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| The Voyager's Handbook: The Essential Guide to Blue Water Cruising | 
 enlarge | Author: Beth A. Leonard
Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
Category: Book
List Price: $34.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (40 reviews)
Sales Rank: 581072
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 448
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 7.7 x 1.3
ISBN: 0070381437
Dewey Decimal Number: 910.202
UPC: 639785800026
EAN: 9780070381438
ASIN: 0070381437
Publication Date: January 1, 1998
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Product Description
Here's how to see the world from your boat. More and more people are taking off on their cruising boats for a few months or even a year. After they've tasted the cruising life, prepared and equipped their boats, and developed some experience, many cruisers begin to dream of voyaging farther--maybe even an around-the-world voyage. The Voyager's Handbook offers specific information for cruisers considering such a vast undertaking. An experienced circumnavigator, author Beth Leonard shows cruisers how to prepare their boat and themselves. She offers complete, up-to-date information on the latest gear and techniques and detaile, hard-earned advice from dozens of experienced sailors, about boats, crew, and costs as well as crucial but easily overlooked aspects of long-distance passagemaking such as health, safety, weather, provisions, fresh water, and foreign port protocol. With a balanced, down-to-earth approach, The Voyager's Handbook tells it like it is, for any cruiser considering that voyage of a lifetime.
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 Not for the first Book August 22, 2008
I was recommended this book for my wife for a woman's point of view to cruising, mine to which whom untill we purchased our boat had never set foot on a Sailboat. Having several years experience myself this book would be more suited to me then to her.
Very in depth and informative. But not a first read if your trying to excite or more importantly ease the seemingly complex nature of sailing vessels or going to sea. This book will do the opposite and overwhelm the Newbie wife.
Get something different first ...then come back for this one way latter once the hook for saling live is firmly set.
 A must read for anyone thinking of cruising July 28, 2008
This is one of a very short list of outstanding cruising books. Anyone thinking of joining the world of cruising should be required to read it and keep it on board. It's full if valuable and current information as well as practical advice and wisdom that only comes from years of first hand experience.
Offshore Sailing February 10, 2008
Read this book because you do not want to reinvent the wheel the hard way. This book will provide you with years of experience and knowledge. This is an exceptional reference guide for sailors who want information from someone who has been there and done it. Beth goes into detail about planning, equipping, handling, and operating a sailboat for offshore trips to far away places. Beth has detailed information regarding all the important considerations. She also has a section about the mistakes that she and Evan made from time to time and how to avoid them.
 Very detailed but backward printed January 19, 2008
This book is very detailed in scope. My edition was printed backward(turn the pages from the back to the front). I suspect that the third edition has this straitened out. This book does not send you to other publications for detail. It gives it in the book. Otherwise it does get a little bogged down with the details. I would like to have this book on hand during the crossing to review the details.
How-To Cruising at It's Best November 28, 2007
If you are even just dreaming of someday, possibly taking off to see the world on a boat read this book first. Beth Leonard has experienced this life and kept track of what worked and what didn't. Her writing style is logical, fun to read, clear and concise. We are in the midst of outfitting a 1970's one-off in hopes of venturing across the Atlantic and her advice has been invaluable. Thank you, Beth! Buy this book. It is a real treat, even if you never get to go sailing.
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