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Changing Course-A Woman`s Guide to Choosing the Cruising Life

`The essential first step for all couples planning to sail away; this is a must-read` – Paul and Sheryl Shard, authors of “Sail Away”! `”Changing Course” is the first book that honestly evaluates the transition to life afloat` – Beth Leonard, author of “The Voyager`s Handbook”. Debra Ann Cantrell faced a dilemma when her husband proposed living and cruising on a boat. She would lose a career she loved and, she feared, everything by which she`d defined herself. She wondered how others had made the decision to go cruising and how their choice affected their lives. Her search for answers led her to more than a hundred women, over a five-year period, whose partners had proposed the cruising life.”Changing Course” chronicles the odyssey of making a major lifestyle change from land to sea. This thought-provoking and highly personal book explores what women stand to gain when they set forth on such a journey – and what they stand to lose if they do not. `Excellent preparation` – “48 Degrees North”. `A solid resource for cruisers…Cantrell`s sensible advice is reassuring, positive, and affirming` – “Southwinds”.`Fresh and honest, and the author is warm, enthusiastic, and encouraging` – “Good Old Boat”. `Poignant and highly inspiring` – Women`s Sailing Foundation.