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    Let's Go Cruising!: A Guide to Family Boating: Recreational Boating

    By Joy Smith

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    Let’s Go Cruising provides prospective and existing power and sailboat owners the information needed to safely operate and maintain their vessels while enjoying the cruising life. Use this keep-aboard guide as a reference for reviewing the procedures in buying and selling a boat, trip planning, safe navigating and secure docking, and servicing and maintaining critical boat systems. 

       The reader will learn the best way to handle a boat in stormy weather, or in aground or sinking situations. Included is detail on navigating unique situations, such as bridges and canals, as well as information on chartering, boat transport, and crewing.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJoy Smith
    Release dateNov 1, 2017
    ISBN9781386721796
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    Let's Go Cruising!: A Guide to Family Boating: Recreational Boating
    Author

    Joy Smith

    I am Joy Smith a first time writer at 59 yrs old with no literature education in writing I spent seventeen months in mastering the creation of this book in the good lords year of 2021 among the complexations of nature. And in the ebullience of my lovely seven grandchildren and one great grandchild. Cassey Aubrey Miley Ian and Odessa and three Egyptian Amani Nora and Humza. I have one son Dustin and one daughter Amanda I was born in Bristol Connecticut as a child the foundation of a good home wasn’t it was broken with hunger abuse and provety.I had to take on the responsibility of being a mother to myself. I was raised at the foothills of Tennessee surrounding the Cumberland gap and Middlesboro Ky and Virgina I moved to New Jersey for a while then Nashville TN at 40 in my career of operating two company’s designs of landscape also I have a horticulturist’s degree. And in the decision of redundancy of ending my career to raise my grandson Ian at three days old moved to Hamilton Oh on limited funds Ian is ten now and a author himself of a children’s book yet to be published. Also, I’m helping raising my Egyptian grandson Humza. My professional achievements include a seamstress at 13, a dietian assistance a carpenter at 15 helped build the first house in a sub vision the land remained with only one house I bought some land there and 20 years later my home was the second one built there then the land flourished and filled with many homes .I am an ancient writer the breast of a romantic poet, of a beautiful mind. My believe is to have faith in oneself and believe in what you are doing in life. My goal and dreams are tremendous my hearts passion is my babies and devotion to God My mind is a map of wealth yet to unfold in the future I am an inventor yet to be.

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