From the
Publisher's Catalog
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Ready for Sea!
How to Outfit the Modern
Cruising Sailboat and Prepare Your Vessel and Yourself for
Extended Passage-Making & Living Aboard
By
Tor Pinney
Illustrations by Bruce Bingham
Ready for Sea! is a comprehensive handbook on how to
prepare a sailboat for extended cruising as well as for living
aboard. The author considers the equipment, systems and
modifications that will transform a basic sailboat—one already
operational and of sound construction—into a long range
cruiser. There is a wide range of topics covered, from the bare
essentials to improvements on deck and below deck to safety
afloat, electronics, and much more.
Ready for Sea! is well balanced, very accurate, reliable
and exceedingly accessible. Pinney's voice is laidback and
engaging. The author's own cruising boats have ranged from
engineless wooden boats to systems-intensive contemporary boats,
and his experience is broader than that of most cruisers. This
is the perfect book for those who are thinking about converting
a boat for use as a long-term cruiser.
"...Pinney delivers the goods [and] will make you smarter
about what to look for.... The organization flows, the tone
engages, and the prose explains without re-reading." —Sailing
magazine
"If you're planning on cruising, or dreaming of it, then
this book should certainly be on your reading list." —Good
Old Boat
"Even if you aren't
planning to live aboard any time soon, the book offers enough
projects to keep you or your yard busy with improvements for a
long time to come." —Soundings
About the Author:
Captain Tor Pinney is a U.S. Coast Guard
licensed Ocean Master, a former Caribbean offshore delivery
captain and charter skipper. He has lived aboard sailboats much
of his life and has logged nearly 150,000 nautical miles under
sail. His articles appear in national boating
magazines here and abroad including Cruising World, SAIL,
Yachting, Ocean Navigator, Cruising Helmsman,
Motorboat and Yachting, Yachting World and many
others.
256 pp. 20 line drawings, 10
b&w photos. March 2002. Paperback. $23.95
ISBN 1-57409-144-1
