Cruising for Cowards: Strategies, Boats and Equipment Preferred by Experienced Cruisers
Are you intimidated by the thought of embracing long-distance cruising as a way of life? Anyone headed for distant horizons would benefit from picking the brains of circumnavigators. Liza and Andy Copeland provide you with theirs. CRUISING FOR COWARDS is not an encyclopedia of esoteric engineering data, equipment dissertations, and systems analysis. It is, instead, a highly readable guide to help long-distance cruisers equip and prepare their boats and then deal with everything from cockroaches to bureaucratic paperwork while en route. There are many courses to the cruising life, but Liza and Andy's enthusiasm and tactics, illustrated by lively accounts of their family's experiences and amusing cartoons, charts the course that led their family and many others successfully around the globe. Anyone who follows in their wake is unlikely to be disappointed.  --Steve Callahan, Associate Editor, 'Cruising World' Magazine, Author of 'Adrift'For those contemplating long-term cruising this candid, humorous, fact-filled book leaves no stone unturned in preparing family, friends, the boat and you for success in pursuit of the ultimate dream.  --Doris Colgate, President, Offshore Sailing School, President, US National Women's Sailing AssociationFrom Age and Anxieties to Water and Windvanes, even the boldest sailors will find their niggling questions answered. A great book to dip into, browse through, and be reasssured by. And Harold Allanson draws cartoons to die for.  --Anne Hammick, Rear Commodore, Ocean Cruising Club. Author of Atlantic and Mediterranean Cruising Guides and 'Cruising on a Budget'