Written by a cruising powerboater and marine journalist with more than 30 years' experience, Stapleton's Powerboat Bible is the most ambitious and far-ranging reference ever offered to powerboaters. Thoroughly comprehensive, up-to-date, and authoritative, this "must-have bible" covers everything from choosing and equipping a cruising powerboat to techniques of navigation, seamanship, and passage making. An indispensable resource, this jam-packed guide fills the needs of the more than one million enthusiastic operators of big powerboats (more than 35 feet long) in the United States alone.
Sid Stapleton has been a powerboat cruiser and marine journalist for more than three decades. He is also a longtime contributing editor to Motor Boating & Sailing magazine. In 1993 - 94, he and his wife, Anne, made a 15,000-mile voyage from Maine to Alaska via the Panama Canal in Americas Odyssey, their 49-foot Grand Banks motor yacht. When they aren't on the water, Sid and Anne live in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.