For a safe, comfortable, and more enjoyable passage, we heartily encourage the skipper and crew to attend the Ocean Sailing Seminar. It will save you time and money.
Advanced Bluewater Sailing
By Hal Sutphen
In an easy-to-use format, ADVANCED BLUEWATER CRUISING first outlines key differences between coastal and offshore cruising, offers some sound criteria for selecting a boat, and presents the pros and cons of major equipment options. Following chapters include such practical topics as voyage planning, fear as a guide to action, the skipper as leader, crew responsibilities and routines, watch-standing, managing personal affairs (mail, money, bills, emergency contacts), provisioning, stowage and cooking, medical preparedness and more. The weather and up-to-the minute communications sections will help in interpreting weather systems and in using today’s onboard communications tools to get the best forecast information. Sail selection, care and trim chapters will prove useful both before and during ocean passages.
The special direct from the publisher price is $20 US. Simply send check with name and address for shipping and the book will be sent postage paid to anywhere in the US. Make payment to Cruising Rally Association. You can also call in your order with a mastercard or visa to 757-788-8872.
The book is intended primarily for newer bluewater cruising sailors. It will prove useful as well for more experienced offshore cruising sailors. It is a great presentation of all the fundamentals that every sailor should know before heading out on an offshore passage. And there is much up-to-the-minute information on this ever-changing subject. It will make an ideal gift, and its handy size (7x9 1/4", softcover, 320 pages) makes it suitable for home and shipboard use.
Author USN Capt. Hal Sutphen, Former Educational Director of the Cruising Rally Association
2930 Chesapeake Ave., Hampton, VA 23661
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