Practical Skipper
essential notes and checklists for day and coastal skippers
$31.08
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2025
Summary
Practical Skipper: Your Essential Guide to Yachting Skills
When you learn how to skipper a yacht, the practical courses cover a whole range of activities, from passage planning to pilotage and berthing. The way you learn about these elements on a course is usually like this:
– the briefing, where the instructor prepares you for the exercise. He should explain what we’re trying to achieve, how it’s going to work, and what the skipper and crew need to do – the practical activi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399431316 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1399431315 |
| Author: | Bill Johnson |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2025 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm |
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Provides developing skippers with a comprehensive practical guide to underpin their understanding, written in a concise and easy-to-read style, all from a hands-on perspective by an acknowledged author… We would have loved to have a copy of this book when we were training for our RYA assessments. It is thoroughly recommended for those who are preparing for RYA Day Skipper and Coastal Skipper qualifications and a great book to have on the bookshelf as a reminder for seasoned sailors too.
* Cruising Magazine *Supremely clear and easy to navigate, and one of the best features are the checklists, to stop you forgetting something important that you last might have heard in a classroom decades ago. * Classic Boat *About The Author
Bill Johnson
Bill Johnson, a Cambridge-educated engineer, exchanged his career for long distance sailing, accumulating approximately 50,000 miles. A sailing instructor for ten years, specializing in RYA courses from beginner to Yachtmaster level, Bill excels at explaining complex topics clearly and engagingly. He is the author of Reeds Crew Handbook and Manoeuvring, both published by Adlard Coles.
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