The Pardey’s, cruising legends who inspired countless others, write in a simple, light straight forward way that makes for enjoyable reading and/or listening – especially with Kitty Hendrix’s excellent narration. Though the book recounts their adventures in the late sixties and early seventies, it still has some application to cruising today. Communities have changed, prices have changed, seas have become more crowded, but the joys and struggles of a couple working their way slowly and carefully from California to England still resonates. Especially in the appendixes, the Pardey’s enumerate the very practical points to consider if one is interested in a life of cruising. Updated to the early 2000’s, they bring to bear the results of surveying other world cruisers and present hard cold facts for a potential cruiser / sailor to consider before pulling anchor. It makes you take seriously their “motto”: Go Simple, Go Small, Go Now.