Ocean Sailing: The Offshore Cruising Experience with Real-life Practical Advice

Ocean Sailing: The Offshore Cruising Experience with Real-life Practical Advice

by Paul Heiney
Ocean Sailing: The Offshore Cruising Experience with Real-life Practical Advice

Ocean Sailing: The Offshore Cruising Experience with Real-life Practical Advice

by Paul Heiney

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Overview

Fully illustrated throughout, this authoritative reference brings together practical advice from the world's experts on ocean sailing, drawing on wisdom from members of the Royal Cruising Club, the Cruising Club of America and Ocean Cruising Club.

This is the reassuring voice of the ocean sailing community. Your big adventure starts here.

For many sailors, an ocean passage is the big dream. But many will worry that they don't have the right experience, that their boat isn't strong enough, or that it will be prohibitively expensive and difficult.

Ocean Sailing will prepare you for an ocean passage by painting a picture of what ocean sailing is really like, through the experiences of others who have gone before. Topics covered range from safety to boat kit and preparations, budgeting to staying in touch with home, equipment breakdowns to health and weather.

Members of three great cruising clubs – the Royal Cruising Club, Ocean Cruising Club, and the Cruising Club of America – share their vast wealth of experience, and by focusing on the practicalities of ocean sailing, allay the anxieties and doubts of prospective ocean cruisers to ensure a deeply satisfying ocean voyage.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781472955395
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Publication date: 10/01/2019
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 6.80(w) x 9.70(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Paul Heiney is a well-known writer and broadcaster whose ocean sailing started with a voyage to the Azores which led to his participation in the OSTAR, the singlehanded transatlantic race, in a particularly grueling year. More recently, he has completed a cruise from the UK to Cape Horn and back – a round trip of 18,000 miles of which he sailed 11,000 miles alone. His account of this trip was published in his much-acclaimed book One Wild Song (Adlard Coles). He is a member of the Ocean Cruising Club and currently Commodore of the Royal Cruising Club.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

1 On the Ocean ˜ a taste of what's in store 5

2 Where in the World Shall We Go? ˜ making plans, and making your choice 9

3 It's Time to Buy ˜ is there a perfect boat for ocean sailing? 66

4 The Boats They Chose ˜ there are any number of craft in which you can go offshore sailing 88

5 How Much to go Ocean Sailing? ˜ … 'all of what you have, plus a little hit more' 126

6 Can the Kids Come Too? ˜ you can't leave them behind, but how do you take your kids to sea? 144

7 Too Old to Go? ˜ does ocean-going come with an upper age limit? 164

8 Keep in Touch ˜ … with folks back home, and with the weather 173

9 The Complete Engineer ˜ be a jack of all trades - and master of them all 198

10 Look After Yourself ˜ keeping well and staying safe 211

11 When Things Go Wrong ˜ sooner or later you'll have a mishap. Why not think it through now? 226

12 And When It's All Over ˜ coming down to earth and hitting dry land 261

Final words 271

Bibliography 273

Index 276

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