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Sailing History Books

Sailing has a long and colourful history. This collection covers the development of sailing from the age of sail through to modern yacht racing, with books on seamanship traditions, yacht design, ocean racing history and the culture of life under sail.

You will find histories of individual boats (Gipsy Moth IV, Racundra), accounts of landmark races and voyages, biographies of notable sailors, and books exploring the folklore and traditions of the sea. A New History of Yachting and Seamanship in the Age of Sail are good starting points for anyone interested in how sailing reached its present form.

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