident or ailment that might happen when professional medical care is unavailable is squarely faced and dealt with, using layman's language and step-by-step instructions that calmly take the reader...
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American Merchant Seaman's...
Generally speaking, the Merchant Marine is composed of all the commercial ships of a country and all the personnel who man them. The American Merchant Seaman’s Manual has been the primary seamanship text and reference book for the American Merchant Marine for more than sixty years. Merchant mariners going to sea for the first time need to know as much...
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Applied Naval Architecture
Applied Naval Architecture is intended for undergraduate students of many of the disciplines in maritime affairs, including marine engineering, marine transportation, nautical science, shipbuilding or ship production (shipyard apprentice schools), marine electrical engineering, meteorology, and oceanography. It could be used as an introduction to naval...
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Auxiliary Sail Vessel Operations...
Auxiliary Sail Vessel Operations for the Aspiring Professional Sailor Initially created as a course curriculum for classes in sail vessel operations at the Maine Maritime Academy, this work has been developed to provide a firm foundation for men and women working toward earning U.S. Coast Guard licenses to operate auxiliary-powered sailing yachts and...
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Bayside Guide To Weather On The...
Bayside Guide to Weather on the Chesapeake This pocket-sized reference guide summarizes some of the processes and events that make up weather in general, types of weather common on the Chesapeake during each season, weather hazards to guard against, and types of activities appropriate during each season. Intended for all who live, work, or play on or...
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Behavior And Handling Of Ships
According to Captain Hooyer, forces acting on the ship have an effective lever arm with respect to a hypothetical pivot point. The forces creating or affecting this pivot point include the ship’s motion, underwater resistance, and momentum. The book will be particularly helpful to pilots and ships’ officers as well as those whose jobs require a thorough...
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Bodine's Chesapeake Bay Country
Bodine's Chesapeake Bay Country Bodine's Chesapeake Bay Country is by and about A. Aubrey Bodine, one of the greatest photographers of his time, a Baltimore pictorialist, and a Maryland treasure. Bodine's photographs chronicled nearly every aspect of Maryland life on the pages of the Baltimore Sun papers from 1924 to 1970, and won nearly a thousand...
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Celestial Navigation By H.O. 249
Celestial Navigation by H.O. 249 Here is a basic beginner's book, introducing the tyro to the tools, the vocabulary, and the techniques of celestial navigation. Among the recommended tools are the H.O. 249 tables, the most widely used among amateur navigators at sea because of their simplicity. If you can read, add and subtract, understand angles, and...
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Celestial Navigation- 2nd Edition
Celestial Navigation; Second Edition This guide to celestial navigation has been popular ever since it first appeared in 1969. Revised in 1982, Celestial Navigation is intended to answer the need for a quick, easy, and thorough explanation (with realistically worked problems) of the practice of celestial navigation at sea, using simple and inexpensive...
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Chesapeake Almanac: Following...
Where do the Chesapeake Bay's sea turtles come from in the summer, and where do they go in winter? Where do swans come from when they arrive in the region in November? Why do fishermen and sailors consistently see monarch butterflies out over the open bay in late summer? Chesapeake Almanac: Following the Bay through the Seasons answers those questions...
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Chesapeake Bay In The Civil War
Chesapeake Bay in the Civil War Here is a rich panorama of fascinating Civil War history: the war's first deaths on the streets of Baltimore; Abraham Lincoln on the deck of the revenue cutter Miami; Franklin Buchanan of Talbot County commanding the ironclad C.S.S. Virginia as she sounds the death knell for the age of sail; Naval Academy instructor John...
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Chesapeake Bay Schooners
Chesapeake Bay Schooners This story of the schooners began with the handy colonial schooner, with the search for speed culminating in the creation of the graceful Baltimore clipper. These swift, sharp-built vessels of the Chesapeake gave rise to countless tales of high adventure and romance. No other book has chronicled the history commercial schooner,...
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Chesapeake Bay Skipjacks
Chesapeake Bay Skipjacks Chesapeake Bay Skipjacks documents the skipjack and its role in the oyster dredging industry, describing the natural and manmade disasters that affected the trade, including the August storm of 1933 that swept vessels into pastures; ice-locked harbor that led to the idea of dredging through the ice with sleighs, cars, and...
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Chesapeake Bay: Nature Of The...
Chesapeake Bay: Nature of the Estuary, A Field Guide This book has become the definitive field guide to the Chesapeake. Flora and fauna descriptions are arranged according to the Bay's nine major habitats—from freshwater wetlands to saltwater marshes. The most important field marks of more than 500 species are shown in 350 superb pen-and-ink drawings,...
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Chesapeake Legacy: Tools And...
Chesapeake Legacy: Tools and Traditions In the years since Larry Chowning's book Harvesting the Chesapeake: Tools and Traditions was published, the author has fielded many questions from readers about why he did not include a particular fishery or tradition in his collection. To answer those requests, Chowning has created a second volume. The thirty...
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Chesapeake Rumrunners Of The...
When Prohibition was the law, Chesapeake Bay was a smuggler’s paradise. Rogues of all types transported boatloads of forbidden liquor in the days when America experimented with forced, and unforeseeable, temperance. In a style reminiscent of the era it describes, Eric Mills brings to life the world of mobster and preacher, rumrunner and revenue man,...
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Chesapeake Sails: A History Of...
Many books document the workboats of the Chesapeake, but for decades bay waters have been home to another kind of craft: sailboats designed and built strictly for the fun of racing or cruising. This book traces the popularity of sailing yachts in the Chesapeake Bay. Here, the term yacht does not suggest a large or luxurious vessel; rather, it describes...
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Chesapeake Steamboats: Vanished...
This book portrays the steamboat era on the Chesapeake (1813–1963), which matched the glamour and excitement of the steamboats on the Mississippi. The book begins with the building of the first steamboat on the bay, in the shadow of a bitter struggle over a monopoly on the Delaware and the Chesapeake. It continues with stories of the genius of early...
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City On The Sand: Ocean City,...
In a little more than a hundred years, a wild and desolate barrier island in Maryland became a teeming resort city. The story began in 1875 when a group of Eastern Shore, Baltimore, and Philadelphia businessmen held a grand opening of a five-story frame building called the Atlantic Hotel, and offered surrounding lots for sale at $25 each. Skeptics...
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Diesel Engines: A Boat Owner's...
Diesel Engines: A Boat Owner's Guide to Operation and Maintenance If the owner of a diesel engine wants it to run efficiently, proper operation and maintenance are essential. This book focuses on those all-important areas, with the exclusion of overhauls. The book presents fundamental principles and identifies the separate systems (fuel, cooling,...
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Dockmanship
Dockmanship, according to author Bell, is "the art, skill, and practice of safely berthing and unberthing a vessel." Anyone who has ever spent time observing the action at a marina or boat ramp will concede that the docking practiced by many recreational boaters today can hardly be considered an "art." Here, finally, is a book that provides the...
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Encyclopedia Of Knots: And Fancy...
This is unquestionably the greatest book on knots and rope work ever published, yet it is a valuable reference for anyone from eight to eighty. First published in 1939, it quickly became and has remained for more than a half century the classic in its field. Here, every step in tying knots from the simplest to the most complicated will be found,...
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Essential Seamanship
Essential Seamanship Essential Seamanship presents in abbreviated form the most important and practical elements of seamanship and nautical knowledge needed by today's small boat skipper. It will serve aboard any vessel as a ready, up-to-date reference of essential information in condensed and simplified form. Topics covered include boat evaluation and...
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