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How to Sail Around the World Part-Time by [Linus Wilson]

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Do you dream of sailing around the world in a sailboat?
Do you have a business or career you don't want to sacrifice for that dream?
Do you have kids in school?
You don't need to quit your job, sell your house, and take the kids out of school to complete a circumnavigation of the globe in a sailboat. You don’t have to wait until you are retired to sail for the South Pacific. This book tells you how you can do it without uprooting your life by taking as little as two months per year off to sail the trade winds.
Circumnavigating the globe in a sailboat is on par with scaling Mount Everest in terms of its rarity. Many potential circumnavigators are hobbled by misconceptions about the journey that mountaineers lack when climbing to the top of the world.
It is said, “I want to circumnavigate to see the world.” Nevertheless, successful trade wind circumnavigators don’t see the world. Instead, they travel on a narrow ribbon around it stopping mostly at a narrow range of countries that are downwind. Lack of focus causes many more failed circumnavigations than storms at sea.
The conventional wisdom is that you need to quit your job, sell your house, and live on the boat year-round. The reality is that even retirees circumnavigating full-time keep their boat in port half of the year because of the demands of cyclone season. There is no good way to elude the November to April cyclone season that dominates 60 percent of the trade-wind circumnavigation route.
The mad rush from the eastern Caribbean to the “safe” ports in New Zealand and Australia in a single calendar year is misguided. It sets cruisers up for hard, upwind ocean passages in future years and saps the resolve of their crews. A better solution is to haul out their boats in the South Pacific and fly back to their homes in the developed world during the cyclone season.
It makes more sense to keep one’s job and home and take annual two-to-six month leaves of absences to move the boat forward during the cruising season. This allows the sailors to earn more outside the cruising season. Further, they can maintain the careers and businesses which they have built over many years. Further, cruisers still have a job or business to come back to if they decide that the cruise is not for them. Pursuing a part-time circumnavigation is likely to be far less costly to cruisers’ long-term earnings than totally severing ties to one’s job or business.
Going back to their homes on land is much more comfortable than living aboard, while waiting for cyclone season to pass. The most modest land-based accommodations are typically more comfortable than the most luxurious sailboat in port. Finally, part-time circumnavigations avoid many problems with educating school age children and obtaining necessary parts.
Learn about the trade-wind route around the world with stops in Panama, the Galapagos, the Marquesas, Tahiti, Fiji, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Australia, Mauritius, Chagos, Madagascar, South Africa, St. Helena, Brazil, and the eastern Caribbean. Learn why the Pirate attacks in the Gulf of Aden have NOT made circumnavigating the globe harder.
This is the second book by the bestselling author of Slow Boat to the Bahamas, Linus Wilson. Dr. Wilson got his doctorate in financial economics at Oxford University. He sails an Island Packet 31’ with his wife, daughter, and four pound poodle. He has been published in Cruising Outpost and Good Old Boat magazines. To learn more about the author’s adventures, boat repair tips, free chapters and books, subscribe to his newsletter at www.slowboatsailing.com.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01B0OFYNW
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxriver Publishing (January 31, 2016)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 31, 2016
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 553 KB
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Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 73 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 069264122X

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Linus Wilson has written three books Slow Boat to the Bahamas (2015), How to Sail Around the World Part-Time (2016), and Slow Boat to Cuba (2016). He is the creator of the Slow Boat Sailing YouTube channel and Podcast.

Linus Wilson earned a doctorate in financial economics from Oxford University in England. He learned nothing there that prepared him for sailing from New Orleans to the Bahamas in a small sailboat. He is an associate professor of finance at the University of Louisiana. He has been published in Good Old Boat, Cruising Outpost, and Southwinds magazines. He is married with one child, Sophie above. Slow Boat to the Bahamas and How to Sail Around the World Part-Time have been number 1 bestsellers the Kindle sailing categories.

In 2010, he sailed for the first time, and he sailed to the Bahamas in 2015. He transited the Panama Canal in 2016 and is looking forward to sailing the South Pacific. He jogs because he likes to sometimes travel faster than 5 knots.

He hosts the Slow Boat Sailing Podcast at

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/slow-boat-sailing/id1084423845

Watch his YouTube sailing channel Slow Boat Sailing at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPODaIKSa35ZZwtOECFFC3w?sub_confirmation=1

To join the adventure, move towards the cruise of your dreams, and help out the Slow Boat crew and other sailors dreaming of turquoise waters in paradise:

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chSunspirit

Great Salt Pond Block Island

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 28, 2016

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For Linus' target audience....sailing/cruising folks with lucrative(satisfying) careers......that would prefer skipping the HOT seasons....the Hurricane seasons....the "wrong wind seasons" as they travel "around the world"....by putting their Boat on-the-hard....and flying home.....filling the cruising kitty....relax/work for $ at home with Plug-in and all the amenities....and then.....fly back to a very calculated....vacation-around -the-world.....lifestyle.

In fact Linus' suggestions.....planning....may allow some people a chance to....uh Sail-around -the world...without some of the reality checks that...uh..... staying with the vessel....might offer....or working in the third world.....fitting in to local cultures.....meeting the peoples ...long term.....

not really as "sour grapes"...as my three star review might indicate.....for the appropriate "audience"....Linus has done your homework.

