Passagemaking Handbook: A Guide for Delivery Skippers and Boat Owners - John Rains, Patricia Miller [1989, PDF]

Passagemaking Handbook: A Guide for Delivery Skippers and Boat Owners

Year: 1989
Language: english
Author: John Rains, Patricia Miller
Genre: Handbook
Publisher: Seven Seas Press
Edition: First
ISBN: 978-0915160990
Format: PDF
Quality: Scanned pages
Pages count: 326
Description: Whether you're contemplating your first overnight venture outside
protected waters or looking to hone your blue water cruising skills.
Passagemaking Handbook is the definitive reference.
Consider this: Most voyagers take months and sometimes years
planning, equipping, and provisioning their vessels for an extended
passage. Captains John Rains and Patricia Miller can prepare a boat for
sea in a matter of days; they've had to. their livelihood depends on it.
Professional delivery captains who have between them logged
more than 325,000 sea miles, Rains and Miller have worked full-time in
the business for 12 years with not one insurance claim against them. Their
wealth of knowledge is condensed here into thirty comprehensive
chapters, covering everything from preparing yourself and your vessel to
reading the weather, provisioning, stowing, standing watch, navigating,
and cooking.
Passagemaking Handbook includes routing information with
voyages
for the passage from Florida to California, a Rains and Miller
specialty. The authors also include their hard-earned opinions on what
to look for in both power and sailing vessels, and much more.
Whether you're interested in delivering yachts for a living,
breaking the hold of familiar waters for your first offshore overnighter. or
finally getting that long-planned bluewater voyage under way,
it is all here.

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