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Fifty Places to Sail Before You Die: Sailing Experts Share the World's Greatest Destinations | Chris Santella | Fun coffee table book.

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	Fifty Places to Sail Before You Die: Sailing Experts Share the World's Greatest Destinations Chris Santella Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2007 - 224 pages average customer review:based on 8 reviews view larger image
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Landlubbers joke that sailors are always wanting to head off to the ends of the earth, but Chris Santella takes that life-changing desire very seriously. In this, the third installment in his immensely successful ?Fifty Places? series, Santella assembles a crew of the world?s greatest championship racers and professional adventurers and persuades them to disclose their favorite destinations around the globe.

Interviewees include some of the best-known men and women in the sport: Tom Whidden and Gary Jobson (members of the winning 1987 America?s Cup crew), Jeff Johnstone (of J-Boats), award-winning sailing writer Lin Pardy, and many others. The amazingly diverse places they?ve selected range from clubby East Coast ports (Marblehead, Annapolis), to idyllic tropical refuges (Ilha Grande, Brazil; the Polynesian atoll of Mopelia), to some of the most hair-raisingly treacherous waters on earth (Cape Horn).

Coastlines around the world?even Antarctica and the Arctic?are represented, and the chosen spots include some spectacular inland waters, such as the Bras d?Or Lakes and the North Channel of Lake Huron. For each of the 50 places, the sailor recommending the venue spins an entertaining yarn about his or her experience there, and each description is accompanied by a "make you want to go there now" photograph.

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very pleased

what a wonderful book to get started!!! my husband has read it front to cover and has learned many important points.

Fun coffee table book.

We really like the book sitting on our coffee table so we can flip through it and dream of sailing in all the beautiful places. The only complaint we have is that the images are often poor, with very low resolution and some of the 50 locations don't even get an image, which is sort of ridiculous for a book like this. It's certainly not an expert guide, though it gives some great descriptions, tips, and stories of sailing, including quotes and tales from professional and competitive sailors. Overall, a fun coffee table book.

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