The Complete Idiot's Guide to Boating and Sailing, Third Edition

Here is an excellent overview of both power boating and sailing that focuses on the techniques shared by both. Solid material any boater will need to know on buying a boat and the cost of ownership, marine power and motors, technology and weather, safety, navigation, and boat handling—as well as expanded coverage on sailing and a brand new chapter on personal watercraft—this is the only boating book to own.

FRANK SARGEANT is boating editor of Outdoor Life magazine, a contributing editor for Boating magazine, and a features editor for Florida Sportsman magazine, as well as senior script writer for Outdoor World, which appears weekly on TNN. His award-winning columns for the Tampa Tribune have been a favorite with Floridians for almost two decades, and he’s written a dozen books on boating and the outdoors including The Snook Book, a fishing classic, now it its eighth edition. In 1992, Sargeant received the National Marine Manufacturers Association Award as the nation’s top boating writer.