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The reason for the high price is 350 pages of hundreds
of full-color maps and photos.
THE COST OF MAIL IS HIGH AS IT WEIGHS 3 POUNDS (1.4 KG).
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If you like I can give you my bank account details and you can do a electronic transfer to my bank, or post a cheque, or turn up at "Wallaby Creek" in the Burnett River with a bottle of rum.
I am in Australia.
Many thanks, Alan Phillips.
THE INTRODUCTION
Living is dangerous. Cars crash, diseases appear from nowhere, loved ones die, careers evaporate. There is no safety. Misfortune can hit anywhere anytime. There is nowhere to hide.
The more you try the more vulnerable you are. So do not waste your life trying to be protected. Instead set out to live. We have only one life, only one chance to live. If we do not live it, it is gone and wasted.
Why not think of the joys of living a full and interesting life? Why not throw your financial caution to the wind and sail off around the world? Have the courage to live!
OK so you want to sail around the world. Which way and in what seasons do you go? How, when where do you do it?
"THE MILK RUN" is the route taken by most modern sailing boats wishing to circumnavigate the world. It has the warmest breezes, most pleasurable conditions, most interesting landfalls. It is the easiest and safest route for a sailing circumnavigation. There is no fog or ice and very few gales along this route. In the Pacific Ocean it is generally refered to as "The Coconut Milk Run".
This book gives the information that you will need to sucesfully complete your circumnavigation around the milk run. Included are plenty of maps, navigation aids and useful advice. I have tried to provide the answers to the practical and philosophical questions that you will need to consider when you are planing this voyage.
This is not a book about sailing. It is about lifestyle. The sailing is incidental to the good living. Sailing the boat is actually the easiest part of the whole operation.
In this book I will espouse a simple easy style of sailing where moderation is the key. I am not interested in hard and fast sailing. Academically corect sailing techniques are not of any interest to us totally practically people. Trying to get the best out of your boat, go faster, get there sooner is of no interest. Getting the best out of life is infinitely more important. Living a happy and interesting life with the greatest possible amount of pleasure is the objective. Cruising the world and sailing your boat as slow and easy as practical is probably the best way to achieve it. If you are in a hurry, if you really want to get somewhere, then catch a plane. If you really want to improve your sailing skills, then enroll at a school in your local area. On your boat life should be simply for good living.
A love affair with the sea could be a real possibility. Going fast, meeting objectives, achieving goals, sailing well, getting recognition, pushing yourself to new limits, etc are all things that, for me,would ruin this otherwise great life experience. Hopefully in this book you can find something spiritual as well as the practical. Why not relax and enjoy yourself at new heights of living? Why not fall in love with the greatest mistress on earth; the sea. In this book I am expressing my ideas on seamanship and living. I have met quite a few people who do it well. Also many who have no idea about getting the best out of their lives. (Or do I mean into their lives?).
LIVE SLOW WORK LESS
The first step is to try to understand what you are doing and why......I do it for pure pleasure......
Voyaging belongs to the wanderers of the world who chose or are driven to go there own way without........
Maybe the greatest risk in life is to live without risk.
Living well is an art; a learned experience..........change some of the things you have been taught to think.....once you get your head together then all the physical problems...... this book has valuable, even priceless information......25 years cruising, 100,000 miles at sea, two circumnavigations.
For dreamers, adventurers and the driven.
I take the helm and steer by the feel of the wind.
She's in a groove balanced and true.
My spirits lift; I look back east and laugh out loud.
We are flying!
I am free now, free of the petty life, free of the cloying social restrictions, free to enjoy, free to really feel alive, free to live. Mysteriously I come alive.
The boat leaps, lunging up and over and out.
The seas thunder past.
for a day and a night the wind comes with relentless energy and the sky is clear. As I paused and gazed up I was astonished to realize that the night was perfectly clear and a million stars shon like diamonds. The seas were bald blue promontories that moved with majestic savage grace.
Another night came down and the moon rose and the constellations wheeled by in sombre solitude.
The wind took off at last; around midnight I think it was.
One more gale I thought for this faithful vessel. Wallaby Creek.
CHAPTER 1 THE OVERVIEW
The Milk Run is the easiest and warmest possible route to circumnavigate the world. If your object is to sail as easily and safely and warmly as possible, with a minimum of hardship and a maximum of pleasure then you need to take the Milk Run Route.
The Milk Run Route uses the tradewinds to cross the major oceans and avoids tropical revolving storms.
CHAPTER 2 YEAR 1 THE ATLANTIC
Give me a stout ship,
a merry crew,
And a fair breeze
Then HO! For the Indies`
THE schedule looks like this;
Leave Las Palmas on 1st January
Allow three weeks to cross Atlantic Ocean.
Arrive Barbados around 23rd Jan.
Leave Barbados on 1st February
Arrive Trinidad on 3rd February.
Leave Trinidad on 15th February.
Cruise islands of Venezuela for 10 days
Arrive Bonaire on 26th February.
Arive Curacao on 2nd March..........This schedule gives you 4 months cruising in French Polynesia as well as 2 weeks in Cook Islands and 2 weeks in Tonga........you have to be on the last leg into New Zealand by November.
Now the Atlantic Ocean has a fearsome reputation......
After you get to the waypoint at 20 degrees latitude and turn more west you can put your mainsail.......
CHAPTER 4 YEAR 2 NEW ZEALAND TO THAILAND
CHAPTER 5 YEAR 3 THAILAND TO CANARY ISLANDS
CHAPTER 6 OTHER ROUTES
The philosophy. Mental preparation. The real problem. Keeping your head. Pirates and axe murderers. The crew. Things you need to know. Things you need to be able to do. The hardest bits. The easiest bits. The most enjoyable bits. The least enjoyable bits. The most expensive places.
The least expensive places. Cultural things. Singlehanding. The cruising couple. Paranoia. The questions most asked. Personal qualities most needed. Responsibility.
CHAPTER 8 THE LIFESTYLE
Costs and financials. Communication and entertainment.
Pets and kids. Seasickmess and injury. Fishing.
Your clothes. Water. Food, cooking and eating.
Political effects. It is a changing world.
1.The boat. 2.The toys. 3.Damage and maintenance.
4.Haulouts. 5.The toilet. 6.Sail repairs. 7.The engine.
8.The most important things. 9.Lists. The dinghy.
Getting work done. "Wallaby Creek" specs.
CHAPTER 10 THE WEATHER
1.Passage planing. 2.Navigation. 3.Speed. 4.Anchors. 5.Docking. 6.Watchkeeping. 7.Coiling and cleating.
9.Heavy weather sailing. Lightening. Knots.
Aground again! Crossing bars.
Hurricane tactics. Turning back. A prayer. Fire!
Becalmed! Buoyage system. Rules of the road.
Man overboard! Loss of rudder! Loss of mast!
THE BOOK COSTS US$70 + $10 for postage.
In Australian dollars that is $95.oo
The reason for the high price is 350 pages of hundreds of full-color maps and photos.
email me at wallabycreek@yahoo.com
You can put the money in my paypal.com account and I will post out your book. You go to paypal.com and use your credit card to send money to wallabycreek@yahoo.com. If you like I can give you my account details and you can do a electronic transfer to my bank. I am in Australia.
Many thanks, Alan Phillips.
