Since its original publication in 1980, this unique volume has become the favored resource for cruising sailors. Decades of offshore living experience have given the Pardeys a perfect vantage point for providing useful, up-to-date information on all facets of preparing for a blue-water adventure, from outfitting a galley to cooking in rough weather, scheduling and planning meals with individual health needs taken into account, avoiding sea-sickness, disposing of trash, and handling the many other challenges faced by onshore and offshore sailors. In this revised and expanded Second Edition, Lin Pardey has incorporated new information on nutrition, responding to sailors' increased interest in healthful eating. In addition, she has brought her years of travel experience to bear in providing useful advice on what foods are most readily found in a given region of the world. The Care and Feeding of Sailing Crew is an invaluable, delicious-recipe-filled resource for the onshore and offshore sailor.

Product Description: Lin and Larry Pardey s first book, Cruising in Seraffyn is credited with launching 50,000 dreams. This third book in the Seraffyn series chronicles the three years spent exploring Ulysses wine-colored sea and clearly illustrates how they kept that dream afloat...read more

Product Description: Skimming before caressing tradwinds, savouring tropical landfalls, evading stormy seas - such is the image of the cruising lifestyle, but it can be so much more. Join Lin and Larry Pardey, winners of the CCA Far Horizon Award as they recount some of their most memorable adventures during more than 40 years of cruising...read more

Product Description: Since it was first published in 1980, The Care and Feeding of Sailing Crew has become the preferred resource for cruising sailors-whether they're planning a weekend afloat or a round-the-world voyage. Two circumnavigations and 185,000 miles of voyaging have given Lin and Larry Pardey an ideal vantage point for sharing useful information on all aspects of preparing for an enjoyable life aboard...read more

Product Description: Before you dream of crossing oceans, join Lin and Larry on board Taleisin in Fremantle Australia as they demonstrate gear storage for offshore voyaging, dinghy choices, life-raft storage, storm trysails and other valuable hints to help you prepare...read more

Product Description: A fun and exciting guide to the world of living out at sea. This book will teach you what you need to know inorder to live safely, economically and cheaply when spending moths at sea. If nothing else, this book will send you chasing for your dreams, whether it be to take an adventure at sea or just about anyhting else...read more

With the aid of instructive diagrams and photographs, this guide describes how to build the hull of a wooden sailing boat. It contains advice on time planning, the selection of materials, design considerations, yacht-construction rules, special tools and the finances involved. (view table of contents)

The author of Communion recounts a summer forty years ago that he spent attending a secret school in the woods near San Antonio, and how this experience prepared him for his encounters with extraterrestrials later in life. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Tells how to choose a boat, and discusses cruising costs, children, first-aid kits, insurance, useful equipment, buoyancy, emergency situations, and personal cruising experiences

Product Description: The Care and Feeding of the Sailing Crew is adapted from one of Lin and Larry Pardey's best selling books and is based on their more than 25 years of bluewater sailing experience. Drawing on the Pardeys' wealth of knowledge about living aboard a small sailboat, this video will provide you with advice on everything to do with the crew's safety, well-being, and health...read more

Product Description: Voyage along with Taleisin to some of the most isolated coral atolls in the world and learn about tradewind passagemaking. Information on prudent seamanlike approaches to coral atolls, navigating in coral, caring for sails in rolling heavy seas...read more