""An excellent and practical step-by-step manual to help
prepare you for the cruising lifestyle and to entertain you as you
learn." --"Cruising World More than two decades ago, Tom
and Mel Neale moved onto a boat full-time with their two daughters.
Now their neighborhood is anywhere they choose to anchor.
Here's all the information needed to follow in their footsteps,
including choosing a boat, earning a living, raising and educating
kids, and much more.
"An excellent and practical step-by-step manual to help
prepare you for the cruising lifestyle and to entertain you as you
learn." --Cruising World More than two decades ago, Tom and
Mel Neale moved onto a boat full-time with their two daughters. Now
their neighborhood is anywhere they choose to anchor. Here's
all the information needed to follow in their footsteps, including
choosing a boat, earning a living, raising and educating kids, and
much more.
Table of contents:
Preface Acknowledgments A Simple Life, by Melanie Introduction A
Cruising Frame of Mind 1 Attitude Adjustment Living in the Real
World of Cruising The Myth of the Cure-All Cruise 2 Living on the
Hook Attitude and Living at Anchor 3 Cruising Isn't Pink and
Blue Only Mother Ocean Is Macho Who Is Captain? Are You Ready to Be
Different? What They Think of Us A Little Help from Your Friends
Taking Care of Business 5 Dollars and Sense The Bottom Line
Insurance Opting Not to Spend Money Income and Outgo Handling Cash
6 Communications Mail E-Mail Them 7 What Do You Keep? The House The
Car Your Address Your New Home 8 Comfort: A Cruising Boat Isn't
A Niagara Falls Barrel Cruising Comfort Design for Comfort 9
Choosing A Boat A Boat to Suit Your Plans and Dreams Multihulls
Trawlers Sea Trials 10 Safety and Seaworthiness Learn to Be Safe
Design and Construction Dinghy Storage Propane Lightning Chafe Safe
11 Anchoring Anchoring Gear Caring for Your Chain and Anchors Good
Bottoms Anchoring Techniques 12 The Engine The Diesel Auxiliary
Maintenance 13 Power to the People The 12-Volt System AC Power
Inverters 14 Water and Water Systems Collecting Water Tankage
Watermakers The Head 15 Refrigeration Compressors The Box Other
Systems 16 Dinghies The Everyday Dinghy Inflatables Hard Dinghies
Motors Dinghy Seamanship 17 Catalog Catastrophe When to Wait Where
to Buy What to Buy Underway 18 Taking Off and Getting Into the
Groove Get Aboard Your Boat Isn't a Bus 19 What on Earth Do You
Do All Day? Work Play Take Advantage of Nature When Nature
Doesn't Cooperate Take Advantage of What's Around You Boats
and Booze 20 Self-Reliance: Your Greatest Asset Fix It Yourself
Prepare for Your New Job Food and Provisioning, by Tom and Mel
Laundry, by Mel Health Equip to Save Money 21 Kids Aboard Start
Early Practice Share the Load Help Your Kid Adjust Babies Aboard,
by Mel Perils of Paradise 22 Teach Your Children Well Can You Do
It? Correspondence Schools The Computer and School 23 Our
Neighborhood Regions and Seasons Where to Stop Epilogue The
Widening Gap Green Flash, by Melanie Sequel Appendix A Recipes, by
Mel Appendix B Correspondence Schools Index
"An excellent and practical step-by-step manual to help
prepare you for the cruising lifestyle and to entertain you as you
learn."--Cruising World Dreaming of Leaving the 9-to-5 World
and Going Cruising? Here's the Definitive Handbook from a
Family Who Did All in the Same Boat is one family's testament
to the belief that you can lead your own life. For the Neales,
moving aboard was a way to take control of their world and their
environment. Here is how they did it, and how you can do it too,
with hard-won tips, practical suggestions, and life lessons on how
to: Choose and prepare the right boat Provision for long-term
cruising Learn what you can leave behind Raise--and educate--kids
Get along in close quarters Know what to expect in the cruising
life Earn a living, and hold onto the money Keep in touch while
making the ocean your backyard Live with the comforts of home while
anchored in paradise "Not only must-reading for anyone
planning to live aboard, it also is a valuable resource for weekend
and vacation cruisers. . . . An entirely engaging and insightful
volume."--Rhode Island Boating
"An excellent and practical step-by-step manual to help prepare you for the cruising lifestyle and to entertain you as you learn." -Cruising World; "Not only must reading for anyone planning to live aboard, but also a valuable reference for weekend and vacation cruisers. Even armchair skippers who are wondering just what it's really like will find this an entirely engaging and insightful volume." -Rhode Island Boating
Tom Neale and his wife Mel gave up their suburban home and careers to move aboard their Gulfstar Sailmaster 47 Chez Nous in 1979. Since then, they've raised two daughters aboard while cruising nearly 5,000 miles a year. Tom is a former Cruising World magazine columnist and editor-at-large, and is now editor-at-large for PassageMaker magazine. He and Mel founded and edit Cruising Coast and Islands. They now cruise in a Gulfstar 53 motorsailor.
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Preface Acknowledgments A Simple Life, by Melanie Introduction A Cruising Frame of Mind 1 Attitude Adjustment Living in the Real World of Cruising The Myth of the Cure-All Cruise 2 Living on the Hook Attitude and Living at Anchor 3 Cruising Isn't Pink and Blue Only Mother Ocean Is Macho Who Is Captain? Are You Ready to Be Different? What They Think of Us A Little Help from Your Friends Taking Care of Business 5 Dollars and Sense The Bottom Line Insurance Opting Not to Spend Money Income and Outgo Handling Cash 6 Communications Mail E-Mail Them 7 What Do You Keep? The House The Car Your Address Your New Home 8 Comfort: A Cruising Boat Isn't A Niagara Falls Barrel Cruising Comfort Design for Comfort 9 Choosing A Boat A Boat to Suit Your Plans and Dreams Multihulls Trawlers Sea Trials 10 Safety and Seaworthiness Learn to Be Safe Design and Construction Dinghy Storage Propane Lightning Chafe Safe 11 Anchoring Anchoring Gear Caring for Your Chain and Anchors Good Bottoms Anchoring Techniques 12 The Engine The Diesel Auxiliary Maintenance 13 Power to the People The 12-Volt System AC Power Inverters 14 Water and Water Systems Collecting Water Tankage Watermakers The Head 15 Refrigeration Compressors The Box Other Systems 16 Dinghies The Everyday Dinghy Inflatables Hard Dinghies Motors Dinghy Seamanship 17 Catalog Catastrophe When to Wait Where to Buy What to Buy Underway 18 Taking Off and Getting Into the Groove Get Aboard Your Boat Isn't a Bus 19 What on Earth Do You Do All Day? Work Play Take Advantage of Nature When Nature Doesn't Cooperate Take Advantage of What's Around You Boats and Booze 20 Self-Reliance: Your Greatest Asset Fix It Yourself Prepare for Your New Job Food and Provisioning, by Tom and Mel Laundry, by Mel Health Equip to Save Money 21 Kids Aboard Start Early Practice Share the Load Help Your Kid Adjust Babies Aboard, by Mel Perils of Paradise 22 Teach Your Children Well Can You Do It? Correspondence Schools The Computer and School 23 Our Neighborhood Regions and Seasons Where to Stop Epilogue The Widening Gap Green Flash, by Melanie Sequel Appendix A Recipes, by Mel Appendix B Correspondence Schools Index