My style is more in the vein of Badger....and VOYAGING UNDER SAIL.....LONG term.....Voyaging....Cruising the world...in your own boat HOME.

in fact my one real long voyage was in a 22 ft Homebuilt wooden Block Island Schooner....we circumnavigated Cape Cod in 4 years..leaving Blackfish creek ...October 1979..via Kittery Point, Maine..Great Salt Pond Block Island...St. Georges' Grenada....St. Georges' Bermuda...we came back with a two year old....borne ---Tortola, BVI..July 1981...(The new-mom and one year old DID come home for 3 weeks- home visit-....mid voyage....1982------)
the Skipper.... the vessel and the dog and cat..along with new mom and two-year old Cedar Oceanus...came home when we came home....4years later...landfall Block Island..and it DID feel like a proper circumnavigation of Cape Cod....slipping back into Blackfish Creek in july 1983...
H. to S. A. T. W. part-time tells a different story...and projects another sort of "seat-of-the-pants" kinda cruising.Different Strokes....Different Folks....

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Xanwar1

How to plan routes and find weather windows is sometimes the easy part. As a part-time cruiser

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 27, 2016

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Linus’s book is an interesting look at another option in the circumnavigation dilemma that world sailors face. How to plan routes and find weather windows is sometimes the easy part. As a part-time cruiser, finding a way to make cruising work with my “other” life has always been the complicated link in the equation. Unless you are job-free and relatively wealthy, working a world cruise into a life consisting of a career, family, responsibilities and obligations is the hard part. This book looks at a way around that problem.
Anyone seriously planning to circumnavigate, fully or just part way, will find the ideas and thoughtful consideration of the problem in this book pertinent. That it is not as serious or in depth as, say, Jimmy Cornell or Beth Leonard’s books does not diminish from its utility. At 73 pages it’s a quick easy read yet packed with organized planning. If you’re planning to sail around the world, you should be reading every book on the subject, and this one is well worth your time.

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I spent a year cruising half way around in 2013 ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 9, 2016

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I spent a year cruising half way around in 2013. Then the demands of life on land drew me home. Wilson lays out a common-sense approach to balance the responsibilities of career, family and finances with our desire to be in the the blue water and far-flung destinations that enchant serious cruisers. Reading his book has been a big help as I begin planning my next big cruise. My only wish is that there had been more.

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ben

Very little actual information in this book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 22, 2022

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Not only is this book small in size and thin on pages, it has large font with excessive headers, footers, and margins. There are so few words in this book you could read it in less than an hour. And it provides very little concrete information on how to go about sailing part time. It's less of a book, and more of a long blog post about the general idea of sailing part time. Maybe for the complete beginner it could help convince you that the lifestyle is possible, but for someone already thinking about doing so, it provides no assistance on making that dream a reality.

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Bela

Thinking about sailing around the world, this is a must read.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 9, 2019

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An interesting and informative book. The author presents the information in a clear and concise manner. It's an easy read.

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Rachel A.

Considering sailing around the world?

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 10, 2020

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This is a great book to read if you are considering this lifestyle. As a complete newbie to the idea, it brought up a ton of things I hadn’t thought of and creative ways of making this dream a reality!! Will probably read many times

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Lauren

Author needs a better boat?

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 30, 2017

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Kind of disappointing. The author doesn't seem to want to spend much time on the boat.

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Rudy Guenther

Ok

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 8, 2017

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quick to read, very brief without really new information. Not a really super writing style. But OK.

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terry

Anti-Cruising, High Consumption Clap Trap?

Reviewed in Australia 🇦🇺 on November 12, 2018

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This book turns the dream of a liveaboard circumnavigation on its head by promoting a part-time commute to and from cruising grounds around the world while maintaining a nine-to-five existence for half the year.
To me it seems highly illogical, unfairly critical of the liveaboard cruising life and supports an environmentally destructive lifestyle which supports major air commutes twice a year, maintaining a fully functional yacht half a world away while trying to maintain the home, lawns and kids sport while working part-time.
Some would put this an idea of evil genius, I think it's just evil in its opposition to liveaboard cruising and concomitant promotion of a maximum consumption lifestyle.

Sea4See

A nice book explain how is in reality the all time sail life!!

Reviewed in Italy 🇮🇹 on February 19, 2016

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I got this Great book for my birthday... Easy to read well write. OMG... many thing to take in consideration when sailing all the time.... A dream explained very well to how is in real life with all pro & cons!!! Thanks

Ihab Louis

Excellent book. Different perspective on Circumnavigation

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 12, 2016

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Easy read, very useful information. A good addition would be to consider the cost of flying back home every season ( specifically to remote places like Fiji,...Etc).

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Laurie

One Star

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on June 7, 2016

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not a lot of info here. Quick read, I'll give you my copy

Phil Gibbons

Inspiration in a nutshell

Reviewed in Australia 🇦🇺 on May 22, 2017

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This is a shory straight-talking and sometimes amusing pep talk that will get you on your dream circumnavigation before you are too old and your hips give out.

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