What Now Skipper?: Forty Fiendish Challenges to Your Seamanship Skills

Des Sleightholme

ISBN 10: 092448618X / ISBN 13: 9780924486180

Published by Sheridan House, 1998

May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G092448618XI4N00

Synopsis:

Four highly experienced sailors pose forty challenging seamanship and navigational puzzlers based on real life problems. Try to figure out what you would do in the same situation, them find out what the experts suggest. A fun way to keep your sailing skills honed, without getting wet.

About the Author: Andrew Bray is an editor for both Yachting World and Yachting Monthly. He has cruised in many parts of the world and raced in short-handed events.

Tom Cunliffe has been sailing for most of his life and has worked in all branches of the profession, both racing and cruising. He is an RYA Yachtmaster Examiner (Offshore and Ocean) and writes regularly for Yachting Monthly and Yachting World. He has sailed from the Caribbean to Russia and from Brazil to the Arctic.

Bill Anderson started sailing off the North Antrim coast in an open fishing boat. He spent 13 years as a seaman officer in the Royal Navy, serving as Navigating Officer of a minesweeper, a frigate and a destroyer.
On leaving the Navy he joined the training division of the Royal Yachting Association, where he set up and run the RYA/DTp Yachtmaster training and examinations.
He has always been an enthusiastic sailor, with experience ranging from dinghy racing to an Atlantic crossing (from Brazil to the UK). He now spends most of his summers cruising NW Europe.

Bibliographic Details

Title: What Now Skipper?: Forty Fiendish Challenges...
Publisher: Sheridan House
Publication Date: 1998
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket