A guide to nearly 1,000 sailing routes covering all the oceans of the world, geared specifically to the needs of cruising sailors. It advises on the winds, currents, regional and seasonal weather, and optimum times for individual routes, plus over 6,000 waypoints.
Jimmy Cornell has influenced the contemporary cruising scene
more than any other sailor. An accomplished sailor, public speaker
and author, he has sailed over 200,000 miles in all oceans of the
world including three circumnavigations as well as voyages to
Antarctica and the Northwest Passage.
Thousands of sailors have fulfilled their dream of blue water
cruising with the help of Jimmy Cornell’s books, among them the
international bestseller World Cruising Routes. Now in its 8th
edition, and with over 200,000 copies sold to date, this is one of
the best-selling nautical publications in the world.
As the founder of thehighly successful ARC transatlantic rally,
Jimmy Cornell is credited with having devised the offshore cruising
rally concept. In the last three decades, Jimmy Cornell has
organized 38 transatlantic rallies, five round the world rallies
and one round the world race, with over 3,000 boats and 15,000
sailors having participated in his sailing events.
Jimmy Cornell was born in Romania in 1940. He grew up in Brasov,
where he attended the German Honterus Gymnasium. He later attended
Bucharest University where he studied economics. With his British
wife Gwenda, he moved to London in 1969. He took up sailing while
working for the BBC World Service in London.
In 1974 Jimmy Cornell fitted out a 36-foot fibreglass hull
(Trintella III, van de Stadt design – the first Aventura). In 1975
he left England with Gwenda and their two children (Doina 7 and
Ivan 5) on a world voyage lasting six years, which took them to
some 70 countries and totalled 68,000 miles. During the voyage
Jimmy Cornell sent back regular radio reports to the BBC World
Service and also made regular freelance contributions for various
magazines and radio stations.
A second Aventura (Bill Dixon design,12 metre/40 feet in steel) was
launched in 1989 and completed a circumnavigation between 1989 and
1992, some of which was part of the first round the world rally
organized by Jimmy between 1991 and 1992.
Aventura III (OVNI 13 metre/43 aluminiumdesigned by Philippe
Briand) was launched in May 1998 and sailed in 1999 to Antarctica.
From there Aventura III sailed to Alaska and British Columbia. In
2001 Jimmy started his third circumnavigation, which he completed
in 2006.
Aventura IV (Exploration 45, aluminium, designed by Olivier
Racoupeau) was launched in 2014 as the prototype of a new design,
the Garcia Exploration 45, conceived by Jimmy as the perfect
cruising boat for both high latitudes and tropical waters. In 2015
Jimmy successfully navigated the Northwest Passage in Aventura
IV.
The venerable World Cruising Routes is the must-have guide to world
cruising.
*Latitudes & Attitudes*
the bible of cruising sailors, World Cruising Routes is the
definitive reference book for long distance navigators.
*Yachting Life*
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