Chartering a Boat: Sail and Power

by Christopher Caswell

Caswell offers advice on everything from choosing the right cruising area, a good company to charter from and selecting a suitable boat, to dealing with common problems encountered on charters.

224 pages, Hardcover

First published July 15, 2001

About the author

Winner of more than 50 awards for writing and a yachting journalist for more than four decades, Chris Caswell was the Editor of Sea Magazine, Senior Editor of Yachting Magazine, and now contributes regularly to Yachts International.
“I’ve owned more boats that I want my wife or banker to know about,” he says, and his fleet is ever changing, including both power and sail.
In addition to writing about boats, he was the host of the Marine Voyager cable series weekly on the Speed Channel and Outdoor Life Networks. He’s even appeared on Oprah! as an expert on the boating lifestyle.
He has written eight books on everything from basic boating to charter cruising, sailboat racing to collections of nautical fiction. When not cruising the waters of Scotland, Thailand or Tahiti, he stows his duffel in West Palm Beach, FL.