QuickStart Circumnavigation Guide - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook QuickStart Circumnavigation Guide write by Charlie Simon. This book was released on 2016-05-19. QuickStart Circumnavigation Guide available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dreaming of Sailing the Seas? Buy THIS Book First! You'll feel like you are on YOUR WORLD CRUISE in this overview book for sailing the world, the adventure of a Lifetime. In this non-fiction book there is enough factual information and detail for readers contemplating their own worldwide sailing adventure. Easy to read, well organized, and entertaining. At the end of reading this book, one could ask,"Do you want to take this trip?" The emphatic answer is, "YES! Let the voyage begin!" The authors, Captain Charlie Simon and his wife, Cathy, sailed away on Celebrate, a Taswell 58, leaving Rodney Bay, St. Lucia, West Indies on January 10, 2014 and completing their world circumnavigation 15 months later upon returning to St. Lucia in the Caribbean on April 11, 2016.Ports detailed along the way include the Panama Canal transit, a memorable start to the reader's journey. Many aerial/satellite port diagrams, local photos, and excerpts from the ship's blog tell readers what to expect as the route continues to the Galapagos Islands, French Polynesia, Fiji and other islands across the South Pacific. The Simon's also chronicle their stops at Australia, Bali and passing through some rough weather in the Indian Ocean, then going on to South Africa, and having benign conditions crossing the South Atlantic to Brazil and back to the Caribbean. You get a genuine feel for what it is like to sail the world!Colorful stories and photographs from the ports of entry get the reader enthusiastic and build up a "Let's do this!" mind-set and the encouraging positive tone should inspire readers. There are many featured Google Earth satellite maps and up-to-date website links.172 pages, full color, 8.5x11, 154 Color pictures, 18 maps, 49 satellite/aerial route diagrams, index, and bibliography.
UK and Ireland Circumnavigator's Guide
UK and Ireland Circumnavigator's Guide - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook UK and Ireland Circumnavigator's Guide write by Sam Steele. This book was released on 2011-03-15. UK and Ireland Circumnavigator's Guide available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The new circumnavigation bible" - Geoff Holt (the first disabled sailor to sail around Britain singlehandedly) A circumnavigation of the UK and Ireland is the perfect 'doorstep' challenge for sailors and motorboaters looking for an extended cruise which doesn't take them too far from family and responsibilities and allows them to keep in touch. It doesn't require extended time off work, or linguistic ability if things go wrong - and the coastline is beautiful! This book is a practical guide and Sam gives advice on planning and preparation: when to leave, whether to go clockwise or anti, what charts are needed, how much it is likely to cost, possible routes (via canals or 'the long way'), what stores and equipment are needed, likely pitfalls en route, and what types of running maintenance might be required. For the second edition she has added a '10 of the best' section detailing 'unmissable' places in a range of categories from remote bays and beautiful rivers to historic locations and anchorages. UK and Ireland Circumnavigator's Guide is perfect for all those sailors and motorboaters planning as well as dreaming of one day circumnavigating Britain's beautiful islands. 'A comprehensive guide to sailing (or motor boating) round Britain' Sailing Today- Highly Recommended Title
How to Sail Around the World Part-Time
How to Sail Around the World Part-Time - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How to Sail Around the World Part-Time write by Linus Wilson. This book was released on 2016-02-10. How to Sail Around the World Part-Time available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Do you dream of sailing around the world in a sailboat? Do you have a business or career you don't want to sacrifice for that dream? Do you have kids in school? You don't need to quit your job, sell your house, and take the kids out of school to complete a circumnavigation of the globe in a sailboat. You don't have to wait until you are retired to sail for the South Pacific. This book tells you how you can do it without uprooting your life by taking as little as two months per year off to sail the trade winds. Circumnavigating the globe in a sailboat is on par with scaling Mount Everest in terms of its rarity. Many potential circumnavigators are hobbled by misconceptions about the journey that mountaineers lack when climbing to the top of the world. It is said, "I want to circumnavigate to see the world." Nevertheless, successful trade wind circumnavigators don't see the world. Instead, they travel on a narrow ribbon around it stopping mostly at a narrow