This book is for all the people who yearn to escape society's web and follow their cruising dreams. It is written by a veteran voyager with generous contributions from his first mate, Anna. The author shows how to break free from shore and set your course for distant landfalls. He describes the adjustments necessary to live a cruising lifestyle. Anna discusses personal relationships and life aboard a small cruising boat.
Few texts are as user friendly or as well grounded in practical essential cruising advice.
A definitive guide for offshore and coastal cruising. Good for cruising powerboats too. Jimmy Cornell - author of World Cruising Routes . In the half century since Erick Hiscock's Cruising Under Sail was published, scores of authors have written how to books on cruising, but few have dealt with this vast subject so clearly and imaginatively as Walt Gleckler. Nigel Calder - author of Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual .