Download or read book Pocket Cruising and Micro Adventures written by Martin Anker Wiedemann and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the book about the biggest sailing experiences in the smallest sailing craft. With their shallow draft and easy handling, the smallest "pocket cruisers" give access to coastal experiences inaccessible for bigger sailboats. It has never been easier nor more affordable to acquire a small sailboat and enjoy the pleasures of yachting: Go on picnics for a few hours, go fishing, anchor in a beautiful place or on holiday cruises along near and far shores, visiting small islands and protected fjords and bays. "Pocket Cruising and Micro Adventures" is the handbook for you, who would like to practice the enjoyments of a simple sailing life and get far for your money. It comes with valuable advice for both future and already passionate pocket skippers. Micro Adventures at sea Why small is great Sailing on a small budget Choose a good boat Purchasing a 30-50 year old boat Maintenance and repair Passage making in safety and comfort Golden Age GRP Pocket cruisers of the 1960's and 70's Modern pocket cruisers 104 illustrations, 13 in colour. 41 older constructions and 15 comtemporary The book will guide you about fitting out and sailing tiny small cruising yachts. Get inspiration for your own micro adventures, which can be experienced just beyond the breakwater and don't require you to embark on an ocean passage. Read about mange popular boat types from the Danish sailing scene of the 1960's and 70's told by their owners: Why they chose their particular boats and how they use them today.
Download or read book Microadventures Local Discoveries for Great Escapes written by Alastair Humphreys and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Enthusiastic, pleasingly madcap’ Geographical Adventure – something that’s new and exhilarating, outside your comfort zone. Adventures change you and how you see the world, and all you need is an open mind, bags of enthusiasm and boundless curiosity. Recommended for viewing on a colour tablet.
Download or read book Half Fast written by Randy Baker and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever thought of ditching your conventional life to buy a sailboat and go traveling the world as a modern-day sea nomad? Half Fast is the true story of a married couple in their thirties who do just that-a move some of their family and friends consider to be a 'half-assed scheme' at best. With little money and even even less nautical experience they leave their small-town home in Arkansas to embark on an adventure they hope will last for a year or two but which evolves into a quarter-century voyage of discovery spanning half the world. Come along with Randy and Cheryl as they cruise their small boat to intriguing destinations that you won't find in any tourist brochure. Along the way they discover the best and worst the sailing life has to offer as they visit twenty-nine countries in the Caribbean, Central and South America and the South Pacific. Their adventures and misadventures include encounters with hurricanes, thieves, drug smugglers and a disastrous tsunami as well as lasting new friendships formed with local people and fellow sailors all along their route. Cruising under sail is a lifestyle like no other and though there are sometimes hardships, those who take the plunge will be rewarded with a life of adventure and freedom that may be impossible to find any other way in the modern world.
Download or read book Cruising written by C. J. Peterson and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shantyboat written by Harlan Hubbard and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shantyboat is the story of a leisurely journey down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans. For most people such a journey is the stuff that dreams are made of, but for Harlan and Anna Hubbard, it became a cherished reality. In their small river craft, the Hubbards became one with the flowing river and its changing weathers. This book mirrors a life that is simple and independent, strenuous at times, but joyous, with leisure for painting and music, for observation and contemplation.
Download or read book Penelope Down East written by W. R. Cheney and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cruising in a small sailboat as it was done 100 years ago.
Download or read book Time of Wonder written by Robert McCloskey and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1989-06-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Caldecott Medal! For fans of Blueberries for Sal, One Morning in Maine, and Make way for Ducklings. "Out on the islands that poke their rocky shores above the waters of Penobscot Bay, you can watch the time of the world go by, from minute to minute, hour to hour, from day to day . . ." So begins this classic story of one summer on a Maine island from the author of One Morning in Maine and Blueberries for Sal. The spell of rain, the gulls and a foggy morning, the excitement of sailing, the quiet of the night, the sudden terror of a hurricane, and, in the end, the peace of the island as the family packs up to leave are shown in poetic language and vibrant, evocative pictures.
