The Sailing Life
By Bob BitchinForeword by Tania Aebi
240 pp. February 2006. Paperback. $17.95
ISBN 1 57409 221 9
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Bob Bitchin has a unique perspective from which to describe The Sailing Life. As founder and editor of the highly successful magazine Latitudes & Attitudes, he surveys and comments on the good and the bad, the funny and the sad, the practical and the theoretical of the sailing scene. This collection of his editorials and other writings is full of useful advice, keen observations and, yes, some outrageous comments as only Bob can put them on paper.
Readers of his bestseller, Letters from the Lost Soul,will be delighted with this unique guide to the Sailing Life. Like Latitudes & Attitudes, Captain Bob is down to earth, irreverent, and always entertaining.
“With Latitudes & Attitudes, and his huge personality, Bob has managed to bring a breath of fresh air to the cruising way of life. It’s okay to be irreverent. Latitudes & Attitudes broke the snooty, yachtie stereotype and helped to make the cruising lifestyle feel accessible to the mainstream, not just to specialists. Bob is definitely not mainstream, but he knows optimism is universal to those who are ready to hear it, and the ability to enjoy the one life we get is inextricably linked to optimism, by land or by sea, by hog or by boat.” —Tania Aebi
About The Author:
Bob Bitchin has led a life of high adventure. A biker before he took to sailing, he founded Latitudes & Attitudes magazine and, more recently, a TV production company of the same name. He is the author of Biker, Brotherhood of Outlaws, Emerald Isle and Letters from the Lost Soul, also published by Sheridan House.