They have travelled the world's oceans together for over 40 years, have sailed to the most beautiful and exciting destinations around the globe and have owned a wide variety of boats. During their travels, they raised their two daughters on board. Steve and Linda Dashew are long-distance drivers from the very beginning.
In the sixties, they started out with a racing catamaran. In the mid-seventies, they switched to a 50-foot monohull. They sailed around the world in it for seven years. During this time, they designed their own long-distance yachts and recorded all the knowledge they had gathered along the way in books. Their "Offshore Cruising Encyclopedia" is one of the most important and comprehensive international standard works on long-distance sailing.
Her "Mariner's Weather Handbook" and the titles "Surviving in the Storm" and "Practical Seamanship" also found their way into every well-stocked ship's library. All of these books are now only available second-hand or, in a few remaining copies, new, but then at enormously high prices - for example, the Dashews' weather book can cost over 200 US dollars.
Now the Dashews have decided to make their knowledge available to everyone free of charge as a thank you to the worldwide cruising community. The four book titles mentioned can now be downloaded as PDF files from the Internet. Downloaded become.
The long-distance sailor and yacht designer couple Linda and Steve Dashew and their Fast Pilot Boats (FPBs)
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Pascal Schürmann
Editor YACHT
