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Day Skipper for Sail and Power
The Essential Manual for the RYA Day Skipper Theory and Practical Certificate 3rd edition
Day Skipper for Sail and Power
The Essential Manual for the RYA Day Skipper Theory and Practical Certificate 3rd edition
Description
Day Skipper for Sail and Power is a major reference book for anyone following the RYA Day Skipper course. Brought thoroughly up-to-date with new developments and covering all the theory and practical aspects of the RYA Day Skipper Certificate with full colour photography, helpful diagrams and worked examples, it is also a clear and comprehensive manual for anyone intending to make coastal passages in a small boat, covering:
- seamanship
- safety equipment
- preventing collisions at sea
- navigation and chart work
- tides and tidal streams
- pilotage
- passage planning
- weather
- engine operation and maintenance
- the most up-to-date VHF radio procedures
With its refreshingly practical approach and by the same author as the highly successful Yachtmaster for Sail and Power, no one intending to follow an RYA Day Skipper course whether for sail or power can afford to be without this lively, helpful guide to complement the course and assist with exam preparation.
Table of Contents
2. Knowing the ropes
3. Anchors and anchoring
4. Keeping safe
5. Communications – using the VHF radio
6. Avoiding a collision with other craft
7. The engine
8. About charts
9. Compasses
10. Chartwork – first steps
11. Tides and tidal streams
12. Finding our position
13. Course to steer
14. Buoys, beacons and lights
15. Pilotage – finding your way into creeks and harbours
16. Looking at the weather
17. Fog
18. Passage planning
Product details
| Published | Apr 06 2017 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 3rd |
| Extent | 208 |
| ISBN | 9781472944801 |
| Imprint | Adlard Coles |
| Illustrations | Colour photos and illustrations throughout |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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