Sailor's Secrets contains over 1,000 tips, suggestions, evaluations, and nuggets of hard-won advice from more than 300 seasoned veterans.
Instructive, humorous, biting, and challenging, Sailor's Secrets can be opened anywhere and enjoyed.
Its wide-ranging chapters cover routine maintenance, understanding weather, safety at sea, storm strategies, piloting, engine troubleshooting, gear and outfitting, and simple solutions to complex problems.
Michael Badham and Robby Robinson have created the nautical equivalent of an experts' forum.
Don Casey, Dennis Conner, Bob Rice, Dave Gerr, Hank Hinckley, Bill Biwenga, Sheila McCurdy, Katy Burke, Meade Gougeon, Buddy Melges, Walter Greene, Steve Callahan, and a host of others share the insights they've developed over millions of sea miles.
About author(s): Michael Badham is a former British Royal Navy submarine commander and Caribbean charterboat owner and skipper.
In 1960, with his wife and children, he set sail for Australia but, like Columbus, fetched up on America, where he has dallied ever since.
Robby Robinson has been on the water for 50 years.
He has sailed with and raced against many of the experts in this book.
A former editor of SAIL magazine, he has cruised worldwide and lived aboard his sailboat with his wife and two children.
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