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Taking Terrapin Home:
Author: Mathew Wilson
Publisher: Paradise Cay Publications
ISBN: 0-939837-24-2
Comments from Back Cover:
Mathew Wilson achieved a lifelong ambition in having a small
sailboat built to his unique specifications in England, and then
setting out on the voyage that would take him and his boat,
Terrapin, home to Florida. His passagemaking took him through
the French rivers and canals to the Mediterranean, Ibiza and Spain, then
to the Canary Islands and south to Cape Verde Islands, where he turned
across the Atlantic and, despite sailing during a year which was marked
by unusual and unseasonably high winds and seas, made it to Barbados in
seventeen-and-one-half days. From there the route took Terrapin
and Mathew slowly northwards to the Caribbean, finding landfalls in the
Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, the Turks and Caicos, the Bahamas and,
finally home to Jupiter, Florida, in the United States of America.
In the Wake of Drake:
Author: Pat Patterson
Publisher: United Writers Publications
ISBN: 901976-74-1
Comments from Inside Front Cover:
400 years ago, Francis Drake sailed from England through the Magellan
Straits and after relieving the Spaniards in Chile and Peru of their
silver and gold, sailed the North Pacific looking for the NW Passage.
Not finding one he, after annexing California for England, sailed
on to complete a fabulous circumnavigation.
Ocean Winds II, a modern 33ft cruising catamaran set out to try
and retrace this epic voyage. Drake's journal was lost. Pat Patterson
the builder/skipper of Ocean Winds, tells in his personal
journal, the trials, tribulations and joys of this difficult 40,000
sea miles voyage made sometimes with and sometimes without a crew.
You can read of the sea being whipped to a white, blinding fury off
South Brazil. Swimming, he suddenly realised, for his life, along
with dolphins, in a port where Drake beheaded Doughty in Patagonia.
They ran aground in a remote part of the Magellan Straits and
experienced all too often the fierce storms of that region. He tells
of single handing the yacht from Chile to Canada; of inadvertently
finding himself in a brothel in Salvador. Some of the remote atolls
of the Pacific are still unspoilt and rarely visited: did you know
girls of Trobriand Islands go about bare breasted and wear grass
skirts?
How seaworthy are modern cruising catamarans? Are they likely to
capsize when hit by rogue waves or caught in heavy storms? Pat tells
of his fears and admits that at times he wished he had been in a
mono-hull, but you can judge for yourself just how seaworthy his
craft really was. Useful hints on seamanship and navigation abound.
An invaluable book for anyone planning an ocean passage and
fascinating reading for the armchair sailor with more sence.
Catamaran Sailing:
Author: Derek Kelsall
Publisher: Helmsman Guides
ISBN: 1-85223-708-2
Comments from Back Cover:
HELMSMAN GUIDES provide clear and highly
illustrated information on all the most
essential areas of owning and sailing a
boat. With the emphasis firmly on the
practical, the series is ideal for all
those concerned with boats and boating.
CATAMARAN SAILING is a wide-ranging introduction
to these popular craft. Twin-hulls provide
comfort, speed and excitement, and recent
developments have meant that today's designs
are suitable for safe cruising over long distances.
This book sets out to explain the basic
concept of the catamaran in simple terms,
to illustrate what it has to offer as a
sailing cruiser, to outline what to look
for in choosing a catamaran, and what to
expect out on the water. Topics include:
catamaran types and features; rigs and
engines; performance and handling; and
safety.
DEREK KELSALL is a leading catamaran
designer who has been closely involved
in sailing, racing, building and
development for over thirty years. In
1964 he sailed the Single Handed
Trans-Atlantic Race in the first yacht
without a ballast keel to do so. Two years
later he won the first Round Britain Race
in a trimaran. His pioneering building
methods, using a glass-fibre/PVC foam
sandwich, have led to many design projects,
including both racing and cruising
catamarans. He is currently offering a
wide range of cruising catamarans for
both the home and professional builder.
Multihull Voyaging:
Author: Thomas Firth Jones
Publisher: Sheridan House
ISBN: 0-7136-4223-8
Comments from Back Cover:
One pretty morning we were sailing our 28-foot
trimaran out through the jetties of Cuttyhunk Pond.
I was at the tiller, and my wife Carol was up forward,
tidying lines. Very gradually, we were overtaking a
larger monohull motoring out ahead of us.
"Why don't we sail?" Carol overheard the wife ask.
"There isn't any wind," her husband said from behind
his destroyer wheel.
"That trimaran is sailing," the wife
persisted.
"Yeah, but if there was any wind, that trimaran
would take off like a bat out of hell."
Most sailors dream of owning an affordable family style
cruising boat that is safe and easy to handle. In this
book Tom Jones shows how to make this dream come true by
buying or building a small or medium size cruising
multihull. An important book that explains why multihull
voyaging is becoming more and more popular.
Charles Chiodi,
Editor, Multihulls
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