Catamaran Crossing A Sailing Adventure From La Coruna To Antigua
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| Author | : Douglas Carl Fricke |
| Publisher | : Allodium Chase |
| Total Pages | : 136 |
| Release | : 2020-02-28 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 0979996775 |
The 1st Place Winner in the 2020 PenCraft Awards for Non-fiction, in the Travel Adventure category. It all starts with a simple plan. Take a three-week vacation in the summer. Fly to the Canary Islands to meet up with friends and help sail their new catamaran across the Atlantic. As it turns out, the vacation needs to be extended. Meeting up with friends is not so simple and the last part of the plan… The story follows the tried-and-true monomyth plot structure. In the departure part of the narrative, the protagonist lives in his ordinary world and receives an invitation to go on a long distance sailing trip. At first he is reluctant, but a friend and mentor persuade him to go for it. The initiation section begins when he arrives in the Canary Islands, where he faces tasks and trials. Far offshore, he eventually reaches the central crisis of his adventure, the storm, where he and his friends are pushed to their limits. For days, they sail through the storm and later are rewarded with perfect weather conditions as they make their passage across the mid-Atlantic. The protagonist then returns home with a greater appreciation of his ordinary world. Written by an author with undoubted credentials, the intriguing tale offers interesting tidbits along the way. The book's foreword is a fitting endorsement written by renowned boat designer John Shuttleworth, an expert in the field.
| Author | : Nicola Rodriguez |
| Publisher | : Fernhurst Books Limited |
| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 2011-12-09 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 1119952581 |
You long to escape the daily grind, buy a boat and sail away. This book tells you how to turn your dreams into a reality. There is practical advice on everything from choosing a boat to crossing oceans. You'll be guided through each step of the preparation before casting off on your adventure of a lifetime. There's information on everything the would-be blue water sailor needs to consider, including safety, communications, children, ocean passages and budgeting. _x000D_Learn about routes and destinations around Europe, the Caribbean, the Pacific and beyond to help you cruise the Mediterranean, cross the Atlantic or circumnavigate the world. Colour photographs and charts will inspire and inform in this essential guide for the 21st century blue water sailor.
| Author | : Douglas Carl Fricke |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 170 |
| Release | : 2020-01-12 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 9780979996788 |
The novella Catamaran Crossing follows the adventure of sailing friends as they take delivery of a new boat in England and cross the Atlantic. Of course, the exploration is met with a nasty storm. You knew it would. Mr. Fricke fills the intriguing tale with interesting tidbits along the way. His goal is to offer insights to sailors planning to venture far offshore.
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| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 1816 |
| Release | : 1992-01 |
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| Author | : Cecil Kuhne |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 364 |
| Release | : 2008-03-11 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 0307389308 |
“The wind was blowing at hurricane strength-sixty-five knots and over-and increasing in the gusts to eighty knots. His boat was surfing on waves as high as a sixty-foot, six-storey building. . .Each wave that struck choked and froze him, the icy water working its way down inside his survival suit.” —from Close to the Wind by Pete Goss In Near Death on the High Seas, Cecil Kuhne collects some of the most terrifying and astounding experiences of sailors confronting the awesome, raw power of the sea. These tales-filled with everyday heroes and survivors-comprise a riveting and often breathtaking collection of extraordinary stories that show the terrible ferocity of the untamable ocean. Also featuring: • Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki- the historic and celebrated journey of the Kon-Tiki as it journeys across the Pacific. • Steve Callahan's Adrift- a solo sailor loses his boat in the Atlantic must survive in a five-foot life raft for 76 days, fighting off sharks with a makeshift spear. • Francis Chischester's 'Gipsy Moth' Circles The World-the stirring story of a one man's solo sail around the globe at age 65. • John Rousmaniere's Fastnet, Force 10-in one of the worst sailing tragedies in history, a massive rescue operation takes place amidst sixty-knot winds and forty-foot breaker waves.
| Author | : Chris Doyle |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 436 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : |
Fair winds and fine cruising is author Chris Doyle's wish for readers of this popular, newly updated guide to the 10 island nations of this enchanting Caribbean chain.Doyle's background in research makes this volume rich in practical details; yet its tone is conversational. His is also an intimate knowledge, gathered from more than 20 years of live-aboard Caribbean cruising on his Carib 41 Helos, a former charterboat.The Leewards are a cultural and topographic mix, and Doyle addresses them by geographical grouping. The Renaissance Islands (St. Martin, St. Barts and Anguilla), an economically strong bareboating enclave, offer short cruising passages and a wide choice of anchorages. The Islands That Brush the Clouds - a volcanic chain strung between Saba and Montserrat - present cruisers with a variety of channels and terrain. Most broadly strewn are the Islands of Mountains and Mangroves, a patchwork chiefly of rugged rainforest and exotic fauna, guarded in spots by spectacular reefs.The southern Leewards in particular have cried for reliable charting. Doyle provides aid throughout, using GPS coordinates, a trove of charts and color maps. All are cross-referenced with the newly released Caribbean Yachting Charts, exactingly detailed and available through Cruising Guide Publications. Spectacular photographs add a visual feast.Onshore accommodations, transportation, communications, entertainment and provisioning are also addressed throughout the guide, and in an exhaustive directory by island and service type.
| Author | : Steven Callahan |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins |
| Total Pages | : 259 |
| Release | : 2002-10-17 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 0547526563 |
Before The Perfect Storm, before In the Heart of the Sea, Steven Callahan’s dramatic tale of survival at sea was on the New York Times bestseller list for more than thirty-six weeks. In some ways the model for the new wave of adventure books, Adrift is an undeniable seafaring classic, a riveting firsthand account by the only man known to have survived more than a month alone at sea, fighting for his life in an inflatable raft after his small sloop capsized only six days out. “Utterly absorbing” (Newsweek), Adrift is a must-have for any adventure library.
| Author | : Cornelis CH. Goslinga |
| Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
| Total Pages | : 600 |
| Release | : 2018-02-26 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1947372734 |
The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida’s long history of publishing Latin American and Caribbean studies titles that connect in and through Florida, highlighting the connections between the Sunshine State and its neighboring islands. Books in this series show how early explorers found and settled Florida and the Caribbean. They tell the tales of early pioneers, both foreign and domestic. They examine topics critical to the area such as travel, migration, economic opportunity, and tourism. They look at the growth of Florida and the Caribbean and the attendant pressures on the environment, culture, urban development, and the movement of peoples, both forced and voluntary. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series gathers the rich data available in these architectural, archaeological, cultural, and historical works, as well as the travelogues and naturalists’ sketches of the area in prior to the twentieth century, making it accessible for scholars and the general public alike. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series is made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, under the Humanities Open Books program.
| Author | : Frederic Abildgaard Fenger |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 426 |
| Release | : 1917 |
| Genre | : Antilles, Lesser |
| ISBN | : |
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| Author | : Tom Cunliffe |
| Publisher | : Sheridan House, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 184 |
| Release | : 2004-10 |
| Genre | : Reference |
| ISBN | : 9781574092035 |
A handbook on sailing classic boats by the 'guru of gaff-rig sailors', replete with illustrations and clear descriptions of techniques that are unique to the classic boat world.
