Cruising for Cowards: A Practical A-Z for Coastal and Offshore Sailors

Current, inspiring, a must read if you are dreaming of going coastal or offshore cruising in your own boat. The 2021 Third Edition of Cruising for Cowards – A Practical A-Z for Coastal and Offshore Sailors by Liza and Andy Copeland is an invaluable resource for both veterans and newcomers to the cruising life and packed with information from experienced cruisers. Buying a new boat? Have equipment or provisioning concerns? Feel ambivalent about boating? It includes design and construction criteria, electronics, communications choices, electrical information and gives equipment and maintenance suggestions for on deck and below. There are provisioning and health suggestions; safety at sea and security information; route planning and weather resources, tips for arrival and travel ashore; information for children and pets; and much more that will make cruising for all on board a guaranteed success. This is a candid readable book with Harold Allanson’s cartoons delightfully realistic of the lifestyle.

For those contemplating cruising this candid, humorous, fact-filled book leaves no stone unturned in preparing family, friends, the boat and you for success in pursuit of the ultimate dream.
Doris Colgate, President, Offshore Sailing School, former President, US National Women’s Sailing Association

From Age and Anxieties to Water and Windvanes even the boldest sailors will find their niggling questions answered. A great book to dip into, browse through, and be reassured by. Harold Allanson draws cartoons to die for.
Anne Hammick, Recent Commodore, Ocean Cruising Club, Author of Atlantic and Mediterranean Cruising Guides and Cruising on a Budget

Are you intimidated by the thought of embracing long-distance cruising as a way of life? Anyone headed for distant horizons would benefit from picking the brains of circumnavigators. Liza and Andy Copeland provide you with theirs. Cruising for Cowards is …a highly readable guide to help long-distance cruisers equip and prepare their boats and then deal with everything from cockroaches to bureaucratic paperwork while en route. There are many courses to the cruising life, but Liza and Andy’s enthusiasm and tactics, illustrated by lively accounts of their family’s experiences and amusing cartoons, charts the course that led the family and many others successfully around the globe. Anyone who follows in their wake is unlikely to be disappointed. Steve Callahan A contributing editor to SAIL and Sailor magazines, a former senior editor of Cruising World, author of Adrift and Capsized