Real, Honest Sailing
Author | : Gary W. Schmidt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2013-01-01 |
Genre | : Great Lakes Region (North America) |
ISBN | : 9781467581141 |
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Author | : Gary W. Schmidt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2013-01-01 |
Genre | : Great Lakes Region (North America) |
ISBN | : 9781467581141 |
Author | : Warren Gerds |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2021-09-04 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780578961187 |
After writing a book about his 40 years as a captain of Great Lakes vessels, Gary Schmidt finds new adventures as a popular personality in presentations and book signings. All the while, chemotherapy sessions beckon. Both the book he wrote and its follow-up story are blended for a remarkable combination - a story and the rest of the story in one.
Author | : Frank Boles |
Publisher | : MSU Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2017-01-01 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1628952806 |
The Great Lakes create a vast transportation network that supports a massive shipping industry. In this volume, seamanship, cargo, competition, cooperation, technology, engineering, business, unions, government decisions, and international agreements all come together to create a story of unrivaled interest about the Great Lakes ships and the crews that sailed them in the twentieth century. This complex and multifaceted tale begins in iron and coal mines, with the movement of the raw ingredients of industrial America across docks into ever larger ships using increasingly complicated tools and technology. The shipping industry was an expensive challenge, as it required huge investments of capital, caused bitter labor disputes, and needed direct government intervention to literally remake the lakes to accommodate the ships. It also demanded one of the most integrated international systems of regulation and navigation in the world to sail a ship from Duluth to upstate New York. Sailing into History describes the fascinating history of a century of achievements and setbacks, unimagined change mixed with surprising stability.
Author | : John Kretschmer |
Publisher | : McGraw Hill Professional |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2013-11-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0071718125 |
"I know you'll want to read more after you finish Sailing a Serious Ocean. And be warned, you'll very likely want to sail with John, perhaps across an ocean." -- DALLAS MURPHY, AUTHOR OF ROUNDING THE HORN After sailing 300,000 miles and weathering dozens of storms in all the world's oceans, John Kretschmer has plenty of stories and advice to share. John's offshore training passages sell out a year in advance and his entertaining presentations are popular at boat shows and yacht clubs all over the English speaking world. John's talent for storytelling enchants his audience as it soaks up the lessons he learned during his oftenchallenging voyages. Now you can take a seat next to John--at a lesser cost--and get the knowledge you need to fulfill your own dream of blue-water adventure. In Sailing a Serious Ocean, John tells you what to expect when sailing the oceans and shows how to sail safely across them. His tales of storm encounters and other examples of extreme seamanship will help you prepare for your journey and give you confidence to handle any situation—even heavy weather. Through his personal stories, John will guide you through the whole process of choosing the right boat, outfitting with the right gear, planning your route, navigating the ocean, and understanding the nuances of life at sea. Our oceans are beautiful yet unpredictable—water that is at one moment a natural mirror for the glowing sun can turn into a foamy, raging wall of fury. John knows our oceans, and he is one of the best teachers of taming and enjoying them. Before you set off across the big blue, turn to John for his inspirational stories and hard-learned advice and discover the serious sailor in you.
Author | : Admiral James Stavridis, USN |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2020-10-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0525559957 |
From one of the most distinguished admirals of our time and a former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, a meditation on leadership and character refracted through the lives of ten of the most illustrious naval commanders in history In Sailing True North, Admiral Stavridis offers lessons of leadership and character from the lives and careers of history's most significant naval commanders. He also brings a lifetime of reflection to bear on the subjects of his study--naval history, the vocation of the admiral, and global geopolitics. Above all, this is a book that will help you navigate your own life's voyage: the voyage of leadership of course, but more important, the voyage of character. Sailing True North helps us find the right course to chart. Simply as epic lives, the tales of these ten admirals offer up a collection of the greatest imaginable sea stories. Moreover, spanning 2,500 years from ancient Greece to the twenty-first century, Sailing True North is a book that offers a history of the world through the prism of our greatest naval leaders. None of the admirals in this volume were perfect, and some were deeply flawed. But from Themistocles, Drake, and Nelson to Nimitz, Rickover, and Hopper, important themes emerge, not least that serving your reputation is a poor substitute for serving your character; and that taking time to read and reflect is not a luxury, it's a necessity. By putting us on personal terms with historic leaders in the maritime sphere he knows so well, James Stavridis gives us a compass that can help us navigate the story of our own lives, wherever that voyage takes us.
Author | : Miles Smeeton |
Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2014-01-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0007550294 |
This timeless classic is an exciting true story of survival against all odds.
Author | : Annie Dike |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2015-02-04 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781507854297 |
"If you're thinking about buying your first sailboat and making it your own, you need to read this refreshingly honest tale." -- Ed Robinson, author of Poop, Booze & Bikinis Had I ever sailed? No. Did I think that mattered? No. I felt I had whatever grit and guile I needed to handle this silly sailing stuff. I parachuted with a sheet, drove a car that started with a screwdriver, swished with hydrogen peroxide. I rode horses, climbed rocks, leapt off cliffs. I spent summers in the sleeper of a big rig. I ate Malt-o-Meal. Surely these were excellent traits of a sailor. Surely I was salty enough. I fancied I was. Either way, we were going to find out. The time to go was now. All we needed was a boat. Follow all of Annie's adventures at www.havewindwilltravel.com.
Author | : Patrick M. Royce |
Publisher | : ProStar Publications |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780911284072 |
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Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1939-01 |
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Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 1977-07 |
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