This practical guide to offshore sailing will appeal to all those sailors who have honed their skills as day sailors, racers and coastal sailors and are now planning to go further and become bluewater sailors. Ed Mapes has distilled his years of sailing and sail training experience in this book. He takes us from practical and psychological preparation to equipping your boat, navigation skills, heavy weather, eventual landfall and dozens of other topics. By taking you further offshore with skill and confidence this book will get you closer to the bluewater cruise of a lifetime.