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Description
Skipper's Cockpit Weather Guide provides an easy-to-access instant guide to predicting and interpreting the weather in all sailing scenarios. The spiral-bound, quick-reference format makes it an ideal aide-memoire for instant reference at sea.
Using clear, practical language, plus diagrams, boxes, photos and bulleted text, the book succinctly covers the following topics:
· Local and distant weather conditions and how these might affect your passage
· Weather forecasting and how to use this most efficiently
· Quick and clear sources of weather information available when at sea
· How to use the information available when planning and prior to and on passage
An essential text to have on board, this book is aimed at skippers and crew of all levels, whether doing single day trips or longer ocean-going passages.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Putting this book in the context as an aide-memoire, aimed at minimising risk when at sea. Terminology and acronyms.
Weather – Large scale
A section on large-scale weather. Other more-detailed publications and sources of information.
Weather – small scale
Effects of headlands, straits etc. Sea breeze effects. Thunderstorms. Visibility.
Communications
'Official' GMDSS communications systems, VHF, NAVTEX, Rafiofax, RTTY, Inmarsat. De facto source of the same information using Internet systems near the coast and out at sea. Available services. GMDSS forecasts. Information available on the Internet.
Using the information
Planning for the next few days. Reducing the uncertainty. Forecasts prior to departure. Monitoring on passage.
Product details
| Published | 31 May 2022 |
|---|---|
| Format | Book |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 32 |
| ISBN | 9781472989031 |
| Imprint | Adlard Coles |
| Dimensions | 195 x 240 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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