Sailing Uphill

Sailing Uphill
Author: Sam McKinney
Publisher: TouchWood Editions
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2000
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780920663707

Sam McKinney has spent many of the best parts of his life on the water -- sailing a dory along Canada's west coast, crewing on the deck of a river steamer, shipping out deep-sea in freighters across the Atlantic. In the middle of his life, when he sold the hull of an ocean-going sailboat which had absorbed two years of his love and labour, he looked at his boat-building shed and thought, "Hmm. With all this lumber, I could build a boat and go across the continent, instead". So he did. In the Gander he travelled up the Columbia and Snake rivers, down the Missouri, up the Mississippi and Illinois and on, ever eastward, to New York City. It took him four summers and three Ganders, one of which had to be abandoned in the mud of the upper Missouri, but he made it. This is a lovely and evocative memoir by a perceptive and thoughtful writer.

Physics of Sailing

Physics of Sailing
Author: John Kimball
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2009-12-18
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1466502665

Breaking down the complicated concepts of speed, acceleration, torque, fluid mechanics, and surface physics, Physics of Sailing provides a lively, easily accessible introduction to the basic science underlying the sport of sailing. It illustrates the many ways physics can be used to understand the principles of sailboat propulsion and how a scientific understanding of the boat, wind, and water can lead to more skillful sailing. After a brief but insightful tour of the history of sailing, the book explores the physics involved in making faster sailing crafts for both upwind and downwind sailing, including Newton’s impact theory of fluid resistance and lift and drag phenomena. It compares possible sail shapes, presents measurements of hull smoothness, and describes wind turbulence, the nature of water waves, and the structure of wakes. Using the physics of optics, the author also explains the connection between water’s appearance and the wind. Along with a glossary of sailing terms, he includes many examples throughout to illustrate the concepts in practice. Avoiding unnecessary formalisms, this book skillfully applies the principles of fluid mechanics to sailboat technology and the art of sailing. It should help you become a more knowledgeable sailor.

Higher Performance Sailing

Higher Performance Sailing
Author: Frank Bethwaite
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2013-08-04
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 1472901304

'Monumental!' - Bob Ross, Australian Sailing High Performance Sailing is now regarded as the bible of racing sailors and carries a string of endorsements from high achievers. Since its publication in 1984, racing yachts and dinghies have developed out of all recognition - a new high-tech breed of 'apparent wind' fast racers has claimed the water and so far no-one has applied themselves seriously to analysing what makes these boats sail fast (and what will make them faster). This is Frank Bethwaite's ground-breaking achievement in Higher Performance Sailing. By means of extensive research, and working with sailors of different racing calibre, Bethwaite analyses how to harness the apparent wind for increased speed and better position on your rivals. Higher Performance Sailing will provide the key to racing sailors' dreams. Praise for Bethwaite's High Performance Sailing: 'It represents a breakthrough...It is a book that my Olympic squad will benefit from.' Rod Carr, former British Olympic Sailing Team Manager 'Allowed only one "if only" in yacht racing, it would have been to have read Higher Performance Sailing years ago.' Bob Fisher, journalist, broadcaster and international championship winner

Catamaran Sailing Revised Edition

Catamaran Sailing Revised Edition
Author: Phil Berman
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1999-04-06
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780393318807

The classic guide to catamarans, updated to bring readers the latest for everyman's sailboat. Fast, inexpensive, versatile, and exciting, catamarans are one of America's most popular pleasure crafts. Here is a complete course in catamaran sailing for the beginner and the semi-experienced sailor who wants to become more skilled in the arts of tuning, handling, and racing cats. Included are sections on buying a cat, learning the basics, heavy weather sailing, racing tactics, surfing, and more. Includes a new chapter on how to use high-performance sails.

Bravest of The Brave

Bravest of The Brave
Author: Kittu Reddy
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2020-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 8184305427

A collection of classic short stories written by many eminent writers of early 20th century. This anthology is an attempt to build and rear a qualitative literary taste in children.

