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For blue water cruisers wanting encylopaedic information about routes and destinations, you can do very well by going to Jimmy Cornell's web site at http://www.noonsite.com. It appears to be quickly reactive to new information and is certainly up-to-the-minute for New Zealand waters.
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OCCUPATION CIRCUMNAVIGATOR.By Lars Hassler. Paperback, 157mm x 233mm, 277 pages, colour photos.
Lars Hassler originally only intended to sail for three years, but ten years later he returned - with a wealth of experience, many new friends and memories, and the knowledge and anecdotes that he shares in this entertaining and inspiring book. By using his funds judiciously and topping them up taking charter guests on cruises, Lars was able to entend his journey, and here he shows how anyone can circumnavigate (or sail for an entended period) without huge funds. Woven into the book is advice on:
In other words, the practicalities that everyone needs to know. With its gorgeous photo section, practical advice on planning and financing such a venture, fascinating accounts of the places visited and a helpful final chapter on 'After the Circumnavigation - What Next?', this is a hugely enjoyable read for anyone thinking or dreaming about an extended cruise.
NZ$50.00 + Delivery.
CHOOSING A CRUISING POWER BOAT CD.By Bruce Roberts-Goodson. Book on CD.
Included in this CD are 15 chapters and two appendix:
NZ$80.00 + Delivery.
VOYAGING ON A SMALL INCOME, Second EditionBy Annie Hill. Pbk, 215mm x 275mm, 208 pages, monochrome photographs, drawings and plans.
This well known book deals with the business of sailing in its broadest context, and on the way poses a number of serious questions about the true priorities of life for the long-distance sailor.
It describes the practicalities and concepts of "alternative lifestyling" as applied to live-aboard cruising by the author and her partner. This will appeal to the experienced and practiced cruiser as well as the novice starting to learn and plan. The book is controversial, never-the-less it has in good demand which is the best recommendation that it can have.
NZ$75.00 + Delivery.
OFFSHORE YACHTS, Desirable and Undesirable Characteristics.By The Technical Committee of the Cruising Club of America. Softback, 170mm x 240mm, 310 pages, monochrome photographs and drawings.
No less than 850 years of sailing experience and more than 750,000 miles collectively of blue-water experience have gone into this authorship of this book! This makes it the most authoritative manual available on today's cruising boats and their equipment.
Amongst fourteen contributors are:
Also covered are seaworthy hull design, comfortable interiors, reliable hardware and five detailed studies of optimum boats for offshore sailing.
NZ$90.00 + delivery.
THE SEAWORTHY OFFSHORE SAILBOAT, a Guide to Essential Features, Gear and Handling. By John Vigor. Pbk, 185mm x 235mm, 232 pages, monochrome drawings.
All sailors want to believe that their boats can go anywhere and stand up to anything. Who knows when you might get caught by bad weather? It's enough to worry about your own responses without having the integrity of the boat weighing on your mind as well. This book explains feature-by-feature how to refit your boat for worry-free cruising.
Everything is covered from structural modifications and reinforcements to rigging, engine systems and gear. Such processes as navigation and voyage preparation are also covered.
NZ$55.00 + delivery.
THE SAILING COMPANION.By Miles Kendall. Hbk, 126mm x 195mm, 157 pages, monochrome drawings.
This book is for anyone who has been to sea - from a passenger on a ferry to the captain of a racing yacht. It explores the mystery and the magic involved in voyaging on the ocean, and laughs at some of the silly things that sailors do.
Cast off among these pages and you'll discover a treasure trove of nautical knowledge including :
...and over 500 more fascinating facts and yachtsman's yarns to enlighten and entertain.
NZ$20.00 + delivery.
CHOOSING A CRUISING SAILBOATBy Roger Marshall. Hbk, 190mm x 240mm, 214 pages, monochrome drawings.
The right sailboat is a joy, but the wrong sailboat can be a source of unmigitated grief. The acid test of any boat is how it behaves underway - and whether it's the right boat for how you sail and how you live on board.
In this illustrated guide to cruising sailboat design, Roger Marshall shares the benefit of his designing and seagoing expertise to help you understand your options and make the right selection. Find out how to judge...
Marshall even includes a 12-page table rating 130 popular production sailboats for speed, seaworthiness, comfort, and other attributes.
