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Summary: An excellent addition to your pre-cruising bookshelf
Review: A good book if you're planning a cruise. Anne does a good job of laying down some guidelines for future cruisers, and although the dollar figures are a little out of date the information is no less valuable.
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Summary: How to buy and equip an offshore sailboat for ocean passages
Review: Althought this book is interesting it really doesn't cover the subject of budget the way I had hoped. Most of the information in the book has been written before by many others and so I found it to be a little redundant.
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Summary: Not much about Budget!
Review: Althought this book is interesting it really doesn't cover the subject of budget the way I had hoped. Most of the information in the book has been written before by many others and so I found it to be a little redundant.
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Summary: How to buy and equip an offshore sailboat for ocean passages
Review: Many people who dream about voyaging with their own sailboat lose their dream as they wait to get enough funds together to actually buy a boat and the time to live aboard without an income. This book describes how you can buy and refit an older, seaworthy sailboat, and how to budget your funds while underway. Probably the most important lesson from this book is the basic equipment and skills required as a minimum for offshore travel by sailboat. Anne's book explains the most likely method for a cruiser on a budget to successfully break ties from land: through the purchase of a used, fiberglass monohull sailboat of about 30 feet in length. Her focus is on sailing from the British Isles to the Carribbean, and other parts of the Atlantic. The discussion includes what needs to be done to the typical "classic plastic" sailboat to make it ready for an Atlantic Crossing. After reading this book, you will want to move on to other books which focus on the details of navigation, provisioning, maintenance, etc., but this book will give you an excellent overview and help you build your plan.
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Summary: Nice title, shame about the content
Review: Plenty of general information is presented in a reasonably fluid style, but when it comes to the nitty gritty - like costs, as mentioned by another reviewer, Anne Hammick takes the easy route. The book is also beginning to date, and some of her admitted personal bias is even less appropriate now than it was when the book was first written. A capsize phobia is understandable (I suffer vertigo myself) but to dismiss multihulls so casually indicates a partiality that defeats the object of a book with this title. For example, a snide comment about Wharram cats spending time on the beach reveals her ignorance of the prime uses of shallow-draught multis. If you are already determined to go cruising in the exact same manner as Anne Hammick, this book will reinforce your decisions, but it lacks the balance and depth to be a serious work of reference. Could do better.
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Summary: Nice title, shame about the content
Review: Plenty of general information is presented in a reasonably fluid style, but when it comes to the nitty gritty - like costs, as mentioned by another reviewer, Anne Hammick takes the easy route. The book is also beginning to date, and some of her admitted personal bias is even less appropriate now than it was when the book was first written. A capsize phobia is understandable (I suffer vertigo myself) but to dismiss multihulls so casually indicates a partiality that defeats the object of a book with this title. For example, a snide comment about Wharram cats spending time on the beach reveals her ignorance of the prime uses of shallow-draught multis. If you are already determined to go cruising in the exact same manner as Anne Hammick, this book will reinforce your decisions, but it lacks the balance and depth to be a serious work of reference. Could do better.
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