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World Cruising Essentials: The Boats, Gear and Practices That Work Best at Sea [Hardcover]

Jimmy Cornell (Author)

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Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: McGraw Hill Higher Education (Mar 2003)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0071414258
ISBN-13: 978-0071414258
Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 19 x 1.8 cm

Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

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This comprehensive third volume in Jimmy Cornell's acclaimed and successful World Cruising series is the ultimate authority on boats, gear, and techniques for long-distance cruising under sall. Distilled from surveys of 15,000 sailors by the world's leading promoter of blue-water voyaging, it answers in detail the most frequently asked questions on world cruising, including what boats people are sailing, what navigation and seamanship practices work best, what equipment is really essential, and more.

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Jimmy Cornell has run numerous transatlantic and around-the-world rallies over the last 20 years. One of the few sailing writers to command a global audience, he is the guru of long-distance sailors. His sailing references include World Cruising Routes, Fifth Edition (International Marine, 2002), and World Cruising Handbook, Third Edition (International Marine, 2001).

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2.0 out of 5 stars Jimmy Cornell Surveys Minted Yachties, 30 Aug 2009

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This review is from: World Cruising Essentials: The Boats, Gear and Practices That Work Best at Sea (Hardcover)

If you are of the cruising financial elite then this book might help you. It is essentially a compendium of the results of surveys Jimmy Cornell has completed on the equipment and other cruising choices made by members of the various yachting rallies. Since these generally wealthy people represent a fairly narrow band of the cruising spectrum the results are of questionable value to anyone outside of this privileged ilk.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent source of information, 3 Nov 2004

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This review is from: World Cruising Essentials: The Boats, Gear and Practices That Work Best at Sea (Hardcover)

Cornell offers his own viewpoints as well as those of others, does a good job of labeling facts vs. options, and answers a lot of questions I had about cruising. Safety equipment, storms, piracy, dangerous areas, firearms, and communications are all covered well. Common equipment failures are given, along with statistics to back them up. For example, how often does the mast of a cuising yacht really fail, and how?

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2.0 out of 5 stars Zaggats of cruising, 14 July 2006

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I am not a world cruiser and have only ventured a few miles from shore and then not too far from the other side of the sound within which we sail every summer. This book was a disappointment. It is basically a distillation of the periodic surveys the author conducts of people who cruise in small yachts either on their own or as part of an offshore rally such as the ARC. The problem for me is that the book amounts to a collection of advice, not from people who necessarily know that much about cruising, but instead from those it was convenient for Cornell to interview. It's like a Zaggat guide, filled with lots of pepole's opinions but not necessarily people who know anything about food. Frankly, I don't know enough to judge whether this interviewees ideas are right on, or that interviewees ideas are nonsense-- that's not my point. I was looking for a single authoritative voice, not a report on what a collection of people with the funds and gumption to cross oceans happen to believe. This one is going back.

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1.0 out of 5 stars A statistical report. Name misleading., 11 Mar 2007

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I was disappointed buying and reading this book. From its name, I was sure that the book tells you what BEST WORK AT SEA. I found it gives statistics of many boaters most of them amateurs, using this or that equipment. Implying, that what all amateurs and others are doing is the best. I bought the book to know what Jimmy cornell thinks is best. The problem with amateurs, and I am one of them, that we get fludded by info from manufacturers, and "Friends". There is a lack of professional advise in these areas.

Dan

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