The Complete Guide to Choosing a Cruising Sailboat will provide you with a thorough understanding of how cruising sailboats are shaped by their intended uses. Its clear, expert guidance will help you choose a boat that fulfills your sailor's dreams.
NZ$68.00 + Delivery.
THE CRUISING WOMAN'S ADVISOR. 2nd EditionBy Dianna Jessie. Pbk, 140mm x 214mm, 242 pages.
How to prepare for the voyaging life.
The cruising life offers adventure, exotic destinations, and expansive opportunities for personal growth. But considering such a life leads to vexing questions: What do I need to learn? What to do if my partner falls overboard? How will our relationship be tested at sea? Let longtime cruiser and circumnavigator Diana Jessie start you on the journey of a lifetime with her advice on:
Plan for smooth cruising with advice from Sally Bee Brown, a contributing editor to Passage Maker magazine; Carol Cuddyer, cofounder of Sea Sense, a sailing and powerboating school for women; Dawn Riley, noted America's Cup and Whitbread sailor; Patience Wales, two-time circumnavigator and editor emeritus of SAIL; and thirty other cruisers. This updated edition also contains information on powerboating (including choosing between power and sail), cruising with pets, and satellite communication.
NZ$36.00 + Delivery.
CHANGING COURSE.By Debra Ann Cantrell. Pbk, 186 pages.
Are you thinking of going cruising? Alone? With a partner or friends? Have you considered all that you need to? What about the safety drill? Finances, and careers? This in the most thought provoking and informative guide that one could read on what to expect when considering the cruising lifestyle. All important information has been covered. A fascinating book- If you don't read it before you go your brain is bigger than mine!
NZ$30.00 + Delivery.
THE VOYAGERS HANDBOOK.By Beth A Leonard. Hardcover, 2240mm x 282mm, 574 pages, monochrome photographs, drawings and plans.
This inspirational and comprehensive manual leads you step by step through every aspect of choosing, planning, and following the voyager's life. Using three example boats representing three cruising lifestyles - Simplicity, Moderation , and Highlife - Beth Leonard helps make your bluewater dreams come true, whether you're sailing on a shoestring or a CEO's pension.
Starting with the things you can't do without - an enthusiastic crew, a seaworthy boat, and of course, money - Leonard offers sage advice on how to select crew-members who are truly committed to the voyage, how to choose the right boat for you, and how to find just the right approach to financing your voyage and making the most of every dollar spent.
Managing life from a floating home and keeping that home livable, seaworthy, and safe requires you to become, among other things, the ship's purser, engineer, doctor, cook, and cruise director. You'll discover how to prepare for these new roles and put necessary equipment and arrangements in place before you untie your docklines.
This exquisitely detailed guide also helps you master the skills you'll need to handle a boat at sea with a small crew, including:
Complete with easy-to-use graphs and tables for quick reference, along with the hard-won wisdom of the experienced cruisers, this book is the ultimate resource for anyone who is planning, preparing for, or just dreaming about a great adventure on the high seas.
NZ$80.00 + Delivery.
ALL IN THE SAME BOAT.By Tom Neale. Pbk, 137mm x 209mm, 376 pages, monochrome photographs.
This book is one family's testament to the belief that you can lead your own life. For the Neales, moving aboard was a way to take control of their world and their environment. Here is how they did it, and how you can do it too, with hard-won tips, practical suggestions, and life lessons on how to:
NZ$35.00 + Delivery.
SELL UP AND SAIL Fifth Edition, Pursue The Dream.By Bill and Laurel Cooper. Pbk, 160mm x 235mm, 378 pages, full colour and monochrome photographs and drawings.
This is an old favourite and on the basis that in this business people vote with their feet, this book should be highly regarded by anyone wanting pre-voyaging advice. The publication is in its ninth printing since the first in 1986 and this edition was first published in 2005.
The book is described as a complete kit for the cruising lifestyle. Whether short or long term it tells you all that you need to know and at what stage you need to know it.
The narrative moves from the practicalities and pitfalls of early retirement, choosing a boat to live in, looking after her on the move, organising finances, preventing ill-health afloat, and choosing suitable cruising grounds. It covers the thorny problems of achieving successful crew interaction and provisioning in far-flung places.
This latest edition has added material describing coping with recent far-reaching changes in bureaucracy, navigation and communications which have changed the life of the typical long-term cruiser.
