Product Description

An A-Z of cruising information for both beginners and experts CRUISING FOR COWARDS covers every facet of the cruising lifestyle.

* How to choose the right boat for you and how to handle the purchase
* Fitting out your boat for cruising. Equipment that works!
* The joys and hazards of the cruising lifestyle
* Safety, Medical, Financial and Communications information
* Cruising with kids, with pets, guests and casual crew
* Budgeting and Provisioning
* How to live with your partner 24 hours a day!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #618205 in Books
• Published on: 2006-01-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Review
Are you intimidated by the thought of embracing long-distance cruising as a way of life? Anyone headed for distant horizons would benefit from picking the brains of circumnavigators. Liza and Andy Copeland provide you with theirs. CRUISING FOR COWARDS is not an encyclopedia of esoteric engineering data, equipment dissertations, and systems analysis. It is, instead, a highly readable guide to help long-distance cruisers equip and prepare their boats and then deal with everything from cockroaches to bureaucratic paperwork while en route. There are many courses to the cruising life, but Liza and Andy's enthusiasm and tactics, illustrated by lively accounts of their family's experiences and amusing cartoons, charts the course that led their family and many others successfully around the globe. Anyone who follows in their wake is unlikely to be disappointed. -- Steve Callahan, Associate Editor, 'Cruising World' Magazine, Author of 'Adrift'

For those contemplating long-term cruising this candid, humorous, fact-filled book leaves no stone unturned in preparing family, friends, the boat and you for success in pursuit of the ultimate dream. -- Doris Colgate, President, Offshore Sailing School, President, US National Women's Sailing Association

From Age and Anxieties to Water and Windvanes, even the boldest sailors will find their niggling questions answered. A great book to dip into, browse through, and be reasssured by. And Harold Allanson draws cartoons to die for. -- Anne Hammick, Rear Commodore, Ocean Cruising Club. Author of Atlantic and Mediterranean Cruising Guides and 'Cruising on a Budget'

About the Author
Liza and Andy Copeland are both lifelong sailors. They met at the 1971 Sunfish World Championships, were married aboard the classic yacht 'Ticonderoga', honeymooned on an Atlantic crossing, and have since sailed over 150,000 nautical miles together.

Both grew up in England and raced avidly from a young age in dinghy and ocean races. While Liza made her career in medical social work and educational psychology Andy was a fighter pilot and instructor in the Royal Navy, then settled in the Caribbean running a shipyard, chandlery and large charter yachts. After returning to Vancouver from their circumnavigation Andy resumed work with his yacht broking company while Liza has become a writer of articles and two previous books 'Just Cruising' and 'Still Cruising' and speaker on both boating and travel for a wide variety of organizations. They also organize and lead charter groups to exotic destinations around the world.

After a one-year cruise around North and Central America and further voyaging in the Mediterranean, West Africa, Brazil and the Caribbean Andy and Liza are completely up-to-date for the UPDATED third printing of CRUISING FOR COWARDS. The have now sailed over 114,000nm in their Beneteau 'Bagheera' and visited 114 countries.

Illustrator Harold Allanson now lives with his wife in the Gulf Islands of British Columbia having recently retired to become a fulltime artist and cruiser.

Customer Reviews

A great easy to read primer
I'm not a seasoned salt. I don't even sail. I wanted to read about what is important in setting up a sailboat or what to look for in buying one as I am interested. about 15 pages total of the book were over my head. mostly rigging info. the rest was extremely infomative and useful. info about how to prepare for visas, health information, how to deal with pests and rodents and even about pirates and petty thieves. this book will be good for people who want to do any extended sailing even if it be around the lake. also good info about dealing with kids and intercontinental travel, even without a boat. thats a lot to ask from one book. I was very impressed. the only possible cons for me are that the book is a few years old. hardly the authors fault, but it does leave out some of the lastest electronics technology as well as galley and head options I have seen available lately. still much more useful and readable for the average guy than some other books I've read.

Cruising for Cowards
This book is a must for anyone who hopes, is planning or about to go cruising! While there is no substitute to personal knowledge, this book lets the reader(s) hit the deck running. It is a good read and a great idea book. It even has many ideas for us old (f)salts. A great #3 of a trilogy. FMS on Arctic Swan (Beneteau O 351)