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Taleisin's Tales: Sailing towards the Southern Cross

Including stories from paradise and hard-won lessons in seamanship,Taleisin’s Talesreflects back to the first miles Lin and Larry Pardey gained together on their second boat – one they built lovingly with teak carvel planking over sawn black locust...

Details of Classic Boat Construction: The Hull - 25th Anniversary Edition

This impressive book shows the process of constructing a boat hull with extensive photographs and drawings and includes ample time-saving procedures.Larry Pardey is accepted as one of the master craftsman of the wooden-boat building world. He and his...

Voyaging With Kids - A Guide to Family Life Afloat

“A treasure-trove of useful, well-organized information on sea-going parenting.” —Gary “Cap’n Fatty” Goodlander, Author of Buy, Outfit and Sail Choosing a boat that is right for your family; handling the naysayers; keeping your children safe,...

Blown Away

Anyone crazy enough to buy a boat deserves all the headaches he gets, said Chuck. What kind of boat are you looking for?Oh, something about 35 feet. We re going to sail around the world.You poor kids, he said sympathetically.At Middle age, Herb and Nancy...

Care and Feeding of Sailing Crew 4th Ed.

Lin Pardey’s ever popular book, The Care and Feeding of Sailing Crew has now been updated.Despite the title, this is hardly a cookbook; rather it s a primer on successful cruising. Certainly, anyone contemplating, or preparing for, off shore passages...

Seraffyn's Mediterranean Adventure 30th Anniversary Edition

Lin and Larry Pardey s first book, Cruising in Seraffyn is credited with launching 50,000 dreams. This third book in the Seraffyn series chronicles the three years spent exploring Ulysses wine-colored sea and clearly illustrates how they kept that dream...

As Long as It's Fun: The Epic Voyages and Extraordinary Times of Lin and Larry Pardey

In As Long as It’s Fun, the biography of Lin and Larry Pardey, Herb McCormick recounts their remarkable sailing career—from their early days in Southern Cal. to their two circumnavigations to their current life in a quiet cove in New Zealand.Through...

Bull Canyon: A Boat builder, a Writer and other Wildlife

Lin Pardey and her husband Larry are internationally famous for their sailing adventures. But in 1980 -- fresh from an eleven years-long sailing journey, where they forged the early years of their marriage on high seas and in exotic locales -- they came...

Capable Cruiser, 3rd Edition

This revised and expanded third edition of a cruising classic includes 10 completely new chapters with such advice as: sixteen ways to encourage your lover (partner) to share your dream; strategies for turning sudden engine failure into a minor incident;...

Storm Tactics Handbook: 3rd Edition

In a storm at sea, luck is highly biased toward the sailor who has a plan. So write Lin and Larry Pardey in this, the third edition of their highly regarded Storm Tactics Handbook. As in the first two editions of this book, they describe their concerns...

Cost Conscious Cruiser

The pleasures and adventures of cruising under sail are amazingly affordable, say Lin and Larry Pardey. But to keep your dream on budget, financially, emotionally, and time wise, you have to decide - are you a cruiser or a consumer?In this book, a...