--- product_id: 2493489 title: "The Voyager's Handbook: The Essential Guide to Blue Water Cruising" price: "€ 57.89" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.hr/products/2493489-the-voyagers-handbook-the-essential-guide-to-blue-water-cruising store_origin: HR region: Croatia --- # The Voyager's Handbook: The Essential Guide to Blue Water Cruising **Price:** € 57.89 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Voyager's Handbook: The Essential Guide to Blue Water Cruising - **How much does it cost?** € 57.89 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.hr](https://www.desertcart.hr/products/2493489-the-voyagers-handbook-the-essential-guide-to-blue-water-cruising) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description The Voyager's Handbook: The Essential Guide to Blue Water Cruising [Leonard, Beth A.] on desertcart.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Voyager's Handbook: The Essential Guide to Blue Water Cruising Review: The Bible of Cruising - This is indeed like the bible of cruising. It covers everything you need to know about long-term voyaging. The author Beth and her husband Evans are two type A personalities with originally a background in consulting. So their experience is very analytical, data based, and relatively impartial. This was perfect for me, and is in stark contrast to many other sailing books where the author writes based on only his personal experiences and biases. The charts and tables in the book present valuable data, and they surveyed other cruisers to get data on dozens or hundreds of other boats. The middle of the book gets a little slow and covers more commonsense material (like how to pack small spaces efficiently) that I felt I could skim over. But the first 1/3 of the book and last 1/3 are chock full of great reading. The best chapter in this book for me was "Chapter 3 - A Bluewater-Capable Yacht". They did a good job of putting into perspective the debate on what kind of boat you need to cross oceans, and what features are important. Yet they still managed to be relatively impartial and gathered data from dozens of different cruising boats to help you make your decision. Review: The single best book out there for those seeking serious blue water sailing advice. - I have over three dozen books on sailing, and this book is by far the most useful I own. I can't say enough good things about it. Every page is filled with golden nuggets of knowledge. Don't buy this book to learn how to sail, there are plenty of books out there to teach you the basics of sailing, buy this book if you already know how to sail but have always lacked for having that seasoned experience salt filling in all the tiny gaps of knowledge that can they themselves have learned the hard way. That is what Beth does, The entire volume is filled with tips that will make passage making that much easier. As I prepare for my first Pacific crossing in two months, I find myself repeatedly coming back to this book to guide me on the best practices of passage making. If you ever plan on making a passage, this book will give you back its purchase price a hundred times over just within the first few chapters. Get it, absorb it, and tell others! ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #767,329 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #41 in Instructional Sailing #176 in Boating (Books) #21,784 in Travel (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 481 Reviews | ## Images ![The Voyager's Handbook: The Essential Guide to Blue Water Cruising - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61T4nClJJsL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Bible of Cruising *by P***K on January 1, 2015* This is indeed like the bible of cruising. It covers everything you need to know about long-term voyaging. The author Beth and her husband Evans are two type A personalities with originally a background in consulting. So their experience is very analytical, data based, and relatively impartial. This was perfect for me, and is in stark contrast to many other sailing books where the author writes based on only his personal experiences and biases. The charts and tables in the book present valuable data, and they surveyed other cruisers to get data on dozens or hundreds of other boats. The middle of the book gets a little slow and covers more commonsense material (like how to pack small spaces efficiently) that I felt I could skim over. But the first 1/3 of the book and last 1/3 are chock full of great reading. The best chapter in this book for me was "Chapter 3 - A Bluewater-Capable Yacht". They did a good job of putting into perspective the debate on what kind of boat you need to cross oceans, and what features are important. Yet they still managed to be relatively impartial and gathered data from dozens of different cruising boats to help you make your decision. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The single best book out there for those seeking serious blue water sailing advice. *by A***Y on February 11, 2018* I have over three dozen books on sailing, and this book is by far the most useful I own. I can't say enough good things about it. Every page is filled with golden nuggets of knowledge. Don't buy this book to learn how to sail, there are plenty of books out there to teach you the basics of sailing, buy this book if you already know how to sail but have always lacked for having that seasoned experience salt filling in all the tiny gaps of knowledge that can they themselves have learned the hard way. That is what Beth does, The entire volume is filled with tips that will make passage making that much easier. As I prepare for my first Pacific crossing in two months, I find myself repeatedly coming back to this book to guide me on the best practices of passage making. If you ever plan on making a passage, this book will give you back its purchase price a hundred times over just within the first few chapters. Get it, absorb it, and tell others! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Let's get our facts straight *by J***S on April 10, 2011* Many of the more negative reviews are obviously referring to the first edition of the book. This is the SECOND edition which is based on the author's experience sailing over 90,000 (yes, 90K) miles in both trade wind and polar latitudes. In preparation for our own long-term cruising I have probably read way too many books but this is by far the best of them all. Unlike many other books, Beth provides a wealth of new and novel information rather than a re-hash of what has been said for years. A small example regarding watchkeeping: Whatever the schedule, each person should be able to sleep "until done" once per day. Brilliant and obvious, but I've never seen it elsewhere and would probably have taken 89,999 miles to figure it out! This is but one of hundreds of valuable ideas and observations all delivered with Beth's great flair as a writer. The best book for serious cruising without a doubt. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.hr/products/2493489-the-voyagers-handbook-the-essential-guide-to-blue-water-cruising](https://www.desertcart.hr/products/2493489-the-voyagers-handbook-the-essential-guide-to-blue-water-cruising) --- *Product available on Desertcart Croatia* *Store origin: HR* *Last updated: 2026-06-09*