Skipper's Cockpit Weather Guide

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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

Rough proposed structure:

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

About the contributors

Author

Frank Singleton

Frank Singleton is a former Senior Forecaster with…

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