Cruising for Cowards: A Practical A-Z for Coastal and Offshore Sailors

by Liza Copeland, Andy Copeland

Overview

Current, inspiring, a must read if you are dreaming of going coastal or offshore cruising in your own boat. The 2021 Third Edition of Cruising for Cowards – A Practical A-Z for Coastal and Offshore Sailors by Liza and Andy Copeland is an invaluable resource for both veterans and newcomers to the cruising life and packed with information from experienced cruisers. Buying a new boat? Have equipment or provisioning concerns? Feel ambivalent about boating? It includes design and construction criteria, electronics, communications choices, electrical information and gives equipment and maintenance suggestions for on deck and below. There are provisioning and health suggestions; safety at sea and security information; route planning and weather resources, tips for arrival and travel ashore; information for children and pets; and much more that will make cruising for all on board a guaranteed success. This is a candid readable book with Harold Allanson’s cartoons delightfully realistic of the lifestyle.

For those contemplating cruising this candid, humorous, fact-filled book leaves no stone unturned in preparing family, friends, the boat and you for success in pursuit of the ultimate dream.
Doris Colgate, President, Offshore Sailing School, former President, US National Women’s Sailing Association

From Age and Anxieties to Water and Windvanes even the boldest sailors will find their niggling questions answered. A great book to dip into, browse through, and be reassured by. Harold Allanson draws cartoons to die for.
Anne Hammick, Recent Commodore, Ocean Cruising Club, Author of Atlantic and Mediterranean Cruising Guides and Cruising on a Budget

Are you intimidated by the thought of embracing long-distance cruising as a way of life? Anyone headed for distant horizons would benefit from picking the brains of circumnavigators. Liza and Andy Copeland provide you with theirs. Cruising for Cowards is …a highly readable guide to help long-distance cruisers equip and prepare their boats and then deal with everything from cockroaches to bureaucratic paperwork while en route. There are many courses to the cruising life, but Liza and Andy’s enthusiasm and tactics, illustrated by lively accounts of their family’s experiences and amusing cartoons, charts the course that led the family and many others successfully around the globe. Anyone who follows in their wake is unlikely to be disappointed. Steve Callahan A contributing editor to SAIL and Sailor magazines, a former senior editor of Cruising World, author of Adrift and Capsized

Product Details

BN ID:	2940164906429
Publisher:	Liza Copeland
Publication date:	05/11/2021
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

Liza grew up in Twickenham, England and studied Medical Social Work at Trinity College, Dublin University in Ireland. She emigrated to Canada and completed an BA in Psychology at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario and a Teaching Certificate and Masters Degree in Special Education at the University of British Columbia. Her career has included Vocational Rehabilitation, Medical Social Work and Educational Psychology, mostly in hospital settings. Having raced on the Solent and River Thames since she was nine years old, Liza continued sailing in a variety of boats in University, National and World Championships, as well as in long distance races. She is now a fulltime writer and seminar speaker, in between cruising of course!

Andy was born in Spain of British parents, educated in England then joined the Royal Navy where he became a Fleet Air Arm carrier pilot and flying instructor. He grew up sailing in Seaview, Isle of Wight and has been a successful racer in a variety of classes. After leaving the Navy he moved to Antigua in the Caribbean, where he managed a boat yard and chandlery business as well as skippering and delivering a wide range of yachts, both classic and modern, sail and power. He was also a founder of both Antigua Yacht Club and Antigua Race Week. After the Copelands moved to Vancouver, Canada, Andy owned a yacht brokerage business and was also a professional captain. Although officially retired Andy still advises cruisers on boats and equipment for coastal and offshore cruising.
Liza and Andy met at the Sunfish World Championships in Venezuela then ran charter boats together in the Caribbean and delivered boats to and from the U.S. After marrying aboard the classic yacht Ticonderoga they completed their first Atlantic crossing in the old Fife built Eileen before moving to Vancouver, BC. Here they raced avidly, cruised the Pacific northwest with their three sons, led charters to the Caribbean and traveled widely before setting off on a two-year cruise that became a six-year circumnavigation. Andy then returned to yacht broking and dreamed about tropical cruising. Liza became a full-time writer and gives seminars on both boating and travel. She and Andy also have lead groups on sailing vacations to exotic places around the world, as well as in B.C. With Bagheera’s further voyages around North and Central America, in the Mediterranean, West Africa. Brazil and Caribbean they have now sailed over 180,000 miles together – although have mostly race separately! They continue to enjoy cruising with friends and family on Bagheera who currently lies in Canada’s Pacific Northwest, and also join friends to cruise in new or favorite regions of the world.