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As Long as It's Fun, the Epic Voyages and Extraordinary Times of Lin and Larry Pardey
As Long as It's Fun the Epic Voyages and Extraordinary Times of Lin and Larry Pardey Author:Herb McCormick To anyone interested in small-boat cruising and voyaging, the names Lin and Larry Pardey need no introduction. As world-girdling sailors who roamed the planets on a pair of small, engineless boats that they built themselves, the Pardeys established their hard-earned reputations by eloquently (and sometimes controversially) telling their stories ... more »through a series of best-selling books and manuals, and countless seminars and boat shows.They have been called the first couple of cruising and have remained true to their mantra: Go simple, go small, go now. And after 200,000 miles of cruising under sail, they ve demonstrated that the dream of voyaging over the horizon is not only attainable, it s affordable.The children of modest, middle-class families, their message of accessibility into the world of cruising of taking your own floating home wherever you wanted proved irresistible to tens of thousands of sailors. Lin and Larry Pardey became cruising royalty not solely due to their impressive deeds, but through their rare ability to share what they d learned across multiple media.Seemingly every offshore cruiser knows who they are and what they represent.Or do they?In As Long as It s Fun, the biography of Lin and Larry Pardey, Herb McCormick recounts their remarkable sailing career from their early days in Southern California, to their two circumnavigations, to their current life in a quiet cove in New Zealand. Through interviews with their families, friends and critics, McCormick delves deeply into the couple s often-controversial opinions, sometimes-tenuous marriage and amazing list of accomplishments. As Long as It s Fun is as much of a love story as it is a sea yarn, and like all such stories, it s not without complications...which makes it not only a sailing tale, but a human one.« less