We are able to source a wide range flags in many sizes, sewn or printed on 100% Ministry Of Defence Standard Woven & Knitted Polyester. Flags are supplied with rope & toggle. If you would like more information, have a custom size request or cannot find a desired product, please email us at maritime@stanfords.co.uk. We will be glad to help! ...

We are able to source a wide range flags in many sizes, sewn or printed on 100% Ministry Of Defence Standard Woven & Knitted Polyester. Flags are supplied with rope & toggle. If you would like more information, have a custom size request or cannot find a desired product, please email us at maritime@stanfords.co.uk. We will be glad to help! ...

”I would like now to write a practical book that will cover three topics: boats, the sea, & the beachcombing life.” These were the thoughts of Bernard Moitessier after he finished writing his last book, Tamata & the Alliance, while in Polynesia. The great master died in 1994 & never completed the book, but here it is, meticulously collected from hus many writings, published & unpublished, by his companion Veronique Lerebours Pigeonniere. Moitessier`s notebooks include all the know-how & the 1001 tips of this legendary sailor, the knowledge he acquired on the water, in meeting with sailors, during long passages, & during his many years living on various islands. The first part of the book details how to prepare for an extensive cruise, what kind of boat to choose, the rigging, the sails, the anchors, on deck & below deck. The second part describes the passage: the weather, navigation, watch-keeping, & heavy weather. In the third part, Moitessier takes us to the South Sea islands & shows how to adapt to living on an atoll, gardening, fishing & attaining self-sufficiency.” ...

Sea View camping Britain is a unique campsite guide shows you all the sea view campsites around Great Britain. All you have to do is choose where you want to go & be ready for a fantastic time as you explore one of the most diverse coastlines in the world. There are campsites perched on the edge of fantastic Jurassic cliff tops, some right on deserted sandy beaches surrounded by hundreds of acres of dunes & others with every convenience a family could desire. If you love being by the sea then this is the campsite guide for you. Because everybody has different requirements all the sea view campsites & parks around mainland Great Britain have been listed in this guide. Whether they are small five pitch sites, 28 day camping fields or large holiday parks & everything in between they ...

” Most of what is written about boats is naturally based on the orthodox view, & the man who wants a boat neither for class racing nor as a harbour ornament, but to go to sea in, gets little guidance from it. This book of mine is frankly unorthodox, in that I hold nothing sacred & take nothing for granted.” So writes the (inter alia) intellectual, gun-runner, naval officer & circumnavigator Conor O` Brien, of his strongly opinionated yet vitally informative & practical book, published in 1941 & now re-published to meet ascendant interest in the sail-&-oar cruiser
- particularly the small lugger. Bristling with ideas born mostly of hard-won experience, sometimes of pure conjecture, & studded with revelatory nuggets of sheer common sense concerning small boat construction, setup & handling, Sea-Boats, Oars & Sails merits its place on the bookshelf of every sail-&-oar practitioner or aspirant. This new edition is enhanced with inspiring new photographs, & design drawings, of the small lugger design ILUR by Francois Vivier
- a design which embodies perfectly, in modern timber construction & materials, the qualities of sea-keeping, usability & safety advanced by Conor O` Brien in this book. The many full-page & double-page photos are of An Suire (The Sea-Nymph) built by Tim Cooke, & sailed by him in the waters of south-west Ireland which Conor O` Brien knew well. ” The endearing thing about Conor O` Brien (a man, come to think of it, who might not have been pleased to be called endearing) is that he is just as much a victim of his sea dreams as anyone who is likely to shell out for this book.”
- Sam Llewellyn in his Introduction


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This book is a visual celebration of seabirds from the tropics to the polar regions, revealing their extraordinary lives in pictures & words. From seabird cities to a lone albatross circumnavigating the globe, each picture not only tells a story but is beautifully crafted. David Tipling has travelled the world`s oceans & visited remote islands across the globe in order to reveal the secret lives of some of earth`s most enigmatic species of birds. Seabirds of the World celebrates the lives of these remarkable birds, many of which have populations in crisis. Never before has such a large group of birds needed such urgent action to save them from the brink of extinction. ...

This log is designed to be used by any mariner, commercial or leisure, who would like to keep a record of time & sea service in a form acceptable for certificate of competency purposes. It is of special application in the service-area between SOLAS merchant ships & pure leisure yachts, which is becoming a trade in its own right aboard such vessels as superyachts & charter boats. ...

While the extraordinary exploits of the seafarers who mapped the world have been well documented, those of their indispensable pest controllers, shipmates, & mascots haven`t
- until now. Drawing on journals, newspaper reports, photographs, & more, Seafurrers provides us with a cat`s-eye view of maritime history. Forty tales recount the adventures of these valiant felines & point out nuggets of trivia along the way, including: The math behind the damage rats could do on ships How flying fish (and even squid) ”fly” Why cats don`t get scurvy. This deft genealogy of cat-human friendship is sure to leave readers with a new appreciation of the cats who helped us at sea (and those we helplessly serve at home).
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Lark needs a break. Her mother is ill, her sister has stopped speaking & she`s fallen out with her best friend. When her family arrives at a caravan site on the windy Welsh coast, she & her little sister rush off to explore. But soon this freedom get frightening. Is there a figure in the fog? What happened at the ruined house in the woods? Why is her sister so fascinated by a girl in a green dress that no one else can see? As the storms get wilder & events get stranger, Lark must face a long-buried secret to try to save her family. ...

Having given up a high-powered job & the lifestyle to match, Tessa Hainsworth had no idea how hard she would struggle when, full of optimism, she fulfilled her dream of moving to rural Cornwall with her young family one September. In the first book ” Up With the Larks Tessa” charted her first turbulent year with the ” Royal Mail”, & her transformation from outsider to ` Posh Postie`, adopted Cornishwoman & much-loved member of her new community. In ” Seagulls in the Attic” Tessa is now a pillar of the community, or so she thinks. Life is becoming hard for her & her family as they realise that being part of a small community is not quite the idyll she had been lead to believe, as lack of money & the demands of family life take their toll. But, as with the first book, Tessa finds the fun & resilience to turn all the hardships to her advantage
- eventually. It is rapidly becoming a must-read book for all those who hanker for an escape to the country.
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