The Macmillan & Silk Cut Yachtsman's Handbook

by Dick Hewitt (Editor), Dick Hewitt (Editor), I.J.Lees- Spalding (Editor)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1988

  $4.55

  This revised seamanship manual is a useful reference book for anyone taking navigation examinations or intending to put to sea in a boat of any description. It contains additional chapters on clothing, feeding afloat and legal matters while extensive changes have been made to the chapters on safety, navigation and communications. Fifty new diagrams have been included. Dick Hewitt was captain of the Navy sailing team and editor of the magazine Motor Boat and Yachting from 1972-1979. Tim Lees-Spalding joined the Navy in 1939 and has since sailed all over the world.

• Used

  Paperback
  1984

  $6.70

• Used

  Hardcover
  1993

  $3.41

  Designed to complement The Macmillan and Silk Cut Nautical Almanac , this book is a standard work on yachting. The book covers a wide range of seamanship and information for boat owners to the standards required by the Yachtmaster (Offshore) Certificate set by the RYA and Department of Transport. This edition includes two new chapters on multihulls and the fundamentals of yacht racing. There is also new information on satellite navigation, position fixing systems, sight reduction methods, the use of calculators and personal computers, boat handling and legal matters.