Nautical – lisa Publishing and Vagrant Press lisa Publishing is the largest English-language publisher east of Toronto Thu, 27 Jun 2024 10:59:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 153484567 Sinking of the Titanic (2nd edition) /store/sinking-of-the-titanic-2nd-edition.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sinking-of-the-titanic-2nd-edition Mon, 24 Jun 2024 11:40:05 +0000 /store/sinking-of-the-titanic-2nd-edition.html/sinking-of-the-titanic-2nd-edition Originally published in 1912, The Sinking of the Titanic was an instant bestseller and remains an important account of the most famous marine disaster in history. Based on the personal testimony of Titanic survivors, this book tells in remarkable detail the complete history of Titanic—from the vessel’s construction to departure from Southampton, to the collision, ensuing panic, and ultimate sinking. The chronicle includes first-hand accounts of many of the survivors, and concludes with the efforts in New York and Halifax to deal with the aftermath of the tragedy.Illustrated throughout, this reprint contains the original drawings and photos of the “Great Ship” and some of its passengers—both those who survived to tell their remarkable tales, and those who perished on that fateful April night.

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]]> 54156 Practical Small Boat Designs /store/practical-small-boat-designs.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=practical-small-boat-designs Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:41:57 +0000 /store/practical-small-boat-designs.html/practical-small-boat-designs As fans of Atkin designs well know, the name Atkin has long been associated with the best in basic boats. If you are looking for the “right little boat” to build--or have built--or if you just enjoy dreaming over boat plans, you'll be more than pleased with this collection of John an Billy Atkin's most successful designs.Includes Willy Winship: 14' flat-bottom racing skiff, Liza Jane: 19' v-bottomed knockabout, Shore Liner: 24' flat-bottomed jib-headed sloop, Ninigret: 22' v-bottomed bassboat, Florence Oakland: 22'5” v-bottomed schooner, Finkeldink: 9' pram, Great Bear: 28' flat-bottomed sloop, Nina: 11'4” flat-bottomed sailing skiff, Handy Andy: 8' round-bottomed sailing dinghy, and more.Out of print for far too long, we've brought this book back into print, and updated with a new foreword by Mike O'Brien, long-time WoodenBoat magazine editor, and publisher of Boat Design Quarterly.

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]]> 56506 Pete Culler’s Boats /store/pete-cullers-boats.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pete-cullers-boats Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:41:53 +0000 /store/pete-cullers-boats.html/pete-cullers-boats John Burke spent much of his life in and out of the Culler house and shop. He has been a professional boatbuilder as well as contributor to WoodenBoat magazine.

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]]> 56500 Making Hand Tools /store/making-hand-tools.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=making-hand-tools Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:41:50 +0000 /store/making-hand-tools.html/making-hand-tools New Brunswick boat builder Harry Bryan teaches readers how to make lots of useful hand tools like the

rabbit plane, bevel gauge, woodworking vice and more. An experienced boat builder, teacher and hand tool
devotee, Bruce crafts his tools by hand, then uses them to build his boats with little or no impact on
the environment. Making Hand Tools is a complete reference for those who want to make a similar
commitment or just explore an old tradition.

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]]> 56498 New Cold-Moulded Boatbuilding /store/new-cold-moulded-boatbuilding.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-cold-moulded-boatbuilding Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:41:38 +0000 /store/new-cold-moulded-boatbuilding.html/new-cold-moulded-boatbuilding Reuel B. Parker was born in Denver and grew up in Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts and New York. Much of his childhood was spent on the south shore of Long Island (Bay Shore), where he learned about boats, boat building and boating. He built many models as a child, and began building and restoring full size boats around age 12.

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]]> 56476 The Making of Tom Cat /store/the-making-of-tom-cat.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-making-of-tom-cat Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:41:31 +0000 /store/the-making-of-tom-cat.html/the-making-of-tom-cat A Canadian by birth, Bill's family moved to Seattle Via Portland, Oregon, in 1928, when Bill was 10 years old. In Seattle, he found himself surrounded by wooden boats of all kinds and sizes-and took full advantage of that wonderful environment.

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]]> 56464 Designs to Inspire /store/designs-to-inspire.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=designs-to-inspire Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:41:25 +0000 /store/designs-to-inspire.html/designs-to-inspire At the present time, fulfilled by their lifelong passion for wooden boats, and with their children-Kathy, Nat, and Sarah-out on their own, Anne and Maynard are searching for a vintage Vespa motorscooter and the youthful feeling that goes with it.

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]]> 56454 25 Woodworking Projects /store/25-woodworking-projects.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=25-woodworking-projects Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:41:17 +0000 /store/25-woodworking-projects.html/25-woodworking-projects Well-known as the editor of the best-selling annual Mariner's Book of Days, Peter Spectre lives in Spruce Head, Maine.

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]]> 56436 100 Boat Designs Reviewed /store/100-boat-designs-reviewed.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=100-boat-designs-reviewed Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:41:14 +0000 /store/100-boat-designs-reviewed.html/100-boat-designs-reviewed Well-known as the editor of the best-selling annual Mariner's Book of Days, Peter Spectre lives in Spruce Head, Maine.

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]]> 56434 High Spots /store/high-spots.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=high-spots Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:29:07 +0000 /store/high-spots James Wilbur Johnston was born in 1854 in Great Village, Nova Scotia. Family oral history related that in the latter part of the 18th- or early 19th-century his grandfather was kidnapped (or “pressed” by the English Navy) from the streets of an Irish port city and forced to work as a crew member on board a sailing vessel bound for North America. Arriving at the port of Halifax, he was able to jump ship and escape to Colchester County.Wilbur was born into the world of sailing men and sailing ships that he had inherited from his grandfather. He had many adventures at sea and a thousand stories to tell. This memoir of his early days at sea was written as an intimate and revealing story for his children and his grandchildren, written in the 1930s to record the “high spots” of his time as a sailor and a captain.As Bruce Graham notes in his introduction, “What a story it is! The captain of cool temperament reveals tales of spell-binding voyages and dangerous adventure in understated tones. There is no bragging here, no ego on the pages, no huffing and puffing and it is exactly this playing down of danger, this off-handedness of high adventure and life-threatening misadventure, that give his words such a fascinating legacy. Captain Johnston is no teller of tall tales. He reveals his experiences as if his was an ordinary life. He witnessed murders, experienced ship wrecks, survived wicked winds, explored tropical islands and far-off lands. But it is more - much more than that. This is not your typical seagoing story. Turning the pages, you actually get a sense of this man, as if he is in the room with you. Seldom is a reader granted such an experience.A man like Captain Johnston was accustomed to the stinging whip of a North Atlantic gale as well as the windless lulls of southern climates, where a ship could lay idle for days or weeks waiting for trade winds. These men knew lonely days with restless. A good captain was all things to his crew; disciplinarian, doctor, barber, pastor and yes, when necessary, even pacifier. He cut their hair, blessed the dead and demanded life-threatening risks of the living. It was a dangerous life and the crew either adored and loved their captain or detested every breath he took. The captain had shipmates but no friends at sea.”At the close of Wilbur's seagoing adventures in the manuscript, in 1886, he went home to Great Village married his village sweetheart and they moved to the U.S. But his adventures did not end there.High Spots appears in print for the public to read for the first time.

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