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| Introduction | 1 | |
| 1 | The Skipper | 3 |
| 2 | The Theory of Sailing | 6 |
| Sails | ||
| 3 | Efficient Sailing | 12 |
| Shaping the headsail | ||
| Shaping the mainsail | ||
| Sail combinations | ||
| Hull balance | ||
| Shortening sail | ||
| 4 | Basic Seamanship under Sail | 21 |
| Tacking | ||
| Gybing | ||
| Poling out a genoa | ||
| Painless sail reduction | ||
| Heaving to | ||
| Reefing | ||
| Headsail changes | ||
| 5 | Boat Handling under Sail | 32 |
| No brakes | ||
| Wind awareness | ||
| Tide awareness | ||
| Sailing slowly | ||
| Mooring under sail | ||
| Leaving a mooring | ||
| Anchoring | ||
| Berthing | ||
| 6 | Boat Handling under Power | 39 |
| Pivoting | ||
| Blowing off | ||
| Rudder effect | ||
| Propeller effects | ||
| Moving ahead | ||
| The set piece short turn | ||
| Motoring astern | ||
| Berthing | ||
| Coming alongside | ||
| Leaving an alongside berth | ||
| 7 | Ropes and Ropework | 52 |
| Types of rope | ||
| Wire halyards | ||
| Knots, splices and whippings | ||
| Eyes and ends | ||
| Rope handling | ||
| Tying up | ||
| Coming alongside | ||
| Towing | ||
| 8 | Anchoring | 64 |
| Holding ground | ||
| Types of anchor | ||
| Types of cable | ||
| Weighting the cable | ||
| Selecting an anchorage | ||
| Laying an anchor | ||
| Weighing anchor | ||
| Fouled anchors | ||
| Anchoring stern- or bow-to | ||
| Kedging off | ||
| Storm anchoring | ||
| 9 | Yacht Engines | 75 |
| Basic maintenance | ||
| Trouble shooting | ||
| Fuel problems | ||
| 10 | Sailing in Heavy Weather | 81 |
| Preparing the boat | ||
| Sails | ||
| Steering in waves | ||
| Survival tactics | ||
| 11 | Navigation--an Introduction | 88 |
| 12 | Charts, Publications and Chart Table Tools | 91 |
| Latitude, longitude and the globe | ||
| Chart projections | ||
| Direction | ||
| Scale and passage requirements | ||
| Chart symbols | ||
| Other information on the chart | ||
| Chart datums | ||
| Yachting charts | ||
| Electronic charts | ||
| Chart corrections | ||
| The Nautical Almanac | ||
| Pilot books and sailing directions | ||
| Chart table tools | ||
| 13 | Aids to Navigation | 101 |
| Lighthouses | ||
| Offshore marks | ||
| Inshore marks | ||
| 14 | Tidal Heights | 107 |
| Tide tables | ||
| Secondary ports | ||
| Tidal definitions | ||
| Intermediate tidal heights | ||
| Non-astronomical factors in tide movements | ||
| The essence of a tidal height question | ||
| Tidal height computers | ||
| Using tidal height calculations safely | ||
| 15 | Tidal Streams | 119 |
| Tidal gates | ||
| Deep and shoal water | ||
| Tide-induced sea states | ||
| Information on tidal streams | ||
| 16 | Traditional Navigational Inputs | 123 |
| The compass | ||
| Variation | ||
| Deviation | ||
| Heeling error | ||
| Local magnetic anomalies | ||
| Compass dip | ||
| The log | ||
| Depth | ||
| 17 | The Estimated Position | 131 |
| Leeway | ||
| The tide vector | ||
| The echo sounder | ||
| Plotting | ||
| The log book | ||
| 18 | Classical Position Fixing | 136 |
| The eyeball fix and the position line | ||
| Sources of position line | ||
| Preplotting and use of ship's heading | ||
| The running fix | ||
| Evaluation of fixes | ||
| 19 | GPS and Radar | 146 |
| Global Positioning | ||
| System (GPS) | ||
| Chart datums | ||
| Additional functions of electronic navigators | ||
| Electronic chart plotters | ||
| Marine computers | ||
| Radar | ||
| 20 | Course Shaping | 158 |
| Course to steer at the turn of the tide | ||
| The longer passage | ||
| Leeway | ||
| 21 | Navigational Strategy | 164 |
| Wind, tide, light and darkness | ||
| Wind shifts | ||
| Beating in water free of currents | ||
| The favoured tack | ||
| Unpredicted wind shifts | ||
| Anticipated wind shifts | ||
| Beating in a cross-current | ||
| Beating in a cross-tide | ||
| Tacking downwind | ||
| VMG | ||
| 22 | Passage Planning | 171 |
| Charts and overall distances | ||
| Pilot books | ||
| Alternative destinations | ||
| Waypoints | ||
| Waypoint lists | ||
| Sailplans (routes) | ||
| Weather | ||
| Tidal streams | ||
| Off-lying dangers | ||
| Tidal heights | ||
| Daylight | ||
| Fuel | ||
| Courses to steer | ||
| Tactics and strategy | ||
| Pilotage plan | ||
| 23 | Pilotage | 177 |
| Safe track | ||
| Instant position lines | ||
| Forward planning | ||
| 24 | Passage Navigation | 184 |
| Inshore passages | ||
| Offshore passages | ||
| 25 | Domestics of a Passage | 191 |
| Food | ||
| Sleep | ||
| Warmth | ||
| Space | ||
| Seasickness | ||
| 26 | Fog | 195 |
| Maintain your plot | ||
| Fog seamanship | ||
| Fog tactics | ||
| 27 | Tactics and Navigation in Heavy Weather | 200 |
| Navigation in poor conditions | ||
| 28 | Damage Control | 204 |
| Tool kits and spare parts | ||
| Fire prevention and fighting | ||
| Jury rigs | ||
| Ropes around the propeller | ||
| Steering failure | ||
| Dismasting | ||
| 29 | Emergencies | 212 |
| Lifeboat rescue | ||
| Helicopter rescue | ||
| First on the scene | ||
| Taking to the liferaft | ||
| Pyrotechnics | ||
| 30 | Man Overboard | 220 |
| The reach-turn-reach | ||
| Crash stop | ||
| Bringing the casualty aboard | ||
| Search and rescue | ||
| 31 | Weather | 226 |
| The frontal depression | ||
| Mutually exclusive air masses | ||
| Air circulation | ||
| Depression formation | ||
| Depression tracks | ||
| Frontal anatomy | ||
| Occlusions | ||
| Secondary depressions | ||
| Locating a low pressure centre | ||
| Wind strengths in depressions | ||
| Cyclonic winds | ||
| Depressions in the southern hemisphere | ||
| High pressure | ||
| The squeeze | ||
| Fog | ||
| Sea breezes | ||
| Appendix | Stability in Sailing Yachts | 234 |
| Index | 237 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
| WonderClub |
David Ash
reviewed Complete Yachtmaster Sailing: Sailing, Seamanship and Navigation for the Modern Yacht Skipper on August 15, 2012
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