Product Description
Sail The World With Medeals with all essential aspects of offshore voyaging and long distance cruising. Every subject is dealt with in an informative and entertaining manner, backed up by telling incidents or anecdotes from the author’s wide-ranging experience.
While primarily aimed at sailors who are planning or making preparations for a longer voyage, this book will also appeal to tested ocean navigators as well as weekend sailors. The book’s attractive style, with over 600 excellent photographs from the author’s vast collection, should be equally appealing to dreamers.
Approximately two thirds of the book deals with practical matters and covers all subjects of interest to anyone planning to leave on an offshore voyage. The other third of the book describes highlights from the author’s circumnavigations as well as voyages to Antarctica, a transpacific passage from Antarctica to Alaska, or the challenges of the Northwest Passage.
Sail The World With Me,Jimmy Cornell’s latest book, is based on his extensive knowledge of offshore cruising gained from an experience that stretches over four decades.Sail The World With Mesupersedes200,000 Miles, and has been updated and revised to include Jimmy’s latest adventures with his fifth boat,Aventura Zeroand the challenges of zero-carbon sailing.
Jimmy has sailed over 200,000 miles in all oceans of the world, including three circumnavigations as well as two voyages to Antarctica and a successful transit of the Northwest Passage. As the founder of theARC transatlantic rally, in the last 30 years Jimmy Cornell has organized 28 transatlantic and six round the world rallies.
As organizer of these events, he has come into contact with over 15,000 sailors and the experience gained from dealing with so many different boats and sailors has been an invaluable source of knowledge of the global cruising scene that adds a special dimension to this book.