Download or read book Sail With Me written by Rebecca Burg and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-06-29 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two strangers, Two antique boats, One crazy idea... * Bill is a gruff combat veteran and loner who fishes for a living. Rebecca's a shy, young woman giving up a career and home ownership. The two become unlikely friends and discover that they have more in common than they'd realized. They both own antique, live-aboard sailboats. They also shared the dream of cruising. Side by side, they finally escape over the horizon and spur each other into experiencing a new and radically different life. A bond of friendship and trust develops. * Informative, entertaining, and even titillating at times, this book shares a decade of sailing adventures. Not independently wealthy, Bill and Rebecca still work to earn a living during and in between seasonal journeys. What it's like to live-aboard a traveling boat, on a budget, from a solo-sailing woman's perspective. * This intriguing story shares the usual: violent storms, serene sailing moments, moonlight shimmering on the endless ocean, different cultures and people, and pink-sand beaches. There's also the uncommon: a bizarre rescue, hurricanes, squirrel attacks, mysterious wrecks, an exploding sailboat, and a deceased outlaw grandmother. Useful cruising information on parts of the Bahamas, bonus chapters on fishing while underway and basic information on living aboard. Note: Chapters 1-6 offer background & details on the Hows and Whys of living aboard (little action, mostly explanation). The real action and actual sailing adventures begin on Chapter 7 to Chapter 39. * Includes 28 black & white photographs. Learn more & view exciting color photos from each chapter at www.rebeccaburg.com
Download or read book Seraffyn s Oriental Adventure written by Lin Pardey and published by Lin and Larry Pardey. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of adventures, as two young dreamers continue their voyaging on board their self-built 24'4" cutter. They cross the exotic sea that spawned Homer's tales of Ulysses' Odyssey, then sail through the strife torn Red Sea and across the typhoon tossed waters of the Bay of Bengal.In this book, fourth of the Seraffyn series, the Pardeys have reached a turning point in their lives-halfway around the world, eight years into a meandering voyage. Their routes had always been determined by the need to find the work to support their cruising life-style or the desire to see an island spoken of by some favorite writer. Now they have to decide whether to continue eastward, or turn back westward and complete the circle with a return to the place they once called home.
Download or read book Gonzo with the Wind written by Lee H. Dempsey Jr and published by Seaboard Press. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A TIMELY, UPLIFTING STORY ABOUT FOLLOWING ONE'S DREAM: The journey required positive thinking, humor, willpower and stubborn determination. Friends questioned: Have you lost your mind? Why on earth would you buy a sailboat in Turkey, of all places, when you live near the San Francisco Bay? Especially a boat you know nothing about? Do you even know how to sail? With no prior sailing experience, and less than four weeks training on their sight-unseen sailboat, a father and son cast off from Turkey and head west into the Mediterranean and across the Atlantic. Their implausible story is packed with short episodes that draw the reader into the action. Stress as rookie sailors. Never-ending funny situations that surrounded their travels, especially by way of mishaps. Encounters with interesting and strange people-not to mention pirates. Countless ports and countries they sailed into and passed. The coming together of a father and son with full support of the oldest son, wife and mother. All this while the father discovers life after retirement. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: H. Lee Dempsey, Jr.-husband, father of two sons, CEO, business owner, university-honored alumnus, drafted US soldier, school board trustee, bank director, traveler, watercolor artist, pilot, sailor, and now author. Gonzo with the Wind will be followed by tales of other life adventures. Lee currently lives with his wife, Sue, in the high Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
Download or read book The Dinghy Cruising Companion 2nd edition written by Roger Barnes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-26 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'You will venture into the fringes of the wilderness with the minimum of simple gear, to live with it on its own terms. You will know that one of the sure ways to contentment in this life is a small boat, a fair wind, and a new coast to explore.' Dinghy cruising is a wonderful way to experience nature and new coastlines at close quarters and low cost. Sailing where larger boats cannot reach and sleeping under canvas onboard or ashore, this is boating taken right back to the basics, and all the better for that. This guide, updated and expanded for its second edition, is invaluable for all aspiring or already-enthusiastic dinghy cruisers, showing how to get started and how to expand your horizons. The information and advice is interwoven with wonderfully evocative stories of the author's adventures afloat, from idyllic weeks pottering around secluded rivers and coastlines to hair-raising voyages to remote islands. The text covers: finding a good boat; fitting out for daysailing; boatcraft under engine and oar; mooring and anchoring; preparing for open water; out at sea; coastal navigation; dinghy homemaking; keeping comfortable and safe. And for this new edition, an account of the author's first capsize, new material on electronics and clothing, and more information on boat designs. Illustrated throughout with inspirational colour photos and helpful illustrations, this book shows just why small boats are the perfect passport to remote and beautiful places.
