L'avventura Dell'offshore

[littlenige]

Anybody have a copy they want to sell? I've found one on the net but am just wondering if anybody knows of one going cheap!

[THUNDERBOLT]

Nige
your joking their as rare as hens teeth...
buy it while you can
Mike
THUNDERBOLT

[littlenige]

Thanks Mike - that's what I feared! Gonna have to bite the bullet and pay out! Chiz.

[THUNDERBOLT]

Nige
cannot find it did you get it?
Mike

[Scand]

Anybody have a copy they want to sell? I've found one on the net but am just wondering if anybody knows of one going cheap!

Have I missed something? :hugegrin:
I don't have this in my collection, what is it about?

[littlenige]

Mike if I tell you I'll have to kill you! I'm having difficulty buying it right now with my credit card from an Italian site - http://www.maremagnum.com/showPage.php?template=HOME&id=1
but I sure want a copy.

[littlenige]

There also appears to be one on the italian version of ebay, but I can't make heads or tales on THAT page!

[THUNDERBOLT]

Cannot understand the lingo but worth it for the photo's alone
I bought mine in Positano in a small chandler's ..for peanuts....
Do you have the One published by CHAOS that is rarer than Offshore!

Those were the days

Mike

[littlenige]

I do have a couple but wonder if these are the same but with different covers? I'll have to go and dig them out now you've started something! I am unsure of the years that I have. Laters!

[littlenige]

Although these appear to be published by Tecno........??

[littlenige]

graham??????!!!!

[FLYING FISH]

What you have there Nige is the 1st book `Mursia`published and it covered the years 1956 -75.They then did a second book `Questo E` L`Offshore` which covered 1976 -87.

Carlo Bonomi sponsored the first book,and obviously getting the tip off once it was first published,a small bookshop in Fareham got it for me as well as the second book.From memory they were about £30 in 1977.

An absolute must for the devotee.Loads of colour pics,283 pages stuffed full of facts.Postage could be high.1.6kg and 25mm thick.

Marco has one ,as you would expect,and is the only bugger that can read it.

`Mursia` also did the Buzzi book `Progettare Per Vincere`.All three books are the same size.

You could google `Mursia`but no doubt they are out of print,or maybe Marco could ask `Mursia` the best way to get a copy,but get moving,you don`t want to let your chance slip by.

[FLYING FISH]

Those `Offshore` books you have Nige,are `Free.L.Press` ones which ran 1988 -91.There were also the `Kaos` books which ran 1988 -92,or until the Spelta`s were locked up.Then there were the WOCC books from 1993-95.All nice books covering a golden era.

I bet there are some arab ones from 1996 onwards somewhere.

By the way the publisher for your book is `Mursia Editore`.

TBC probably has all those books courtesy of his mate Achilli.

[Black_Tornado]

[QUOTE=FLYING FISH;184848]
Marco has one ,as you would expect,and is the only bugger that can read it.

I have two copies.
The first one bought in 1977 and is full of autographs and do not touch anymore. It is a icon.
A few years ago I found one on the internet at 10 euros and that I consume for quick consultations.
The price of 20 euros is still good, Nigel. Some time ago I found copies for sale at 45 euros. If you still have problems I can try to buy me and then I send it to you.

BTW Translations from Italian for today there are no more problems with a lot of translators in the network. I use Lexicool for example.

Unlike Searace which is full of informations(sometime incorrects) spanning a longer period, the book of Nobis (written in collaboration with the two other largest Italian journalists of the sport, Antonio Soccol and the late Carlo Marincovich) instead is exciting for the story races. As a best-selling novel.
The second published by Mario Risi is significantly poorer in the narrative and without data races.

[littlenige]

Thanks for the offer Marco. I've just purchased the 'well used' copy on MareMagnum. Since writing my first on this thread someone (who was that?!)has snapped up the better more expensive copy that I wanted but which 'the system' wouldn't allow me to buy the other day!!!! (darn computers!) I'll just have to scan the photo's into the computer and digitally clean them up.

[littlenige]

Yay for the internet! Now I just have to get the second book you mention Graham!

[littlenige]

And to think we'll be seeing one of these babies next month!

[FLYING FISH]

Yay for the internet! Now I just have to get the second book you mention Graham!


For your ref Nige.

[littlenige]

Thanks pops. Going rate is 45€ at the mo' - debating whether to splash out!

[FLYING FISH]

Thanks pops. Going rate is 45€ at the mo' - debating whether to splash out!

So youv`e found one.Get it,you can`t play around even at that price,which isn`t crippling.While shelling out,the Buzzi book is well worth getting as well.
You can die happy, old boy.

[Black_Tornado]

Thanks pops. Going rate is 45€ at the mo' - debating whether to splash out!

