Optimize Your Cruising Sailboat: 101 Ways to Make Your Sailboat Better - Hardcover

Roberts, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0071341145 ISBN 13: 9780071341141

Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, 2000

Synopsis

A guide for improving a cruising sailboat and tailoring it to the owner's preferences. Its central feature is an interactive questionnaire which clarifies for the reader the nature of priority improvements and points to the appropriate spot in solution chapters.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

It would be hard to convey to a landlubber all the different ideas, dreams, and emotions that the word sailboat evokes. Freedom, adventure, comfort, security, beauty, mastery, pride of ownership . . . a sailor hopes to find all these and more in a sailboat. Unfortunately, for most boatowners, a sailboat also represents compromise. Unless you are rich or very lucky, your cruising sailboat scales back some of your dreams and expectations to make room for others. Comfort versus performance, seaworthiness versus accommodations, ease of sailing versus appearance let's face it, you just can't have it all. Or can you?

In Optimize Your Cruising Sailboat, experienced cruising sailor and author John Roberts outlines affordable techniques for transforming your sailboat from the one you settled for to the one you dream about. Drawing upon his extensive research among sailmakers, riggers, boat designers, boatbuilders, and, of course, other sailors, he describes methods for improving virtually every aspect of your boat and sailing experience, including comfort, ease of handling, performance, dockside appeal, and more.

Optimize Your Cruising Sailboat features hundreds of crystal-clear illustrations along with step-by-step instructions on how to complete more than 100 boat improvement projects ranging from quick, inexpensive improvements you can easily do yourself, like creating a pass-through porthole between galley and cockpit, to more elaborate projects you may want help with, such as installing a backup headstay.

Optimize Your Cruising Sailboat is the total-solutions guide for cruising sailboat owners.

101 Ways to transform the sailboat you settled for into the one you dream about!

Every sailboat is a compromise, and few sailors are ever completely satisfied with their boat. In this do-it-yourself upgrade guide, you'll find dozens of proven, affordable ideas for enhancing every aspect of your boat.

Optimize Your Cruising Sailboat helps you develop a comprehensive wish list of improvements that can help make your cruising sailboat ideal. More than 200 illustrations show you 101 projects for improving your boat's comfort, handling, seaworthiness, performance, and beauty.

Praise for Roberts's previous book, Why Didn't I Think of That?:

"Extremely helpful information for anyone cruising off shore or close to home. . . . Every boater will find something useful in this book." Ensign

"Over 1,200 helpful tips on almost everything concerning the comfort, safety, and enjoyment for the cruiser and the liveaboard." Mariner

About the Author:

John Roberts has been sailing and writing for 20 years. His articles have appeared in Yachting, SAIL, and Sailing World. He finished his 36-foot cruising sailboat Sea Sparrow from a bare hull with his wife, Susan, has sailed her to Maine, Bermuda, and Central and South America, covering more than 25,000 miles. His previous books are Fiberglass Boats: construction, Repair & Maintenance (Norton, 1984); Choosing Your Boat (Norton, 1986); The Boating Book (1991); and Why Didn't I Think of That? (International Marine, 1997).

About this edition

• Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0071341145
• ISBN 13: 9780071341141
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192