...can...make [these special subjects]...comprehensible and absorbing to a landlubber...

– The New York Times

Loaded with practical cruising advice, interesting anecdotes, and sometimes even excitement and suspense...

– Library Journal

This book should be required reading for young couples who are dying to cruise...

– Sail Magazine

An acute observer and fine writer. Their life on Seraffyn is at a level of simplicity and self-reliance that Thoreau would fine admirable.

– The Philadelphia Inquirer

For more than three decades, the Pardeys have embodied the ultra-competent, self-sufficient ideal of blue water voyaging.

– Cruising World