Your First Atlantic Crossing 4th edition
eBook - PDF

Your First Atlantic Crossing 4th edition

A Planning Guide for Passagemakers

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Your First Atlantic Crossing 4th edition

A Planning Guide for Passagemakers

About this book

Answering all of the important questions, this book shows not just how to sail an ocean for the first time, but also how to enjoy it. There are insights into the social as well as nautical reality of preparing the boat, the comfort of having highly detailed plans, the inside story of life with a crew, coping with unexpected gales and calms, the live-or-die decision to keep watches or not and the ports of call from Spain to Tobago via the Atlantic islands and West Africa. This fourth edition has been substantially expanded, with extra information on: - types of boat, anchoring, sleep and watch keeping
- weather and climate, and the impact of Atlantic weather systems on timings and conditions of crossings
- latest developments in technology (navigation, self steering, equipment)
- alternatives to the standard routes across
- sailing back from the US to the UK - this edition will get you home! 'I shall enjoy dipping into this dream maker, time and again...an excellent guide to the planning of your Atlantic crossing. Read all the other books but keep this one beside you'
Cruising Association 'Offers down to earth advice based on hard-won experience'
Yachting Monthly 'Covers everything the novice sailor needs to know for a voyage across the Atlantic'
Practical Boat Owner

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Introduction
  7. CHAPTER 1 GETTING PAST GO
  8. CHAPTER 2 THE BOAT
  9. CHAPTER 3 THE CREW: STILL WORKING ON IT
  10. CHAPTER 4 PASS AGE PLANNING
  11. CHAPTER 5 WEATHER AND CLIMATE
  12. CHAPTER 6 SHAKEDOWN CRUISES
  13. CHAPTER 7 AFRICA – A BRIEF DIVERSION
  14. CHAPTER 8 SAILS – SO MANY
  15. CHAPTER 9 MEDICINE – SO LITTLE
  16. CHAPTER 10 ENTERTAINMENT – SO SIMPLE
  17. CHAPTER 11 LINGERING IN THE CARIBBEAN
  18. CHAPTER 12 HEADING FOR HOME
  19. CHAPTER 13 IS THAT IT?
  20. Appendix 1: Petronella
  21. Appendix 2: SOLAS and So On
  22. Appendix 3: Measures of Wind Strengths
  23. Appendix 4: Coping with Heavy Weather
  24. Appendix 5: Reading List
  25. Index