A collection of yachting expert Tom Cunliffe's favorite extracts from the books that have instructed and inspired him over the decades. An internationally renowned maritime journalist and speaker, Tom Cunliffe is one of the biggest names in the sailing world. For the past ten years, he has edited the Great Seamanship column inYachting World magazine,each column featuring an extract from a classic yachting book. Tom introduces the extracts by giving insightful background on the writers, their books, and what makes their experiences so worth reading about--and learning from.
This book comprises Tom's forty favorite extracts and covers the entire scope of yachting concerns, from small-boat handling to yacht racing to long-distance cruising and exploring. Introduced in Tom's quintessential lively, engaging fashion, and illustrated with photos from both the original books and Tom's own archives, this beautifully packaged book contains a wealth of yachting wisdom, and is a collection to be treasured.
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An absorbing compliation -Classic Boat.
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Tom Cunliffe's name represents the gold standard of good yachting advice, and this book collects together his favourite extracts, all focusing on good seamanship in one way or another, from the classic and much-loved books that have instructed and inspired him over the decades.
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Tom Cunliffe is one of the maritime worlds most popular writers and presenters. He has been sailing for most of his life, is a RYA Yachtmaster Examiner, and a training consultant for the governing body of yachting in the USA. He is a regular columnist for Yachting Monthly and Yachting World in Britain, and SAIL in the USA. His first television series was Island Race for BBC2, in which he sailed round Britain with John McCarthy and Sandi Toksvig as his crew, his next series Boatyard was shown on Discovery and is often repeated on Quest, and his more recent series The Boats that Built Britain was shown on BBC2. He is the author of numerous books, including The Complete Day Skipper and The Complete Yachtmaster, two of the bestselling books on the Adlard Coles list.
