• Click here to order the Instant Library.

Here is the ultimate collection of the Dashews’ work. Four books (3130 combined pages with more than 4000 photos and drawings) along with 3 DVDs (5+ hours) and 2 music CDs. All this for just $299 (a savings of over $50).

Steve and Linda’s books and DVDs have helped thousands of sailors around the world turn their cruising dreams into reality. They cover every aspect of purchasing, equipping, and sailing the right boat for your needs and budget.

The Instant Library gives you all four books along with three DVDs plus two bonus music CDs:

• Offshore Cruising Encyclopedia (1232 pages)
• Mariners Weather Handbook: A Guide to Forecasting and Tactics (594 pages)
• Practical Seamanship: Essential Skills for the Modern Sailor (644 pages)
• Surviving the Storm: Coastal & Offshore Tactics (672 pages)
• Offshore Voyaging DVD Series (3 DVDs, over 5 hours of cruising video from all over the world)
• Music for Cruising CD
• Tradewinds High CD

The Instant Library delivers the knowledge necessary for safe, comfortable, and enjoyable cruising. We back this up with a 90-day no-questions-asked guarantee. Order the Instant Library today for a package price of just $299! ]]> http://setsail.com/the-instant-library/feed/ 0 http://setsail.com/offshore-cruising-encyclopedia/ http://setsail.com/offshore-cruising-encyclopedia/#comments Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:03:20 +0000 admin http://setsail.com/?p=2351

• Click here to order Offshore Cruising Encyclopedia.

Jam-packed into 1232 pages is the latest information on 2200 subjects with 2500 detailed illustrations. Offshore Cruising Encyclopedia by Steve & Linda Dashew brings together in one concise, easy-to-use volume all the info you need to make the right decisions (and avoid the wrong ones) for your own style of cruising.

We’ve posted a video to tell you more about this book. You can also find more info by clicking on one of the links below.

More info:

• Check out the Table of Contents.
• Browse the entire Index.
• Here are some sample chapters: Dodgers, Finding Crew, and Spar Engineering.
• Read the reviews.
• Read Steve & Linda’s bio.
• All our books are backed up by a 90-day unconditional guarantee as well as a lifetime saltwater guarantee.

• Click here to order Practical Seamanship.

632 pages of exhaustive detail on practically every aspect of seamanship, both traditional and modern. “A graduate course in going to sea…Will shave 10 to 20 years off your learning curve.” (Sailing magazine)

We’ve posted a video to tell you more about this book. You can also find more info by clicking on one of the links below.

More info:

• Check out the Table of Contents.
• Browse the entire Index.
• Here are some sample chapters: Hurricane at Anchor, Jibing the Main, and Running Aground.
• Read the reviews.
• Read Steve & Linda’s bio.
• All our books are backed up by a 90-day unconditional guarantee as well as a lifetime saltwater guarantee.

• Click here to order Mariners Weather Handbook.

The book that shows you how to use weather to your advantage, at home and offshore. “Mariner’s Weather Handbook does for skippers at sea what the venerable Joy of Cooking does for cooks – it provides a complete and exhaustive guide to the basics of every aspect of weather you are likely to meet when cruising.” (Bluewater Sailing magazine)

We’ve posted a video to tell you more about this book. You can also find more info by clicking on one of the links below.

More info:

• Check out the Table of Contents.
• Browse the entire Index.
• Here are some sample chapters: Onboard Prediction, Tropical Cyclone/Dangerous Semicircle, and Queen’s Birthday Storm.
• Read the reviews.
• Read Steve & Linda’s bio.
• All our books are backed up by a 90-day unconditional guarantee as well as a lifetime saltwater guarantee.

• Click here to order Surviving the Storm.

The most detailed manual on heavy weather sailing ever assembled. Based on 70 interviews with survivors of extreme weather. With 560 spectacular photos and informative illustrations. “…An in-depth and long-needed examination of storm tactics and heavy-weather gear for modern boats.” (Sail magazine)

We’ve posted a video to tell you more about this book. You can also find more info by clicking on one of the links below.

More info:

• Check out the Table of Contents.
• Browse the entire Index.
• Here are some sample chapters: Introduction, Preparing for Heavy Weather, and Motorsailing in an Ultimate Storm.
• Read the reviews.
• Read Steve & Linda’s bio.
• All our books are backed up by a 90-day unconditional guarantee as well as a lifetime saltwater guarantee.

• Click here to order The Complete Guide to Sail Care & Repair.

This book by master sailmaker Dan Neri will save you thousands of dollars, and significantly increase the life of your sails. “Simply put this book is superb…You will want to read it from cover to cover.” (All at Sea magazine)

We’ve posted a video to tell you more about this book. You can also find more info by clicking on one of the links below.

