by Lin & Larry Pardey

The pleasures and adventures of cruising under sail are amazingly affordable but to keep your dream on budget, financially, emotionally, and timewise, you have to decide - are you a cruiser or a consumer? Chapters on getting the most from your cruising funds, the attributes of successful long term voyagers, how to upgrade your boat using your own hands, plus answers to the ten most frequently asked questions by potential cruisers.

352pp, casebound

By Ray Burke and Sandra Buchanan

This book discusses many of the pertinent issues from budgets to buying equipment, to preventative maintenance and heavy weather sailing. Special reference to the ORC Category 1 requirement.

Pb 344p

by Anne Hammick

This book has been highly praised as an essential guide for all those planning a blue water voyage, whether on budget or not. Advice is given on choosing a suitable boat and equipment, combining safety with enjoyment, shorthanded watchkeeping, handling funds, budget provisioning, storage, and replenishing the kitty on route.

208pp 20 line drawings and 20 b/w photos (paperback)

RRP £18.99 OUR PRICE £14.99

by Lin & Larry Pardey

This book is the distillation of what the Pardeys have learned in eleven years of world voyaging. First, they tell how they sailed in comfort and safety without large cash outlays - on a pay-as-you-earn-as-you-go plan and by simplifying. A sailor who relies on expensive equipment is risking disaster. A sailor's reliance must be on a self first, and on electronics and mechanics last.

312pp, b/w photos and diagrams, casebound

by Bill and Laurel Cooper

The bible for short or long term cruisers. All you need to know - the pitfalls of early retirement, choosing a boat to live in, looking after her on the move, financial organisation, preventing ill health, choosing suitable cruising grounds, deep sea voyaging, GPS, communications. This book will show you how to get it right before you go and ensure your chosen life is as relaxed, enjoyable and stress free as possible. It has been completely updated for this new edition.

352pp 40 b/w photos, colour photo section, 5th ed. 2005, pbk.

RRP £19.99 OUR PRICE £15.99

by Annie Hill

How to get the right boat, prepare it and organise the financial side of life, so that most people can accommodate the cost. 'Within its pages lie some of the most wonderful descriptions of what ocean cruising should be about.' Journal of the RCC.

200pp, line and half tone illustrations

RRP £14.95 OUR PRICE £11.99