Cruising Under Sail has for many years enjoyed a considerable reputation as an important work which covers every practical aspect of cruising for the beginner and expert alike. The author's unrivaled experience in long-distance cruising has commanded an enormous following of dedicated readers and his sensible, practical approach to sound seamanship has great appeal to those wishing to learn and improve the art of safe cruising. Cruising Under Sail combines Hiscock's classic books, Cruising Under Sail and Voyaging Under Sail. Topics include: stability; cockpit and steering arrangements; lighting, heating, and ventilation; choice of rig; the care and repair of sails; avoiding collisions; weather; tides; coastwise navigation; steering in heavy weather; self-steering; pilot charts; provisioning; celestial navigation.

Cruising Under Sail

Sports & Outdoors

Hiscock, Eric

Water Sports

McGraw=Hill

Fully illustrated guide to the practical details of ocean sailing provides information on the most recent technical developments in hulls, rigging, sails, and navigational aids

Voyaging Under Sail

Oxford University Press

Provides a practical handbook for sailors by presenting information on the yacht and her gear, seamanship, navigation, voyaging, safety, ship maintenance, and flags and signals

Cruising Under Sail: Incorporating "Voyaging Under Sail"

Religion & Spirituality

Islam

Sou'West in Wanderer IV

Eric Hiscock has had rich adventures in his life under sail--circumnavigating the globe no less than three times.  In addition, his works Voyaging Under Sail and Cruising Under Sail provide the definitive references for ocean sailing.  In this book, he recounts more of his travels in the Wanderer, in an exciting, informative account.

Sou'west In Wanderer IV

Adlard Coles Limited

Wandering Under Sail

Adlard Coles Ltd.

Hardcover with dust jacket. Two Yachts, Two Voyages relates the trials and tribulations of long-time blue-water sailor Eric Hiscock.

Two Yachts, Two Voyages

Travel

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

Format Paperback Subject Sports Recreation Boating

W.W.Norton&Company

BELLS OF HELL GO TING-A-LING-A-LING

Corgi

Around the World in Wanderer III

This classsic sailing narrative tells the story of Eric Hiscock and his wife, Susan, who in 1952 set out from Yarmouth, England, in their 30-foot sailing yacht Wanderer III. Just under three years later they arrived back at Yarmouth, having circled the globe by the way of the West Indies, the Panama Canal, Tahiti, Samoa, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Ascension, and the Azores, with many other ports of call in route.

Biographies & Memoirs

Ulverscroft

Though they had sailed twice round the world in their 30 foot yacht WANDERER III, Eric and Susan Hiscock had never visited the United States. They decided to sail there, via the Caribbean, spending two years on the round voyage. Eric Hisc

Atlantic Cruise In Wanderer III (U)

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Books by Hiscock, Eric

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Cruising Under Sail

Voyaging Under Sail

Cruising Under Sail: Incorporating "Voyaging Under Sail"

Sou'west In Wanderer IV

Wandering Under Sail

Two Yachts, Two Voyages

Two Yachts, Two Voyages

BELLS OF HELL GO TING-A-LING-A-LING

Around the World in Wanderer III

Atlantic Cruise In Wanderer III (U)