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9780713649376: The Voyager's Handbook: The Essential Guide to Blue Water Cruising
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A handbook for anyone contemplating an extended cruise - whether for a few months or a year. It includes information on equipping the boat, moving aboard, staying healthy, staying sane, liveaboard maintenance, short-handed voyaging skills, and preparing for passage. It gives up-to-date information on the latest techniques and gear; covers the most important topics of expectations, mental preparation, relationship and personalities.

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If you've dreamed of offshore voyaging...
When other boats scurry back to to their berths just ahead of the setting sun, you want to keep sailing. You want your tracks to be the only ones on a perfect sand beach of a deserted tropical island. You want to see the green flash, taste coconut milk from the husk, watch the fish dance at dusk, and share a feast with new friends from other cultures. This book can help you get there.

In five sections, this book covers everything I wish I'd known before my partner and I embarked on our 36,000 nautical mile circumnavigation:

1. The Essential Ingredients - an enthusiastic crew, an offshore-capable boat and enough money.

2. Equipping the Yacht for Bluewater Voyaging - all the equipment you'll need to add before you leave from anchors to frying pans.

3. Liveaboard Skills - From maintenance to keeping your boat watertight.

4. Shorthanded Passagemaking Skills - From weather to watchkeeping.

5. Foreign Savvy - Bureaucracy, mail, money, markets and enjoying foreign cultures while keeping the home fires burning.

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"When other boats scurry back to their berths just ahead of the setting sun you want to keep sailing. You want your tracks to be the only ones on a perfect sand beach of a deserted tropical island. You want to see the green flahs, taste coconut milk from the husk, watch the fish dance at dusk, and share a feast with new friends from other cultures. Perhaps you have cruised for a few months along one of the coasts, for a season in the Caribbean, or for a year in the Atlantic. You probably returned relaxed and contented full of plans for someday. This book can help you get there. It is written for coastal and limited offshore cruisers who want to make the transition to long-term voyaging. I have tried to capture everything I wish I had known when we set sail that June day."

from the Prologue by Beth Leonard

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  • PublisherAdlard Coles Nautical
  • Publication date1998
  • ISBN 10 0713649372
  • ISBN 13 9780713649376
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages400
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