Featured Books

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True Colours by Alaric Bond

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Schooner: Building a Wooden Boat on Martha's Vineyard by Dunlop & Shaw

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Live Yankees: The Sewalls and Their Ships by W. H. Bunting

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His Majesty's Ship by Alaric Bond

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Galveston's the Elissa: The Tall Ship of Texas by Kurt Voss

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My River Chronicles - Rediscovering the America on the Hudson by Jessica DuLong

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The Frigate Surprise: The Complete Story of the Ship Made Famous in the Novels of Patrick O'Brian by by Geoff Hunt and Brian Lavery

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James Nelson's
George Washington's Secret Navy

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Defying Empire:Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York by Thomas Truxes

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Deadly Shoals, a Wiki Coffin Mystery by Joan Druett

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Star Crossed
by Linda Collison

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The Privateer's Revenge: A Kydd Sea Adventure (Kydd Sea Adventures)

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Peter Wicked: A Matty Graves Novel (The Matty Graves Novels)

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The Jackass Frigate by
Alaric Bond

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Steady As She Goes
by John Molloy

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Voyages, the Age of Sail: Documents in American Maritime History, Volume I, 1492-1865

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Expedition Whydah: The Story of the World's First Excavation of a Pirate Treasure Ship and the Man Who Found Her

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Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean: How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom--and Revenge

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The Illustrated Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

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New ferry to start Tonga service in November

Early last August the Tongan ferry, Princess Ashika, sank with a presumed loss over seventy lives.  See our previous posts  - Princess Akisha.   A new ferry, the Olovaha, for the route is being built in Japan, with Japanese funding and is expected to go into service in November.  Until them New Zealand has donated a 45.5m flat-bottomed barge for use as a temporary inter-island ferry.   The barge ferry service is to start from the first week of April and operate until the arrival of the new ferry from Japan.

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