Each of the knots described in this reference is clearly identified by category and step-by-step instructions and colour photographs explain how to tie or splice them. The author also includes information on ropes, their strengths and their uses. Price 9.50€

Andrew Simpson

Written for leisure boat owners RYA Diesel Engine Handbook is essential reading for anyone doing the RYA one day Diesel Engine Course. Includes CD-Rom giving expert instruction and top tips from Nick Eales of Seastart.

Andrew Simpson is a marine journalist, yacht surveyor and designer based in Poole. He has written a number of other books on boating and is a regular contributor to yachting magazines both at home and abroad.

When not in the UK he can usually be found sailing Mediterranean and Atlantic waters in Shindig, a 12m light displacement cutter he designed himself.

Price: 25.50€

Competent crew: For new crew and competent crew students by Pat Langley-Price & Philip Ouvry

Competent Crew covers both the shorebased and the practical aspects of the RYA Competent Crew course. It will prepare newcomers for the first time afloat by explaining basic skills and boat handling including: sail trimming and sail handling; understanding the compass; sailing a course; anchoring and mooring; ropework; handling safety equipment; emergency procedures; simple collision rules; elementary meteorology. Ideal for the beginner, Competent Crew also includes a comprehensive glossary, clear explanatory diagrams and photos in full colour, the syllabus of the RYA Competent Crew course and self-testing questions and answers. It will prove invaluable for novice sailors and those embarking on this first level RYA course. This new edition benefits from a lively new design and revised text. Fresh diagrams and photographs have updated the look, and the text has been completely revised, in line with RYA course guidelines.

Price: 19.50€

Tim Bartlett

Highly recommended for anybody who needs to navigate safely and confidently, coastal and offshore. The official reference book for Day Skipper and Yachtmaster students. Illustrated in full colour. Includes GPS and electronic chart plotting sections.

Price 25:50€

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Tom Cunliffe

Sailing, Seamanship and Navigation for the Modern Skipper Including

• An analysis of what makes a good skipper
• The theory and practise of sailing
• Seamanship
• Navigation, including chart plotter & PCs
• Meteorology
• Heavy weather and Yacgt stability
• Coping with Emergencies.
• Price 37.50 €

Royal Yachting Association

Although written & illustrated specifically with the boating fraternity in mind, the books content is applicable to a much wider readership.  Structured to guide everyone from a complete beginner to a seasoned sailor step-by-step through simple knots onto the advanced knotting skills required to make a Turk´s Head and Star Knot.

Price 25.5€

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James Reston, Jr.

Columbus, the Inquisition and the defeat of the Moors

Set against the fury and strife that arose from the cinders of medieval Europe, “Dogs of God” chronicles one of the most savage epochs in human history. In an effort to consolidate their powers on the Iberian Peninsula and free themselves from the yoke of the Vatican, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella turned to the priest Tomas de Torquemada, who argued that an Inquisition would strengthen the sovereigns’ authority throughout Spain, particularly in the coming campaign against the Moors of Granada. When Granada Fell, tens of thousands of Muslims were given the choice of converting to Christianity or facing death or banishment. Torquemada then turned his ferocity on Spain’s Jews, forcing upon them the same grim choice…Reston’s compelling narrative brings all of the horrors of the Spanish Inquisition into a terrifyingly brutal focus. But, Reston looks beyond the dark deeds of 1492 as well, capturing the excitement of exploration and promise of the future that were born in the same year as Ferdinand and Isabella turned their eyes toward the creation of a modern empire - and a young sea captain named Christopher Columbus.

Price: 7.50€ Hardback. All our books are sold in Excellent Condition.

Evan S Connell

During the vile days of the Spanish Inquisition, Francisco Goya, a renown Spanish painter, painted royalty, street urchins and demons with the same brush, bringing his own distinctive touch to each. This unusual man and his ghastly times are the perfect subject for Evan S. Connell, one of our greatest and least conventional writers. This unorthodox biography shines with wit, erudition and prodigious research. To say Connell is intimate with his subject is an understatement: He seems to be inside Goya’s famously impenetrable skin.

Price 7.50€ Hardback. All our books are sold in prestine condition