Skipper's Cockpit Guide: Instant Facts and Practical Hints for Boaters - Softcover

Streiffert, Bo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1399404296 ISBN 13: 9781399404297

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2022

Synopsis

Invaluable for experienced sailors as an aide-memoire, as well as for beginners and students, this essential quick-reference guide covers a wide range of topics such as seamarks, buoyage, pilotage, lights, boat handling, anchoring and mooring, ropes and knots, heavy weather sailing, man overboard, grounding, fire aboard, distress signals and VHF radio. This North American edition covers the IALA-B Buoyage System. This guide has been a favorite with skippers around the world for many years, as shown by these reviews: ‘A brilliant aide-memoire or instant revision for exams' Kelvin Hughes 'An ideal companion above or below decks' Practical Boat Owner ‘A handy reference... one of the most comprehensive guides that I have seen' Lifeboat ‘A lot of good information... a useful aid to have on board' Gaffers Log This is the first edition of this popular guide for boaters in the US and Canada.

About this title

About the Author

Bo Streiffert is a Swedish yachtsman with 50 years varied sailing experience including time spent in the Royal Swedish Navy as a navigation officer on torpedo boats. It was while he was an instructor on training ships, when still in his 20s, that he came up with the idea of the Skipper's Cockpit Guide and produced the first outline in a booklet which he used to teach the young people on his courses.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1399404296
• ISBN 13: 9781399404297
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 24