Beth A. Leonard has sailed more than 85,000 blue water miles over the past thirteen years, ranging from tropical oceans to Tasmania, Cape Horn, and the arctic seas north of Iceland. She and her partner, Evans Starzinger, have been honored for their voyages by the Ocean Cruising Club (UK) and the Cruising Club of America (U.S.). Leonard contributes regularly to "SAIL", "Cruising World", "Sailing", and "Yachting World" magazines, and her "Voyager's Handbook" is widely accepted as the definitive treatise on blue water cruising. Her "Blue Horizons" column was one of "Blue Water Sailing"'s most pop...