Sail Further: The Bridge From Dinghy Sailor to Cruising Crew
Sail Further is built for a specific, previously unserved reader: someone who can already sail a dinghy and wants to know exactly what changes when the boat gets bigger. It sits between two other parts of our catalogue — Sailing to Succeed, the from-zero dinghy title, and our two Greek chartering guides, Sailing Greece and Sailing the Eastern Aegean — as the genuine skills bridge in between.
What Actually Changes on a Keelboat
A dinghy sailor moving onto a keelboat for the first time meets a different boat, a different crew dynamic and a different set of responsibilities all at once. The book works through keelboat handling and crew roles, the communication a bigger crew actually needs, real coastal navigation, and the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea — COLREGs — in plain, practical terms rather than as an abstract legal document.
Docking, Mooring, Anchoring, and What Goes Wrong
The practical chapters cover docking and mooring under real conditions, anchoring properly rather than just dropping a hook and hoping, and the safety and emergency procedures a bigger boat demands — VHF radio use, man-overboard drills, and what to do when the wind or the plan changes faster than expected.
The Honest Path to Chartering
The book closes by handing the reader off deliberately: once someone can genuinely crew and eventually skipper a cruising yacht, the next honest step is a real chartering trip, and that's exactly what Sailing Greece and Sailing the Eastern Aegean are written for — three cruising grounds each, matched to crew experience, with no invented prices and no padded-out confidence. Sail Further doesn't try to be a destination guide itself; it's the skills book that makes a destination guide worth opening.
Same standing rule as every title in this catalogue: no fabricated reader quotes, no invented testimonials. Just the real skills gap between a dinghy and a cruising yacht, covered honestly.