Like his Mechanical and Electrical Maintenance Manual, Nigel Calder's Cruising Handbook contains excellent illustrations and useful information for those who have a boat to maintain. His explanations of technical information make it possible for us mere mortals to get to grips with these matters with relative ease.
A reader who had written in to MarineZine on a related topic was asked for her views on this book and she wrote:
"We were lucky enough to get our hands on a copy of this book before we set off on our first lengthy cruise," says Nan Burnley, "and we're both sure that the success of that voyage was, in great part, attributable to Nigel Calder's sound advice. The book can be dived into at any point and you always come up with something worth knowing. Our friends have a motor yacht and they asked to borrow our copy so often that, in the end, we bought them a copy of the Cruising Handbook for Christmas last year!"
