With pithy, often iconoclastic advice on all aspects of seamanship and boat maintenance, Badham and Robinson have distilled in this book the seagoing experience of hundreds of the world's sailing experts. The result is the nautical equivalent of an experts' forum, including instructive and sometimes humorous and sometimes biting advice on: boat maintenance; understanding weather; safety at sea and storm strategies; gear and outfitting; sailing well; piloting; engine troubleshooting; simple solutions to complex problems. From Meade Gougeon on maintaing your boat to Buddy Melges on sailing it well, Walter Greene on taking it to sea, and Steve Callahan on coming home again, the insights shared here were developed over millions of sea miles.
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Boating There's more to sailing than getting ready for sea. Here are over 1,000 tips, suggestions, evaluations, and pieces of hard-won advice from editors who between them have spent a century and over 60,000 miles on the water--and from more than 300 other seasoned veterans.
About the Author
Michael Badham is a former British Royal Navy submarine commander and Caribbean charterboat owner and skipper. In 1960, with his wife and children, he set sail for Australia but, like Columbus, fetched up on America, where he has dallied ever since.
Robby Robinson has been on the water for 50 years. He has sailed with and raced against many of the experts in this book. A former editor of SAIL magazine, he has cruised worldwide and lived aboard his sailboat with his wife and two children.
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- Sailboat Refinishing by Don Casey on page 56, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Sailing Alone around the World (Penguin Classics) by Joshua Slocum on page 200, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Why Didn't I Think of That? : 1,198 Tips from 222 Sailors on 120 Boats from 9 Countries by John Roberts in Back Matter
- Sailing: A Woman's Guide by Doris Colgate on page 163
- The Annapolis Book of Seamanship, 3rd Edition Revised by John Rousmaniere in Back Matter
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