Comparable to a homeowner's remodeling guide, Optimize Your Cruising Sailboat offers scores of ideas to make a cruising sailboat faster, more comfortable, more seaworthy, easier to handle, and better looking. With more than 175 detailed illustrations and technical drawings, it walks readers through projects for:

• Improving comfort, handling, seaworthiness, performance, and dockside appeal
• Adding such attractive features as a deck wash down system, tandem headsails, a pass-through porthole between galley and cockpit, and many more