Get Real, Get Gone: How to Become a Modern Sea Gypsy and Sail Away Forever
Language: English
Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform August 2015, 2015
Series: Book 1 of 2 - Get Real, Get Gone
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- Title
- Get Real, Get Gone: How to Become a Modern Sea Gypsy and Sail Away Forever
- Author
- Rick Page, Jasna Tuta
- Publisher
- CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform August 2015
- Publication year
- 2015
- Condition
- Markdown
- Dust jacket
- Like New
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 151684663X
- ISBN 13
- 9781516846634
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Series
- Book 1 of 2: Get Real, Get Gone
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'Don't even think of buying a boat until you have read this book'. - Tom Cunliffe (legendary sailor and author of The Complete Yachtmaster). The idea that you have to be rich to travel the world on your own yacht is so universal, it goes largely unquestioned. This book hopes to change all that.If you are not rich, but dream of seeing our beautiful world from the deck of your own yacht, this book is packed with practical and spiritual advice to help you cut through the endless marketing and identify what it is you truly need to become a modern sea gypsy and sail away forever...
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About the Author
Rick Page holds an honours degree in Disaster Engineering and Management and is a regular contributor to Cruising Helmsman magazine. He became a RYA qualified skipper in 2008 and has lived aboard every day since 2007 when he bought his first boat Marutji - a steel Van de Stadt 34 (pictured on the cover). Jasna Tuta met Rick while she was backpacking in Australia and crewed aboard Calypso for a few years, before returning home to Italy. Rick now lives aboard his current boat, Calypso II (an Island Packet 38) somewhere in the South Pacific.
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