This is the story of a man and his wife who sailed 17,000 miles in two and a half years, from California to New Zealand and back.

Sail before sunset

Hinz, Earl R.

D. McKay

The fifth edition of this sailing standard includes updated charts and text reflecting changes in regulations and facilities for most countries and specific ports of entry. New appendices include procedures for entry to Australia, which are more exacting than most Pacific landfalls, and an extensive list of information sources: cruising guidebooks, important general tourist guides, chart suppliers, and key web sites for the countries covered by Landfalls of Paradise.

Landfalls of Paradise : Cruising Guide to the Pacific Islands

Travel

University of Hawai‘i Press

"The only complete cruising guide to the islands of the Pacific . . . a must." ―Islands "A trove of information for the cruiser planning to set sail for the Pacific. . . A very readable, easy-to-follow guide." ―Santana The fifth edition of this sailing standard includes updated charts and text reflecting changes in regulations and facilities for most countries and specific ports of entry. New appendices include procedures for entry to Australia, which are more exacting than most Pacific landfalls, and an extensive list of information sources: cruising guidebooks, important general tourist guides, chart suppliers, and key web sites for the countries covered by Landfalls of Paradise.

Landfalls of Paradise: Cruising Guide to the Pacific Islands (Fifth Edition (Latitude 20 Books (Paperback))

Engineering & Transportation

Howard, Jim

Transportation

University of Hawaii Press

Understanding Sea Anchors and Drogues

Sports & Outdoors

Rhodes, Dick

Water Sports

Cornell Maritime Pr/Tidewater Pub

The Complete Book addresses anchoring systems, techniques, and permanent moorings for boats from twelve feet to eighty feet in length. It covers monohulls, multihulls, light displacement sail-boats, cruisers, sportfishers, passagemakers, and workboats. In short, it is for all recreational and working boats in this size range.The book deals not only with anchor behavior, but also with the rode assembly, riding stoppers, and the human factors. What formerly was thought of as strength through size (heavy anchors and large rodes) has been refined to decrease weight, lighten loads on the boat, and reduce difficulty in handling.The revised second edition introduces some new ground tackle components that will assure the ground tackle system retains compatible strength and performance. Two interesting rode design changes have been added: the use of galvanized High Test chain, which can relieve the weight in the bow of the boat and improve performance, and the use of direct rope-to-chain splices in a combination rode to replace the bulky and heavy anchor shackle joint of old. Also added are three new anchor designs: Barnacle, Bulwagga, and Spade.

The Complete Book of Anchoring and Mooring

The Complete Book of Anchoring and Mooring addresses anchoring systems, techniques, and permanent moorings for boats from twelve feet to eighty feet in length. It covers monohulls, multihulls, light displacement sailboats, cruisers, sportfishers, passagemakers, and workboats. In short, it is for all recreational and working boats in this size range. Since the last printing of this book a number of revolutionary anchor concepts have appeared on the boating scene. These unique designs have shown exceptional performance when compared by a renowned testing agency with their contemporaries. Changes made to this revised second edition ensure its continued role as the state-of-the-art source book for the boating world.

Cornell Maritime Press

Over many years of cruising the Pacific Ocean the author has stopped at many islands and ports which never get much attention in the more formal guidebooks. Pacific Wanderer gathers a variety of short stories together on these rarely-visited and sometimes hard to get to places. They range from the Eastern Pacific Outliers of Clipperton, Cocos and Juan Fernandez (remember Robinson Crusoe?) to mysterious Palmyra, Howland and Nauru to islands made famous by World War II such as Truk, Midway, and Wake. 
Photos abound including one of the infamous Quinn's Bar on the old colorful Papeete waterfront. Other photos of nostalgic South Seas history are shown such as Aggie Grey's Hotel in Apia and the Banana Court Bar in Rarotonga. You can read about the stone money of Yap, native handicrafts of many islands, the French prison on the Isle of Pines (another Devils Island!), Abemama atoll where Robert Louis Stevenson lived for a time and the ancient stone ruins of Nan Madol on Pohnpei. 
Visit dozens of rarely visited islands in the Pacific from the comfort of your armchair. Chartlets for most along with supplementary material on Pacific weather, pirates and tsunamis. A 300-page review of Oceania as few know it.

Pacific Wanderer

Wescott Cove Pub Co

The New Landfalls of Paradise: The Guide to Pacific Islands : Covering 32 Island Groups Including Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia and the Other Islands

Australia & South Pacific

Western Marine Enterprises

Few of us can or even want to relate to the drama of fact and fiction seen in THE PERFECT STORM, yet the coastal and offshore waters in which we do our recreational boating often serve up storms of a magnitude that can make a believer out of the hardiest skipper. Even an imperfect storm can be a demanding exercise best handled with practical survival seamanship skills combined with a modern drag device. 
Boating literature is replete with incidents wherein sailors are unexpectedly put in a survival situation while pursuing their recreational adventures and many are found wanting in survival skills. Without those skills and not having a drag device on board when the chips are down, they find few survival options left other than prayer. When you go offshore be a little pessimistic and consider drag devices before you leave the dock--for afterwards may be too late. Avoid becoming a storm statistic like the ANDREA GAIL.

Heavy Weather Tactics Using Sea Anchors & Drogues

Paradise Cay Publications

The Offshore Log (Rev)

Reference

Catalogs & Directories

C Plath North Amer Div of

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