Name/Title
Sailing AmericaEntry/Object ID
GV811 .B716 1990Description
You don't need a deserted South Pacific atoll and years of planning to make your escape: you need only a car, a trailer hitch, a small boat, and a sense of adventure.
Larry Brown has an eye for an America few people see, a love of small boats, and a healthy respect for even smaller budgets. The author of Sailing on a Micro-Budget (Seven Seas Press, 1984), Brown continues his small-boat gospel in Sailing AMerica. Based on extensive research, a ten thousand mile road-and-sail odyssey through the United States, Baja California, and Canada, and shorter trips he's taken along the Intracoastal Waterway, the Florida Keys, the Tennessee Valley Authority lakes and elsewhere, Sailing America is both a clear and thorough how-to book and a thoughtful, evocative commentary on the passing scenery.
Brown explains how to plan and prepare for a trip, offering advice ranging from choosing the right boat and the vehicle to tow it to preparing your "gypsy caravan" for self-sufficient, long distance trips: trailering, launching, sleeping, cooking, sanitation, traveling with kids, avoiding pests. Sailing America offers Brown's regional glimpses of the continent: the Atlantic Northeast, the MIddle Atlantic and Atlantic Southeast, the Gulf Coast, Middle America, the Desert States, the Rockies, California and Mexico, the Pacific Northwest, and the Canadian subarctic. Here are tips on places of interest, where to cruise, and where to get more information. He rates his cruising suggestions to include everyone from novices to adventurers; he explains the nuances of sailing rivers, bays, and lakes.
Brown and his family have encountered few other families touring America as they have. He reckons there are many more ocean voyagers than there are voyagers of our inland and coastal waters. It's hard to imagine why, but perhaps it needed a writer of simple, direct vision to point out that in this case at least [the] greatest adventures and fantasies may also be the most attainable.Collection
SailAcquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Ed KattelOther Names and Numbers
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2007.L.038Book Details
Author
Brown, LarryDate Published
1990Binding
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Paperback or SoftcoverPublication Language
EnglishCall No.
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GV811 .B716 1990Location
Room
*Lou Smith LibraryBuilding
*Elizabeth & Bolling Haxall BuildingCopyright
Copyright Holder
Seven Seas PressCopyright Date
1990