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HISCOCK, Eric C. Come Aboard. 1st in dj
Oxford, 1978,
HISCOCK, Eric C. Come Aboard. With 43 colour photographs by the author and his wife and 7 charts. Oxford, L., N.Y., &c.: Oxford University Press, 1978. First Edition. Pp 237, frontis.+ 16 pp of plates. 8vo, blue cloth. Toy 431. Parts : 1. New Zealand to Durban, with some thoughts on: Planning a Voyage - The Compass - Flags - Ventilation - Wind-vane gears - Children and other visitors - The dinghy - Meeting big ships - Navigation lights - Radar reflectors - Too many yachts - Clubs - Lectures - and films - Making a living; 2. Durban to England, with some thoughts on: Shapes of keels - Rhodesia - Ground tackle - Navigation - Fresh water and catchments - Reefing - The barograph - Charging batteries - Slips - Marinas - Showers - The modern yacht Tapping halyards - Building materials; 3. England to Panama, with some thoughts on: Harness and guardrails - Ethics of anchoring Floating objects - Midocean meetings - Chafe - Port officials - Theft - Alarm systems - Poet and artist - Longshore robbers; 4. Panama to New Zealand, with some thoughtson: Very high altitude sights - Killer whales - Making bread - Provisions - Cockroaches 'Flopper-stoppers' - Darkroom work - Mail - Making a landfall- The safety syndrome - Gas versus paraffin - The abyss - Time and the dat e-line - calibration of instruments - Charts - The green flash - Wildlife. Light smoke damage to fore-edge of front board, some shelfwear, name, else vg in edge-browned, nicked, price-clipped dj. 18.00
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18.00 CDN
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HISCOCK, Eric C. Cruising Under Sail. 6th pr of 2nd UK in dj.
Oxford, 1972,
HISCOCK, Eric C. Cruising Under Sail. With 250 Photographs by the Author and 80 Diagrams. Second Edition (Sixth Printing). L.: Oxford University Press, (1972). Pp 468 including frontis., + [64] pp of plates, folding diagram to rear. 8vo, blue cloth. Toy 3893. Name, else vg in edgeworn dj. 25.00
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25.00 CDN
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HISCOCK, Eric C. Sou'west in Wanderer IV. 1st UK in dj
Oxford, 1974, ISBN:0192175289
HISCOCK, Eric C. Sou-west in Wanderer IV. With 58 colour photographs by theauthor and his wife and 8 charts. L.: Oxford University Press, 1974. Secon d Printing. Pp 224. 8vo, blue cloth. Toy 0725. Contents : 1. A Home Afloat;2. To the West Indies and Panama; 3. Coastwise in Central America; 4. A Ye ar in Califrornia; 5. Hawaii and the South Pacific; 6. Improvements to the Steering; 7. New Zealand - A Cruise Around the South Island; 8. Heavy Weather in the Tasman Sea. Appendix: Details of Wanderer IV. Slightly cocked, some shelfwear, foxing to initial and final leaves, white specking to both boards, else vg in nicked, price-clipped dj. 15.00
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15.00 CDN
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HISCOCK, Eric C. Wandering Under Sail. US book club in dj.
Oxford Universty Press, New York, 1977, ISBN:0192175297
HISCOCK, Eric C. Wandering Under Sail. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977. American Book Club Edition. Pp. [i]-xii,1-244. Illustrated. 8vo, blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. "First published in 1939, ... [Wandering Under Sail] tells of [Hiscock's] adventures and mishaps as a novice single-handed yachtsman in cruises to Ireland, the west of Scotland, and Britanny, with a full account of the building of his yacht Wanderer II." - from the dj. Name tag to ffep, else vg in rubbed, nicked, clipped dj. 15.00
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15.00 CDN
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SMITH, Stanley VIOLET, Charles. HISCOCK, Eric C., introd Wind Calls the Tune: The Eventful Voyage of the Nova Espero. in dj.
Van Nostrand, New York, 1952,
SMITH, Stanley and Charles VIOLET. The Wind Calls the Tune: The Eventful Voyage of the "Nova Espero . With an introduction by Eric C. Hiscock. New York: D. Van Nostrand, (1952). Pp. (6),[7]-189,(3). Frontis. 8vo, grey cloth. Toy 0598. "At the New York Motor Boat Show of 1952 was a tiny, battered, twenty-foot yawl. It hardly seemed big enough to cross such waters as Long Island Sound or San Francisco Bay. But that little vessel was sailed from London to New York by two young Englishmen, and the thrilling story of how they accomplished this amazing feat of seamanship is told in this book." -fromthe dj. Contents: 1. Fitting Out; 2. Down Channel; 3. Farewell to England; 4. Near Disaster; 5. Shaking Down; 6. Disabled; 7. Struggle to the Azores; 8. Halfway Heaven; 9. Calms and Quandaries; 10. Shadows and Reflections; 1 1. Odds Against; 12. Landfall; 13. Nova Scotia; 14. Fish and Fog; 15. Across to Cape Cod; 16. New England; 17. New York at Last; 18. No Cash on Delivery. With appendices. Nicking to head of spine, eles very good in price-clipped, slightly chipped dj. 40.00
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40.00 CDN
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