Atlantic Sailor's Handbook

Based on the author''s Sailing an Atlantic Circuit, this practical, how-to guide to the planning, preparation and execution of
a passage is both a helpful and an inspirational book for
all sailors considering an offshore or ocean passage.

A vastly experienced Atlantic ocean sailor, Alastair Buchan looks in
detail at three specific passages (a crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, a
passage from the Eastern Seaboard of the USA to the Caribbean, and
cruising around the Caribbean itself). The advice, ranging from
choosing/refitting a boat, insurance, safety, training crew and route
planning to watch keeping, weather routeing, heavy weather strategies
and disaster management, is applicable to any other open sea passage
and will be invaluable to any would-be long distance sailors.

Illustrated throughout with helpful diagrams, maps, and inspirational
photography, this is an essential handbook for all sailors aspiring to
make an offshore or ocean passage.

''An informative common sense approach...from decades of personal experience'' Dorset Echo

''A comprehensive user-friendly guide that will inspire any
armchair dreamer...thoroughly informative and entertainingly written'' Yachting Monthly