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1) Ahoy!
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Raise the mainsail! Batten the hatches! It's time to set sail...on the couch! There's a storm coming, and a child is ready to captain the ship. "Make haste and climb aboard," they call out to their parent, "before you're swept out to sea!" Sea? What sea? The parent is only trying to vacuum the rug. But the child is adamant. It's not a rug--it's the ocean. And that broom? It's the ship's mast. Soon enough, child and parent are both off on an imaginary...
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Adventures of Trim volume 3
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Trim looks for a way to help his crewmates without much success, but when he discovers a big problem on the ship, it is all hands on deck.
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La Copa América nació en el siglo XIX como un reto entre un barco estadounidense (el America) y catorce ingleses –la excolonia contra la metrópoli–. Con el paso de los años se ha consolidado como la principal competición de vela del planeta, con una feroz final mano a mano entre dos veleros en la que vence la tecnología más innovadora y la tripulación mejor y más lista.
Los navegantes están entre los mejores del mundo, y el prestigio...
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A Master Storyteller
"Something is out there that doesn't have a name," writes veteran sailor and writer Christian Williams as he invites us along once again on a 5,000-mile voyage of discovery around the North Pacific. Equipped with a new boat, a well-stocked toolbox and the entire history of philosophic thought, he takes us as crew through squalls and calms deep into a laboratory of the universe that exists only out of sight of land. Funny, erudite...
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Cuántos nudos existen, cuántos son verdaderamente útiles, cuáles nos serán de utilidad en casa, o para ir en barca, hacer alpinismo, salir a pescar, etc.
Nudos para unir, colgar, enlazar, regular, etc.
Gazas, ayustes, ligadas, accesorios, guías, sujeciones, sistemas de enganche, herramientas, etc.
Un libro ilustrado: en cada secuencia de los dibujos y de las fotografías veremos «nacer», con nuestros propios ojos, el nudo que nos interesa...
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Travel Tales: Sea Stories - The Ways of WaterI have collected so many fascinating stories of traveling the World's waterways from tales of ocean-going travel by huge ocean liners, and cruise ships to even sailboats. Indeed, if you expand the notion of travel along the World's waterways as well to include some of the Planet's most famous rivers, and if you consider the huge variety of means of water transport to also include small boats, canoes, rafts,...
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Si tu vida se viene abajo, ¿te hundirás o saldrás a flote?
Jono Dunnett tocó fondo y decidió lanzarse a navegar por aguas tormentosas para perseguir su sueño de dar la vuelta a Gran Bretaña haciendo windsurf. Según su propia estimación era una ambición insensata, y pronto se convirtió en una emocionante aventura.
Este impactante relato describe los altibajos que sufrió al arriesgarlo todo y las consecuencias de hacerlo.
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The Sydney Hobart Yacht Race is the story of one of the world's greatest sporting challenges.
One evening in May 1945, a small group of Sydney sailing enthusiasts decided that their planned post-Christmas cruise south to Hobart would be more enjoyable if they made it a race. And so, began the story of a contest that quickly became ranked among the world's premier offshore racing events, a race that demands both immense physical and mental endurance...
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