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Description
The Reeds Skipper's Handbook is the essential pocket-sized reference to everything you need to know at sea, packed with a wide range of information in a concise and quick to read form. A useful aide-memoire for all sailors and powerboaters, it is also frequently recommended by instructors as a revision aid for anyone taking their Day Skipper and Yachtmaster certificates.
Now in its revised and updated 8th edition, it covers:
- Essential navigation skills, manual and electronic
- Tides, tidal streams and curves
- The rules of the road, and buoyage
- Safety and distress
- Communications
- Weather
- Anchoring and mooring
- Sails and wind
- Knots, bends and hitches
- Inland waterways/CEVNI
It also includes handy facts, figures, formulae and tables for instant reference, including an at-a-glance guide to International Port Traffic Signals.
Over 100,000 boaters worldwide have a copy of the invaluable Reeds Skipper's Handbook in their pocket, on the chart table or on their shelf at home. It is a must for anyone going to sea, whether skipper or crew.
Product details
Published | May 28 2024 |
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Format | Paperback |
Edition | 8th |
Extent | 224 |
ISBN | 9781399414296 |
Imprint | Reeds |
Illustrations | Full colour illustrations throughout |
Dimensions | 6 x 4 inches |
Series | Reeds Handbooks |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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A terrific little volume
Motorboat & Yachting
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A brilliant guide for beginners and an excellent refresher for more advanced skippers... a top rate book
Waterstones
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From the beginning, it contained everything a boater would need to know when going to sea, and it imparted this stream of information in a concise, easy-to-navigate way, in a handy pocket-sized book
Sailing
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Everything you would need to know when going to sea in a yacht or small boat... a humdinger of a little book
Nautical magazine