COAST DOG PRESS PUBLISHING GROUP
2020 CATALOGUE
COAST DOG PRESS
providing publishing services EDITING and GRAPHIC DESIGN for BOOKS and MAGAZINES to PRINT-READY and/or ONLINE DISPLAY for SELF-PUBLISHING AUTHORS in all genres: FICTION and NON-FICTION
SPECIAL EDITING SERVICES AVAILABLE FOR AVIATION AND MARINE WRITERS
FOLLOWING REVIEWS and A LOOK INSIDE THE PAGES of TITLES WE HAVE PRODUCED
Dennis Currie flew B777s across the pond to the UK one day then a couple of days later he was flying a Cessna 185 floatplane somewhere on the B.C. coast looking for herring balls for a fleet of fishing boats. He recorded his adventures from both left seats in a lyrical fashion, sort of like the words to a ballad. You won’t put this one down until you reach the last words of his songs....like this one: Oh, so you’re the real pilot Said one of the herring fishermen to me Referring to the fact that I usually fly A large jet overseas No, the guys right here are the real pilots I tactfully tried to explain I mostly just sit and wait for England The coastal pilots actually fly their plane When the fog gets bad, the Boeing stays in auto Logs on the runway are never a threat The wings never tangle in fishing boat rigging Hunded foot separation is unheard of in a jet I came out here to be a real pilot Sort of a bus driver’s holiday So, buddy when the real pilots are listening Please be careful what you say.
$29.95 CAD IN THE USA
PLUS $5.00 MAILING ANYWHERE IN CANADA
$23.00 USD PLUS $8.00 TO
YOUR MAILBOX ANY STATE
MIKE DAVENPORT
M
ike is to be found behind the yoke of a Stinson 108 enroute Oshkosh or Hood River or any other Fly-in on the map. Also, he is to be found behind the face mask required when applying clear dope on the first pass of a recovered wing of a let’s say a Staggerwing Beech, a Pientpol, or a Porterfield 65, or perhaps a Fairchild 24 or...well, you probably get the picture, this man loves aeroplanes and airplanes, where they will take him and how they perform, and what kind of tweeking will keep them that way. Mike also recognizes some of Canada’s less publicized heros of aviation in his new book, People, Places and Planes. Hangering the family steed at the famous little grassroots airport,YNJ, at Langley on B.C.’s lower mainland, Mike has worked in close assistance with well know aviator, Werner Giesbeck, in recovery and repair work on a range of classics while flying several of those, that are still flyable, at the locally famous Canadian Museum of Flight (CMF). Aviators of all stripes—professional or recreational will find a lot in Mikes tales from the hangar and will find his flying experiences exciting and his skills enviable from the pages of this fine book.
$29.95
plus mailing anywhere in Canada $5.00 No Tax U.S. Customers $23.00 USD plus 8.00 anywhere in the USA
Peter Barratt has a lot to do with fish and helicopters. He kept a fly rod
in back of his helicopter wherever he flew in the arctic or the lower mainland of British Columbia, particularly around MacKenzie Sound when Nimmo Bay Resort was being established in that magnificent waterway. Pete’s angling passions led to the invention by he and Craig Murray of Heli-Fishing, which brought fame and fortune to Nimmo Bay Resort, and down the road-a-piece lead to the formation of a little helicopter opertion at Port MNeill, Campbell River, Nanaimo and Bella Coola, B.C. known as West Coast Helicopters. Peter’s bio is included in his book that details some of the early rotary wing history of British Columbia whose part in the development of the commercial helicopter was significant world-wide.
$25.00 plus mail to any address in Canada $5.00
U.S. Customers: $22.00 USD plus $8.00 any State in the Union
Craig and Deborah Murray created Nimmo Bay Resort back in 1982 in the spectacular setting of MacKenzie Sound in the B.C. coastal area known as the Broughton Archipellago. It was here where HELI-FISHING was born with help from Peter Barratt who, at the time was flying for Okanagan Helicopters. Fast forward and we find West Coast Helicopters being formed by Peter as Nimmo Bay’s fame spread world-wide and four Astars could soon be found at work from their floating landing pads at Nimmo Bay. Craig and Deborah’s book, FINDING NIMMO, is hard cover 8.5 inch by 11 inch in size and 280 pages in length; filled with magnificent photographs of the most beautiful wildeness in existence in the world today. A family story best captioned as a, Rags-to-Riches story, as the young family staked their fuure on the concept of a pristine wilderness lodge in this wonderous country. Add to that the adenture of a helicopter’s access to the magnificent Coast Mountain Range and no wonder Nimmo became the destination for the international jet set and the location for a couple of episodes of a famous Hollywood television series, titled, Boston Legal. This book, designed for guests at Nimmo Bay, would normally sell for about $60.00 CAD but is offered to aviators at: $29.95 plus mailing cost anywhere in Canada and the United States.
