'What Jimmy Cornell doesn't know about cruising isn't worth knowing' - Yachting World One of the most influential cruising yachtsmen writing today, Jimmy Cornell has sailed over 200,000 miles on all the oceans of the world, including three circumnavigations and voyages to the Arctic and Antarctic. His successful guide to sailing around the world, World Cruising Routes, has helped many aspirational voyagers turn their dreams into reality and follow in his footsteps. This substantial new handbook profiles every cruising destination in the world and is intended as a partner to Cornell's bestselling World Cruising Routes. Every destination is detailed comprehensively, with information on cruising attractions, history, culture, climate(including average monthly temperatures and rainfall, plus tropical storm seasons), local laws, regulations and formalities, facilities available, plus public holidays and events, emergency telephone numbers, and much more. Lavishly illustrated throughout, it is not only a must-have onboard reference work for long distance sailors, but will undoubtedly inspire the adventurous to sail where they have never sailed before.
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'Only Jimmy Cornell could displace the one cruising guide every cruising vessel has aboard. Without doubt the new World Cruising Destinations will find a place beside the venerable World Cruising Routes as the must have guide to world cruising. Nothing can replace experience as a teacher, and Jimmy Cornell's vast cruising experiences have made him the world's leading authority on world cruising!' 'This book is a tour de force covering all of the potential cruising grounds... for anyone contemplating an ocean cruise, chartering a boat or just dreaming, this is the book for you!' Cruising Association 'Why hasn't someone thought to write this brilliant book before? For long-range planning, it's a Godsend, comprehensively telling you everything you need to know to plan your voyaging.' Bernadette Bernon, Editor-At-Large, Cruising World 'Accurate, comprehensive and up-to-date information. Essential for cruisers worldwide, whether planning a circumnavigation or a two-week cruise.' Noonsite.com "An indispensable addition to the cruising sailor's library. Jimmy Cornell has unrivalled experience of cruising all over the world." Elaine Bunting, Yachting World "Chock full of what every cruiser needs to know, it will serve as the right hand guide for the serious cruiser and an inspiration to those who dream of sailing away." Barbara Theisen, Seven Seas Cruising Association "World Cruising Destinations should find a home in every seagoing library and will be a welcomed diversion for the shore-bound sailor who's longing for distant horizons." Mark Pillsbury, Editor, Cruising World "We just love this book, and we've already spent hours delving into it. For cruising sailors, this is perhaps the most awaited publications of the year." www.sailers.co.uk 'A must have onboard reference work for long distance sailors.' All At Sea - June 2010 'undoubtedly inspire' Yachting Life - June 2010 --Bob Bitchin, Latitudes & Attitudes Magazine
'This book is a tour de force covering all of the potential cruising grounds... for anyone contemplating an ocean cruise, chartering a boat or just dreaming, this is the book for you!' Cruising Association 'Why hasn't someone thought to write this brilliant book before? For long-range planning, it's a Godsend, comprehensively telling you everything you need to know to plan your voyaging.' Bernadette Bernon, Editor-At-Large, Cruising World 'Accurate, comprehensive and up-to-date information. Essential for cruisers worldwide, whether planning a circumnavigation or a two-week cruise.' Noonsite.com "An indispensable addition to the cruising sailor's library. Jimmy Cornell has unrivalled experience of cruising all over the world." Elaine Bunting, Yachting World "Chock full of what every cruiser needs to know, it will serve as the right hand guide for the serious cruiser and an inspiration to those who dream of sailing away." Barbara Theisen, Seven Seas Cruising Association "World Cruising Destinations should find a home in every seagoing library and will be a welcomed diversion for the shore-bound sailor who's longing for distant horizons." Mark Pillsbury, Editor, Cruising World "We just love this book, and we've already spent hours delving into it. For cruising sailors, this is perhaps the most awaited publications of the year." www.sailers.co.uk 'A must have onboard reference work for long distance sailors.' All At Sea - June 2010 'undoubtedly inspire' Yachting Life - June 2010 --Yachting Life - June 2010
'This book is a tour de force covering all of the potential cruising grounds... for anyone contemplating an ocean cruise, chartering a boat or just dreaming, this is the book for you!' Cruising Association 'Why hasn't someone thought to write this brilliant book before? For long-range planning, it's a Godsend, comprehensively telling you everything you need to know to plan your voyaging.' Bernadette Bernon, Editor-At-Large, Cruising World 'Accurate, comprehensive and up-to-date information. Essential for cruisers worldwide, whether planning a circumnavigation or a two-week cruise.' Noonsite.com "An indispensable addition to the cruising sailor's library. Jimmy Cornell has unrivalled experience of cruising all over the world." Elaine Bunting, Yachting World "Chock full of what every cruiser needs to know, it will serve as the right hand guide for the serious cruiser and an inspiration to those who dream of sailing away." Barbara Theisen, Seven Seas Cruising Association "World Cruising Destinations should find a home in every seagoing library and will be a welcomed diversion for the shore-bound sailor who's longing for distant horizons." Mark Pillsbury, Editor, Cruising World "We just love this book, and we've already spent hours delving into it. For cruising sailors, this is perhaps the most awaited publications of the year." www.sailers.co.uk 'A must have onboard reference work for long distance sailors.' All At Sea - June 2010 'undoubtedly inspire' Yachting Life - June 2010 --Yachting Life - June 2010
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Jimmy Cornell has influenced the contemporary cruising scene more than any other sailor. Thousands of sailors have fulfilled their dreams of offshore cruising with the help of Jimmy's books and by participating in one of his round the world rallies. He himself has sailed over 200,000 miles in all the oceans of the world, from Antarctica to the Arctic, including three circumnavigations. He is the author of World Cruising Routes, World Cruising Handbook and A Passion for the Sea, all published by Adlard Coles Nautical.
