Brings together in one concise, easy-to-use volume all the information you need to make the right decisions,and avoid the wrong ones, for your own style of cruising. Jam-packed into 1232 pages is the latest information on 2200 subjects with 2500 detailed illustrations. Offshore Cruising Encyclopedia has empowered a generation of cruisers to untie their dock lines and go. Packed with data on every facet of sailing, from design and systems to the cruising lifestyle, it has provided sailors around the world with the knowledge necessary to buy, equip, and prepare themselves in the most efficient manner possible. That's why Motor Boating and Sailing says this book has "...everything you'll ever need to know about offshore cruising from people who have been there. A true encyclopedia built on first-hand knowledge." The CD-ROM edition brings the full power of PDF files to Offshore Cruising Encyclopedia. Photos are in color, the table of contents is "hot linked" to the text, and you can use the powerful search functions of the PDF Format.