This book is what the title says. It is the distillation of what the Pardey's have learned in 150,000 miles of sailing on board their two cutters, Seraffyn and Taleisin, and on scores of other boats they have delivered or raced. Lin and Larry tell how they have sailed in comfort and safety without large cash outlay- on a pay-as-you-earn-as-you-go plan and by simplifying.In its first edition, this invaluable text has seen nine reprints. Now Lin and Larry have updated and revised the information to make it current and a valuable edition to any sailor's library right up to the millennium.

The Self-Sufficient Sailor

Sports & Outdoors

Larry and Lin Pardey

Water Sports

Paradise Cay Pubns

A Dolphin Book Club "Main Selection, " The Capable Cruiser illustrates how successful cruising is the result of a combination of factors including a homogeneous crew, proper preparation, solid gear, regular maintenance and exemplary seamanship. This book is the sequel to The Self Sufficient Sailor. This is indeed the global bible of cruising sailors.

The Capable Cruiser: The world's best known cruiser-writer team shows how to cruise with precision, pleasure, and self-sufficiency

Lin Pardey

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

Pardey, Larry

Pardey, Lin

LIN.

A comprehensive book explaining the use of the 2102D star finder, and the many applications it offers in planning navigation. Its numerous examples and diagrams make it a most definitive treatment. In addition to a description of the star finder and its basic use, the book covers: brightness and color of stars, planet identification, choosing optimum star-moon-planet combinations, choosing time between sunlines and running fixes, and emergency steering. This book is an indispensable companion to the star finder itself.

The Star Finder Book: A Complete Guide to the Many Uses on the 2102-D Star Finder

Engineering & Transportation

Burch, David

Transportation

The Cruising Chef Cookbook is the best-selling, most extensive sailors cookbook ever written. Twenty two years in print and ten reprints make it clear that sailors consider it essential equipment.

Cruising Chef Cookbook, 2nd Edition

Michael Greenwald

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

The definitive Guide for San Francisco Bay. In this updated and expanded second edition, this comprehensive cruising guide includes four more destinations outside the Bay: Pillar Point Harbor, Drakes Bay, Bodega Harbor, and Tomales Bay. For the more than 70 destinations covered, the authors give detailed instructions on how to get there safely, where to anchor or tie up, and what to do there.The Mehaffys have updated the information about the marinas and anchorages. Includes 30 harbor diagrams, over 200 photos. Indispensable for Bay boaters.

Cruising Guide to San Francisco Bay

Travel

Mehaffy, Bob

Reference

Letters to children who have never been sailing written aboard the sailing yacht Northern Light during an 8,000 mile ocean voyage. The author describes life aboard a small sailboat in mid-ocean, close to birds, dolphins and sea life of all kinds.

Letters from the Sea: Written Aboard the Sailboat 'Northern Light' During a 61-Day Ocean Voyage

Children's Books

Shapiro, Deborah

Animals

Captain Spears examines the procedures prescribed in 46 CFR Part 16 and 49 CFR Part 40 as they pertain to the collection of drug test specimens from licensed mariners. Drug Testing explains random, reasonable cause, and pre-employment testing procedures; analyzes legal cases; and discusses employer-generated pre-termination (discharge) hearings.46 CFR Part 16 and 49 CFR Part 40 appear in the Appendix in their entirety, a savings of nearly $60. A must for every mariner subject to being tested for dangerous drugs!

Drug Testing: What Every Mariner Should Know About Chemical Tests for Dangerous Drugs

Spears, Alan E.

Specialties

An expos? of commercial and recreational shipboard jobs. A practical reference for job-seeking mariners describing various methods of finding work in the industry.Shipping Out contains a plethora of current hard-to-find information, as well as actual letters from shipping companies and cruise lines.The Appendix lists companies with names of contact persons, Coast Guard Exam Centers, maritime unions and personnel agencies. It also contains information on obtaining a Merchant Mariner's Document (Z-Card) from the U.S. Coast Guard."Unless you are a maritime academy graduate," the author warns, "pursuing a career in this industry is no simple matter..."

Shipping Out (Sea Code)

Business & Money

Job Hunting & Careers

1996 Nautical Almanac: Commercial Edition

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