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Chris Stanmore-Major reads aloud from Eric Hiscock's Cruising Under Sail — the third edition, prefaced December 1980 from Bay of Islands, New Zealand — while preparing for a transatlantic repositioning from the American Northeast to the Canary Islands ahead of the Global Solo Challenge qualifying race in Lanzarote.Watch The reading covers Hiscock's preface to the third edition, which merged Cruising Under Sail with its companion volume Voyaging Under Sail, and the preface to the first edition (1949), which argues that cruising demands the same core knowledge whether a sailor is day-sailing coastal creeks or crossing oceans.9:07 Stanmore-Major interrupts the text throughout with personal commentary: his first encounter with the book in 1996 when he joined Outward Bound in Hong Kong aboard Ji Fung, his heavily annotated copy, and the book's role as his entry point into sailing.4:53 He also references W.A.3:36 Robinson's Deep Water and Shoal and the Mariner's Library podcast series.3:47 The boat Osprey has been qualified for the Global Solo Challenge, a solo nonstop circumnavigation scheduled for December 2027, and crew berths for the Atlantic crossing in mid-October are mentioned as available.1:12

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