A former officer of Marines, who has logged much time aboard vessels ranging from aircraft carriers to destroyers to amphibious landing craft, presents a no-frills nautical dictionary written for the modern sailing lifestyle.

More than ever, charter operators must adhere to good business practices to transform water-related fun into profitability. The first part of this book is dedicated to the business side of chartering, with chapters on starting a business, accounting, insurance, marketing tools, the marketing plan, and the business plan. Recent changes in the requirements for licensing, documentation, vessel inspection, and bareboat chartering are demystified, making this book a must-have for anyone seeking to make money with a boat, including parasail operators, dive boat skippers, excursion boat owners, and...

This second edition is a comprehensive, entertaining guide to mixing boating with business. Leaping ahead of the first edition, this guide keeps up with a boating industry that has become much more regulated and competitive. It shows old salts and newcomers how to transform water-related fun into the pure pleasure of profitability-from starting a business, to accounting and budgeting, insurance, marketing tools, and the business plan. In understandable language, using terms that have excised the legal gobbledygook, it also provides requirements for licensing, documentation and vessel...

After wartime service in the Navy the author, a young man born into the bottom layer of the social pile, decided to see the world without having to find the money to do so; and work of many kinds was to be the answer. His early efforts took him to Norway and the Arctic waters of the Svalbard archipelligo before a chance meeting and a new job took to him to Canada. Returning to England he used his skills as a trawlerman to raise a stake that would take him to Sweden. He lived there for about year and a half working on farms, as a window cleaner, in restaurants and factories and, for a few...