Passage Making: The National Standard for Quality Sailing Instruction

by Tom Cunliffe

Updated US Sailing's popular Keelboat Series, Passage Making covers the skills and terminology required to plan and execute a successful coastal or offshore passage. Passage Making addresses the unfamiliar locations, uncertain conditions and exciting challenges of yacht preparation, passage planning, navigation, communications, anchoring, and heavy weather. Used by sailing schools around the country, Passage Making is the definitive learn-to-sail text, published by the national authority for sailing in the US.

224 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2000

About the author

Tom Cunliffe (born 1947) is a British yachting journalist, author and broadcaster.

Cunliffe has been a regular contributor to Yachting Monthly, Yachting World, Sail magazine, Classic Boat and 'Sailing Today' for many years.

A professional writer since 1986, Cunliffe has won the Best Book of the Sea award twice, for Topsail and Battleaxe and Hand, Reef and Steer.[4] He is author of the important Shell Channel Pilot for the English Channel.

In 2010 he presented the award-winning six-part BBC documentary series, The Boats that Built Britain. He also presented the popular 'Boat Yard' series for Discovery TV. He now has a big following on his Youtube channel, 'Yachts and Yarns'.