From the Author
I am pleased with the reception of this book in the sailing community. Many manufacturers and dealers purchased them to distribute to their prospects and several are using it as part of a sales-training program.
About the Author
Charles E. Kanter is a well know Accredited Marine Surveyor, author, lecturer, freelance marine writer and Publisher of SAILco Press, a small publisher specializing in marine books. Charles authored the book Cruising On More Than One Hull! The 13th Trip and Other Sea Stories and co-authored both editions of SAILOR'S MULTIHULL GUIDE To The World of Catamarans and Trimarans. His articles have appeared in Cruising World, Soundings, Southwinds, Living Aboard Magazine, Tidal Times, Coastal Cruising and MULTIHULLS Magazines. He is an experienced yacht surveyor and delivery captain, a long-time member of both the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers and The American Boat and Yacht Council, a Rear Commodore in the Seven Seas Cruising Association, and a member of numerous sailing associations. He purchased his first sailing yacht a MacGregor 24 in 1969 and his first multihull in 1971. Along with his author-wife Corinne (The Waterway Hostess With the Mostess) was ! a liveaboard cruiser from 1980 to 1994. In his thirty odd years of nautical experience he has surveyed approximately on hundred different makes and models of vessels, sailed over 100,000 miles, made 31 trips on the US East Coast intra-coastal waterway, sailed extensively through the Caribbean, Bahamas, Florida Keys, and a short stint to Cuba. He has owned four different sailboats and is presently still sailing his 32 foot catamaran, La Forza.
