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    Around-the-World Sailing Guide

    By Alan Phillips

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    A detailed planning itinerary for your voyage around the world.
    The routes, and the seasons clearly laid out for all to understand.

    So you want to sail around the world?
    Which way do you go? What is the "milk run" ?
    How? When? Where to go? What are the sailing seasons ?

    The mental test, the boat, the weather, the crew, the equipment, the food, the philosophy, the lifestyle, the tricks, the anchorages, the harbors, the navigation, the dangers, the tools, the paperwork, money, communication, safety, poetry, responsibility, FAQ, seasickness, first aid, politics, clothes, expenses, watchkeeping, knots, anchors, cyclones, prayers, becalmed, hurricanes, latitudes, engine, toilet, lightening, information on everything that you possibly need to know.

    + EVERYTHING you need to know including detailed charts and 150 photos of the harbors. Information on customs and provisioning, winds, tides, storms, seasons, trade winds, formalities, food, navigation aids, docking, bathing, washing, safety, politics, dangers, interesting information, fishing, the costs, the kids & pets, pirates, whales, axe murderers, maintenance, repairs, water, etc etc...including the dinghy and other toys.

    Written by Alan Phillips who has done it all !

    The Milk Run is the easiest and warmest possible route to circumnavigate the world.
    If you are thinking about sailing around the world and if your object is to sail as easily and safely and warmly as possible with a minimum of hardship and a maximum of pleasure then you need to take the Milk Run Route
    The Milk Run Route uses the trade winds to cross the major oceans and avoids tropical revolving storms (i.e. hurricanes, cyclones and typhoons).
    There are many variations of this plan but the critical planning factors which must be taken into account are the following;
    CRITICAL PLANNING FACTORS
    Because of the direction of the spin of the earth the world circling trade winds blow from east to west.
    You must use the trade winds to cross the major oceans. ( The tradewinds blow in winter)
    You must stay out of the hurricane areas. ( Hurricanes occur in summer).
    The Mediterranean is best in the summer
    The Red Sea is best in spring
    Cars crash, diseases appear from nowhere, loved ones die, careers evaporate. There is no safety. Misfortune can hit anywhere anytime. There is nowhere to hide.
    The more you try, the more vulnerable you are. So do not waste your life trying to be protected. Instead set out to live. We have only one life, only one chance to live. If we do not live it, it is gone and wasted.
    Why not think of the joys of living a full and interesting life? Why not throw your financial caution to the wind and sail off around the world?  Have the courage to live
    The Atlantic crossing in the trade wind belt is from Canary Islands to the Caribbean in the northern winter. In the North Atlantic Ocean the trade winds blow from November to April between latitudes 3 degrees to 25 degrees. Then the hurricanes can occur in the northern summer between latitudes 5 degrees and 30 degrees. They are most dangerous from August to October.
    The Pacific Ocean crossing from Panama to New Zealand is in the southern winter. Then through Panama Canal and down into the Southern Hemisphere looking for the trade winds in the southern winter from April to October between latitudes 3 degrees and 25 degrees. The cyclones (hurricanes) occur in this ocean in the southern summer from November to March between latitudes 5 degrees and 25 degrees. They are most dangerous from January to March.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlan Phillips
    Release dateJul 11, 2013
    ISBN9781921936999
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    Around-the-World Sailing Guide
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    Alan Phillips

    ABOUT THE AUTHORTwice Around-the-World +Alan Phillips did his first circumnavigation in a boat called “Scorpio “starting in 1980. His next circumnavigation commenced in 1992 onboard “Wallaby Creek “. This voyage lasted 15 years.He has also done a two year passage to China via Solomon Islands, Micronesia, Philippines etc.His is Australian and has circumnavigated Australia and done numerous passages out into the Pacific Ocean from Australia, including seven times into Papua New Guinea and six times across the China Sea.After 25 years and 100,000 nautical miles of ocean cruising he is one of the most experience cruising sailors on earth.Along the way he has developed his own philosophies and has views that exhibit original thinking.OTHER THINGS HE HAS DONESailed my small boat thru the very eye of a tropical cycloneand lived to tell.Hit a reef, wrecked my boat and was castaway alone on Orchilla Isle in the Caribbean to live like Robinson Crusoe.and lived to tellLooked into the barrel of a PLO gun with the terrorists screaming at me in some languageand lived to tellLooked into the barrel of an Israel machine gun while being screamed at in some languageand lived to tellHad a beer in the Beirut yacht club while the Israelis rocketed and bombed with everything they had and lived.Sailed up to and anchored at Pirate Island in the Southern Philippines and shared a bottle of rum with the piratesand lived to tellGot caught smuggling in Panama and then had to drink the customs officer under the table. After which we altered the paperwork and were friendsand stayed out of jailEscaped from the immigration police in Indonesia by stealing a speed boat and pulling Wallaby Creek thru the reefDrilled out my own tooth with tools from the tool box.Circumnavigated Australia and twice around the world.Found a Polynesian tribe that is still living an uncivilized life and has never been visited by a tourist.Been becalmed for 3 weeks under the tropical sun and at the end had counted out our last meals.Found a cave in PNG with dozens of human skeletons from people who entered the cave in order to die.Fathered a beautiful baby with a young Swiss girl and married her even though she is 25 years youngerand also younger then 2 of my other children.Survived three shark attacks where the sharks ripped my spear and fish from my hands. I continue to spearfish at every opportunity.Spent months alone at sea in a leaky boat with no motor and no electrical or electronic thing on the boat.Left a crewman with a primitive tribe in PNG and returned a year later to look for him. Received a message in a bottle.Crossed the jungles of the Western Province of PNG where no white man had been for 20 years.Did a seven-week single-handed passage from Panama to Tahiti. And didn’t end up much crazier.

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