Since writing the previous edition of Storm Tactics Handbook, Lin and Larry have voyaged an additional 35,000 miles. This has taken them as far north as Norway, twice across the Atlantic, south to Argentina, into the Pacific, around Cape Horn against the prevailing winds, and then on a circuit of the North Pacific. With insights gained from these recent voyages, they have fully revised and expanded this text by more than 40 percent, including nine completely new chapters. New material includes:
            Lessons from Cape Horn
            An interview with the late Sir Peter Blake, on storm survival and heaving-to      
            Heaving-to using a Galerider on 55-foot Morgan’s Cloud
            Adding rudder protection stops   
Discussions on avoiding chafe, building and using storm staysails, choosing storm gear, deploying para-anchors, avoiding the worst areas of cyclonic storms, and many more have been expanded to answer many questions posed by readers and seminar attendees.
            Mario Vittone, a U.S. Coast Guard rescue swimmer for 14 years, in an unsolicited testimony, wrote: “I have been on several rescues (and heard of many more) that would have been completely unnecessary if the sailboat captains aboard would have . . . practiced the skills taught by Lin and Larry Pardey. Not knowing how to heave-to in bad weather is as inexcusable as not knowing ‘red, right, return’.”

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The Care and Feeding of Sailing Crew
has become the preferred resource for cruising and racing sailors—whether they’re planning a weekend afloat or a round-the-world voy-age. This unique volume covers everything from outfitting a galley to organizing meals safely in rough weather; from controlling seasickness to creating the right conditions for a well-rested crew.

This third edition has been expanded to incorporate new information on nutrition, on waste disposal, and on current methods for handling finances, officialdom, and the paperwork involved in sailing to new coun-tries. New sections cover entertaining on board, feeding vegetarian crew, choosing clothing for sailing offshore, and incorporat-ing modern technology in the galley. The unique guides to reprovisioning as you voy-age and buying wines and liquors around the world have been expanded to include many off-the-beaten track destinations now attracting intrepid voyagers.

Lin has been caring for sailing crews since 1965. With Larry, she has accumulated sea miles that equal almost seven circumnavi-gations. As a couple, they have delivered boats and cared for hired crew, raced under sail, and worked on commercial fishing boats.

Since the publication of the second edition of Care and Feeding, Lin and Larry have voyaged an additional 35,000 miles, including an east-to-west rounding of Cape Horn.The Ocean Cruising Club, Seven Seas Cruising Association, and the Royal Oceanic Society have all recognized the Pardeys with awards acknowledging their sailing accom-plishments and their contributions to the sport. They have also been inducted into the Cruising World Hall of Fame.

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The pleasures and adventures of cruising under sail are amazingly affordable, say Lin and Larry Pardey. But to keep your dreams on budget, financially, emotionally, and timewise, you have to decide - are you a cruiser or a consumer? Topics covered include 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 experts, compared to that carried by several cost conscious cruisers, will give you a convenient checklist to gauge whether you are buying true necessities or overloading your budget and boat with high-tech items.

“Written by experienced cruisers (over 30 years) and authors (10 books) ...it is sure to provide answers to important questions about choosing the cruising lifestyle.
-Cruising World

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The Book that Launched 50,000 Dreams Undergoes complete refit

With two circumnavigations, plus ten books to their names, Lin and Larry Pardey have received more awards for their pursuits than Tom Hanks has for his. Some have called them, "the enablers" and the 25th anniversary edition, with its special introduction, "Anyone Can Go Cruising" and its new appendix called "Affordable Attainable Dreams," continues their tradition by encouraging others to ignore the dream crushers and grab hold of the grand opportunities offered by exploring under sail.

Cruising in Seraffyn has sold over 50,000 copies in five editions and three languages. The Pardeys have also added a sixteen page full-color album with 35 new photographs for this silver anniversary edition. Completely redesigned, this book will inspire new readers and appeal to fans who already enjoy the special world Lin and Larry share with their lively and informative prose.

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Updated and expanded to include an important new appendix on the mis-advertising of epoxy adhesives and an introduction to superior, though less expensive glues. This book is used by boatbuilding schools around the world to explain the elements of classic craftsmanship and make these skills accessible to beginning woodworkers. Highly encouraging and visually inviting; vital information for potential boatbuilders, repair specialists, designers and boatowners. It is also of interest to everyone who works with wood.

”Larry Pardey Dismisses the common moan that the traditional skills of this particular craftsmanship are lost. Nor, he shows, is there is anything mysterious about them: they can be easily learned.” - Lloyds List

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This book is what the title says. It is the distillation of what the Pardey’s 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 outlay– on a pay-as-you-earn-as-you-go plan and by simplifying.

In its first edition, this invaluable text has seen nine reprints. Now Lin and Larry have updated and revised the information to make it current and a valuable edition to any sailor’s library right up to the millennium.

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With this new edition of Seraffyn’s European Adventure, all four of the Pardey’s classic Seraffyn tales are available in affordable paperback.

Join Lin and Larry while they winter in England working to pay for the next leg of their journey into the Baltic, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Germany. They dealt with armed guards on the Polish waterfront who watched while the people greeted them with flowers and fruit. They weathered a fierce mast-under broach in a Baltic gale.

This story ends at the gateway to the Mediterranean to be continued in Seraffyn’s Mediterranean Adventure.

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A tale of adventures, as two young dreamers continue their voyaging on board their self-built 24'4" cutter. They cross the exotic sea that spawned Homer’s tales of Ulysses’ Odyssey, then sail through the strife torn Red Sea and across the typhoon tossed waters of the Bay of Bengal.

In this book, fourth of the Seraffyn series, the Pardeys have reached a turning point in their lives–halfway around the world, eight years into a meandering voyage. Their routes had always been determined by the need to find the work to support their cruising life-style or the desire to see an island spoken of by some favorite writer. Now they have to decide whether to continue eastward, or turn back westward and complete the circle with a return to the place they once called home.

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