Instant answers for your boat handling, navigation, and seamanship questions
The Instant Handbook uses a dynamic new quick-reference format to cover the critical aspects of piloting, seamanship, and boat handling under sail or power more accessibly and effectively than has ever been done before. It puts at your fingertips all the information you need about:
Boat Handling Under Power--Bob Sweet
Sail Trim and Rig Tuning--Bill Gladstone
Using Nautical Charts--Bob Sweet
Using GPS--Bob Sweet
Using VHF and SSB Radios--Bob Sweet
Rules of the Road and...
Instant answers for your boat handling, navigation, and seamanship questions
The Instant Handbook uses a dynamic new quick-referen...
Authoritative, practical, and hands-on information on reading and relying on electronic and paper nautical charts
The classic How to Read a Nautical Chart explains every aspect of electronic and paper nautical charts: how a chart is assembled, how to gauge the accuracy of chart data, how to read charts created by other governments, how to use information such as scale, projection technique and datum that every chart contains; how not to get fooled or run aground by overzooming. Nigel Calder teaches you how to squeeze every ounce of information out of a nautical chart...
Authoritative, practical, and hands-on information on reading and relying on electronic and paper nautical charts
The maintenance bible for boatowners is fully updated and better than ever
If it's on a boat and it has screws, wires, or moving parts, it's covered in Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual. When you leave the dock with this indispensable resource aboard, you have at your fingertips the best and most comprehensive advice on:
Battery technologies, including recent developments in lead-acid and lithium-ion batteries and fuel cells
12- and 24-volt DC systems
Electric and hybrid propulsion
How to radically improve the energy efficiency of most...
The maintenance bible for boatowners is fully updated and better than ever
If it's on a boat and it has screws, wires, or moving par...