Creating Comfort Afloat is not another decorating book to be used, simply, to make a boat pretty. Janet Groene has written this book with the dedication of making your boat comfortable and beautiful, whether it is used for day trips or the live-aboard lifestyle. To take this book beyond that of an interior design book, Janet has included chapters on sound deadening, choosing the right materials for each project, entertainment options, and proper lighting, along with tips and hints for all areas from bridge to bilge. This being Janet's seventeenth book, many of her longtime readers will understand the wonderful transformations she can achieve. After reading this book you too can perform these transformations making your home afloat as comfortable as it can possibly be, if only for the weekend.
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Boating is many things to many people, depending on the thrills they seek. Whether those thrills come from powerful engines or sails fat with wind, from a sleek and seakindly hull or a houseboat built for spacious cabins, the one thing we all have in common is, we eat and sleep. This book was written for everyone who loves being lulled to sleep by the sea, waking up to mornings on the water, dining afloat, entertaining and, in short, creating creature comforts.
During the 10 years we lived full time on the go, part of the fun was creating a real home anywhere we happened to be. It was more than just fine-tuning furnishings and gear to suit us. It was being able to invite people aboard for a meal, taking landlubber friends or relatives for a day cruise, introducing young people to overnighting afloat, surprising each other with Christmas presents we had managed to hide months before and finding the income tax records every April. It meant making a living on board, as travel writers. It meant having enough tools and spares to do most of our own mechanical, electrical and sewing work. It meant having the resources and resourcefulness to stay warm, cool, well-fed and well-rested, clean and safe. It meant keeping our boat shipshape, not just as a matter of pride, but because of the dollars-and-cents resale value.
Most of all, creating comforts afloat made us truly at home on the water. This book is for the sailor in you as well as for the homebody in you. Whether you live aboard, vacation on board or just overnight occasionally, my aim is to make your boat more livable.
About the Author
While still in their thirties, Gordon and Janet Groene "stopped the world and got off." They'd traveled to Fort Lauderdale to find a boat. Before selling everything, including the power tools, Gordon made new water tanks and a number of accessories for the boat while Janet sewed sheets, slipcovers and duffel bags. With all their remaining possessions loaded into their VW van, they headed south. After stowing everything on board, they sailed for the Bahamas and never looked back.
Janet, who had been writing for newspapers since her junior high school days, began submitting her work to magazines while Gordon took up photography. Janet's first book, Cooking on the Go, was followed by The Galley Book, How to Live Aboard a Boat and more than a dozen others.
After 10 live-aboard years, when assignments began taking them all over the world, they sold their boat and built a home base in Florida. They continue to cruise worldwide under power, paddle and sail.
Among their honors is the NMMA Directors' Award for boating journalism, two Captain Fred E. Lawton Boating Safety Awards and a Fireboy Safety Afloat Award of Excellence. Janet holds the Distinguished Achievement in RV Journalism Award. Both are members of the American Society of Journalists and Boating Writers International. Janet is a member of the Society of American Travel Writers and Outdoor Writers Association of America.
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For ten years, Gordon and I were happily homeless, cruising the tropics in our sailboat in winter and roaming cooler climes in summer in our small motorhome. Thanks to our portable profession (I'm the writer; Gordon does our photography) we can live nowhere or anywhere. The only thing better than our worldwide travels is to relive them time and again through writing about them. My columns appear in Houseboat, Family Motor Coaching, Camping Life and South Florida Parenting magazines. You've seen my travel features in dozens of magazines and newspapers. For a complete list of our books do a Groene search at amazon.com.
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Will Turn the Boat You Live On into a Floating Home,
By Ken Douglas (Landlocked in Reno) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Creating Comfort Afloat (Spiral-bound)
One might argue that a cruising sailboat doesn't need and wouldn't benefit from a woman's touch. And I'd have to agree with you, your boat will sail on just fine without it. It'll sail on just fine without a woman too and I know some cruising sailors who have made that decision, some cruising writers too. However, in my opinion, , it's just better if you have a woman aboard and if like most of us, you do, then Janet Groene has written an essential book for her. One that will help you and turn your floating home into a real home.
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