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World Cruising Destinations

An Inspirational Guide to All Sailing Destinations
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World Cruising Destinations by Doina and Jimmy Cornell is a comprehensive guide for sailors venturing on long-distance voyages. Drawing from Jimmy Cornell's extensive experience of over 200,000 miles sailed worldwide, including polar expeditions, it profiles all global cruising destinations. The handbook offers detailed information on climate, local laws, facilities, cultural highlights, and emergency contacts. Updated for modern challenges such as climate change, Brexit, and Covid, the richly illustrated volume serves as an indispensable on-board reference and an inspiration for adventurous sailors to explore new waters.
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Ideal for adventurous sailors, long-distance cruisers, and those planning circumnavigations or shorter ocean cruises. Also suited for boating enthusiasts seeking authoritative information on global cruising destinations and culture.

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The perfect partner to World Cruising Routes and World Voyage Planner, this substantial handbook profiles every cruising destination in the world, covering all the land-based essentials for cruisers, with key information on facilities, regulations and climate as well as history, culture and local events.

The perfect partner to World Cruising Routes and World Voyage Planner, this substantial handbook profiles every cruising destination in the world, covering all the land-based essentials for cruisers, with key information on facilities, regulations and climate as well as history, culture and local events.

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What Jimmy Cornell doesn't know about cruising isn't worth knowing - Yachting World

One of the most influential cruising yachtsmen writing today, Jimmy Cornell has sailed over 200,000 miles on all the oceans of the world, including three circumnavigations and voyages to the Arctic and Antarctic. His successful guide to sailing around the world, World Cruising Routes, has helped many aspirational voyagers turn their dreams into reality and follow in his footsteps. Here in its extensively revised third edition is its partner, World Cruising Destinations, covering all the land-based essentials for cruisers, including new updates throughout on the long-lasting impact of climate change, Brexit, and Covid.

This substantial handbook profiles every cruising destination in the world, with information on cruising attractions, history, culture, and climate (including average monthly temperatures and rainfall, plus tropical storm seasons). It includes details on local laws, regulations and formalities, facilities, public holidays and events, emergency telephone numbers, and much more. Lavishly illustrated throughout, it is not only a must-have onboard reference work for long-distance sailors, but will undoubtedly inspire the adventurous to sail where they have never sailed before.

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Praised as an indispensable resource by Yachting World and the Cruising Association, this book is acclaimed for its comprehensive, accurate, and up-to-date information. Reviewers highlight its unmatched coverage of cruising grounds and commend it as a must-have guide for both novice and experienced sailors planning ocean voyages. Described as a 'tour de force' and 'a Godsend' for long-range planning, it is recognised as the leading authority on world cruising, with Jimmy Cornell's vast experience lending it exceptional credibility.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781472991027

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 31 March 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Adlard Coles Nautical

Edition: 3rd edition

Illustration: Colour maps and photographs throughout

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 30.0mm

Width: 192.0mm

Height: 240.0mm

Weight: 1350g

Pages: 448

About the Author

Jimmy Cornell has influenced the contemporary cruising scene more than any other sailor. An accomplished sailor, public speaker and author, he has sailed over 200,000 miles in all oceans of the world including three circumnavigations as well as voyages to Antarctica and the Northwest Passage. As the founder of the highly successful ARC transatlantic rally, Jimmy Cornell is credited with having devised the offshore cruising rally concept. In the last three decades, Jimmy Cornell has organized 38 transatlantic rallies, five round the world rallies and one round the world race, with over 3,000 boats and 15,000 sailors having participated in his sailing events.

Thousands of sailors have fulfilled their dream of blue water cruising with the help of Jimmy Cornell’s books, among them the international bestseller World Cruising Routes. Now in its 9th edition, and with over 200,000 copies sold to date, this is one of the best-selling nautical publications in the world.

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