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Looking for a new adventure, Patricia Vellinga and her husband buy a boat-a big boat that turns out to be more a yacht kit than a yacht. Their simple plan is to cruise Europe and the Mediterranean for one year. Their journey, however, is far from routine. As Pat and Ray motor through the canals of Holland, Belgium, and France, then sail to Italy, Greece, Turkey, and Spain, they find beauty and danger, towering locks, salty characters, peaceful anchorages, treacherous winds-and even a forest fire. Forced at gunpoint to cast off into the raging Saône River, they struggle to safety. Even so, they get hooked on a cruising lifestyle that takes them well beyond their one-year plan. Sailing There, Cruising Across Europe and the Mediterranean is a rich and entertaining tale of a couple's lively voyage with the wind through ancient ports and history.

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The quintessential dream of sailing into a secluded bay off a beautiful deserted white sand beach with swaying palms is one that until recent years was a reality only for a very privileged few. Today, practically anyone can turn that dream into a reality. Navigation has never been easier with the arrival of GPS, satnavs, chart plotters, and a host of other electronic wonders. All around the world, charter bases have sprung up offering bareboat, flotilla, or skippered and crewed charters. You can now charter a boat from Thailand to the Tuamotus, the Arctic to Alaska.The choice is vast, so a little local knowledge is welcome. Essential Sailing Destinations brings together a flotilla of talented sailors who have lived the dream and between them sailed in practically every corner of the globe. They reveal their favorite sailing destinations and provide expert advice for less experienced sailors. Essential Sailing Destinations explores a wide and varied range of sailing areas, including the multicultural Mediterranean; the havens, rivers, and bays of America's East Coast; and the balmy seas of Australasia and the Indian Ocean, peppered with some of the world's most stunning archipelagos. Whether you dream of relaxing under the star-strewn night skies of Mexico s majestic Gold Coast or partying in the star-studded nightclubs of the fabulous French Riviera, Essential Sailing Destinations will inspire you to go sailing and live the dream for yourself.Each entry includes a locator map and useful at-a-glance information, including best cruising months, local languages and currency. Destinations are rated as to navigational difficulty, family friendliness, facilities for diving, shoreside eating, and sightseeing.

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• ISBN13: 9781574092813
• Condition: USED - Good
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Many beginning sailors soon yearn for a larger boat - with a galley, head and berths - so they can extend their time on the water and range of action. However, the simple mechanics of sailing do not include the variety of arts necessary to cruise successfully. Cruising (with) Class began as a series of lectures at the Sarasota (Florida) Sailing Squadron with the intention of teaching basic skills to beginning cruisers. Comfort on the water is not a matter of soft cushions. It comes from confidence in the ability to voyage safely. Reading the weather, planting the anchor, calculating the tides, navigating a coast, avoiding fatigue, choosing equipment, coping with storms, reacting to disasters, these are the arts of a cruiser. Although the book calls on the author's 25 years of cruising small sailboats, it is not a travelogue. Instead, it is a precise iteration of lessons learned the hard way, and presented in sailor-to-sailor fashion so others can avoid disaster and find comfort bred in confidence on the water.

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For the first time ever, a comparative survey of 95 percent of the fiberglass pocketcruising sailboats ever built Author Steve Henkel has researched hundreds of cruising sailboats less than 26 feet long--pocket cruisers--to create this definitive gallery and handbook of the small cruising sailboats built in the last 45 years. With detailed plans, specifications, performance indexes, and commentary for every model the author could find (360 in all!), The Sailor’s Book of Small Cruising Sailboats is your ideal core reference for the used and new boats you see on the water.

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• ISBN13: 9780071636520
• Condition: New
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Caribbean Cruising is the perfect guide for anyone who has dreamt of sailing the Caribbean but is unsure how best to go about it. Authors Jane and John Gibb covers everything one needs to know, offering expert advice on ideal cruising locations, choosing the right boat and equipment, weather forecasts, clothes and supplies, expenses, power needs, health concerns, and local legal formalities. Richly illustrated by Jane's drawings and John's photographs, this book has an answer for every question.

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• ISBN13: 9781574091724
• Condition: New
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Multihull Cruising Fundamentals taps into the essence of multihull sailing and gives readers a clear and concise analysis of these largely unfamiliar boats. The book's eight chapters explore two distinctly different, yet similar types of boats. Chapters one through four provide the skills sailors need to get trailerable multihulls safely into the water, rigged and sailing. Larger, cruising catamarans and their unique sailing and handling needs are addressed in chapters five through eight. The material in this book was developed by the American Sailing Association's Multihull Committee for use in classes throughout North America. Students will learn quickly and efficiently from Multihull Cruising Fundamentals "no nonsense," step-by-step format. The knowledge and skills found in this text will prepare sailors to more fully enjoy the most forward-looking boats on today's pleasure boat market.

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For all sailors—novices and experienced racers alike—the acclaimed primer on sailing, cruising, and racing. Stephen Colgate, the founder and president of the Offshore Sailing School, removes the mystery of sailing and reduces the techniques to basic, simple principles. He instructs the reader on all matters from how sails work under various conditions to night sailing and piloting, tactical problems and heavy-weather racing, emergencies, safety, boat control, and all other fundamentals. This edition contains the latest technological advances in equipment, and the newest rules, regulations, and strategies that are critical to safe and pleasurable time on the water. The result is a superior resource that is an absolute must for all sailors.

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• ISBN13: 9780393038118
• Condition: New
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A retired "working stiff" realizes his dream of becoming a cruising sailor.

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The third of US SAILING's popular Keelboat Series, Bareboat Cruising covers the skills and terminology required to plan and execute a successful bareboat charter. A bareboat charter provides you with the opportunity to sail a boat on your own, and offers the thrill of using your sailing skills, exploring new or favorite waters and spending time with family and friends. Bareboat Cruising explains what you need to make your charter a memorable success: planning and provisioning, systems, motorsailing, weather, anchoring, navigation, and safety. Used by sailing schools around the country, Bareboat Cruising is published by the national authority for sailing in the U.S.

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• ISBN13: 9780971959385
• Condition: New
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Narrative chronicling the many adventures of the author over several years cruising in the waters of the Caribbean and then the oceans of the Atlantic and Pacific. Detailing the many incidents, trials and tribulations that arose, most times unexpectedly, and how the crew overcame these adversities with calm purpose and persistence.Told through the eyes of the boat, it introduces a refreshing and intimate insight of how life at sea on passage for lengthy periods can be a challenge and how also these can be overcome to lead into one of the most wonderful character building adventures to be had today at any age.The ebook includes 101 dollar saving tips that planning voyagers would never think of brfore leaving port. These tips could save cruisers many hundreds, if not thousands of dollars over the duration of their adventure of a lifetime voyage.Essential and most enjoyable reading for all armchair sailors and all those planning to sail off over the horizon into the oceans of this beautiful planet of ours.