Skipper's Cockpit Guide
Instant Facts and Practical Hints for Boaters: US Edition
$38.15
- Paperback
24 pages
- Release Date
19 July 2022
Summary
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.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399404297 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1399404296 |
| Author: | Bo Streiffert |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 24 |
| Release Date: | 19 July 2022 |
| Weight: | 186g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 240mm |
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About The Author
Bo Streiffert
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.
Nathan Zahrt is an experienced skipper and navigator after many thousands of miles of blue-water sailing. He specializes in yacht deliveries and training passages in the North Atlantic and Caribbean. Nathan holds both a US Coast Guard License and RYA Yachtmaster Offshore. He has written for magazines including Sailing Today.
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