Get Real, Get Gone: How to Become a Modern Sea Gypsy and Sail Away Forever

Get Real, Get Gone: How to Become a Modern Sea Gypsy and Sail Away Forever by Rick Page
English | 2015 | ISBN: 151684663X | 290 pages | EPUB | 2 MB

“Don’t even think of buying a boat until you have read this book” Tom Cunliffe (legendary sailor and author of The Complete Yachtmaster).

The idea that you have to be rich to travel the world on your own yacht is so universal that it goes largely unquestioned. The ubiquitous images of rich men on super-yachts sipping Martinis only help cement this image. This book hopes to change all that.

Rick and Jasna’s recent appearance on Ben Fogle’s New Lives in the Wild chronicled their budget lifestyle and adventures aboard Calypso, and introduced the idea of budget sailing to a whole new audience – an audience who may have never considered the possibility that such a dream could be made a reality, on such a small amount of money. This book is for them and for any experienced sailors who want to cast off the yoke of consumerist yachting and get back to what really matters at sea.

If you are not rich, but dream of seeing our beautiful world from the deck of your own boat, this book is packed full of practical and spiritual advice to help you cut through the endless marketing and identify what it is you truly need to become a modern sea gypsy and sail away on the greatest adventure of your life…

How History"s Greatest Pirates Pillaged, Plundered, and Got Away With It (Repost)

Benerson Little – How History’s Greatest Pirates Pillaged, Plundered, and Got Away With It
Fair Winds Press | 2011 | ISBN: 1592334431, 9781592334438 | English | 272 pages | PDF | 125.78 MB

The Stories, Techniques, and Tactics of the Most Feared Sea Rovers from 1500-1800.

Not simple retellings of the tried and true stories of buccaneers on the high seas, this book focuses on how pirating tactics of the 1500s through 1800s to give the reader a view of how pirates functioned through history. Readers will follow eighteen of the most famous pirates in detail as they raid major ships and pillage coastal villages. Readers will learn how the pirates approached such invasions and how they managed to elude authorities and sometimes whole navies. With archival images gathered from around the world.

Each chapter is a stand-alone story about a famous buccaneer and follows them moment by moment on a specific attack as an example of their greater techniques and tactics for plundering. Readers will follow the characters in live action and trace their movements in real time; a recreation of the action based on the historic information available.