Originally published in France, this cruising guide to Brazil has been produced to the same high standards as Imray's major pilot books. Over 250 harbours and anchorages are described and illustrated in full colour with charts and photographs.

B&W EDITION B&W Edition: Sailing well into his eighties, Captain Eric Forsyth shows in his book, An Inexplicable Attraction: My Fifty Years of Ocean Sailing, that age need not be a barrier to an adventurous retirement. His love of ocean sailing was ignited in 1964 when he crossed the Atlantic with his wife, Edith, crewing aboard a friend's 46-foot boat. For more than fifty years, mostly aboard his sturdy cutter Fiona, Forsyth has cruised the oceans of the world, making voyages that included two circumnavigations of the globe, cruises through the Northwest Passage and to the Baltic, and several excursions to both the Arctic and Antarctic. His stories will appeal to all sailors, whether active or armchair, and to travel buffs with a penchant for remote places and their histories. On a more serious side, Forsyth has seen many countries that he visited over the decades change from languorous oligarchies to developing democracies with a thriving middle class. Like the U.S., they have a profligate appetite for fossil fuel, which is not a sustainable resource in the long run. He suggests ways of bringing attention to this global problem. Captain Forsyth has been honored by fellow sailors with the Seven Seas Award from the Seven Seas Cruising Association, and the Blue Water Medal, given annually by the Cruising Club of America to a single amateur sailor worldwide.

This book is intended as an aid for people who are interested in knowing more about cruising boats. You may have a boat and be preparing for a trip or thinking of buying one. For people who may aspire to live aboard, cruise or cross oceans and want to start researching what the boat needs. Well, this is the place to start. All the details in this book will probably raise as many questions as are answered but questions are good. This book is not technical, (well, not much) and will not talk about repairing an alternator or the like. It will however discuss what you need to know in order to buy and fit one as part of your cruising conversion. Cruising is fun (mostly) and reading about it should be too so I hope you get a laugh every now and then. The author, pictured left (after an altercation with a shaman in Thailand), has lived aboard for over 14 years. He has recently (2014) completed a diploma in marine surveying. www.championmarinesurveyors.com