World Cruising Essentials The Boats, Gear, and Practices That Work Best at Sea

Jimmy Cornell is the guru of long-distance sailors. Having sailed 150,000 miles in his own boats and completed two circumnavigations, he was the first author to tackle the problems of world cruising in a systematic way. His wide-ranging surveys conducted among cruising yachts in all the oceans of the world have dealt with every aspect of voyaging under sail and have proved an invaluable source of advice and reference for long-distance cruisers worldwide.

Jimmy Cornell is the acknowledged authority on world cruising, and his two companion volumes, World Cruising Routes and World Cruising Handbook, are international best-sellers.

Over a period of 15 years Jimmy Cornell organized a range of offshore sailing rallies, including 27 transatlantic rallies and 5 round-the-world rallies, enabling thousands of sailors to fulfill their dream of bluewater sailing.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. From Dream to Reality: Offshore Cruising Yachts Today

Size; Draft; Multihulls; Displacement; Construction material; Safety; Interior; Essential features

2. The Driving Force: Rig, Rigging and Sails

Rig; Sails; Furling gear; The ideal mainsail; Conclusions

3. Power to the People: Diesel Engines, Optimum Power and Reliability

Optimum power; Fuel; Propellers; Reliability; Breakages

4. Gearing Up for a Blue Water Voyage: Ancillary Equipment for Offshore Cruising

Autopilots; Windvanes; Outboard engines; Tenders; Ground tackle; Additional equipment

5. Taking the Guessing out of Navigation: Satellite Navigation, Electronics and Instrumentation

Satellite navigation; Radar; Electronic charts and plotters

6. Keeping in Touch: E-mail, Radio and Satellite Communications

Marine radios; Amateur radios; E-mail; The internet; Satellite communications; Cellular telephones; Conclusions

7. Dancing in the Moonlight: Offshore Routines--Watchkeeping, Electricity Generation and Consumption

Watchkeeping; Lights at night; Electricity consumption and generation; Conclusions

8. Give Us Our Daily Bread: Provisioning, Refrigeration and Water

Provisioning; Water and watermakers; Refrigeration; Cooking fuel; Diving; Fishing; Photography

9. Better Safe than Sorry: Piracy, Firearms, Collisions, Abandoning Ship

The unknown; Piracy; Onboard safety; Firearms; Collisions; Abandoning ship; Conclusions

10. Only the Wind Is Free: The Practical Side of the Cruising Life

Finances; Cruising in stages; Pets; Conclusions

11. The Human Factor: Psychological Aspects of Life Afloat

Taking on crew; Crew size; Cruising couples; The age factor; Cruising with children; Expectations; Conclusions

12. The Female Angle: Women Have Their Say in the Sailing Women Survey

The decision to go; Division of labour; Onboard chores; Emergencies; Life afloat; Advice to women/men

13. What Can Go Wrong? Medical Emergencies and Equipment Failures

Seasickness; Medical emergencies; First aid; Medicine chest; Equipment breakages; Lessons to others

14. Where on Earth Are They Sailing? Worldwide Yacht Movement and Statistics

North Atlantic; Mediterranean Sea; South Atlantic; North Pacific; South Pacific; Indian Ocean; Current trends

15. Looking into a Crystal Ball: Global Cruising Survey on the Future of Cruising

Appendices

1. List of surveys, 1978 – 2002

2. Table of skippers in the Global Cruising Survey, details of their current yachts, and essential features of their ideal yachts

3. Recommended medicine chest (Peter Noble)

4. Millennium Odyssey outline and breakages report

5. Description of Aventura III

Index

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