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Ready for Sea!
How to Outfit the Modern Cruising Sailboat and
Prepare Your Vessel and Yourself for Extended Passage-Making & Living
Aboard
By Tor Pinney
Illustrations by Bruce Bingham
Ready for Sea! is a comprehensive handbook on how to prepare a
sailboat for extended cruising as well as for living aboard. The author
considers the equipment, systems and modifications that will transform a
basic sailboat—one already operational and of sound construction—into
a long range cruiser. There is a wide range of topics covered, from the
bare essentials to improvements on deck and below deck to safety afloat,
electronics, and much more.
Ready for Sea! is well balanced, very accurate, reliable and
exceedingly accessible. Pinney's voice is laidback and engaging. The
author's own cruising boats have ranged from engineless wooden boats to
systems-intensive contemporary boats, and his experience is broader than
that of most cruisers. This is the perfect book for those who are thinking
about converting a boat for use as a long-term cruiser.
"...Pinney delivers the goods [and] will make you smarter about what
to look for.... The organization flows, the tone engages, and the prose
explains without re-reading." —Sailing magazine
"If you're planning on cruising, or dreaming of it, then this book
should certainly be on your reading list." —Good Old Boat
"Even if you aren't planning to live aboard
any time soon, the book offers enough projects to keep you or your yard
busy with improvements for a long time to come." —Soundings
About the Author:
Captain Tor Pinney, now a yacht broker, is a U.S. Coast Guard licensed
Ocean Master, a former Caribbean offshore delivery captain and charter
skipper. He has lived aboard sailboats much of his life and has logged
nearly 150,000 nautical miles under sail. His articles have appeared in
national boating magazines—here and abroad—including Cruising World,
SAIL, Yachting, Ocean Navigator, Cruising Helmsman,
Motorboat and Yachting, Yachting World and many others. He
lives in Barrington, Rhode Island.
256 pp. 20 line drawings, 10 b&w photos. March 2002. Paperback. $23.95
ISBN 1-57409-144-1
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