Sailing Adventures In Paradise

Chronicle of authors' four years sailing adventure in the Pacific Ocean and South Seas Islands. Told through the eyes of his sailboat it is a most refreshing and knowledge filled narrative with many insights and problem solving events. Great reading for anyone planning or contemplating planning their own sailing odyssey. Also includes '101 Dollar Saving Tips' useful for the cruising sailor.

What is it like to cut loose and sail away for a year? How do you really do it? Join them in their adventure! Taking their cat along as referee, Steve and Margaret Watterson spent a year on their 30-foot sailboat traveling from Cleveland, Ohio to the Florida Keys and back. In this book they describe their experience - the good times and the bad - in order to share it with those who dream of some day cutting off the phone, cancelling the paper, and locking the door behind them. If you have ever wondered how to actually do this, you will enjoy this book. The Wattersons tell how much they spent, how they handled mail, and what charts and cruising guides they used. They cover insurance, how to prepare a boat for this kind of trip, and much more.

Here is an idea: This spring, fly to St. Martin or one of the other Caribbean islands and buy a sailboat. Then, next Halloween (or so) pack up the family and move on to the boat for the winter. You and your family can spend the first month learning to sail, then explore the islands, home-school the kids, and enjoy tropical living. If things go well, when you return home and sell the boat you might even make enough to pay for the trip. Sound far-fetched? This family of four from Camano Island, Washington did exactly that. Overcoming a lack of sailing and cruising experience with research, good advice and attitude, they had a great time and a great adventure as they sailed the Caribbean and the Bahamas. Also, the companion video is now available here on Amazon.com.Reviews: Although the Rinks had raised their children power boating in the Northwest, the family learned together how to sail in the Caribbean. By the end of the six-month-long adventure, the family had anchored out every night but two, and made ocean passages as long as five nights. -We challenged ourselves in meaningful ways that brought us together as a family. The whole idea of the video and book is to share how other families can experience this kind of great adventure.- --SEA, May 2003Although the Rinks had raised their children power boating in the Northwest, the family learned together how to sail in the Caribbean. By the end of the six-month-long adventure, the family had anchored out every night but two, and made ocean passages as long as five nights. -We challenged ourselves in meaningful ways that brought us together as a family. The whole idea of the video and book is to share how other families can experience this kind of great adventure.- --SEA, May 2003For every boater out there who has dreamed of sailing away, this little hot-off-the-press paperback is a must buy. Why? Because it is a clearly written log of one Northwest family's sailing adventures and a detailed how- to-do-it manual. Many of us talk (or dream) of taking off to cruise through warm seas. But when it comes to acting, we don t have the money, or the right boat, or the time, the skills, the, the, the . . . The Rink family didn't either. In fact, they were not even experienced sailors. While they both taken sailing and pilotage courses, they had never cruised off shore. They had kids in school and profitable work that they enjoyed (mostly). But they dropped, massaged, and changed their commitments to pursue something new to all of us that would be difficult to complete. -We wanted a trip that would present problems and challenges that we could solve only as a family.- While the book loosely describes their overall voyage, it really is a compendium of information and advice. There are chapters on such topics as: anchoring, money, health and safety, food, our favorite places, shipping the boat home and so on. Rink includes tidbits like: Cleanliness is a big deal when buying and storing food. We managed to keep Mermaid completely cockroach free, but is was a lot of work. We saw more than a few boats that were infested with ants or cockroaches. There is even a section titled: -Calendar - laying out exactly what to do as well as telling when and where to be during your own Caribbean adventure. The equipment list alone is worth the book price. For anyone gravitating toward a similar adventure, this paperback (and their video) is a treasure --pugetmarine web siteIf you've ever wondered how a family of novice sailors can take a year off and successfully cruise the Caribbean and the Bahamas, read this book. Phil and Nancy Rink and their daughter, Lena, 12, and their son, Pender, 9, move aboard Mermaid, a Beneteau Oceanis 400 in St. Martin and chronicle their experience, often through the eyes of their children. An inspirational primer on how to cruise the Caribbean with kids. --Cruising World, Jan 2004.

From Boys 2 Men is an unforeseen journey of inspiring adventure, egregious motivations, sexual entanglement, physical adversity and near-death encounters, it was also a learning experience that could not be replicated in any educational institution. From Boys 2 Men is the audacious tale of two young boys, age seventeen, that leave their parents nest to embark on a surfing safari to Hawaii. Dissatisfied with the poor surfing conditions on Oahu in 1964, they search out better waves in American Samoa, a place they had never before heard of. They leave Samoa on a 78’ inter-island cargo boat and later join a 56’ ketch owned by twenty four year old John. The three youngsters had the surfing & sailing adventure that young men only dream of.

Sailing Through Paradise is David Horris's account of his solo sailing trip from Florida to the Virgin Islands and back, illustrated with his color photographs. Maps are included to show each leg of the voyage through the Bahamas, The Turks and th Turks and Caicos, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, and back again to Florida.

Racing Through Paradise is the third entry in Bill Buckley’s now classic sailing trilogy. Here the irresponsible, eloquent, enjoyable Buckley guides us through his beloved Azores, and through the Galapagos (“the Bronx Zoo at the Equator”), about which he inclines more to Melville’s view than to Darwin’s, and through places such as Johnston Atoll, where mysteries and hostilities await. On a hilarious side adventure, we have a memorable encounter with “The Angel of Craig’s Point.” Along the way, Buckley navigates among pleasant diversions as well as unforeseen navigational and philosophical shoals. He adroitly excerpts the candid journals of his shipmates, notably that of his son, Christopher, himself a best-selling novelist. The fine photographs by Christopher Little illustrate throughout. When Buckley’s Sealestial sails, finally, into New Guinea, we have shared a unique experience with a special breed of sailor, skipper, host, friend, and human being.

In this book we discover about the author's sailing adventures with his wife. twenty-four month voyage from Israel to Fiji, complete with encountering inclement weather and other sidebars, and in sharing the experiences with the fascinating people within the 'paradise triangle' we grow to appreciate the sensitive philosophy and observations that make this book such a treasure. The author encourages us to climb aboard such a journey, no matter the destination, and finding the life enrichment with new experiences and perceptions. The result - a book to cherish, and to act upon! I highly recommend this book for any fan of sea stories and for readers who like to have a bit more depth into the characters met along the way. And of course for the wonderful descriptions of the beauty of Fiji, Samoa and Tahiti.

One Woman sold everything to go sailing into Paradise only to discover that the illusion was not the same as the reality of this sailing life. She left with a Boyfriend who had conned her into believing he was someone he was not. Things go from bad to worse constantly, as she gets swallowed up by his illusion of reality and he tries to erase her. This book is the True story, tragedy, of one Woman trying to escape society and find paradise in the tropics. The reality of the sailing adventure is never anything like what you think it will be. The book is full of true sailing stories and interesting adventures. Captain Lexi is thoughtful, philosophical spiritual and very engaging. In this book she explores ideas that affect all of us... What is post modernism? Can we ever know anything about another human being? How do we live in a world of pluralistic relativism? She connects with Mother nature and the spirit of the planet in her struggle to get south with an evil Monkey on her boat. Zen and the Art of Sailing is something she learns from mother. She explores the deep connection yacht captains develop with their boats. This book is written by a woman sailing captain from a Woman's point of view, full of the real feelings of real life sailing.The book is a more advanced read for thoughtful people but it remains highly entertaining.

A look back at the classic south seas adventure series inspired by author James Michener, and produced by 20th Century Fox for the ABC Television Network (1959-1962). Featuring commentary from the series actors and producers, photos, episode summaries, biographies and more.