Description

Reeds Skipper’s Handbook for Sail & Power

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.