More info:

• Check out the Table of Contents.
• Browse the entire Index.
• Here are some sample chapters: Introduction and Working with Sail Lofts.
• Read the reviews.
• Read Dan Neri’s bio.
• All our books are backed up by a 90-day unconditional guarantee as well as a lifetime saltwater guarantee.

• Click here to order Into the Light: A Family’s Epic Journey.

A family of five explores the Arctic on a 33-foot sailboat, capturing their adventures in a story hailed by critics as “Spellbinding” “Seductive”, and “A fine literary debut”. Dave and Jaja Martin have a  unique and compelling approach to the way they live their lives. If you’re looking for the inspiration to cut the lines and sail away, you’ll find it here.

More info:

• Enjoy this sample chapter: Narrow Escape.
• Read some of the reviews.
• Check out Dave & Jaja’s bio.
• Visit Dave & Jaja’s website IceBlinkSail.com.
• Watch for the PBS documentary Ice Blink, based on the Martins’ adventures first recorded in Into the Light.
• All our books are backed up by a 90-day unconditional guarantee as well as a lifetime saltwater guarantee.

• Click here to order the high-def DVD Off the Beaten Path.
• Click here to watch this DVD free on streaming video.

Off the Beaten Path delivers 115 minutes of wide-screen video and slides covering the last three years (and 37,000 miles) of testing the FPB Series prototype Wind Horse. You will experience a strong gale between New Zealand and Fiji, make a 2900-mile passage down the Pacific Coast, transit the Panama Canal, cruise the Bahamas, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and Labrador. And then enjoy the ice, mountains, and wildlife of spectacular Greenland. There is another gale in the North Atlantic to share, plus a host of bonus features. ]]> http://setsail.com/off-the-beaten-path/feed/ 0 http://setsail.com/offshore-voyaging-dvd-series/ http://setsail.com/offshore-voyaging-dvd-series/#comments Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:53:44 +0000 admin http://setsail.com/?p=2377

• Click here to order the Offshore Voyaging DVD Series.
• Click here to watch excerpts free on streaming video.

Entertaining and informative, these DVDs present a base of knowledge that is otherwise unattainable. They effectively put you in the action – you’ll hear, see and feel what it is like to cruise through Polynesia, cross an ocean, battle storm-force winds, and walk on the beaches of a deserted island.

You and your family will watch these DVDs over and over – packed with over 5 hours of global cruising adventures; Scandinavia, the Caribbean, Alaska, virtually all of the South Pacific and even the Galapagos under a variety of conditions making this a powerful and entertaining learning tool.

The Offshore Voyaging Series, a set of 3 DVDs, will show you this and more. You’ll enjoy a combination of a relaxing escape from shore-side life and realistic training for your own voyages. These videos will take you aboard a variety of boats, in every imaginable situation. Handling a boat in tight quarters, reefing in a gale, handling spinnaker poles and a plethora of other situations – it is all here.

We compiled this Special Edition DVD Set as a way to celebrate our 20th year in business, and to say “Thank You” to all the friends we’ve made along the way! ]]> http://setsail.com/offshore-voyaging-dvd-series/feed/ 0 http://setsail.com/sailing-dreams/ http://setsail.com/sailing-dreams/#comments Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:54:52 +0000 admin http://setsail.com/?p=2379

• Click here to order Sailing Dreams.

This DVD is pure sailing, from spinnaker flying in the trades, to light air reaching, to blasting along downwind in gale-force winds. There’s no distracting music or narration – just beautiful, raw sailing, combined with the ambient sounds of wind and water rushing by the hull.

For years Steve & Linda Dashew have kept raw cruising footage playing on their home TVs. “The images and sounds create a relaxing atmosphere, especially when we are away from the water”, explains Linda. So many friends have asked for copies of their own, that they’ve now edited their favorite scenes, culled from 200,000+ miles of cruising, into this one-of-a-kind DVD.

A departure from the information-packed technical DVDs the Dashews have produced in the past, Sailing Dreams is raw, ambient footage, designed to soothe, invigorate, and inspire.

Sailing Dreams is organized into a series of chapters, with a menu for navigating. If you want to keep the footage playing perpetually in the background on a TV or computer, the chapters can be set to auto-repeat.

Want to go to sleep listening to the rustle of spinnakers? Select the passage titled “Fiji”. More interested in an adrenaline rush? Choose the “Australs” or “Tonga” passage.

Do you dream of sailing around the world? The exquisite scenes in Sailing Dreams will add the ambiance of sailing to your home or office as you work towards making that dream a reality. If your passion is to scan the horizon of the open ocean and listen to the wind in the rigging, then this DVD is for you! ]]> http://setsail.com/sailing-dreams/feed/ 0