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Around the World Rally | 
 enlarge | Author: Jimmy Cornell
Publisher: Sheridan House
Category: Book
List Price: $16.50
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 328672
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 212
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 5.7 x 0.8
ISBN: 0924486473
Dewey Decimal Number: 797.14
EAN: 9780924486470
ASIN: 0924486473
Publication Date: March 1993
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Condition: Minor wear to cover and pages, nice copy, International Orders Ship Global Priority where available
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Product Description
Around the World Rally provides a detailed analysis of how 36 different cruising boats, their equipment and crew performed during 16 months and 24,000 miles of tough ocean sailing. Divided into sections covering all aspects of cruising from equipment, instruments, sails and maintenance to provisioning, navigation and watch-keeping, it offers valuable lessons to any sailor, whether cruising in local waters or planning a circumnavigation.
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 Tips on preparing for a voyage, voyaging, and enjoying it! January 3, 2001
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book follows the yachts and events surrounding an around the world cruising rally. The story, on the surface, is one of playful extranvegance. It is about rich people having fun on sailboats.Sailors will read the book at another level. What was the outcome of all those preparations? How did perception match up with reality? What works and what doesn't? All the information is right there for sailors to absorb. This writer's take-away: keep it simple and keep it fun. Next time sailors gather at a yacht club to talk about preparing for the big voyage; readers of this book will be able to chime in with authority.
 a draconian view of snabulous rumitage October 1, 1999
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
well, i'll be flipped...this joystick of a phlanser is the most egregious wooper yet to be pulsed...who ever thought that goony and sam would meet south of drama-town and web the gyro?
What works and what doesn't? December 28, 1998
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is the mantra of every sailor - and every boating book at least touches on it. Gear breaking, things failing in remote areas where they cannot be fixed; this is the nightmare of the cruising sailor.This book recounts the adventures and joys, highs and lows, of a group of racer/cruisers who sailed together on a rally. Lin and Larry Pardey, who cruise as cheaply as they can, were probably appalled at the amount of money casually thrown around here. They claim in their book, 'Cost-Conscious Cruiser' that information in this book supports their thesis that cruising simply, without fancy equipment, is the way to go. Well, if you believe them, read this book. Overall, the folks here seem delighted with their fancy gadgets. Those whose gadgets failed are not looking to simplify next time; instead, they'll buy higher-rated brands. Cost-conscious cruising received a real blow in this book - the winner of the race was the fellow who said in the beginning that he would spend whatever it took to win. He did. He won. No fairy tales here. So if you want to save a few bucks when cruising, buy this book, benefit from what these nice rich people found out, and follow the Pardeys' sage advice, as given in their book: Never, but never, ever, attend a cruising rally.
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