There Be No Dragons by Reese Palley
Most sailors dream of journeying to foreign ports, but many are held back by fears both real and imagined. However, as Reese Palley explains, sailing close to the shore is considerably more dangerous than voyaging across the sea. There Be No Dragons is intended to encourage those timid of the deep oceans and to inspire the confidence necessary to set sail across the wide dark seas of the world. Palley completed a fifteen year circumnavigation and his essential and entertaining guide now available for the first time in paperback, discusses easily learned skills and inexpensively acquired equipment, all of which are requisite for safe sailing.
.a delightful blend of information and stories, with emphasis on the human aspect of sailing. Witty, irreverent, and inspirational with as much 'why to' as 'how to'. * Cruising World *
.funny, raucous, insightful, anarchistic, entertaining, instructional; seamanship with a difference * Wooden Boat *
Sailors dream of travels to foreign and intriguing ports, but are afraid to go because of imagined fears. But in fact it is more dangerous to sail alongshore than across an ocean. In this witty, irreverent and challenging book, Palley explains why. * Sailing Inland & Offshore *
The title of this book came from Portugese charts of the earliest voyages of discovery on which terra incognita bore the legend "beyond here there be dragons." The author wishes to convince timid sailors that they can go places off shore, where there are no dragons beyond the far horizons. It is designed to address the basic problems, imagined and real, that keep sailors from sea. It creates a realistic framework of skills and attitudes into which any sailor, skilled or unskilled, experienced or tyro, young or ancient, man or woman, may realize the dream of passaging a big ocean in a 30- to 40-foot boat....We dread the unknown only because it is unknown. The hardest thing is getting your mind made up to just go do it. * The Ensign *
.funny, raucous, insightful, anarchistic, entertaining, instructional; seamanship with a difference * Wooden Boat *
Sailors dream of travels to foreign and intriguing ports, but are afraid to go because of imagined fears. But in fact it is more dangerous to sail alongshore than across an ocean. In this witty, irreverent and challenging book, Palley explains why. * Sailing Inland & Offshore *
The title of this book came from Portugese charts of the earliest voyages of discovery on which terra incognita bore the legend "beyond here there be dragons." The author wishes to convince timid sailors that they can go places off shore, where there are no dragons beyond the far horizons. It is designed to address the basic problems, imagined and real, that keep sailors from sea. It creates a realistic framework of skills and attitudes into which any sailor, skilled or unskilled, experienced or tyro, young or ancient, man or woman, may realize the dream of passaging a big ocean in a 30- to 40-foot boat....We dread the unknown only because it is unknown. The hardest thing is getting your mind made up to just go do it. * The Ensign *
After a highly successful career as an art dealer, Reese Palley embraced retirement and nautical life with a vengeance, making a fifteen -year circumnavigation aboard his 46-foot Ted Brewer designed sailing boat, Unlikely 11. He is author of several books including Unlikely Passages and Unlikely People, and has contributed to numerous sailing magazines.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781574091830 |
| ISBN 10 | 1574091832 |
| Title | There Be No Dragons |
| Author | Reese Palley |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
| Year published | 2004-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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