Offers practical guidelines for handling the problem of food at sea, giving tips on storing fresh food, shopping in a foreign country, outfitting a galley, cooking in rough weather, and cooking for a longdistance racing crew

The Care and Feeding of the Offshore Crew

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Lin Pardey

Larry Pardey

Cooking Methods

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

This work tells of the Pardeys' seven-year voyage from California through the Panama canal, then through the Caribbean to the Azores and England in their 24-foot cutter "Seraffyn". It provides a guide to living on a small boat with fun and economy and includes the Pardeys' cruising guide survey.

Cruising in Seraffyn: The Story of a Seven-Year Cruise

Sports & Outdoors

Miscellaneous

Seven Seas Press

The pleasures and adventures of cruising under sail are amazingly affordable, say Lin and Larry Pardey. But to keep your dreams on budget, financially, emotionally, and timewise, you have to decide - are you a cruiser or a consumer? Topics covered include making your getaway plans to finding a truly affordable boat, keeping your outfitting costs and maintenance time in control, then learning to feel confident as you cruise farther ahead.Their chart of the gear considered necessary by many shoreside experts, compared to that carried by several cost conscious cruisers, will give you a convenient checklist to gauge whether you are buying true necessities or overloading your budget and boat with high-tech items."Written by experienced cruisers (over 30 years) and authors (10 books) ...it is sure to provide answers to important questions about choosing the cruising lifestyle. -Cruising World

The Cost Conscious Cruiser

Water Sports

Paradise Cay Publications

Seraffyn's Oriental Adventure

Since it was first published in 1980, The Care and Feeding of Sailing Crew has become the preferred resource for cruising sailors-whether they're planning a weekend afloat or a round-the-world voyage. Two circumnavigations and 185,000 miles of voyaging have given Lin and Larry Pardey an ideal vantage point for sharing useful information on all aspects of preparing for an enjoyable life aboard. This unique volume covers everything from outfitting a galley to organizing meals safely in rough weather; from controlling seasickness to creating the right conditions for a well-rested crew. Filled with useful recipes and guide lines for provisioning for a first voyage or reprovisioning along the way, it is useful for both neophytes and experienced voyagers. Even those unlikely to cross oceans will be intrigued by the sailing stories used to make this an amazingly readable book.The completely revised and expanded third Edition, includes new information on nutrition, on waste disposal,on entertaining afloat and on the current ways to handle finances, officialdom, and the paperwork of cruising to foriegn destinations.

The Care and Feeding of Sailing Crew

Pardey Books

Including stories from paradise and hard-won lessons in seamanship,Taleisin s Tales reflects back to the first miles Lin and Larry Pardey gained together on their second boat one they built lovingly with teak carvel planking over sawn black locust frames. The book begins with the boat launch and the transition from their cherished Seraffyn, and includes details from outfitting, provisioning and final detailing during the early months Lin and Larry spent getting to know their new bluewater cruiser, as well as moments of melancholy as they let go of attachments to their first trusty boat that took them around the world. The story takes the reader through those initial cautious 1000 coastal miles between California and the Sea of Cortez, discussing everything from sail handling to dinghy racing to the relative luxuries of bicycles and a custom-built sitztub. It reveals surprising and pleasant engagements with other sailors and locals along the Baja peninsula. Then it launches the reader across the Pacific, sailing with the Pardeys on Taleisin s first offshore leg to French Polynesia, through the Cook Islands and Tonga, then on to New Zealand, where they eventually made their new home. In the style readers have come to know through the Pardeys ever popular Cruising in Seraffyn series and Lin s award winning Bull Canyon, this book relates stories sometimes harrowing, sometimes cautionary, sometimes hilarious and often heart-warming, especially when it comes to encounters with the people of the South Pacific who become family. If there is a lesson to be gained from reading Taleisin s Tales, it s that slowing the pace and taking each day as it comes brings unexpected moments of clarity and joy. And that sailing across an ocean on a small boat is not easy but, with the right partner and attitude, can be beautifully rewarding. Taleisin s Tales takes the reader from Bull Canyon, California, to Kawau Island, New Zealand, where, after 28 years of voyaging on Taleisin, Lin and Larry now spend their time running a small nautical publishing company and managing a very small boatyard, puttering about on their fifteen-foot Herreshoff sloop and reflecting on their five decades of bluewater cruising.

