Author Description

Tom Dove has written this highly entertaining book to help the novice and seasoned sailor through the realm of sailing and sailboats. The book begins with the basics and continues through to long, live-aboard cruising considerations. Practical knowledge is interspersed with tales of cruising aboard a sailboat, relaying what can be expected from each step along the way. In these pages, Tom has relived his life on the water, bringing out the best the cruising life has to offer, along with a few sobering thoughts of real-world cruising. This book is a learning experience for all who read it. Tom explains a well-planned process for choosing the right boat the first time or stepping up to the next level in the cruising lifestyle. He also explains many of the procedures of boat building and how these effect the final product, so elegantly portrayed in the brochures. The myths are gone and the truth is examined in a manner everyone will understand and enjoy. Tom has spent most of his life enjoying the pleasures sailing has to offer and this book is a compilation of those years of experience. It is a book which will truly entertain you as you learn from its pages. Illustrated.