There Be No Dragons: How to Cross a Big Ocean in a Small Sailboat

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Sheridan House, Inc., 2004 - Sports & Recreation - 224 pages
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 are requisite for safe sailing.
 

Contents

First Hurdles The Sea and You Fear and Trepidation
18
The Technical Literature of the Sea The Ten Classic Errors
46
Getting Crew
61
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105
6
145
7
161
InspectionMaintenanceRedundanceRepairDo Without
175
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189
Visas and Passports Adjustments and Expectations
208
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About the author (2004)

After a highly successful career as an art dealer, Reese Palley embraced retirement with a vengeance, making a fifteen-year circumnavigation aboard his 46-foot Ted Brewer-designed sailboat, Unlikely VII. He is the author of several books, including Unlikely Passages and Unlikely People, and has contributed articles to numerous sailing magazines. When not at sea, he lives in Philadelphia or the Florida Keys.

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