Sailing Promise: Around the World on a Catamaran

by Alayne Main

Will You Marry Me... And Sail Around the World? Alayne Main was 28 years old with an exciting medical career and minimal sailing experience, but she lived up to her sailing promise. She and her... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0968454402
• ISBN13: 9780968454404
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Base Camp Books
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A BOOK FOR ALL REASONS

As we have embarked on our own sailing adventure;both my wife and I having read"A SAILING PROMISE", the accounts of Alayne and Alex aboard Madeline.We come away with an insite into cruising that we had never before discovered.The presures and pain of relationships on land are difficult enough;throw in a circumnavigation and the plot thickens.We both found it a solid read that paralleled our own dreams of far horizons and exoctic cultures.From a mans point of view I can only suggest, all skippers read this book to preserve their own sanity ;when we can't quite understand why our fist mates do what they do. It could only have been written by a woman. I'm glad she did.From page one on you are lead along and have a hard time putting it down ,with a need to know what is ahead. We loved it and put it right up ther with Tania Aibe's "Maiden Voyage" another great read.

A must-read for sailors, fascinating for anyone

I am a "sailing wife", the one who has the irrational fears even though I love the challenge and excitement, the one who does not have the mechanical prowess to fix the engine or come up with an ingenious solution to failed rigging. Although my husband and I have limited our cruising thus far to Lake Ontario and the St Lawrence, we plan to frequent more exotic cruising grounds in our future. I found this book to be incredibly inspirational and comforting. I was looking for a book that would tell the story of what it is really like to cruise the world, and this book provided extra's I was not expecting. Alayne not only provided a glimpse into the unimaginable beauty of remote locales and their people, she also conveyed the growth in herself and in her relationship with her husband that I can already relate to in smaller scale cruising. By the end of this book, Alayne and Alec Main became heroes to me. In the beginning, I relished this book selfishly. But I found that I could not contain myself from sharing Alayne's adventures with friends and family. My husband is reading it now, interested to learn more about what I am going through in our escapades. Friends who have never even sailed have asked to borrow the book, as well, proving that this is not a story that would be of interest to sailors alone. Bravo to Alayne for having the courage and strength to publish her story for anyone who dreams of cruising the world, but especially for the women who love their husbands and love sailing with them.

Two great tales for the price of one.

Alayne Main wrote this inspiring and exciting tale with an almost painfully honest eye. It is really about two trips - both of them fascinating and entertaining. Trip one is about two novice cruisers completing an unconventional circumnavigation in an unconventional boat (a catamaran - hooray!). Trip two details the changes and compromises (familiar to many couples) that take place when you have two distinct personalities moving towards the same goal. The photographs are excellent and are actually located right in text that pertains to them (why is this so rare?). Alaynes insights about many things, from scoffing at slavish adherence to "conventional wisdom" to intricate relationships with cruising friends, are priceless. This one is a true winner.

Great book for men and women alike

Both men and women will benefit from reading this book about sailing around the world and the differences between men and women in their perceptions, reactions and coping with the unknown. This book really helped my husband (who loves adventure, sailing and isolation) understand my fears and my need for outside friendships. We both laughed at the similarities in our experiences with those of Alayne and Alec in coming to terms with being two separate people trying to compromise and work together. This isn't just a book about sailing - it's a book about making loving relationships work at the worst of times. All couples (sailors or not) will benefit from reading it. I loved the frank and honest way it was written. It took a lot of guts to write about their experiences in this way.

Sailing narrative tells the real story of a couple at sea

Many people dream of sailing off into the sunset and think only of warm water and blue seas. Alayne Main tells us the real story of a couple starting out with no experience and learning the hard way that its not all sun and sand. They have to face the redefinition of their roles in their new relationship as skipper and mate. I liked as the book progresses through this, and into a phase where both Alayne and her husband are happy sailing, and begin to appreciate the world as a competent team!Many exotic and far-flung places are visited in this book. I feel I know much more about the Pacific and Indian Oceans and so many exciting locales. A good read for both armchair travellers and people who might someday consider sailing off into the sunset.