Phyllis

Alternative Energy For Voyaging

Solar, wind and hydro generation, it’s all here—real practical advice from an experienced voyager who has walked the walk, not just talked the talk.

Anchoring Made Easy—Gear

Information you need to put together a bullet-poof anchoring system—solid gear recommendations that have been tested in the real world.

Anchoring Made Easy—Technique

There are few activities in the voyaging life that cause more anxiety and stress than anchoring, so here are the techniques you need to get anchored and stay anchored every time.

Battery Installation & Maintenance

A complete, but simple, protocol to get the very best life out of batteries—real information that works based on 25 years of live-aboard experience.

Better Offshore Motorboats

Most sailors have thought about transitioning to a power boat, even if only as a way to stay on the water as we age. Here are the issues and options for a sailor’s power boat.

Boat Design & Selection—Ovni 435

A sailor with decades of experience as a research boat skipper in demanding conditions builds his dream voyaging boat—we can all learn a lot.

Carbon Fibre Mast

Considering buying a boat with a carbon fibre mast or replacing your existing aluminum mast with carbon? The benefits and drawbacks of carbon fibre for voyaging boat masts.

Coming Alongside (Docking) Made Easy

Online Book on docking (coming alongside) that will truly take the drama out of this every day activity for cruisers both power and sail.

Cruising Notes—Canada's East Coast

There are literally thousands of snug harbours on the east coast of Canada—these cruising notes, collected over twenty-five years sailing this coast, will make planning your voyage easier.

Dealing With Seasickness

Seasickness is the great spoiler of offshore voyaging—tips and wisdom for fighting off the dreaded mal-de-mer and what to do once it strikes.

Engines For Cruising Boats

An analysis of what makes an ideal cruising boat engine, together with a step-by-step account of a highly successful repower.

Getting Along With Your Crew

If you can’t get along with your crew, your cruise will not be a success. Chock full of practical tips on crew management.

Getting Out There Cruising

John, Phyllis, Christopher and Colin write about what you need to do to get out cruising and have fun when you do.

Heavy Weather Tactics

The options for storm survival from heaving-to to drogue deployment with a step-by-step guide to putting together an easy to deploy and retrieve system.

How To Buy a Cruising Boat

The critical issues that you need to understand before you buy a cruising boat. Time-tested tips to help you determine what really matters.

Lessons from Losses at Sea

A look at the loss of several yachts and what we can learn from each—reading this book could save your boat…and maybe your life.

Living The Dream

Do you dream of sailing in turquoise waters? Join “Pélerin” on a voyage in the Caribbean. Colin weaves a travel tale like only he can.

Maintaining a Cruising Boat

Often what will really govern how much fun and how safe your cruise will be is how good you are at maintaining your boat.

Medical Emergencies

How to prepare for every voyaging sailor’s worst nightmare—a medical emergency at sea. Medical kits, emergency medical training, it’s all here.

Navigation and Marine Electronics

The fruits of a combined century of navigation, much of it before electronic gadgets, and then we relate that experience to modern electronic navigation.

Offshore Sailboat Design

Knowing the difference between a boat that will work inshore and one that can go to sea could save you from making a terrible and expensive boat-buying mistake.

Person Overboard Prevention & Recovery

If you fall overboard from a short-handed boat, you are probably not going to be rescued. Tips and procedures that will help keep you and your loved ones on the boat.

And now, notwithstanding the above, includes chapters on recovery.

Photography For Cruisers

Telling the story of your voyage in photographs. Techniques and gear tips that will make you a better photographer.

Sail Handling and Rigging Made Easy

Setting, reefing and striking sails and doing it in challenging conditions—tips, techniques, gear, sail selection and rigging.

Seamanship

We all aspire to be competent mariners. This book will point you in the right direction.

Transatlantic On "Pèlerin"

A different and much more interesting transatlantic than the classic milk run, with valuable voyage planning and execution information.

Voyaging Boats from Boréal

In the market for a boat to take you to out-of-the-way places in safety? Even if you don’t buy a Boréal, you will learn a huge amount about what makes a good expedition boat.

Watertight Integrity

There is nothing more important to an offshore boat than keeping the water out. Here are real practical tips.

Weather Reception and Analysis

Step-by-step methods to receive weather information while offshore and in remote places.

Z-Adventure 40

A voyaging sailboat that would be ready to take you around the world in safety and comfort for US$200,000.