“This isn’t a sailing book – it’s a captain’s manual for real life at sea.” Be The Captain is a modern, practical, and brutally honest field manual for offshore sailors.Written by professional skipper, offshore instructor, and YouTube educator James Evenson(Sailing Zingaro), this 424-page handbook distills 85,000 nautical miles of real-world oceanexperience into an accessible, story-driven reference sailors actually use onboard. With 6,000 copies sold in the first 6 months, entirely through direct audience demand, Be TheCaptain is rapidly becoming a new standard in cruising education, weather preparation,emergency seamanship, and offshore decision-making.
