For planning and cruising
Nautical Atlas Mallorca and Cabrera
The choice is there: paper nautical chart, plotter or tablet. There is now a very practical alternative for Mallorca and Cabrera, which is ideal for preparing and organising a trip in this popular area. The new spiral-bound coastal handbook in 21 x 30 centimetre format contains 16 nautical charts, some of which can be folded out to A3 size, 100 plans of the most important marinas, harbours and bays, including information on approaches, mooring options and supplies as well as general tips on the area.
Yacht care
Maintenance and repair of classic yachts
Together with his colleague Anna-Marie Frick, Uwe Baykowski, a master boat builder and expert on classic yachts, has put his experiences from 50 years of working on and with traditionally built yachts on paper. The result is a practical guide that conveys everything owners need to know about maintaining the value of their classic in words and pictures.
Stress-free engine maintenance
The latest addition to the popular "Stress-free" series (six titles). The 160-page work explains the technology and care of the drive, maintenance and how to avoid and rectify faults. QR codes lead to instructive videos and animations, while checklists, tips and anecdotes round off the topic. The authors' aim: a more relaxed everyday life on board.
Maritime fiction
North Sea thriller: Mathijs Deen- "The diver"
The second case of German-Dutch detective Liewe Cupido: the body of a family man, chained to a cargo ship that sank off Amrum, leads the investigator to various Wadden Islands and the North German mainland. Cupido gets to the bottom of the case with his own mixture of laconicism, humour and ingenuity.
Archipelago thriller: Norbert Klugmann & Klaas Jarchow- "Sea"
Hidden on an archipelago island off Stockholm, Nazis from Hamburg are planning a major attack. Two holidaymakers get to the bottom of the plot and discover mysterious connections to their own surroundings. Volume two of the "River Sea Lake" trilogy, the parts of which can also stand on their own.
Historical drama: Olli Jalonen- "The art of living under water"
A reunion with Angus, the boy from St Helena who joined Edmond Halley in London (see "The Celestial Sphere"). In this follow-up volume, Olli Jalonen continues the story: master and assistant explore the depths and expanses of the oceans on exciting expeditions.
Historical sailing books
Sailing in the GDR: Rolf Bartusel- "The distant horizon"
Despite the most unfavourable conditions imaginable, sea-going yachts were built during the SED dictatorship and sailed intensively by their crews. Never before has this history of sea sailing in the GDR been compiled in such detail and comprehensively as in this book now presented by Rolf Bartusel.
Biography: Jimmy Cornell- "My life under sail"
Five decades on all the world's oceans form the framework along which blue water specialist Jimmy Cornell not only recounts his entire life, but also covers one chapter of long-distance sailing knowledge after another in an exciting and vivid way. From the right boat and its equipment to sailing itself. The biography of the inventor of the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers thus becomes a lively textbook from the field that makes you want to equip and set off.
Murder in the north
Plastinated on the Elbe: Kester Schlenz & Jan Jepsen- "The buoy man"
YACHT author Jan Jepsen and his mate from "Stern", Kester Schlenz, have written their first crime thriller that is as readable as it is exciting. Plot: An ingenious serial killer keeps replacing the floating sculpture of a man on the Elbe with plastinated corpses. The book thrives on its investigator duo, a megalomaniac murderer and the flair of Hamburg, which is characterised both locally and globally by the harbour.
