Short description
This text contains all the information a skipper could use aboard a boat of up to 60 feet. The quick-reference layout covers course-plotting, docking manoeuvres, CPR, advanced first aid, navigation, boat handling, seamanship, rules of the road and more.
Long description
Robert Grossman has incorporated into the virtually all the information any skipper could possibly use aboard boats to sixty-feet. The quick reference layout covers everything from plotting a dead reckoning course to docking manoeuvres, from CPR to advanced first aid. Here is just a sample of the detailed information contained in this book; First Aid, Rules of the Road, Navigation, Boat Handling, and Seamanship. Unlike other books of this nature, this book is meant to be used at the helm for quick reference when the need arises. It will lay flat for easy reading at a powerboat helm or in the cockpit of a heeled sailboat. Every skipper from the novice aboard a small bow-rider to lifelong professional aboard the finest yacht, will find the Skipper's Handbook the most useful book aboard their vessel.