Naah, Nigel!
45 euros is too much for that book.
The photo that has not worth a tenth of those of the "Avventura dell'Offshore"- except that portrays me next to the "Ali Reza" on page 127.:hugegrin:
Maybe if you find a copy of the Buzzi-"Progettare Per Vincere" at that price may be ok.
Best of all would be to find copies of two of Levi, "Dhows to Deltas" and "Milestones in my designs" that are at least in English(like that of Buzzi) but the price would be absurd.
Interesting but impossible to find that of Mike Trimming.

[FLYING FISH]

Naah, Nigel!
45 euros is too much for that book.
Interesting but impossible to find that of Mike Trimming.

Nige,you could get Marco to spend his Sunday mornings trawling the Italian car boot sales for a cheaper one.(Do they have car boot sales in Italy?)

Mike Trimming??? Please elaborate.

[Black_Tornado]

Nige,you could get Marco to spend his Sunday mornings trawling the Italian car boot sales for a cheaper one.(Do they have car boot sales in Italy?)

Mike Trimming??? Please elaborate.

Peter Du Cane!!!!!! High Speed Small Craft!!!

Freud would readily suspect in my mind for my "lapsus".
Who knows why i thinking Du Cane came out Trimming!:wank:

There are also here "car boot" or something similar.
But the offshore books are so rare to find in new print that those of second hand is like finding a needle in a haystack.
To Nigel if he is not hurry to find it put the search option for six mounths on eBay.

[FLYING FISH]

Peter Du Cane!!!!!! High Speed Small Craft!!!

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Not as far out as you may think Marco.

Mike Trimming began his career at Vosper as a premium apprentice (apprenticeship paid for by parents,with a leaning toward ending up as Shipyard Manager material).As part of the character building process he was invited by Du Cane to drive `Flying Fish` in the 1966 Cowes - Torquay.
Not a bad job! and getting paid for it.
Meanwhile,us lower ranks were cobbling the damn boat together.

[littlenige]

Thanks for the advice Marco! I'll hold out a while. Who else has copies of the Colin Mudie (spelling?) book with Nicapao on the front cover? Great book also!

[Black_Tornado]

All this throws me greater concern for my mind and things already experienced in other lives ...

Anyway Trimming continued its process of apprentice in Italy with Petroni and Cosentino development of cats of Ron Jones.
Jones had in fact committed a typical error of multihulls circuit designers, placing the transmission at the end of the wing. See also Molinari.
Trimming put the stern drives where they were to stand;behind the sponson. He always ended up designing for Intermarine several corvettes for the navy of some country of Middle East(Iran I think).
I do not know if he still resides in Italy.

[Black_Tornado]

Thanks for the advice Marco! I'll hold out a while. Who else has copies of the Colin Mudie (spelling?) book with Nicapao on the front cover? Great book also!

I did not know the existence of this book by Colin Mudie.
Do you know something more?

[FLYING FISH]

I did not know the existence of this book by Colin Mudie.
Do you know something more?

Oh dear,Marco.

I came across another of these books a few months ago in a second hand job lot in a nautical bookshop, and passed it over to Jon Fuller for his collection.

It`s about a third the thickness of the Mursia books.Published in 1975 and covers motorboating generally.Offshore fills about 25% of the book.Hamlyn are the publishers.£1.75 in 1975.

Title of book is `Powerboats`.

[littlenige]

This was the shot on the front cover. I found a second copy at a boot sale a few years back. Not masses of info - more a general overview, including the luxury pleasure market. One or two nice shots in there though, whick haev by now made their way I'm sure onto the internet. My favourite therein was the overhead stern shot of Black Tornado. Wait, found it!

[littlenige]

:hugegrin: Or it may have been a charity shop where I found it. There must be other copies lurking in charity shops and the like around the Solent area I would think.

[Black_Tornado]

I almost fainted to see these two photos! :eek:
If there are others pics to this level I will search it infinitely!

[FLYING FISH]

I almost fainted to see these two photos! :eek:
If there are others pics to this level I will search it infinitely!

Before you pass out sunshine,I have found 9 of them on the net.I will `e` mail you the details.

[Black_Tornado]

Before you pass out sunshine,I have found 9 of them on the net.I will `e` mail you the details.

Well done Graham!:cheers:

[Ciao]

Does anyone know where I can get hold of a copy of "Fly Fishing by J.R. Hartley"?

Does it have anything to do with Flying Fish?

[FLYING FISH]

Does anyone know where I can get hold of a copy of "Fly Fishing by J.R. Hartley"?

Does it have anything to do with Flying Fish?

STUPID BOY!

Just get back to the job in hand,and have that course sorted properly,which I doubt very much.