Reeds Skipper's Handbook (Reed's Professional) - Softcover

Malcolm Pearson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0713683384 ISBN 13: 9780713683387

Publisher: Thomas Reed Publications, 2007

Synopsis

The Reed's Skipper's Handbook, now in its 5th edition, has been a bestseller since first publication. A handy pocket size, it is an aide-memoire of everything a boater would need to know at sea. Packed with a wide range of information in a concise form it is frequently recommended by Yachtmaster Instructors as a quick reference guide and as a revision aid for anyone taking their Day Skipper and Yachtmaster certificates. The 5th edition has been updated and reorganised to make it even easier for the reader to navigate right to the information they want. There is an expanded section on navigating with electronics and new sections on electronic chart plotters, radar and AIS, and an expanded secion on boathandling and seamanship. Reeds Skipper's Handbook is a must for anyone going to sea in any size of boat - be they novice or old hand. 'A terrific little volume' Motorboat & Yachting 'A brilliant guide for beginners and an excellent refresher for more advanced skippers...a top rate book' Waterstones 'Everything you would need to know when going to sea in a yacht or small boat...a humdinger of a little book' Nautical Magazine

About this title

From the Back Cover:

The Ultimate Memory Aid for Onboard Use

Reed's Skipper's Handbook, the worldwide bestselling piloting and seamanship pocket guide, is now adapted for North American waters and buoyage systems.

• Concise
• Color-coded page margins for quick reference
• Ideal for quick reference at the helm and for browsing at home to refresh and extend your seamanship knowledge
• Packed with a huge amount of useful information
• Answers all the navigation quandaries mariners are likely to encounter underway.

"A brilliant guide for beginners and an excellent refresher for more advanced skippers. . . . A top-rate book."―Waterstones

"A terrific little volume."―Motorboat & Yachting

Malcolm Pearson has been a Royal Yachting Association Yachtmaster instructor for more than 20 years, and the author of Reed's Skipper's Handbook since its first edition in 1993.

About the Author:

Malcolm Pearson has a lifelong love of boats and the sea, and has been 'messing about' in boats - sail and power, large and small - for well over sixty years now, around the coasts of the UK, Northern Europe and America. He has also made several yacht delivery trips to the Mediterranean, some through the European Inland Waterways and others the long way round via the Bay of Biscay. Malcolm was also a Yachtmaster Instructor for over 20 years.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thomas Reed Publications
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0713683384
• ISBN 13: 9780713683387
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 192