Sail Away : How to Escape the Rate Race and Live the Dream Paperback / softback

by Nicola Rodriguez

Part of the Skipper's Library series

Paperback / softback

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Description

You long to escape the daily grind, buy a boat and sail away.

This book will inspire your dreams and show you how to turn them into a reality – be it an extended cruise or years away.

Written by a yachting journalist who has sailed away for 8 years, together with the contributions of 100 other blue-water cruisers, there are tales a plenty of what it is like to do it from around the world – west, east, north and south.

There is also practical advice on everything from choosing a boat to crossing oceans.

You’ll be guided through each step of the preparation before casting off on your adventure of a lifetime.

There’s information on everything the would-be blue-water sailor needs to consider, including safety, communications, children, ocean passages and budgeting.

Learn about routes and destinations around Europe, the Caribbean, the Pacific and beyond to help you cruise the Mediterranean or Baltic, cross the Atlantic or circumnavigate the world.

Colour photographs and charts will inspire and inform in this essential guide for the 21st century blue-water sailor.

Fully updated for 2019 with new sections on visiting the Baltic and high and low latitudes.

Contributors include John Ridgway, Jeanne Socrates, Tom Cunliffe, Ellen Massey Leonard, Behan Gifford, Nigel Wollen, Andrew Wilkes, Jane Russell and Jeremy Wyatt.