Preface
Chapter 1. The Pleasure and the Freedom
Chapter 2. The Corpus Itself
Chapter 3. The Magic Plastic
Chapter 4. To Find a Yacht
Chapter 5. The Search Continues
Chapter 6. Three Sailing Yachts
Chapter 7. The Rig
Chapter 8. How to Make Big Sails Small
Chapter 9. Spinnakers, Light-Weather Sails, and More on Sail Handling
Chapter 10. One Man's Sail Inventory
Chapter 11. Planning the Trip
Chapter 12. The Anchor Game
Chapter 13. The Practice of Anchoring
Chapter 14. Self-Steering
Chapter 15. Can You Be Seen at Night?
Chapter 16. Storm Management 1: Heaving To and Lying Ahull
Chapter 17. Storm Management 2: Running Off
Chapter 18. Storm Management 3: Deploying a Sea Anchor
Chapter 19. Storm Management 4: Deploying a Stern Drogue
Chapter 20. Managing Without Refrigeration
Chapter 21. What Does World Cruising Cost?
Chapter 22. The Cruising Engine: Necessity or Monster?
Chapter 23. Schooling at Sea
Chapter 24. Heat and Cooking
Chapter 25. Nine Ideas
Chapter 26. The Dinghy Problem
Chapter 27. Questions and Answers
Chapter 28. Foreign Paperwork
Chapter 29. The Dream and the Reality
Notes
Glossary
Acknowledgments
Index