Table of Contents

PrefaceChapter 1. The Pleasure and the FreedomChapter 2. The Corpus ItselfChapter 3. The Magic PlasticChapter 4. To Find a YachtChapter 5. The Search ContinuesChapter 6. Three Sailing YachtsChapter 7. The RigChapter 8. How to Make Big Sails SmallChapter 9. Spinnakers, Light-Weather Sails, and More on Sail HandlingChapter 10. One Man's Sail InventoryChapter 11. Planning the TripChapter 12. The Anchor GameChapter 13. The Practice of AnchoringChapter 14. Self-SteeringChapter 15. Can You Be Seen at Night?Chapter 16. Storm Management 1: Heaving To and Lying AhullChapter 17. Storm Management 2: Running OffChapter 18. Storm Management 3: Deploying a Sea AnchorChapter 19. Storm Management 4: Deploying a Stern DrogueChapter 20. Managing Without RefrigerationChapter 21. What Does World Cruising Cost?Chapter 22. The Cruising Engine: Necessity or Monster?Chapter 23. Schooling at SeaChapter 24. Heat and CookingChapter 25. Nine IdeasChapter 26. The Dinghy ProblemChapter 27. Questions and AnswersChapter 28. Foreign PaperworkChapter 29. The Dream and the RealityNotesGlossaryAcknowledgmentsIndex

About the Author

Hal Roth left his career as a journalist and editor more than thirty-five years ago and, with his wife, Margaret, went sailing. Since then, they have crossed all the oceans of the world and sailed to a thousand foreign ports and anchorages. Hal also raced twice around the world singlehanded, in the BOC Challenges of 1986-87 and 1990-91. He has accumulated 200,000 voyaging miles and has sailed to the Aleutian Islands, Japan, the North American West Coast, throughout the South Pacific, around South America, the Caribbean, the U.S. East Coast, Newfoundland, Labrador, and the Indian Ocean, Red Sea, and Mediterranean. He has crossed the Pacific five times and the Atlantic eleven times and has rounded Cape Horn three times. A graceful writer and accomplished photographer, Hal has written eight books about his adventures and one how-to book, After 50,000 Miles, which has sold more than 60,000 copies in its various editions. Two Against Cape Horn, Two on a Big Ocean, and Always a Distant Anchorage rank among the true classics of voyaging literature. He is one of the world’s half dozen most accomplished sailing writers. HOMETOWN: St. Michaels, MD