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The RYA Yachtmaster examination is the gold-standard qualification for sail and power boaters the world over. This audiobook is the RYA's official and definitive guide to the Coastal and Offshore exams. It offers a unique insight into what you need to know, how the exams will be conducted, and the skills required. Whether you are going to take either of the exams or are thinking of it and want to find out what you will face on the day, this is the audiobook that you must have.

Do you want to own your very own boat and spend your days sailing, fishing, or exploring new places? Do you want to vacation on a boat but dont know where to go? Are you new to the idea and want advice on the best boat for your needs? In this audiobook, Boating: The Ultimate Guide to Learn How to Choose the Perfect Boat, you will discover the best tips and advice for choosing the right vessel for you.

End the dread! What if instead of dreading the triathlon swim, it could be your favorite part of the race? This smart step-by-step guide to conquering triathlon swim fear brings you the product of more than 40 years of experience healing adults with the fear of water. Authors M. Ellen Dash and Ali Meeks unpack for triathletes the most fundamental and far-reaching solution to open-water fear available.

Verschlusssache Tauchen ist ein einzigartiges Buch vollgepackt mit Tipps und Ratschlägen von Experten. Es wird dir ein uneingeschränkter Einblick in die Geheimnisse von professionellen Tauchern und technischen Tauchern ermöglicht. Durch dieses Buch wirst du lernen, wie man Übungen und Techniken entwickelt, um aus dir einen selbstständigen, kompetenten und sicheren Taucher zu machen.

A book remembering a moment in time. A moment I knew, holy crap, this is serious and everyone is looking at me. It was then I realized I am the captain! Having survived my first long solo sail a year ago, I figured it was time to take it up a notch! Sailing has been a passion project of mine. From a young age, I have been set to many different activities by my overactive enthusiasm, from blazing trails on bikes through thicket and bog alike, that run along the local river. To pulling fish too small to fry from that very same river.

En 1988, hace ahora 28 años, cinco españoles, Kitín Muñoz, director de expedición, Kiko Botana, navegante, Pepe de Miguel, cámara de televisión, Juan Ginés García, teniente del ejército y responsable de logística y comunicaciones y yo, como fotógrafo y "conseguidor", realizamos una de las mayores proezas de la historia de la navegación actual: navegar en una balsa de totora, construida por los indios aimaras del Lago Titicaca, desde el puerto del Callao en Perú hasta la isla de Nuku-Hiva, en el Archipiélago de las Marquesas y posteriormente hacia la isla de Tahití, en el Archipiélago de la Sociedad.

Plunge into the water, accompany Antonio Argüelles on his Oceans Seven adventure, and, along the way, find out how to achieve your own dreams and goals. On August 3, 2017, Antonio Argüelles swam 35 kilometers from Northern Ireland to Scotland. When he arrived on the Scottish shore after a swim of nearly 14 hours through hypothermic currents wearing only a speedo, cap, and goggles, he became just the seventh person ever to conquer the Oceans Seven, an aquatic achievement on par with the Seven Summits.

Die packende Biografie eines Mannes, der über 10.000 Stunden unter Wasser verbracht, Tauchboote und ein Unterwasserhaus gebaut, verschüttete Schätze aus Brunnen und Meeren geborgen und den Quastenflosser und andere faszinierende Lebensformen erforscht hat: Hans Frickes Buch ist abenteuerliche Tauchgeschichte, lebendiger Forschungsbericht, Ökothriller - und eine poetische Liebeserklärung an die Unterwasserwelt. Als er 11 Jahre alt ist, bastelt er sich aus Feuerlöscher und Gasmaske eine Tauchausrüstung,

Segeln mit Humor: Geschichten aus dem Logbuch eines Charterskippers. Eine Seefahrt, die ist lustig - und wer jahrelang im Chartergeschäft tätig ist, weiß viel zu erzählen. Tausende Touristen buchen jährlich eine Charterreise und sorgen bei ihren Gastgebern oft genug für Schmunzeln, Staunen und verzweifeltes Haareraufen. In "Könnt ihr mal das Segel aus der Sonne nehmen" erzählt Autor und Segelredakteur Johannes Erdmann vom schmalen Grat zwischen Skipperdasein und Animateurskunst.

