Description
The Reeds Skipper’s Handbook is the essential pocket-sized reference to 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.