NZ$65.00 + delivery.
SLOW TRAVEL.By Mari Rhydwen. Pbk, 140mm x 208mm, 255 pages.
Leaving behind the security of a normal life can be surprisingly easy, helped by the gravitational force of romance and adventure. Mari Rhydwen and her husband packed up their lives, bought a yacht and sailed the Indian Ocean for three years, setting out with no real experience in sailing. They just started at the beginning and followed their dream of heading into the sunset.
Their journey unfolds into one of discovery. It's about living on water, eating the freshest sashimi ever, visiting places that don't make it into the travel guides and letting go of those potent markers of personal identity such as work and material possessions. It's about learning to sail, learning to be self-sufficient and almost learning to be brave. It's about being bored, exhausted and utterly terrified, and finding out that the good life is not always where we expect to find it.
Travelling slowly is not so much a way to get somewhere - it's a way of being.
NZ$33.00 + delivery.
YOUR FIRST SAILBOAT.By DANIEL SPURR. Pbk, 185mm x 230mm, 271 pages.
Monochrome photographs and drawings.
This is the first book to answer all your questions about selecting, buying, maintaining, and using your first boat. This user-friendly guide covers issues that other books ignore, including how to choose between a trailer sailer, daysailer, raceboat, cruiser, or multihull; what hull material is best for your first boat; whether to nuy new or used; where to shop; how to judge quality and condition; where to keep your new boat; and what to do about gear, loans, insurance, and annual maintenance. Special features of this all-in-one handbook include:
Straightforward and fun, this book gives you just what you need to stop asking questions and start sailing. Everything else is optional. Save money. This book omits everything you don't need to know.
NZ$35.00 + delivery.
REACH FOR THE SEA DVD.By Lane and Kay Finley. DVD, run time 87 minutes.
Most of us have dreamed of cruising offshore on our own sailing yacht, visiting exotic islands and learning about different cultures or just experiencing the freedom this life offers. This film gives a clear understanding of what needs to be considered in the process of reaching for that dream, whether you are an experienced sailor or an armchair sailor.
The Finley's have cruised extensively over nearly three decades. They bring us a film full of fascinating information through interviews with cruisers, well known yacht designers, sailmakers and boat builders. They know the questions we want answered.
This documentary will bring you closer to the cruising life, its realities, difficulties and beauty. The well organised view of what needs to be considered when preparing for this adventurous lifestyle is well presented in an exciting and interesting style.
NZ$40.00 + delivery.
KEN'S CRUISING YACHT.By Ken Hellewell. Paperback, 135mm x 213mm, 125 pages, monochrome photos and drawings.
If the dream of sailing to faraway places has lodged itself into your soul, this book is for you. While it is directed toward the world cruiser it contains invaluable information for every sailor.
There are more exhaustive volumes on the market but none so clearly nor concisely address a beginning cruiser's questions. Ken quickly and efficiently cuts through the oceans of information and gets right to the heart of the most critical issues.
Consider this book your personal one-on-one conversation with a solo circumnavigator. This is the advice Ken would offer if you met him on a dock and asked him some questions.
NZ$43.00 + delivery.
SUSTAINABLE SAILING.By Dieter Loibner. Paperback, 148mm x 227mm, 210 pages, monochrome photos and drawings.
Sailing is by nature a sustainable activity, but polluted waters and crowded marinas, boatyards, and anchorages are signs that problems must be addressed in order to keep it that way. Sailors pump sewage overboard and burn fossil fuels that pollute water and air. They use toxic paints to retard marine growth and stuff their boats with gadgets that devour electricity, which often comes from coal-fired power plants. And where do all the plastic boats go once they have reached the end of their useful life?
"Going green" is becoming the norm, while "staying dirty" will become increasingly expensive, inconvenient and eventually obsolete. This book is a good start, because it builds awareness, suggests solutions, and promotes best practices. It shows sailors how to reduce their carbon footprint and lessen their impact on the environment as well as how to be a positive force for change.
"This book offers readers insight on boat design, construction and operation. The author makes suggestions on how to turn sailing into a more sustainable activity, from modifying personal behavior to commissioning a carbon neutral custom yacht and everything in between. By putting it all in one place he's done us a great favor."
NZ$45.00 + delivery.
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