There Be No Dragons
How to Cross a Big Ocean in a Small SailboatBy Reese Palley
224 pp. Line drawings, photos. 2004. Paperback. $16.50ISBN 1 57409 183 2
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Most sailors dream of journeying to foreign ports, but many are held back by fears both real and imagined. However, as Reese Palley explains, sailing close to the shore is considerably more dangerous than voyaging across the sea. There Be No Dragons is intended to encourage those timid of the deep oceans and to inspire the confidence necessary to set sail across the wine dark seas of the world.
By his own account a sailor of no great skill, Palley has nevertheless safely completed a fifteen-year circumnavigation. If he can do it, then even the lowliest amateur, equipped only with the simplest of information and a small but sturdy boat, can follow in his wake.
Palley's essential and entertaining guide, now available for the first time in paperback, discusses easily learned skills and easily acquired equipment, all of which are requisite for safe sailing.
“A rather illuminating overview of the technical and human elements required of a successful offshore cruise; 2004 paperback edition.” —WoodenBoat, July/August 2004
“…funny, raucous, insightful, anarchistic, entertaining, instructional; seamanship with a difference.” —WoodenBoat, about the 1996 hardcover edition.
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About the Author:
After a highly successful career as an art dealer, Reese Palley embraced retirement and nautical life with a vengeance, making a fifteen-year circumnavigation aboard his 46-foot Ted Brewer-designed sailboat, UNLIKELY VII. He is the author of several books, including Unlikely Passages and Unlikely People, and has contributed articles to numerous sailing magazines. When not at sea, he lives in Philadelphia or the Florida Keys