Most Read This Week In Nautical
Nautical has many names, the most common choices being Maritime, Sea Fiction, and Sea Stories. Nautical refers to Nautical Fiction or Non-fictional accounts at sea.
This large theme can include man's relationship with the sea, sea creatures and monsters, natural disasters at sea, wartime memoirs, events at sea or with sea vessels such as submarines and life rafts. It also encompasses sea-related events such as survival crashes near or into oceans, being shipwrecked, pirates, or sea legends and myths.
Nautical culture is usually highly focused on, particularly with boats or sea life details. Thi ...more
This large theme can include man's relationship with the sea, sea creatures and monsters, natural disasters at sea, wartime memoirs, events at sea or with sea vessels such as submarines and life rafts. It also encompasses sea-related events such as survival crashes near or into oceans, being shipwrecked, pirates, or sea legends and myths.
Nautical culture is usually highly focused on, particularly with boats or sea life details. Thi ...more
Most Read This Week Tagged "Nautical"
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I should say we’d reach England by Tuesday or thereabouts, with a decent wind behind us. It would be a lot quicker than that if we could just sail straight there, but I was looking at the nautical charts, and there’s a dirty great sea serpent right in the middle of the ocean! It has a horrible gaping maw and one of those scaly tails that looks like it could snap a boat clean in two. So I thought it best to sail around that.’
FitzRoy frowned. ‘I think they just draw those on maps to add a bit o
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― The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists
― The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists
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The monster under my bed is pitchpoling. See, when you’re in heavy seas you always face the bow forward. Steer into the waves. Seems to break the laws of nature but most times it works. You're gonna live to see another day. If your vessel gets turned sideways though, you get stuck in the trough and in heavy seas you can capsize. I don’t even worry about that so much. I can control that- I just steer the boat into the oncoming waves. Problem solved. Until it’s not.
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― Motion of Intervals
― Motion of Intervals
