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Bailey, Maurice and Maralyn.
Second Chance: Voyage to Patagonia.
New York: McKay, 1977. 1st printing. 305 pages. Illustrations. Maps. Photographs.
A couple sails the ketch Auralyn from England and explores Patagonia's
wilderness channels. Good hardcover binding in slightly chipped, torn and worn
dust jacket.
ISBN 0679507523. #10159. $12.50
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Baird, Ed.
Laser Racing.
Photographs by Tim Hore and Wilson Barnes. London: Fernhurst Books, 1982. 1st
printing. Small 4to (medium-large book). 64 pages. Photographs. Dated,
inscribed and signed by the author.
Good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover); red ballpoint underlining; notes
inside rear cover. ISBN 0906754054. #27527. $25
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Baker, Denys V.
To Sea with "Sanu."
Illustrated by Donald Swan. London: Baker, 1967. 1st edition. 198 pages.
Illustrations.
Fine hardcover in Very good dust jacket. #10163. $27.50
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Barrault, Jean Michel.
Great Moments of Yachting.
Preface by Alfred F. Loomis. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1967. 1st American
edition. 4to (large book). 164 pages. Black-and-white and color photographs. Maps.
Very good cloth-covered hardcover binding in good dust jacket. #16939. $17.50
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Bennett, Arnold.
From the Log of the Velsa.
Pictures by E. A. Rickards. Frontispiece by the author. New York: Century,
1914. 1st edition. 307 pages. Illustrations.
Voyages in Holland, the Baltic, Copenhagen, on the French and Flemish coasts,
and East Anglian estuaries in a 51 ton, 55-feet wide, 15-foot beam Dutch
flat-bottomed yacht with lee-boards, closely following the lines of Dutch
fishing smacks. It has a cutter rig with a curved gaff. Good pictorial
hardcover binding; foxing on some preliminary pages and frontispiece and along
the top edges of some rear pages. #27457. $7.50
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Blyth, Chay and Maureen.
Innocent Aboard.
Foreword by Sir Alec Rose. Lymington, Hampshire: Nautical Publishing Company,
1970. 1st edition. 196 pages. Photographs.
Very good hardcover in slightly worn and soiled dust jacket. Some foxing on
front and rear endpapers, ISBN 024550480X. #23772. $20
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Boardman, Edwin A.
Yacht Racing.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1931. 1st edition. 218 pages. Diagrams. Illustrations.
Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Good. #10356. $12.50
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Borden, Charles A.
Sea Quest, Global Blue-Water Adventuring in Small Craft.
Philadelphia: Macrae Smith, 1967. 3d printing. xx, 351 pages. Index.
Bibliography. Endpaper maps. Photographs.
Very good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket. Good hardcover, exlibrary
with spine label and rear pockets only. #16572. $7.50
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Bree, Marlin.
In The Teeth of the Northeaster: A Solo Voyage on Lake Superior.
New York: Potter, 1988. 1st edition. Large 8vo. 214 pages. Map. Photographs.
Very good hardcover in Very good dust jacket. ISBN 0517564491. #10443.
$12.50
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Brenton, Francis.
Long Sail to Haiti.
London: Heinemann, 1965. 1st edition. 179 pages. Frontispiece portrait. Plan of
'Nengo.' Endpaper maps.
A single-handed sailing voyage from England to Haiti. Good hardcover binding,
edges and corners slightly worn. Former owner's name in ink and bookplate
inside front cover. #26936. $25
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Brill, Lillian Price.
From Brooklyn to the Sea.
No place: No publisher, No date. 168 pages. Inscribed and signed by the author.
Apparently a self-published book about a couple who bought their first boat, a
Snipe, in Bellport, Long Island, in 1945. As they learned to sail, they cruised
extensively, including the Greek Islands. The book ends with the couple owning
a Pearson ten meter. Very good red hardcover. #22863. $45
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