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Reeds Skipper's Handbook 8th edition

For Sail and Power
By Andy Du Port
Series: Reeds Handbooks
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The Reeds Skipper’s Handbook is the essential pocket-sized reference for everything you need to know at sea, packed with a wide range of information in a concise and quick-to-read form. A useful aide-memoire for all sailors and powerboaters, it is also frequently recommended by instructors as... Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
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The bestselling pocket-sized reference guide to everything a boater needs to know at sea.

The bestselling pocket-sized reference guide to everything a boater needs to know at sea.

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The Reeds Skipper’s Handbook is the essential pocket-sized reference for everything you need to know at sea, packed with a wide range of information in a concise and quick-to-read form. A useful aide-memoire for all sailors and powerboaters, it is also frequently recommended by instructors as a revision aid for anyone taking their Day Skipper and Yachtmaster certificates.

Now in its revised and updated 8th edition, it covers:

  • Essential navigation skills, manual and electronic
  • Tides, tidal streams and curves
  • The rules of the road, and buoyage
  • Safety and distress
  • Communications
  • Weather
  • Anchoring and mooring
  • Sails and wind
  • Knots, bends and hitches
  • Inland waterways/CEVNI

It also includes handy facts, figures, formulae and tables for instant reference, including an at-a-glance guide to International Port Traffic Signals.

Over 100,000 boaters worldwide have a copy of the invaluable Reeds Skipper’s Handbook in their pocket, on the chart table or on their shelf at home. It is a must for anyone going to sea, whether skipper or crew.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781399414296

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 14 March 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Reeds

Edition: 8th edition

Illustration: Full colour illustrations throughout

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 14.0mm

Width: 100.0mm

Height: 160.0mm

Weight: 240g

Pages: 224

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About the Author

Andy Du Port is a former editor of Reeds Nautical Almanac, and an experienced yachtsman, having sailed with family and crew for many years all along the south coast of England, the Channel Islands and the North Coast of France. Malcolm Pearson was a Yachtmaster Instructor for over 20 years, and skippered sail and powerboats around the coast of the UK, Northern Europe and America.

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