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by
Greg Soroka (Author)
The author shares practical experience learned during violent gales at sea and in high latitude coastal anchorages, as well as an action plan to greatly diminish the possibility of damage to the vessel, it is equipment, or book contains fifteen chapters which span a single-handed sailor’s life long self teaching program including a coastal sailing period followed by two offshore training voyages and finally a third offshore voyage which entailed a nine-year circumnavigation passing south of South America, Africa, Australia, and north to the Bering Sea before returning to the west coast of book includes technical details of the necessary coastal and offshore skills oriented towards high latitude exploration in both hemispheres resulting in a capability which permits the mariner to successfully experience both pristine and severe gales at sea and at skills will include sail handling, vessel defensive postures, and heavy weather survival techniques including a detailed discussion concerning 7 South Indian Ocean Jordan series drogue book also contains details concerning the authors lifelong interest in botany, birding, geology, and indigenous book is a how-toof single-handed sailing which is a challenging and gratifying lifestyle. In the pursuit of this relatively environmentally neutral lifestyle, the mariner must possess a considerable amount of skill, experience, courage, and daring.
Number of Pages: 336Dimensions: 0.75 x 8.5 x 5.5 INPublication Date: December 23, 2020
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