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THE BEST BOOKS FOR YACHTSMEN Direct by post fmm Collectors' Books Ltd Brimpsfield House • Brimpsfield • Gloucester • GL4 8LD Order by phone'H' 01452 862 208 or Fax: 01452 863 405 Here are 12 from our collection of 100 books covering every aspect of yachting. The new Macmillan Almanac for 1995 is essential for anyone sailing in European waters. It gives tides, navigational aids, harbour and weather information for every port around our coasts.

Classic Yacht Interiors gives a rare insight into some of the world's finest yachts - large and small. Superbly illustrated, it is a real collector's book. Heavy Weather Sailing, by the legendary Adlard Coles has saved many a yachtsman's life by teaching the art of survival when a really severe storm blows up.

The Complete Yachtmaster is the official textbook for the Yachtmaster Offshore courses of the Royal Yachting Association.

But even if you do not take the course, this is a mine of essential information for every skipper, beginner and expert alike.

Sell Up & Sail is an amazingly practical book for sailors with limited means who nevertheless dream about cutting free from their responsibilities on land and becoming ocean gipsies. Ocean Navigator is a new book which explains a difficult subject so clearly that even a beginner can understand it. One of the best books of its kind ever written. A Hundred Years of Sail has 100 superb photographs by Beken of Cowes of the finest sailing yachts to set sail over the last century, from J-Class to Maxi.

A whole history of yachting in one large, beautiful volume! Harbors of Enchantment, a brilliantly illustrated world tour of the most idyllic sailing grounds and ports on five continents. For sailors and world travellers alike. The World's Most Extraordinary Yachts lets you come aboard 61 luxurious world famous motor and sailing yachts and describes them fully in words and stunning photo-graphs.

The World's Best Sailboats covers 19 boatyards and describes 60 of the world s finest yachts with plans and superb interior and exterior colour pictures.

The l i n k Ships of Dunkirk tells the story of the heroic craft who saved our army from the beaches of Dunkirk 55 years ago.

170 survive, lovingly restored by their owners, colour-illustrated with their full history here. Yacht Style is another sumptuously illustrated book which depicts the beauty of sailing ships - inside and in their own environment.

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