Twenty Affordable Sailboats to Take You Anywhere

by Gregg Nestor and John Vigor

Book Overview

In Twenty Affordable Sailboats to Take You Anywhere you will find in-depth reviews of twenty affordable, comfortable, and seaworthy sailboats. These boats range in size from 30-38 feet, an ideal size... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0939837722
• ISBN13: 9780939837724
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Paradise Cay Publications
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

great read

really enjoyed the technical nature of this book. Great place to start if you want to sail away.

a good follow up after Vigor's book

This book picks up where "Twenty Small Sailboats to Take You Anywhere" (by John Vigor) left off. Vigor writes the extraordinarily humorous preface, which is actually one of the best parts of the book (laughed out loud). Vigor writes with greater humor than Nestor (no insult, as this is Vigor's special gift), but both are extremely informative, and both books are well worth reading. Because of the "take you anywhere" escapist allure and the books' propensity to stir your imagination and conjure fantasies that provoke the reasonable man to contemplate unreasonable acts, my brother-in-law aptly calls the books "sailboat porn."

Good amount of research

I bought this book after reading John Vigor's "20 small sailboats to take you anywhere". This book has a huge amount of knowldge and history on sailboats and hte companies that manufactured them. A good reference to build up konwledge on older sailboats. The book would have been better if: - There was some comparison between the 20 boats to give you a reference on what is "the best boat". Similarly as in "20 small sailboats" - The writor wrote a little less tehcnical and with a little humor. (There is a lot of technical stuff to put you to sleep. :-) ) I have 3 books on sailboat reviews and this one is more thorough than the others I have. However, all that technical konwledge does not makes it easier in choosing one of the 20 boats under review here. After all is said, I can still recommend this book although not as easy a read as "20 small sailboats". The writor Gregg Nestor should be commended for his amazing reaearch on the history of boats and boat companies.

A perfect pick

The design, construction, and specifications of different affordable sailboats are surveyed here in Twenty Affordable Sailboats to Take You Anywhere: a perfect pick for any general-interest public library where boating is a patron's hobby. These are in-depth reviews of each of twenty comfortable, seaworthy sailboats which range in size from 30-38 feet - and focus on boats still readily available in the used boat market, making this of special interest and very useful to any would-be boater.