range of countries that are downwind. Lack of focus causes many more failed circumnavigations than storms at sea. The conventional wisdom is that you need to quit your job, sell your house, and live on the boat year-round. The reality is that even retirees circumnavigating full-time keep their boat in port half of the year because of the demands of cyclone season. There is no good way to elude the November to April cyclone season that dominates 60 percent of the trade-wind circumnavigation route. The mad rush from the eastern Caribbean to the "safe" ports in New Zealand and Australia in a single calendar year is misguided. It sets cruisers up for hard, upwind ocean passages in future years and saps the resolve of their crews. A better solution is to haul out their boats in the South Pacific and fly back to their homes in the developed world during the cyclone season. It makes more sense to keep one's job and home and take annual two-to-six month leaves of absences to move the boat forward during the cruising season. This allows the sailors to earn more outside the cruising season. Further, they can maintain the careers and businesses which they have built over many years. Further, cruisers still have a job or business to come back to if they decide that the cruise is not for them. Pursuing a part-time circumnavigation is likely to be far less costly to cruisers' long-term earnings than totally severing ties to one's job or business. Going back to their homes on land is much more comfortable than living aboard, while waiting for cyclone season to pass. The most modest land-based accommodations are typically more comfortable than the most luxurious sailboat in port. Finally, part-time circumnavigations avoid many problems with educating school age children and obtaining necessary parts. Learn about the trade-wind route around the world with stops in Panama, the Galapagos, the Marquesas, Tahiti, Fiji, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Australia, Mauritius, Chagos, Madagascar, South Africa, St. Helena, Brazil, and the eastern Caribbean. Learn why the Pirate attacks in the Gulf of Aden have NOT made circumnavigating the globe harder. This is the second book by the bestselling author of Slow Boat to the Bahamas, Linus Wilson. Dr. Wilson got his doctorate in financial economics at Oxford University. He sails an Island Packet 31' with his wife, daughter, and four pound poodle. He has been published in Cruising Outpost and Good Old Boat magazines. To learn more about the author's adventures, boat repair tips, free chapters and books, subscribe to his newsletter at www.slowboatsailing.com.
The Hayduke Trail
The Hayduke Trail - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Hayduke Trail write by Joe Mitchell. This book was released on 2005. The Hayduke Trail available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Traversing six national parks, a national recreation area, a national monument, and various wilderness study areas, the Hayduke Trail is a challenging, 800-mile backcountry route on the Colorado Plateau. This guide book is designed for experienced desert trekkers seeking a thorough-hiking experience on a well-tested route.
Natural Language Processing with Python
Natural Language Processing with Python - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Natural Language Processing with Python write by Steven Bird. This book was released on 2009-06-12. Natural Language Processing with Python available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers a highly accessible introduction to natural language processing, the field that supports a variety of language technologies, from predictive text and email filtering to automatic summarization and translation. With it, you'll learn how to write Python programs that work with large collections of unstructured text. You'll access richly annotated datasets using a comprehensive range of linguistic data structures, and you'll understand the main algorithms for analyzing the content and structure of written communication. Packed with examples and exercises, Natural Language Processing with Python will help you: Extract information from unstructured text, either to guess the topic or identify "named entities" Analyze linguistic structure in text, including parsing and semantic analysis Access popular linguistic databases, including WordNet and treebanks Integrate techniques drawn from fields as diverse as linguistics and artificial intelligence This book will help you gain practical skills in natural language processing using the Python programming language and the Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) open source library. If you're interested in developing web applications, analyzing multilingual news sources, or documenting endangered languages -- or if you're simply curious to have a programmer's perspective on how human language works -- you'll find Natural Language Processing with Python both fascinating and immensely useful.
