Sasha Barac is retired Electrical Power Engineer, who has been cruising with her partner on the SY Ednbal since June 2006, www.ednbal.com. Cruising the distant lands was a dream for both. Apart from writing this book, she spends her time in helping maintain the boat, planning the navigation and travel itineraries, and everything else that is important at the time. The start of the book was a "scratch pad" filled with few basic clips from the magazines and vaguely remembered "grandma solutions" when we moved to the boat nine years ago. But it grew, with collections of products from the countrie...