Your First Atlantic Crossing 4th edition: A Planning Guide by Les Weatheritt

By Les Weatheritt

Answering the entire vital questions, this booklet exhibits not only the way to sail an ocean for the 1st time, but additionally how one can get pleasure from it. There are insights into the social in addition to nautical truth of getting ready the boat, the relief of getting hugely precise plans, the interior tale of existence with a staff, dealing with unforeseen gales and calms, the live-or-die selection to maintain watches or now not and the ports of name from Spain to Tobago through the Atlantic islands and West Africa.

This fourth version has been considerably accelerated, with additional info on:

- forms of boat, anchoring, sleep and watch keeping
- climate and weather, and the impression of Atlantic climate structures on timings and stipulations of crossings
- most up-to-date advancements in expertise (navigation, self steerage, equipment)
- choices to the traditional routes across
- crusing again from the U.S. to the united kingdom - this variation gets you home!

'I shall take pleasure in dipping into this dream maker, time and again...an very good consultant to the making plans of your Atlantic crossing. learn the entire different books yet hold this one beside you'
Cruising Association

'Offers right down to earth suggestion in response to hard-won experience'
Yachting Monthly

'Covers every little thing the amateur sailor must understand for a voyage around the Atlantic'
functional Boat Owner

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