Download or read book Our Island in the Sun written by Garry Domnisse and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I never intended to "really" read this book. My goal before reviewing it was to "peruse" it and stop now and then when a particular passage caught my attention. Just read enough to do an honest review. But I sat down early in the morning and began actually reading the book. Just to get started. Page one lead to page two and to page three and page 4 etc. and soon I was into the book. I stopped to eat breakfast but I couldn't wait to get back to the story. Garry says the book is not a "cruising handbook". Maybe not but it's certainly a "cruiser primer" in my opinion. I can't think of much he leaves out in terms of the life of a cruiser. Maybe Pirates. But that is it. I like the way Carol writes her own accounts of the adventure. It's good to see two perspectives of the same situation and experience. The psychological aspect of long-distance cruising can be as interesting as the pragmatic side of keeping a boat going. Carol and Garry both give you great insights into this very personal side of the adventure. If I were to criticize the book I'd say from a designers perspective, I would have liked to see some more descriptions of the other boats Garry and Carol encountered on their voyage. That's just me. When I finished the book I remembered saying, "Long range cruising is all about fixing your boat in exotic places". Bob Perry
Download or read book Cruising With Murphy written by Gordon Gregg and published by Infinity Publishing. This book was released on 2005-07 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instead of getting another job, Gordon decided to live a dream and go cruising on a sailboat. Cruising With Murphy chronicles the makeover of a solid but untested yacht into a cruising home and then follows Gordons adventures around the Southwest Pacific over a three-year period.Along the way, Gordon meets with many adventures that he relays in a witty self-deprecating style that will appeal to both novices seeking know-how and seasoned salts enjoying a chuckle at other victims of Murphys antics
Download or read book A Year in a Yawl written by Russell Doubleday and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From start to finish it keeps us in a condition of nervous apprehension with its succession of lurid pictures of personal peril, and in one instance of pecuniary peril, which, to the sensitive (or, rather impecunious) mind, will convey a more vivid idea of appalling disaster than does a grip form the jaws of a 'man-eating' shark - a fish for whose identification a large reward has been offered....There is no halt in the narrative....The reader is carried from one danger to another with a rapidity and verve which adolescence will greet with spontaneous enthusiasm." -The Nation "An exciting and stimulating story of four boys who build a yawl and cruise from Lake Michigan down the Mississippi, around the Florida coast, up the Atlantic, and through the Erie Canal home, a distance of seven thousand miles. The book is eminently healthy and delightful." -Public Opinion "It is a good book, which loses nothing by confining itself to facts." -The Dial "Founded on an actual occurrence: the remarkable trip made by four boys in a thirty-foot yawl of their own construction." -Literary News "Will find sympathetic readers among young and old....The book is exciting, interesting and healthy." -Publishers Weekly "The story of how four boys, starting from Chicago in a boat of their own building, passed through the Drainage Canal into the Illinois River; then to the Mississippi down to the Gulf; around Florida to New York; up the Hudson to Troy; and then through the Erie Canal, and so home. The journey occupied something more than a year. The author tells us, in a footnote, that Colonel Partridge, then Superintendent of Public Works at Albany, first called his attention to this remarkable cruise, and it is from the log book of those who actually performed it, though doubtless with permissible embellishments, that the story is here told, in a fashion to hold the interest from the start to the very close." -The Churchman "Especially interesting to boys. The trip described in this latest book was made by four boys, in a boat of their own construction, over 7,000 miles of water." -Recreation Magazine "Remarkable.... A wonderfully interesting book founded on an actual occurrence.... It is impossible to conceive of a theme more attractive." -Buffalo Commercial "A pleasing yarn." -Outing A high quality, hand edited text only edition of this thrilling classic!
Download or read book Cruising World written by and published by . This book was released on 1991-05 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 200 000 MILES written by JIMMY. CORNELL and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beachcruising and Coastal Camping written by Ida Little and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a "how-to" book, packed with information to help you go beachcruising and/or coastal camping, no matter what your level of expertise may be. This book includes everything you need to know about selecting a beachcruising boat, where to beachcruise, how to make camp, what gear to buy, and more, including how to go cruising and camping at low cost. Ida Little has beachcruised and coastal camped full time for 20 years (in a variety of boats) and has observed what other cruisers and campers were doing. She shares her knowledge and adventures with you. In this book, "beachcruising" means cruising a small boat along a coast with the intention of camping ashore. Though it is possible to use 50-foot schooners to go beachcruising, this book focuses on small sailboats that are light enough to be lifted or rolled ashore, and sailboats under 30 feet which are designed to dry out flat on an ebb tide. This book elaborates upon the unique aspects of camping that apply to boating.
