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There be No Dragons: How to Cross a Big Ocean in a Small Sailboat
Reese Palley
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Description for There be No Dragons: How to Cross a Big Ocean in a Small Sailboat
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 3 line drawings, 2 photographs. BIC Classification: WSSN3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 332.
Most sailors dream of journeying to foreign ports, but many are held back by fears both real and imagined. However, as Reese Palley explains, sailing close to the shore is considerably more dangerous than voyaging across the sea. There Be No Dragons is intended to encourage those timid of the deep oceans and to inspire the confidence necessary to set sail across the wide dark seas of the world. Palley completed a fifteen year circumnavigation and his essential and entertaining guide now available for the first time in paperback, discusses easily learned skills and inexpensively acquired equipment, all of which ... Read more
Most sailors dream of journeying to foreign ports, but many are held back by fears both real and imagined. However, as Reese Palley explains, sailing close to the shore is considerably more dangerous than voyaging across the sea. There Be No Dragons is intended to encourage those timid of the deep oceans and to inspire the confidence necessary to set sail across the wide dark seas of the world. Palley completed a fifteen year circumnavigation and his essential and entertaining guide now available for the first time in paperback, discusses easily learned skills and inexpensively acquired equipment, all of which ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Lanham, United States
ISBN
9781574091830
SKU
V9781574091830
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Reese Palley
After a highly successful career as an art dealer, Reese Palley embraced retirement and nautical life with a vengeance, making a fifteen -year circumnavigation aboard his 46-foot Ted Brewer designed sailing boat, Unlikely 11. He is author of several books including Unlikely Passages and Unlikely People, and has contributed to numerous sailing magazines.
Reviews for There be No Dragons: How to Cross a Big Ocean in a Small Sailboat
..a delightful blend of information and stories, with emphasis on the human aspect of sailing. Witty, irreverent, and inspirational with as much 'why to' as 'how to'.
Cruising World
.funny, raucous, insightful, anarchistic, entertaining, instructional; seamanship with a difference
Wooden Boat
Cruising World
.funny, raucous, insightful, anarchistic, entertaining, instructional; seamanship with a difference
Wooden Boat