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Page, Frank.
Sailing Solo to America.
New York: Quadrangle Books, 1972. 4to (large book). xviii, 91 pages.
Photographs.
'The fourth Observer Singlehanded Transatlantic Race, sailed in the summer of
1972, may one day prove to have been the most important race in the whole
series.' - Foreword. Very good hardcover in slightly worn and frayed dust
jacket. ISBN 081290298X. #11178. $12.50
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Palley, Reese.
Unlikely Passages.
Newport, Rhode Island: Seven Seas Press, 1984. 1st edition. 169 pages.
Illustrations. Seven Seas Press ISBN 0915160833.
Very good hardcover in good dust jacket. ISBN 0671554093. #12942.
$7.50
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Pardey, Lin and Larry.
Cruising in Seraffyn.
New York: Seven Seas Press, 1976. 1st edition. Book Club edition. 192 pages.
Maps. Plans. Photographs.
Good hardcover in rubbed and slightly frayed and worn dust jacket.
ISBN 0915160196. #12943. $10
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Pardey, Larry and Lin.
The Self-Sufficient Sailor.
Preface by Denny Desoutter. New York: W. W. Norton, 1982. 1st printing. Book
Club edition. 312 pages. Index. Photographs. Illustrations. Sail plans.
Subtitled on front dust jacket: The essential book for the independent sailor:
a distillation of what the Pardeys have learned in their years of voyaging in
their famous Seraffyn. Very good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket.
ISBN 0393032698. #24068. $12.50
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Pardey, Lin and Larry.
Seraffyn's European Adventure.
New York: Norton, 1979. 1st edition. 311 pages. Maps. Photographs.
Very good hardcover in torn and chipped dust jacket. ISBN 0393032310.
#12684. $17.50
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Pardey, Lin and Larry.
Seraffyn's Mediterranean Adventure.
New York: W. W. Norton, 1981. 1st printing. Book Club edition. 256 pages.
Photographs. Illustrations.
The Pardey's explored the Spanish coast and then worked their way back down to
the African coast and the Arab world. They tracked Nelson's fleet on its way to
the Battle of the Nile and visited Carthage. They called in at Malta before
sailing the Adriatic to Trieste and on along the Dalmatian coast to the Greek
islands. They continued on to Rhodes. Very good hardcover in slightly worn dust
jacket. ISBN 0393032663. #23024. $10
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Parkinson, John, Jr.
The Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club: The Early Twentieth
Century, 1897-1940.
New York: Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club, 1965. Small 4to (medium-large
book). x, 290 pages. Index. Photographs. W. P. Stephens recorded the years
1871-1896.
Very good hardcover. #27460. $95
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Patterson, Kevin.
The Water in Between: A Journey at Sea.
New York: Doubleday, 1999. 1st printing. 289 pages.
Very good cloth-covered hardcover in Very good dust jacket.
ISBN 0385498837. #19292. $12.50
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Petersen, Marjorie.
Stornoway East and West.
Princeton: Van Nostrand, 1966. Small 4to (medium-large book). xii, 189 pages.
Photographs. Plans. Endpaper maps. Frontispiece.
The Petersens cross the Atlantic from Brooklyn's Sheepshead Bay to Gibraltar
and on into the Mediterranean, returning through the Caribbean in their 33'
gaff cutter Stornoway. Very good hardcover in good dust jacket with a small
chip and some small tears on rear panel. #11216. $10
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Pettegrove, James.
Sailing with Dr. Summers.
Illustrated by Dick Francis. New York: Vantage Press, 1981. 1st edition. 72 pages.
Illustrations.
Very good hardcover in Very good dust jacket. ISBN 0533046688. #12878. $15
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Phillips-Birt, Douglas.
British Ocean Racing.
With an introduction by the Commodore of the Royal Ocean Racing Club. London:
Adlard Coles & in association with George G. Harrap & and New York: John De
Graff, Inc., 1960. 1st printing. Large 8vo. 266 pages. Plans. Diagrams.
Photographs. Endpaper Maps.
Very good cloth-covered hardcover in chipped and repaired dust jacket. #17049.
$22.50
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Pickthall, Barry.
The Ultimate Challenge: Single-Handed Round the World: The Story
of the BOC Challenge 1982-83.
Introduction by Robin Knox-Johnston. New York: Norton, 1983. 1st printing.
Small 4to (medium-large book). 176 pages. Color and black-and-white photographs. Maps.
Very good cloth-covered hardcover in Very good dust jacket.
ISBN 0393032906. #17309. $15
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Pocock, Michael.
Inshore - Offshore: Racing, Cruising & Design.
London: Nautical Books, 1986. 1st printing. 252 pages. Index. Photographs.
Illustrations. Diagrams. Maps.
Very good hardcover in Very good dust jacket. ISBN 0851773893. #26110.
$15
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Puleston, Dennis.
Blue Water Vagabond: Six Years' Adventure at Sea.
New York: Environmental Defense Fund, 1993. Facsimile reprint of the text of
the 1939 edition, with a new Foreword by the author. vii, 352 pages.
In 1931, fired by the lore of the sea, the young Dennis Puleston set out from
England in the 31-foot sailboat 'Director' bound for the romance of sun-soaked
tropical islands. His six years of adventure took him around the globe--from
the icy gales of Newfoundland to the coral-girded paradise of Tahiti--and ended
with a harrowing sprint across Asia as the clouds of World War II gathered. -
Rear cover. Stiff pictorial covers (soft cover). #23434. $22.50
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Pye, Peter.
Red Mains'l.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1961. Revised edition first published in the
Mariners Library. 186 pages. Photographs. Maps. Illustrations. Mariners
Library, 44.
Voyage of the cutter Moonraker across the North Atlantic and West Indies. Very
good light blue cloth. #21004. $30
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