CRUISING IN SERAFFYN - Hardcover

Pardey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679509631 ISBN 13: 9780679509639

Publisher: Crown Publishing Group, 1979

Synopsis

The cruising tale is full of the sights and sounds, the fragrances and native customs of foreign lands, especially Central American and the Caribbean. It is a story of a leisurely sail through the Gulf of Cortez and on through Panama Canal to the Azores and England. Cruising in Seraffyn is also a carefully thought out guide to living aboard a small boat, with fun and economy as the guide principles. Four appendices provide data that is vital for anyone comtemplating long distance cruising.

About this title

Review:

...can...make [these special subjects]...comprehensible and absorbing to a landlubber... The New York Times Loaded with practical cruising advice, interesting anecdotes, and sometimes even excitement and suspense... Library Journal This book should be required reading for young couples who are dying to cruise... Sail Magazine An acute observer and fine writer. Their life on Seraffyn is at a level of simplicity and self-reliance that Thoreau would fine admirable. The Philadelphia Inquirer For more than three decades, the Pardeys have embodied the ultra-competent, self-sufficient ideal of blue water voyaging. Cruising World

About the Author:

Lin, with her husband Larry is world renowned for her sailing exploits. Author of eleven best selling books on sailing and seamanship, several hundred articles which have been translated into five different languages, she has been keynote speaker in at the Pacific Northwest center of the Sea, the University of Houston Woman's Forum and Egyptian commission on future tourism.Her previous book, Bull Canyon, a memoir published in 2013 received three literary awards

About this edition

• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0679509631
• ISBN 13: 9780679509639
• Binding: Hardcover