The Voyager's Handbook: The Essential Guide to Blue Water by Beth A. Leonard

By Beth A. Leonard

“Belongs within the bookshelf of each cruising vessel.”—Blue Water Sailing

“If you're fascinated with that prolonged voyage, learn The Voyager’s Handbook.”—Sailing

“Every from time to time a brand new voice emerges on the earth of cruising literature that sticks out, a voice that's either transparent and of lasting caliber. the looks of the sort of new voice is anything of an occasion, and that’s what we’d name the e-book of The Voyager’s Handbook.”—Blue Water Sailing

This inspirational and complete handbook leads you step-by-step via each element of selecting, making plans, and following the voyager’s existence. utilizing 3 instance boats representing 3 cruising lifestyles—Simplicity, Moderation, and Highlife—Beth Leonard is helping make your bluewater desires come actual, even if you’re crusing on a shoestring or a CEO’s pension. beginning with the belongings you can’t do without—an enthusiastic workforce, a seaworthy boat, and, in fact, money—Leonard deals sage suggestion on how you can choose crewmembers who're actually devoted to the voyage, the best way to select the proper boat for you, and the way to discover simply definitely the right method of financing your voyage and benefiting from each buck spent.

Managing lifestyles from a floating domestic and maintaining that domestic livable, seaworthy, and secure calls for you to turn into, between different issues, the ship’s purser, engineer, surgeon, cook dinner, and cruise director. You’ll detect how one can organize for those new roles and positioned helpful apparatus and preparations in position earlier than you untie your docklines. This exquisitely designated advisor additionally is helping you grasp the talents you’ll have to deal with a ship at sea with a small group, including

  • Weather forecasting
  • Passage planning
  • Watchkeeping
  • Heavy-weather sailing
  • Emergency management
  • Midocean repairs

Complete with dozens of easy-to-use graphs and tables for speedy reference, besides the hard-won knowledge of skilled cruisers, The Voyager’s Handbook is the final word source for someone who's making plans, getting ready for, or simply dreaming a couple of nice event at the excessive seas.

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