Author: Michael Greenwald
Publisher: Paradise Cay Publications
Keywords: cookbook, chef, cruising
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2000-12
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0939837463
ISBN-13: 9780939837465

The Cruising Chef Cookbook is the bestselling, most extensive sailors’ cookbook ever written. Twenty-two years in print and ten reprints make it clear that sailors consider it essential equipment.The new Cruising Chef is actually a book of nautical wisdom in the guise of a cookbook. It contains hundreds of tips plus more than 300 delicious recipes. Includes an extensive discussion of preparing for a voyage and resupplying in native markets."Special Cooking Techniques" describes pressure cooking, stir frying and grilling, particularly useful techniques for the galley chef. Greenwald’

Authors:Carolyn Mehaffy, Bob Mehaffy,
Publisher: Paradise Cay Publications
Keywords: francisco, san, guide, cruising
Number of Pages: 253
Published: 2006-06-15
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0939837315
ISBN-13: 9780939837311

Cruising sailors around the world know that San Francisco Bay is an excellent cruising destination, but few know of the multitude of destinations available here. Within a few hours sail of each other are the often cool City Front and the often sunny Alameda Island, busy Sausalito and the sleepy Petaluma, accessible South Beach Harbor and remote China Camp. In this expanded and updated version of Cruising Guide to San Francisco Bay, sailors can learn where all the open anchorages and marinas in and around San Francisco Bay are, from as far south as Alviso to Suisun City to the north. This new e

Authors:Larry Pardey, Lin Pardey,
Publisher: Paradise Cay Publications
Keywords: sailor, sufficient
Number of Pages: 317
Published: 1997-03
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0964603675
ISBN-13: 9780964603677

This book is what the title says. It is the distillation of what the Pardeys have learned in 150,000 miles of sailing on board their two cutters, Seraffyn and Taleisin and on scores of other boats they have delivered or raced. Lin and Larry tell how they have sailed in comfort and safety without large cash outlays on a pay-as-you-earn-as-you-go plan and by simplifying. A sailor who relies on expensive equipment - radios, radar, safety harnesses, emergency flares, or liferaft - is risking disaster. A sailors reliance must be on self first and on electronics and mechanics last. For example, do n

Author: Mark Nicholas
Publisher: Paradise Cay Publications
Keywords: boat, aboard, living, essentials
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 2005-04
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0939837668
ISBN-13: 9780939837663

The Essentials of Living Aboard educates both dreamers and explorers with information about this wonderful and rewarding lifestyle. Mark Nicholas has combined his experience of life aboard with the advice of other liveaboards, marina owners, technicians, boat manufacturers and advocates in order to detail the challenges and offer real advice for success. This lifestyle, typically thought to be out of reach or "for other people," is now available to all who dream. Essentials explains, among other things how to: •Figure out your needs •Choose the right boat •Buy your boat •Choos

Authors:Larry Pardey, Lin Pardey,
Publisher: Paradise Cay Publications
Keywords: cruiser, conscious, cost
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1998-12-10
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0964603659
ISBN-13: 9780964603653

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 timewise, you have to decide - are you a cruiser or a consumer? In this book, a logical successor to their Self Sufficient Sailor and Capable Cruiser, they discuss topics ranging from making your getaway plans to finding a truly affordable boat, keeping your outfitting costs and maintenance time in control, then learning to feel confident as you cruise farther ahead. Their chart of the gear considered necessary by many shoreside

Authors:US Coast Guard, U.S. Coast Guard,
Publisher: Paradise Cay Publications
Keywords: rules, navigation
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 2010-03-01
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 0939837498
ISBN-13: 9780939837496

This book reflects the changes incorporated in Coast Guard’s online version revised Oct 19, 2009 and contains a complete copy of the Inland and International Navigation Rules as presented by the United States Coast Guard. In addition all Notice to Mariners updates to date, 3/24/2010 are incorporated within the text. The Coast Guard requires that an up-to-date copy of Navigation Rules such as this one be carried on all vessels 12 meters (39 feet) or more in length at all times. We have also included detailed instructions on how to log on to the NIMA website to monitor Notice to Mariner no

Author: Ma-Li Chen and Lee S. Chesneau
Publisher: Paradise Cay Publications, Inc.
Keywords: design, route, avoidance, weather, heavy
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2008-10-05
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0939837781
ISBN-13: 9780939837786

The 500Mb chart is the key that unlocks the three-dimensional nature of the atmosphere and helps answer the mariner’s two most important weather questions: will the system intensify, and where is it headed? In Heavy Weather Avoidance, Chen and Chesneau merge the seamanship of a master mariner and the forecast expertise of a senior meteorologist, providing readers with double-barrel exposure to what actually goes on in the atmosphere and on the sea s surface. Many weather texts offer an academic look at weather systems, complete with model algorithm derivations and equations depicting