Name/Title
Blue WaterEntry/Object ID
GV811 .G73Description
After three circumnavigations and over 200,000 miles under sail, Bob Griffith and his wife Nancy have weathered just about everything the sea and the winds could throw their way. In fact, they've thrived on it. Blue Water details their often innovative and sometimes spectacular approaches to long-distance passage-making.
To Bob Griffith, the key to successful cruising is self-reliance. A cruising sailor must be prepared to raise a jury mast in rough seas, pinpoint the location of a six-foot-high coral atoll in the expanse of the Pacific, and set an anchor that won't drag after the engine quits and williwaws are pushing his boat toward the rocks.
A sailor must be able to rely on his boat and well. Griffith examines what exactly makes a yacht seaworthy -- the proper hull, rigging, sails, accomodations. And he draws from his rich experience in 20 years of nearly continuous sailing to illustrate vividly what can make a yacht unseaworthy.
Griffith has the background to know what he's talking about: he's been knocked unconscious as lightning disintegrated his mast, he's been shipwrecked for 67 days on an uninhabited atoll, he's coped with would-be pirates in the Red Sea, he's even drilled his own teeth by hand in mid-ocean.
"In cruising," Griffith writes, "a man can't quit and go home in the middle of an ocean or when he's clawing off a lee shore, no matter how badly he wants to. A sailor is committed to finish every voyage he begins."
Reflecting on the hard-earned wisdom in Blue Water is a prudent first step for all who plan to make that commitment.
No. of Pages: 264Collection
SailOther Names and Numbers
Other Numbers
Number Type
Old NumberOther Number
1993.L.026Book Details
Author
Griffith, Bob, Griffith, NancyDate Published
1979Binding
Binding Type
Hardcover or Case BoundPublication Language
EnglishPublication Subjects
SailingCall No.
SISBN
0-914814-19-2LCCN
GV811 .G73Location
Room
*Lou Smith LibraryBuilding
*Elizabeth & Bolling Haxall BuildingCopyright
Copyright Holder
Sail Books, Inc.Copyright Date
1979