The Sailing Life: A Look at the Reality of the Cruising Lifestyle

by Bob Bitchin

Overview

Bob Bitchin has a unique perspective from which to describe The Sailing Life.
As founder and editor of the highly successful magazine Latitudes & Attitudes, he surveys and comments on the good and the bad, the funny and the sad, the practical and the theoretical of the sailing scene. This collection of his editorials and other writings is full of useful advice, keen observations and, yes, some outrageous comments as only Bob can put them on paper.
Readers of his bestseller, Letters from the LOST SOUL, will be delighted with this unique guide to the Sailing Life. Like Latitudes & Attitudes, Captain Bob is down to earth, irreverent, and always entertaining.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940160952659
Publisher:	Bob Bitchin
Publication date:	05/30/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Adventure has been a way of life for Bob Bitchin since the early sixties when his name was coined by the comedy team of Cheech and Chong (his birth-name is Robert Lipkin). He worked as a traveling companion and bodyguard for famous motorcycle daredevil Evil Knievel, promoted motorcycle shows, and created Biker Magazine and Tattoo Magazine in the 70's and early 80's. He also worked as editor of many of the motorcycle magazines of that era, and wrote for other publications as diverse as Forbes, Penthouse and New Look. During that time, he rode his motorcycles across the country over 30 times, and around Europe as well. He was the founding president of the Motorcycle Press Association in 1978 and co-founder of A.B.A.T.E., a national organization of motorcyclists.
In December of 1973 He and riding partner LACO Bob Lawrence, President of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Hells Angels co-created the very first Toy run, which now takes place in thousands of cities world-wide.
In the early 70's he met Alan Olson, Captain of Stone Witch, which was a 74' square rigged topsail schooner that sailed out of San Francisco. He signed on for a 3-month sail to Guatemala to see if the sailing life was for him. Stone Witch was the flagship for Greenpeace, and had no engine, ran kerosene running lights, and had four 21' oars for propulsion. This sail changed his life, and soon, while we rode all over the world on Harley's, he lived aboard various sailboats that he would buy, fix up, and sell. For over thirty years he lived aboard sailboats and cruised most of the Pacific and Central America.
In 1986 he sold BIKER and TATTOO magazines to Easy riders and started sailing full time. For many years he sailed the Pacific Coast of Mexico and Central America on his Formosa 51, the first Lost Soul, and then on another 51' ketch, named Predator, with numerous trips to the Hawaiian Islands and back. Then, in 1990 After fixing and selling seven boats he bought the 68' staysail ketch Lost Soul, and this would be his home for the next 17 years.