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....

Having spent more than a dozen years conducting boat inspections, delivery captain Ed Mapes saw just how unsafe and ill prepared some boats were for sailing offshore. This led Mapes to develop his own system for inspecting, repairing and fitting out boats, which led to Ready to Sail, a guide to getting a boat and its crew ready for offshore passagemaking. Mapes goes over the boat with a fine-toothed comb, pointing out things to look for, possible problems and how to go about fixing them. Detailed without overly relying on technical jargon, Ready to Sail provides a comprehensive but easy-to-follow road map to anyone who needs to inspect and fit out a boat for bluewater sailing. This new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated....