All About Cruising: Prepare Yourself - Equip Your Boat - Plan Your Escape - Live Your Dream - Softcover

Gleckler, Walter E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0966141636 ISBN 13: 9780966141634

Publisher: Passagemaker Pubns, 1998

Synopsis

This book is for all the people who yearn to escape society's web and follow their cruising dreams. It is written by a veteran voyager with generous contributions from his first mate, Anna. The author shows how to break free from shore and set your course for distant landfalls. He describes the adjustments necessary to live a cruising lifestyle. Anna discusses personal relationships and life aboard a small cruising boat. It runs the gamut-from finding the proper boat, to tying the proper knot, to cooking and provisioning, to check-in procedures and finances, to medicine and communications, to dinghies and heavy weather, to pirates and guns. Few texts are as user friendly or as well grounded in practical and essential cruising advice. A definitive guide for offshore and coastal cruising. Good for cruising powerboats too. 150 photos and graphics.

About this title

From the Author:

All About Cruising lays out the steps to prepare for successful cruising-from the initial dream, through vessel selection and preparation, to the attainment of necessary boating skills. A large pool of essential information is common to all successful cruises and this information and the necessary crew skills must be acquired before departure. My hope is that this book will help you start or continue the process of voyage preparation that will lead you to the fulfillment of your cruising goals.

About the Author:

For most of his life, Walt Gleckler has been drawn to the sea-first in dinghies, and then for years of competitive sailing in keel boats. At some point he started to dream of distant shores and began the transformation to cruising sailor. A sabbatical cruise to the South Pacific only wetted his appetite. He returned to his Southern California teaching position at Orange Coast College in the mid 1970's to find a growing interest within the boating community for training in marine subjects. Eventually, he developed a dozen different courses for boaters and cruisers. For more that 20 years he has coordinated the Sailing Adventure Series that brings well-known cruising personalities to the college stage. During those years, Walt with his wife Anna, led more than a score of flotilla, charterboat-cruises to international locations-from Turkey to Australia. Retirement finds him even more active in boating activities. Only recently the Glecklers returned from a five year cruise aboard their 37' sloop, Passage. And now here's-All About Cruising.

About this edition

• Publisher: Passagemaker Pubns
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0966141636
• ISBN 13: 9780966141634
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Campbell Marty
• Illustrator: Cahill Sean J.