$29.95 CAD plus mailing in Canada or $23.00 USD plus mailing to the USA
Sherman Found
(left) was a senior Trans Canada Airlines (Air Canada now) captain and support to his brother Bud (below) in the development of the Found Brother’s FBA2, which quickly became known simply as the “Found” to Canadian bush operators.
Bud Found persevered through
thick and thin to get his dream aircraft off the drawing board and into the air. After losing complete control of the plane’s destiny he managed to get back in charge once more to ramrod the aircraft into production. Adversity plagued his determintion and “angel money” put up by David Eaton led to the loss of conrol of his company with the entire factory ultimately being sold and shipped to an offshore buyer,
Rick Found became an Air
Canada Captain, in his father, Sherman’s footsteps, keeping the fsmily’s involvement in aviation intact for another genertion. Now retired, Rick devoted several years to putting together this history of the “Found” from notes made from discussions with his dad and his uncle and from recollections of when he was growing up in the Found Brother’s hangar and factory.
Rick has 6 copies from the first press run all autographed for some lucky aviators. Other copies available at: ww.aviatorsbookshelf.ca BUSH HAWK was designed by Coast Dog Press for Canadian Aviator Publishing Ltd
BUSH HAWK is Canadian aviation history. The book is an important 200 pages of a highly illustrated sccount of a great Canadian dream that was thwarted by financial institutions, unfortunate timing and no lack of bad luck. CONTACT RICK AT: rickfound@hotmail.com
JIM GRIFFITH and Trans Canada Air Lines were both born at about the same time but only one of them by an act of Canada’s parliament. The “sprog” pilot joined TCA when the airline’s famous North Star was noising its way across the skies and through the years both he and the airline became world class professionals. The airline changed its name to Air Canada but Jim remained the indomitable “sprog” to the end of his flying career. In Jim’s book both the man and the airline parallel their histories.
Captain Jim Griffith passed away immediately following the publishing of his book. Jim saw the finished product a few days before his death
The cover image is a painting by Canadian artist, George Pendlebury, of Trans Canada Air Line’s famous Lockheed 10A, which continues to be displayed and flown by Air Canada on special ocassions. Best Seat in the House was designed by Coast Dog Press for the publisher, Canadian Aviator Publishing Ltd —for purchase go to :
www.aviatorsbookshelf.ca
Tim Cole
started his flying adventures as a bush pilot with Laurentian Air Services in Quebec then worked his way up in the industry to become a Transport Canada Inspector. His recently published book, Tight Foat and Tailwinds, has distilled his amazing flying adventures into 228 pages of beautifully illustrated stories now available to readers direct from the author’s email: colewt@smartt.email
228 pages with 104 photos in colour
Book Price $ 34.99
plus mailed anywhere in Canada at $5.00 In the USA $26.99 plus $8.00 mailing to any State
Jack Schofield stopped flying commercial seaplanes in
1990 and launched a BC regional magazine titled, BC Aviator, which soon became a national publication under the smplified title of, Aviator. After selling this successful publication to OP Publishing of Vanouver (Pacific Yachting & BC Outdoors), Schofield concentrated on writing a few books of his own plus helping other writers get their titles pubished all under the name of COAST DOG PRESS. Aviator went on to become Canadian Aviator for which Jack continues to write a column just to keep his hand in. His first book, Flights of a Coast Dog was awarded a BC book award and the two titles to follow became best sellers. He then wrote Daryl Smith’s and Peter Barratt’s biographies and helped out with Craig Murray’s, Finding Nimmo. He designed Dennis Currie’s, Half a Mile in Rain, Mike Davenport’s, People, Places and Planes and has just finished the edit and design of Tim Cole’s Tight Floats and Tailwinds.
Not content with non-fiction aviation titles, Jack is now concentrating on completion of two novels one of which is “sort of fiction” while the other is pure fiction. The “sort of fiction” is the real life story of famous British Columbia pioneer aviator, Ginger Coote. Two years of Ginger’s life spent in the UK following the First World War are totally unrecorded, so that’s where the fiction comes in, says Schofield, who in those chapters sets the groundwork for how Ginger carried on for the rest of his life — flying airplanes, chasing many ladies and drinking himself into oblivion—much of which was recorded in both Vancouver newspapers, during the late 1930s for whom Coote was the ‘darling of the press’ for many years. Titled “BUGLE BOY” the book is near completion and should be available in a few months.
GINGER COOTE was a British Columbia pioneer aviator whose airline,was inhaled into Grant McConachie’s Canadian Pacific Airlines. Coote was the subject of conversation in both Vancouver’s newspapers who followed his personal life as well a his flying exploits. A bombshell of a life and the makings of a great story.
$25.00 per copy plus $5.00 mailing to any Canadian address
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