Download e-book for kindle: The Gentleman's Guide to Passages South: The Thornless Path by Bruce Van Sant

This is the 10th and final version of the preferred instructions for crusing south to the Bahamas and the Caribbean.

For greater than 20 years Van Sant time and again surveyed approximately 2 hundred anchorages among Florida and South the US. He racked up good over 80,000 sea miles doing it, quite often single-handed. Why? You’ll locate a few fascinating solutions in his publication of news, Margarita Cat, yet es­sentially, he did it simply because he liked doing it.

Sailing up and down the chain of islands loads and so usually, he received to searching for shorter and more uncomplicated how you can navigate among each one hyperlink within the chain, and he stored refining precise nav plans for each leg.

He has systematically taken the thorns out of the direction they used to name the Thorny Path. for instance, he exploits the calming results on wind and sea which end result from land cooling on both sides of an inter-island passage. utilizing his many tools, either sail and tool could make secure, cozy and delightful growth even opposed to in general impenetrable exchange winds and seas.

Passages South deals an illustrated guide of guideline for particular passages and harbors down islands in addition to a cruising consultant for the higher Antilles islands of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico. It has sailed aboard tens of hundreds of thousands of boats passaging among the Americas. it may sail with you too.