- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Adlard Coles Nautical (31 Mar 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0713651024
- ISBN-13: 978-0713651027
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,721,826 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"The wide range of topics covered her serve more to direct the yachtsman reader's attention to what matters most, rather than to instruct in detail." Nautical Magazine (June 2008)
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'Offers down-to-earth advice, based on hard-won experience' Yachting Monthly
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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Got this book from a friend who came out to Oz to sail the Tasman with me and she thought I needed to be up to speed on crew handling and night watches and heavy weather but not so that my conversation suffered, hence her choice of this little book. I read it at one sitting and so did my dad.
This book is about sailing any ocean and not just for first timers. I've done a lot of crossings between Oz and NZ and read a lot of the main authors but this little book is the one I'd read over because it just made me want to get right back on the boat and go. I can think of plenty of experienced sailors who should read this before they ship a crew again.
The practical stuff is spot on, as you'd expected from someone who sailed the atlantic, but so too is the thought he's given to what was good and bad with his passage making. We can all learn from this but it's good to leaarn from such a witty writer.
This book is about sailing any ocean and not just for first timers. I've done a lot of crossings between Oz and NZ and read a lot of the main authors but this little book is the one I'd read over because it just made me want to get right back on the boat and go. I can think of plenty of experienced sailors who should read this before they ship a crew again.
The practical stuff is spot on, as you'd expected from someone who sailed the atlantic, but so too is the thought he's given to what was good and bad with his passage making. We can all learn from this but it's good to leaarn from such a witty writer.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I agree with the review I read in the Cruising Association magazine - read lots but keep this book on the top of your pile to inspire and focus you. The comments on routes, equipment and so on are very practical. I really enjoyed reading about what the sea and weather were like - a glipmse of reality. The advice on living with crew are the most thoughtful and thought-provoking I have read anywhere. Wow! A bad crew is hell, a good crew is heaven, but whichever you get depends on the skipper. I hope to be like the author and get to the other side still on speaking and partying terms with mine. I had planned to cross from the Canaries till I read the author's comments on Africa. Like him, I plan to make this trip a complete adventure. Best of all in this book is the re-assurance and comfort that I don't need to be one of sailing's heros to sail the Atlantic.
Read it, give it to your friends to help them understand you and your dream, and to your crew as part of THE PLAN!! I didn't know I needed THE PLAN till I read this book. And the illustrations are inspired - my congrats to the illustrator especially for the one "sailing in moonlight bright as the day".
Now excuse me, I really must go sailing.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I think this is a great little book. Its a bit like a novel - strong story line, packs a punch, some very funny moments as well as some hair raisers. It also echoed with a lot of what I discovered about the ocean and myself when I sailed from Europe to Antigua. The crew section is great - wish I'd had it while we were sailing!! The advice about watch keeping is exactly right. I felt for them all at the near miss with the monstrous Cape Verde fishing boat.
I gave the book to my father in law - a non-sailor - and he couldnt put it down, so I guess it has very wide appeal.
The author is right to say you must read lots of books, not just his. I read plenty 'cos that's an essential part of the preparation, and I read some of the same ones he mentions. Read them all, but especially read his cos it captures the experience for "an ordinary Joe".
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Great book
Great book - so much to think about for this journey but this was a great read packed with honest insights and a trusty peek into what lies ahead!...
Published 10 months ago by Rissy
Did not help me prepare
Did not help me prepare at all.
This book is a very personal view with little or no guidance on the important things like. How to plan a route. Read more
This book is a very personal view with little or no guidance on the important things like. How to plan a route. Read more
Published on 10 Oct 2009 by C. Price
Great title, shame about the content!
Planning a trip to the Azores next spring and just bought this book. What a waste of money!
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The title sounds great! Read more
Published on 23 Sep 2009 by Kath Mcnulty
A really great read!
I bought this on this on recommendation was delighted I did.
Highly recommended, a great and honest account clearly written in a easy to read style with some nice touches of... Read more
Highly recommended, a great and honest account clearly written in a easy to read style with some nice touches of... Read more
Published on 22 Jun 2009 by Mr. C. F. Slinger
buy thebook and do the trip
Shame about Stan's review. I hope it doesn't put people off this book `cos then it might put people off making their first Atlantic crossing too and I, like the author, think this... Read more
Published on 5 Jan 2008 by sunshine sailor
Chatty, anecdotal and amusing but thin on facts.
I really wouldn't recommend this book above any others out there, it's an occasionally amusing read for the armchair sailor but contains very little concrete information to anyone... Read more
Published on 4 Jun 2007 by Stan
get it and just go
I met the author in Spain last year. If it hadn't been for his advice I would never have gone to the Gambia and seen the hippos. Read more
Published on 22 Sep 2005 by Paul
A load of experiences, a little planning
Crossing the Atlantic must be a life marking experience and everyone serious about sailing must have thought of it at least once. Read more
Published on 5 Dec 2000
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