Shakedown Cruise: Lessons and Adventures from a Cruising Veteran as He Learns the Ropes

An insightful and engaging account of a young family's first offshore cruise that turned a novice sailor into a yachting legend. Before he became the world-renowned expert behind boating bibles like Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual, Nigel Calder was a young novice with a dream bigger than his experience. In Shakedown Cruise, Calder recounts the audacious 18-month voyage he and his partner Terrie undertook in the early 1980s . With a newly built, untested 38-foot sailboat named Nada, a two-year-old daughter, and another baby on the way, they set off from Louisiana for a trip that would take them through the Caribbean to Venezuela and back.