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To anyone considering small-boat cruising and voyaging, the titles Lin and Larry Pardey need no intro. As world-girdling sailors who roamed the planet on a set of small, engineless motorboats that they built themselves, the Pardeys set up their hard-earned reputations by eloquently (and sometimes controversially) revealing to their reviews through some best-selling books and manuals, and countless training seminars and sail boat shows. They have been called the first handful of cruising and have remained true to their mantra: Go simple, go small, go now. And after 200,000 mls of cruising under sail, they ve showed that the imagine voyaging above the horizon isn't just attainable, it s affordable. The kids of moderate, middle-class households, their concept of accessibility in to the world of cruising of taking your own floating home everywhere has proved amazing to tens of thousands of sailors. Lin and Larry Pardey became cruising royalty not exclusively due to their impressive deeds but also through their rare ability to talk about what they'd learned across multiple mass media. Seemingly every offshore cruiser recognizes who they are and what they represent. Or do they? In As Long as It's Fun, the biography of Lin and Larry Pardey, Natural herb McCormick recounts their exceptional sailing career from their start in Southern California to their two circumnavigations to their current life in a peaceful cove in New Zealand. Through interviews with their own families, friends, and critics, McCormick delves deeply in to the couple's often-controversial opinions, sometimes-tenuous marriage, and amazing list of achievements. As Long as It's Fun is really as much a love story as it is a sea yarn, and, like all such reviews, it s not without difficulties...which makes it not only a sailing tale but also a human being one.
