How to Sail Around the World: Advice and Ideas for Voyaging Under Sail

by Hal Roth

Overview

A new classic from one of the world's most respected sailing authors

More than 35 years ago, Hal Roth quit his job as a journalist and went sailing. Since then, he's logged more than 200,000 sea miles. Along the way, Roth also has authored eight voyaging classics, including the 1978 bestseller After 50,000 Miles.

Taking that book as its starting point, this handsome new volume incorporates the new technologies and discoveries of the last quarter century along with another 150,000 miles of experience.

A compendium of mature, time-tested sea wisdom from one of the world's most respected sailing writers, How to Sail Around the World will tell the reader:

• How to choose and equip a sailboat for long-distance cruising, with an emphasis on simplicity and a modest budget
• How to plan and conduct a voyage anywhere in the world
• How to master the arts of navigation, anchoring, and daily life aboard in exotic places
• How to cope with storms at sea--the most complete and authoritative treatise on this critical topic ever published

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071429511
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	09/29/2003
Edition description:	Net
Pages:	480
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.18(d)

About the Author

Hal Roth has raced around the world singlehanded in the BOC Challenges of 1986 - 87 and 1990 - 91. He has crossed the Pacific five times, the Atlantic eleven times, and has rounded Cape Horn three times. In all he has logged 200,000 miles. He is the author of ten books of high adventure, including After 50,000 Miles, Two Against Cape Horn, Two on a Big Ocean, and Always a Distant Anchorage, which rank among the true classics of voyaging literature. A veteran journalist, Roth has written 400 articles for magazines.

Table of Contents

PrefaceChapter 1. The Pleasure and the FreedomChapter 2. The Corpus ItselfChapter 3. The Magic PlasticChapter 4. To Find a YachtChapter 5. The Search ContinuesChapter 6. Three Sailing YachtsChapter 7. The RigChapter 8. How to Make Big Sails SmallChapter 9. Spinnakers, Light-Weather Sails, and More on Sail HandlingChapter 10. One Man's Sail InventoryChapter 11. Planning the TripChapter 12. The Anchor GameChapter 13. The Practice of AnchoringChapter 14. Self-SteeringChapter 15. Can You Be Seen at Night?Chapter 16. Storm Management 1: Heaving To and Lying AhullChapter 17. Storm Management 2: Running OffChapter 18. Storm Management 3: Deploying a Sea AnchorChapter 19. Storm Management 4: Deploying a Stern DrogueChapter 20. Managing Without RefrigerationChapter 21. What Does World Cruising Cost?Chapter 22. The Cruising Engine: Necessity or Monster?Chapter 23. Schooling at SeaChapter 24. Heat and CookingChapter 25. Nine IdeasChapter 26. The Dinghy ProblemChapter 27. Questions and AnswersChapter 28. Foreign PaperworkChapter 29. The Dream and the RealityNotesGlossaryAcknowledgmentsIndex