Reason And Rhyme

Reason And Rhyme
Author: Ray Coleman
Publisher: ShieldCrest
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2016-01-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1911090119

The book is a collection of short stories and related poems. The subject matter is drawn from all walks of life and reflects the life and times of characters who experience the challenges and uncertainty of a troubled world and the devastation visited upon them by unforgiving nature. Frailties and weakness stifle their aspirations and yet the human spirit often rises above adversity even in its most treacherous form to find a sanctuary in laughter and love. The book is a collection of short stories and related poems. The subject matter is drawn from all walks of life and reflects the life and times of characters who experience the challenges and uncertainty of a troubled world and the devastation visited upon them by unforgiving nature. Frailties and weakness stifle their aspirations and yet the human spirit often rises above adversity even in its most treacherous form to find a sanctuary in laughter and love.

The Elemental Passion for Place in the Ontopoiesis of Life

The Elemental Passion for Place in the Ontopoiesis of Life
Author: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2013-04-18
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9401732981

Continuing the pioneering work in the field laid bare by the uncovering the Creative Condition of the human being in literature and fine arts, the elemental passion of place leads us through the creative imagination into the labyrinths of the ontopoiesis of life itself (Tymieniecka, in her inaugural study). Essays by A-T. Tymieniecka, Mary Catanzaro, W. Smith, Jadwiga Smith, L. Dunton-Downer, Jorge García Gomez, Ch. Eykmann, Marlies Kronegger, Eldon N. van Liere, Hans Rudnik make this collection a unique contribution to literary studies as well as to the metaphysics of life and of the human condition.

Heart of the Raincoast

Heart of the Raincoast
Author: Alexandra Morton
Publisher: TouchWood Editions
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2016-05-03
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1926971221

Originally published in 1998, this updated edition has a brand-new cover and interior design, with a new foreword by Alexandra Morton. Billy Proctor was born in 1934 and has spent his entire life in a remote coastal community called Echo Bay, BC on an island off northern Vancouver Island. Proctor has always done the time-honoured work of generations of upcoast men—hand-logging, fishing, clam digging, repairing boats, beachcombing. But Billy eventually began to notice that the thriving runs of Pacific salmon, oolichans, and herring that he remembers from his early years were vanishing—some to near extinction—and he understood that it was time to take action. Heart of the Raincoast is the fascinating story of Billy Proctor’s life, and the wealth of knowledge and understanding that can only be gained from living in such close proximity to nature. The writing is funny, touching and honest—and offers an engaging insider’s view not only of the salmon, whales, eagles and independent people who populate Canada’s wild and lovely coastal rainforest, but on what we need to do to keep it as nature intended.

To Follow the Water

To Follow the Water
Author: Dallas Murphy
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2008-07-31
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0786721650

In To Follow the Water, critically acclaimed author Dallas Murphy artfully recasts the story of human expansion and cultural development with the ocean playing the central role. Applying a novelist's eye for detail and a historian's drive for perspective, he connects the great ages of ocean exploration from Columbus, Magellan, and Cook to the development of modern oceanography. Taking the reader aboard the research vessels Oceanus and Ronald H. Brown, Murphy observes and participates in the practice of ocean science. Whether demonstrating the proper way to don a survival suit in an abandon-ship drill, actually operating oceanographic instruments, or just sitting down for a breakfast of Dramamine and blueberry pancakes, Murphy humorously evokes daily-life aboard these research vessels, unique amalgams of floating laboratories, heavy industry, delicate measurements, and brute force. By following the water, he and the reader discover that ocean currents, flowing on the surface and in the abyss like giant blood vessels, transport heat around the globe, thereby stabilizing and moderating our climate. The Gulf Stream, the best-known ocean current, is but one among many, each inseparable from the others and all inextricably linked to the atmosphere in determining the condition of our climate. There can be no sensible concept of climate that ignores the oceans, yet they have been largely left out of the climate and climate-change discussion. Letting scientists speak for themselves at sea and ashore, Murphy learns that oceanographers are not only observing and explaining the ocean's dynamic, global circulation, but also employing their skills, tools, and techniques to predict climate change. Their brilliant work is largely unknown outside of professional circles even though the role of the ocean is crucial to our understanding of global warming and climate change. To Follow the Water is an enlightening and entertaining voyage of discovery spanning the evolution of our relationship to the ocean, first as an impediment to human ambition, then as the pathway for Western expansion, and now, most important, as a subject of scientific study with immediate relevance to our future.