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World Cruising Destinations. While World Cruising Routes helps the sailors to reach their destination, they need information on their actual landfall. For this purpose Jimmy Cornell compiled twenty years ago the World Cruising Handbook providing the reader with essential information on the maritime nations of the world. To keep the information updated the Handbook mutated into www.noonsite.com in 2000 and the site became popular at once. The World Cruising Destinations now "attempts to add a dash of spice to such factual data", as the author puts it. The book covers 184 countries, half of which Jimmy himself has sailed to. The layout of the book is beautiful, the photographs alluring, and it contains all the basic information a sailor needs. This excellent guidebook is welcome both for those who arrive to the destination by own boat and for those who want to charter. The book makes up a gap, as local cruising guides are not often available in English.
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This is certainly an indispensable companion to World Cruising Routes [[ASIN:007159289X World Cruising Routes: Sixth Edition], "the Bible" of every cruising sailor. While WCR will help you to avoid being in the wrong place at the wrong time, WCD will tell you what you may find once you reach your destination. And this for 184 countries!! In addition this book is just beautiful. Superb photographs, excellent layout make it a joy to read. Don't leave port without it!
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Essential reference for world cruisers -- and for those who want to charter around the world
11 Oct 2010
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I've always carried and used Jimmy Cornell's books aboard my boat ever since I bought my first copy of World Cruising Routes in the 1980's to help us plan as we began cruising on our sailboat. Together his books serve as sort of a master cruising guide to the world: World Cruising Routes tells you how to get to wherever you want to sail and World Cruising Destinations gives you the information you will need once you get there.
World Cruising Destinations is a beautiful book. The photos are gorgeous, and the layout makes it fun to just pick up the book and read ... about Croatia, Spain, Cuba, the Falklands, Antarctica, or any other of the 184 sailing destinations that the book covers. World Cruising Destinations gives you the WHOLE world through a boater's eye, and of course, not just any boater's eye, but with Jimmy Cornell's decades of experience. It includes for each destination such information as country profile, map, climate, facilities, formalities, cruising guides, charter operations -- and best of all, an understanding of where and how you cruise that area. If you've ever wondered what it would be like to sail or charter anywhere in the world, well now you can find out. World Cruising Destinations is indispensable if you are planning to sail to foreign countries aboard your own boat. But it is equally valuable if you are interesting in chartering in interesting areas of the world - Destinations will give you the information to charter in the most popular chartering areas, but also introduce you to appealing areas you would otherwise perhaps never know about.
I highly recommend World Cruising Destinations! And because it is both so useful and beautiful, it also would make a great gift for a boater.
World Cruising Destinations is a beautiful book. The photos are gorgeous, and the layout makes it fun to just pick up the book and read ... about Croatia, Spain, Cuba, the Falklands, Antarctica, or any other of the 184 sailing destinations that the book covers. World Cruising Destinations gives you the WHOLE world through a boater's eye, and of course, not just any boater's eye, but with Jimmy Cornell's decades of experience. It includes for each destination such information as country profile, map, climate, facilities, formalities, cruising guides, charter operations -- and best of all, an understanding of where and how you cruise that area. If you've ever wondered what it would be like to sail or charter anywhere in the world, well now you can find out. World Cruising Destinations is indispensable if you are planning to sail to foreign countries aboard your own boat. But it is equally valuable if you are interesting in chartering in interesting areas of the world - Destinations will give you the information to charter in the most popular chartering areas, but also introduce you to appealing areas you would otherwise perhaps never know about.
I highly recommend World Cruising Destinations! And because it is both so useful and beautiful, it also would make a great gift for a boater.
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