Im VW Bus zu den schönsten Surfspots am Atlantik. Ein Jahr raus aus dem Alltag und tun, was gefällt - das wagt Martin Röhrig gemeinsam mit seinem schlumpfblauen Bulli "Smurfy". Von Hamburg aus brechen die beiden in Richtung Atlantik auf, um der drohenden Midlife-Crisis zu entfliehen. Als Board-Sport-Enthusiast sucht und findet Martin Röhrig dabei die schönsten Surf- und Kite-Spots in Frankreich, Spanien und Portugal - und mittendrin auch sich selbst. Schrauben. Schlafen. Surfen. Eine Geschichte für Aussteiger und solche, die es werden wollen.

All alone for 193 days in his purpose-built yacht, New Zealand yachtsman Graeme Kendall crossed 28,000 miles of ocean, facing some of the Earth's most challenging seas. An enthralling adventure, To The Ice and Beyond will inspire you to live your dreams and to never give up. During his extraordinary solo circumnavigation, Kendall became the first person to sail the Northwest Passage solo nonstop. Sailing east to west, he knocked off the "Everest of sailing" in just 12 days - the fastest recorded. This is a story of determination, meticulous planning, and rugged courage.

Rick's recent appearance on Ben Fogle's New Lives in the Wild chronicled his budget lifestyle and adventures aboard Calypso, and introduced the idea of budget sailing to a whole new audience - an audience who may have never considered the possibility that such a dream could be made a reality, on such a small amount of money. This book is for them and for any experienced sailors who want to cast off the yoke of consumerist yachting and get back to what really matters at sea.

Florida's government is building a bridge to North Captiva Island, which will ultimately result in a second bridge to Cayo Costa. Breeze takes action as only he can. He finds himself in an unlikely alliance with the governor as a result. He's given another assignment that appears to be out of his league. Can he pull it off, or will it be his downfall?

A gonzo ride through war-torn Yemen as only Chas Smith, the award-winning author of Welcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell and Cocaine + Surfing: A Sordid History of Surfing's Greatest Love Affair, could provide. Follow Smith and his misfit band of merrymakers as they search for the true origins of Al Qaeda and endeavor to ride the unsurfed waves of Yemen all while exploring the slim opportunities for fun in the margins of our global war on terror and at any cost - even if it means eventual kidnapping by Hezbollah. 

Unique and compelling, Splash! sweeps across the whole of humankind's swimming history - and just like jumping into a pool on a hot summer's day, it has fun along the way.

Roger Deakin set out in 1996 to swim through the British Isles. The result a uniquely personal view of an island race and a people with a deep affinity for water. From the sea, from rock pools, from rivers and streams, tarns, lakes, lochs, ponds, lidos, swimming pools and spas, from fens, dykes, moats, aqueducts, waterfalls, flooded quarries, even canals, Deakin gains a fascinating perspective on modern Britain.

Patrick Dixon spent years working as a doctor at University College Hospital, while his wife, Sheila, was a magistrate - high-pressure careers that demanded long hours away from their home, family and passion for sailing. It is a frustrating story many occasional sailors can relate to, but unlike most, Patrick and Sheila realised early enough that they could only bend so far before something snapped; they could only take on so much before they drowned.

John Kretschmer is sailing’s practical philosopher - as much a doer as a thinker. And that is the overarching theme of this chronicle of a sailing life. Often amusing, sometimes poignant, occasionally terrifying but always inspiring, his deeply personal account is a welcome reminder of the good life waiting at sea. With hundreds of thousands of nautical miles under his keel, John’s adventures have taken him several times around the world.

The moving true story of a group of young men growing up on Chicago's West side who form the first all-Black high school rowing team in the nation, and in doing so not only transform a sport, but their lives.

Christian Beamish, a former editor at The Surfer's Journal, envisioned a low-tech, self-reliant exploration for surf along the coast of North America, using primarily clothes and instruments available to his ancestors, and the 18-foot boat he would build by hand in his garage. How the vision met reality - and how the two came to shape each other - places The Voyage of the Cormorant in the great American tradition of tales of life at sea, and what it has to teach us.