Year: 1990 Language: English Author: Anne Hammick Genre: Handbook Publisher: A & C Black Edition: First ISBN: 978-0229118632 Format: PDF & DOC Quality: Scanned pages Pages count: 167 Description: Ocean Cruising on a Budget is intended as a guide for prospective blue water yachtsmen in particular those with little previous long-distance cruising experience and limited funds. Since the more you can stretch your budget the longer (and probably further) you can cruise. The author shows how a small yacht can be safe and seaman like while still limiting expenditure to the minimum both before leaving and along the way. Based on a lifetime of practical experience, Anne Hammick gives advice on choosing a suitable secondhand boat; locating equipment bargains; getting equipment priorities right (most importantly, not economizing essential safety gear in favor of unnecessary electronics); care and conservation in other to avoid expensive repairs; the human problems of living a board of small yacht; handling funds; coping with officialdom; budget provisioning and storage; and even possibilities of replenishing funds along the way. This is a wholly practical book, full of down to earth advice drawn from the author own first-hand experience.
You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum You cannot attach files in this forum You cannot download files in this forum
Ocean Cruising on a Budget
Language: English
Author: Anne Hammick
Genre: Handbook
Publisher: A & C Black
Edition: First
ISBN: 978-0229118632
Format: PDF & DOC
Quality: Scanned pages
Pages count: 167
Description: Ocean Cruising on a Budget is intended as a guide for prospective blue water yachtsmen in particular those with little previous long-distance cruising experience and limited funds. Since the more you can stretch your budget the longer (and probably further) you can cruise. The author shows how a small yacht can be safe and seaman like while still limiting expenditure to the minimum both before leaving and along the way.
Based on a lifetime of practical experience, Anne Hammick gives advice on choosing a suitable secondhand boat; locating equipment bargains; getting equipment priorities right (most importantly, not economizing essential safety gear in favor of unnecessary electronics); care and conservation in other to avoid expensive repairs; the human problems of living a board of small yacht; handling funds; coping with officialdom; budget provisioning and storage; and even possibilities of replenishing funds along the way.
This is a wholly practical book, full of down to earth advice drawn from the author own first-hand experience.
Contents
Screenshots
Ocean Cruising on a Budget
Download [8 KB]
Share