Taleisin's Tales - Sailing towards the Southern Cross

L&L Pardey Publications

Let Cruising in Seraffyn introduce you to a special world. The first of a four-book series, it is full of the sights, sounds and people of Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the islands of the Atlantic Ocean. Read how Lin and Larry built their wooden 24-foot engineless cutter and set off hoping for a few months of true freedom in spite of limited finances. Share their excitement as they learn how to earn as they go and sail ever further afield. These two persuasive sailor/writers set out convincing arguments to get you chasing your dream sooner than you think be it exploring the world under sail or adventuring towards any new goal. A favorite of sailors and armchair sailors for over four decades, this book is more than a first-rate tale and love story; it is also a carefully thought-out guide to living aboard a small boat, with fun and good seamanship as guiding principles. This tribute edition, created by Lin to honor Larry, includes a new foreword, updated appendices and a color insert showing Seraffyn during her circumnavigation and afterwards, under the guardianship of subsequent owners which proves that Larry really did build her to last for 50 years or more. Lin's fresh faced style makes this subject comprehensible and absorbing to a landlubber. - New York Times Book Review Loaded with practical cruising advice, interesting anecdotes, and sometimes even excitement and suspense. - Library Journal An acute observer and fine writer. Their life on Seraffyn is at a level of simplicity and self-releance that Thoreau would findadmireable. - Philedelphia Enquirer

Cruising in Seraffyn, Tribute Edition

This impressive volume shows the process of constructing a boat hull with extensive photographs and drawings and includes ample time-saving procedures. Larry Pardey is accepted as one of the master craftsman of the wooden-boat building world. He and his wife, Lin, have built two, strong, handsome boats an sailed twice around the world in them. This book will help you to save money, time, and energy while creating the boat of your dreams. This book will also guide you with the right tools and equipment, planning and detailing as well as how to create and make your own tools. Guides to repairing and maintaining your boat are included as well. A world of useful information is contained in just these 448 pages.
The ongoing success of Details of Classic Boat Conctruction, which is now a standard text book in many boat building schools, has prompted us to issue a special 25th Anniversary Edition with a new foreword by the well respected boatbuilder, voyager and nautical writer, Thies Matzen.

Details of Classic Boat Construction - 25th Anniversary Edition

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

The fear of storms has kept many otherwise competent sailors from venturing into the open ocean. This book explores the myths that have sprung up about ways to bring small boats through storms and shows tried and true methods that work for all types of sailing vessels. Special sections explain storm sail design, sea-anchor technology and tips for preventing gear failure at sea. Included are a series of check lists designed to help potential voyagers chose, then outfit their boat for safe voyaging plus others to prepare them as a storm actually approaches and reassure them once they are in the midsts of heavy winds and seas. Marrio Vittone, a U.S. Coastguard Rescue Swimmer for 14 years, in an unsolicited testimoney, wrote: "I have been on several rescues (and heard of many more) that would have been completely unnecessary if the sailboat captains aboard would have practiced the skills taught by Lin and Larry Pardey. Not knowing how to heave-to in bad weather is as inexcusable as not knowing 'red, right, return'."

Storm Tactics Handbook: Modern Methods of Heaving-to for Survival in Extreme Conditions, 3rd Edition

Science & Math

Earth Sciences

The Capable Cruiser is a logical extension of the Pardeys' The Self-Sufficient Sailor (978-0964603677), with more emphasis on seamanship underway, including careful analysis of extreme anchoring situations and solutions for mitigating them. Underlying each and every chapter is the warmth and encouragement that spurred Herb McCormick, former editor of "Cruising World" magazine, to label Lin and Larry Pardey "the enablers." This revised and expanded third edition of a cruising classic includes 10 completely new chapters with such advice as: 16 ways to encourage your lover (partner) to share your dream; strategies for turning sudden engine failure into a minor incident; choosing safety equipment and repairing rigging at sea. All of the original chapters have been updated to ensure that the information will be helpful for everyone who dreams of cruising-whether now or in the near future.

The Capable Cruiser

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

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