The Instant Handbook of Boat Handling, Navigation and Seamanship

Instant answers for your boat handling, navigation, and seamanship questions

The Instant Handbook uses a dynamic new quick-reference format to cover the critical aspects of piloting, seamanship, and boat handling under sail or power more accessibly and effectively than has ever been done before. It puts at your fingertips all the information you need about:

• Boat Handling Under Power--Bob Sweet
• Sail Trim and Rig Tuning--Bill Gladstone
• Using Nautical Charts--Bob Sweet
• Using GPS--Bob Sweet
• Using VHF and SSB Radios--Bob Sweet
• Rules of the Road and Running Light Patterns--Charlie Wing
• Knots, Splices, and Line Handling--Charlie Wing
• Anchoring--Peter Nielsen
• Onboard Weather Forecasting--Bob Sweet
• Heavy Weather Sailing--John Rousmaniere
• Diesel Engine Care and Repair--Nigel Calder
• Emergencies On Board--John Rousmaniere
• Emergency First Aid On Board--Richard Clinchy

John Rousmaniere is a national authority on sailing and seamanship, a household name among boaters, and a first-rate writer by any standard. He is the author of 18 books, including Fastnet, Force 10 (W.W. Norton), which has sold nearly 100,000 copies since 1980, and The Annapolis Book of Seamanship (Simon & Schuster), which is considered the standard work on seamanship under sail and has sold 250,000 copies since 1983. His other titles include a history of yachting, The Golden Pastime (W.W. Norton), two histories of the America's Cup race, and a history of the yacht America. He wrote the navigation section of the Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia and compiled the Illustrated Dictionary of Boating Terms (W.W. Norton, 1998). He has written the histories of institutions such as Columbia University, The Equitable Life Assurance Company, and the law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell.He lectures at Safety-at-Sea seminars across the country, writes a column on seamanship for the online magazine SailNet (www.sailnet.com), and regularly publishes articles in the boating press. He has been interviewed on the Learning Channel, A&E, and CNN. He has sailed more than 35,000 miles, including three Atlantic crossings. He holds a master's in history from Columbia University and a Master of Divinity degree from Union Theological. HOMETOWN: Stamford, CT

Peter Nielsen,editor of SAIL Magazine, was previously editor of Yachting Monthly magazine in the UK. An experienced sailor who has cruised and raced worldwide, he is also the author Sailpower: Trim & Techniques for Cruising Sailors (2004).Hometown: Marblehead, MA

Richard A. Clinchy, III, PhD, EMT-P, has been involved in emergency medical services in either a full-time or volunteer capacity for over 40 years. Dr. Clinchy provides training assistance or train-the-trainer programs for services or military units wishing to implement the FAST1 intraosseous device. He has been involved in EMS education, consulting, lecturing and provision of emergency care in North and South America, the Caribbean, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. From 1991 to 2004, he was founder and chairman of The American College of Prehospital Medicine. He is the developer of the Dive/First Responder network, a former professional firefighter and public safety officer, a certified hyperbaric technologist, a paramedic, a member of the National Association of EMS Physicians, a member and former board member of the Special Operations Medical Association, author of over 150 published articles, author, principal author or lead editor of seven books on diving and/or emergency medicine, and author of the emergency medical care chapter of the most recent edition of the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration) Diving Manual. He received the National Leadership Award from the National Association of EMT’s in 1988, and was that organization’s Instructor/Coordinator of the Year in 1989. He is a fellow of The Explorers Club, a member of The Camp Fire Club of America, and Chief of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary’s Department of Education as well as Deputy Director of its National Marketing Group.Hometown: Navarre, FL

John Rousmaniere is the author of The Annapolis Book ofSeamanship and a dozen other nautical books.
Bob Sweet,author of GPS for Mariners and The Weekend Navigator, is thenational education coordinator for the United States PowerSquadrons.
Charlie Wing is the author of Get Your Captain’sLicense and other boating books.
Nigel Calder, author ofBoatowner’s Mechanical Electrical Manual, among other titles, isacknowledged as the world’s foremost writer on technicalboating topics.
Bill Gladstone is the director of educationfor North Sails and has been teaching sailing for more than30 years.
Richard Clinchy, an emergency medical technicianfor more than 40 years, is a paramedic, a member of theNational Association of EMS Physicians, and past chief of theU. S. Coast Guard Auxiliary’s Department of Education.
Peter Nielsen is the editor of SAIL magazine and the authorof Sailpower.

Charlie Wing received his Ph.D. in oceanography from MIT, where he later worked as a research scientist. Since then his career has been explaining how things work--teaching physics at Bowdoin College, founding America’s first two do-it-yourself house-building schools (the Shelter Institute and Cornerstone), hosting a PBS series on energy conservation, and writing a dozen top-selling books on home building, home maintenance, and remodeling. Wing lived aboard a cruising sailboat for six years, during which time he wrote the first edition of this book on a solar-powered Macintosh computer. He is the author of four other IM books.