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24-03-2015, 18:19

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Join Date: Sep 2013

Location: Oklahoma

Boat: Newport 19

Posts: 7

Attainable Adventures?

Howdy, y'all. I'm pretty landlocked and so I fiddle around with my 19' sloop on nearby lakes. However, I have vast dreams of future ocean sailing (ie sailing from Galveston Bay to Australia) and I read about the various aspects of sailing as much as possible. Currently, I'm reading the Dashew's Mariner's Weather Handbook. Though I haven't read much of it yet, I have a copy of Bowditch. Books by Jimmy Cornell and Beth Leonard are on my short list of books to obtain and read. And, of course, I gorge myself on the unending threads in this forum.

Inevitably, the interwebs led me to the site Attainable Adventure Cruising. I've read a couple of their free articles, but many of the articles reference others that require their $20 per year membership. So I suppose the sixty-four dollar question is: Is the information on their site worth the price of admission?

Thanks in advance for your help and advice.

24-03-2015, 18:45

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Phyllis has sailed over 40,000 offshore miles with John on their McCurdy & Rhodes 56, Morgan's Cloud, most of it in the high latitudes, including cruising the coast of Norway and Svalbard for 2 years, and has crossed the Atlantic three times.

John was born and brought up in Bermuda and started sailing as a child, racing locally and offshore before turning to cruising. He has sailed over 100,000 miles, most of it on his McCurdy & Rhodes 56, Morgan's Cloud, including eight ocean races to Bermuda, culminating in winning his class twice in the Newport Bermuda Race. He has skippered a series of voyages in the North Atlantic, the majority of which have been to the high latitudes, including cruising the coast of Norway and Svalbard for 2 years.

Hans Jakob has cruised the coast of Norway for over 50 years, including three voyages to Svalbard in three different sailboats. He has an unparalleled and intimate insider's knowledge of the coast.

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While we have made every reasonable effort to ensure the accuracy of the information in this Guide, errors can and do occur. Neither Attainable Adventure Cruising Ltd, the authors, or our contributors take any responsibility for any accident, injury or damage to you, your crew, your boat or any third party. It is your responsibility to consult the appropriate government publications and charts while navigating your vessel in the waters covered by this Guide. Decisions to cruise the waters covered by this Guide, where you go, and how you equip your boat, are yours and yours alone. The information in this Guide is based on what has worked for the authors and contributors in the past, but that does not mean it will work for you, or even that it is correct.

We have provided sketch maps to give a general indication of the layout of an area. They are not for navigation. We have not scanned the areas covered by these maps for rocks or obstructions. We are assuming that you have the appropriate charts and will consult them.

Attainable Adventure Cruising website...anyone use it?

I don't subscribe but I hear good things about the site from people I respect. I do manage to obtain 'pirate' copies from subscribers of areas that interest me and find the views expressed interesting though sometimes I don't wholeheartedly agree. In this latter point I'm amongst friends - even though people here know the recommendations on some topics - they blatantly ignore it.

What I find surprising is that given its solid reputation - so few people here have commented to this specific thread. There are plenty of people on here making decent heroic voyages whom I might have thought would have subscribed - but maybe they are busy doing and don't have the inclination to post. Our heroic voyagers may of course be contributors and don't have the need to subscribe (though I might have thought they would be more vocal.

Does it tend to have an Amerocentric flavour?

Jonathan