Product Description

Join Lin and Larry Pardey at their home base in New Zealand as they share ideas and hints to make your boat safer, easier to handle, and more enjoyable to use.

On board Taleisin-the boat that has been their home for 65,000 miles of voyaging - they demonstrate galley upgrades, table design ideas, comfortable seating arrangements, and ways to improve ventilation below deck. On deck, learn how sail and ground-tackle handling can be made easier for even the smallest crew member. Larry discusses sun protection, rain collection, and line handling. Lin provides advice on buying and storing provisions and hints for keeping you and your crew dry, warm, clean, and well rested.

Shot in The Pittwater (north of Sydney, Australia) and at Fremantle, as well as at their home base in New Zealand (where they are restoring a 110-year-old racing yacht), this DVD incorporates the best ideas from their highly praised videos, including Cruising with Lin and Larry Pardey and The Care and Feeding of Sailing Crew. The programs have been re-edited, re-mastered, and supplemented with new information from these master voyagers, who now have more than 180,000 miles under their belts - including a contrary-to-the-wind circumnavigation below the four great southern capes.

Come along and share in some of the secrets that, even after forty years afloat, make the Pardeys eager to keep cruising,"...as long as it's fun."

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #74269 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-07-01
• Formats: Color, NTSC
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 98 minutes

Cruising Helmsman magazine, Australia
"An excellent addition to any sailor's video library."

WoodenBoat magazine
"More than 50 really useful ideas."

Roger C. Taylor, Sail magazine
"If more couples worked toward this kind of equality afloat, boats would break fewer hearts."

Customer Reviews

I bought both and am glad I did
Lin and Larry might not have made a big budget production, but they pass on a lot of info here. I bought this and Get rEady to cross oceans. Enjoyed the sailing scenes that illustrate the ideas. Wish I knew more about where some of the scenes came from. But that is not what the DVD is about - its about outfitting ideas and there are plenty here. I particularly like the storage ideas. Second DVD had more about actually being at sea - this one is sort of the starter, Cross Oceans carries on.

Loved the pics of their 110 year old race boat in New Zealand. These folks are trying to keep sailing even though they must be in their 60's. A real inspiration.

Cruising?
This movie tells how to get partially ready and for that it is useful. Would have liked to see more sailing, of which I know they have done alot. It does what the title says.