The Voyager's Handbook: The Essential Guide to Blue Water Cruising

Beth Leonard (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

448 Seiten

1998
TAB Books Inc (Verlag)
978-0-07-038143-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Here's how to see the world from your boat. More and more people are taking off on their cruising boats for a few months or even a year. After they've tasted the cruising life, prepared and equipped their boats, and developed some experience, many cruisers begin to dream of voyaging farther--maybe even an around-the-world voyage.The Voyager's Handbook offers specific information for cruisers considering such a vast undertaking. An experienced circumnavigator, author Beth Leonard shows cruisers how to prepare their boat and themselves. She offers complete, up-to-date information on the latest gear and techniques and detaile, hard-earned advice from dozens of experienced sailors, about boats, crew, and costs as well as crucial but easily overlooked aspects of long-distance passagemaking such as health, safety, weather, provisions, fresh water, and foreign port protocol.With a balanced, down-to-earth approach, The Voyager's Handbook tells it like it is, for any cruiser considering that voyage of a lifetime.

Autor

Beth A. Leonard and her partner, Evans Starzinger, left high-powered international management consulting jobs in 1992 and set sail aboard their Shannon 37 ketch, Silk, on a circumnavigation that they completed 35,000 miles and 3 years later. Within a few months of returning to shore they realized they could no longer fit into their old lives. What was to have been a sabbatical became instead a permanent new life. It took them 4 years to build an aluminum sloop capable of sailing the high latitudes, and they spent the next six years sailing Hawk to the ends of earth, from the high Arctic to Cape Horn. They have won awards from the Ocean Cruising Club (UK) and the Cruising Club of America, and were members of U.S. Sailings Safety at Sea committee from 2002 through 2004.

Inhalt

Foreword by George DayPrologueIntroductionPart I: The Essential IngredientsChapter 1. Committed CrewChapter 2. Bluewater-Capable YachtChapter 3. Financing the Dream: The Bottom LinePart II: Equipping the Yacht for Bluewater VoyagingChapter 4. Sails and Sail HandlingChapter 5. Ground Tackle and Anchoring ArrangementsChapter 6. Other Essentials: Self-Steering and DinghiesChapter 7. Additional Equipment: Convenience Versus ComplexityChapter 8. Moving AboardPart III: Liveaboard SkillsChapter 9. Better BoatkeepingChapter 10. GalleywiseChapter 11. Water, Water, EverywhereChapter 12. Nor Any Drop to DrinkChapter 13. Staying Healthy: Being Your Own DoctorChapter 14. Staying Challenged: Following Your HeartChapter 15. Staying Safe: Our Lessons LearnedPart IV: Shorthanded Passagemaking SkillsChapter 16. Weather WisdomChapter 17. Preparing for PassageChapter 18. Basic Passage RoutinesChapter 19. Toward SeamanshipPart V: Foreign SavvyChapter 20. Dealing with BureaucracyChapter 21. Getting Your BearingsChapter 22. Enjoying Being ThereChapter 23. Keeping the FaithAppendicesAppendix 1. Galley Substitutes and EquivalentsAppendix 2. Offshore Medical KitIndex

Produkt-Details

• Zusatzinfo: 150 Illustrations, unspecified
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 183 x 234 mm
• Gewicht: 1043 g
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Schiffe
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Segeln / Tauchen / Wassersport
• ISBN-10: 0-07-038143-7 / 0070381437
• ISBN-13: 978-0-07-038143-8 / 9780070381438
• Zustand: Neuware