by Bobby Schenk
2011

This thoroughly modern take on an essential skill for anyone going to sea concentrates on the tackle needed for all types and sizes of boat, explains manual and hydraulic systems for handling anchors, and demonstrates with helpful photos and diagrams safe and efficient anchoring techniques in all conditions – wind, strong tide, shallow water, rocky bottoms and deep bays – all of which require particular techniques that are covered in detail to help the reader develop effective skills.

Paperback, 100pp, colour photos & diagrams.

RRP £14.99, OUR PRICE £11.99

by John Rousmaniere

Systematic step-by-step techniques to see you through every situation - navigation, seamanship, maintenance, pleasure cruising to heavy weather sailing.

by Barry Pickthall

The long awaited offshore sailing text book, relevant to Sir Chay Blyth’s Global Challenge circumnavigations as well as ordinary long-distance cruisers.

This book offers up-to-date advice on topics as diverse as equipment, setting sails, rig strength, electronic navigation, weather routeing, preparing the crew, boat handling, night sailing, heavy weather tactics, jury rigs and survival techniques and much more.

256pp, colour photos & diagrams, hardback, 2nd ed. 2006

RRP £25.00 OUR PRICE £19.99

G68
The object of RYA Boat Handling for Sail and Power is to help you gain a fuller understanding of boat handling by dealing with a wide variety of situations in a thoughtful and logical way.

Expert advice in easy to follow text combined with in-depth colour illustrations make this title an essential tool to everyone who takes a boat out on the water.

Pb.

by Bill Anderson & Tom Cunliffe

Explains in words and photo-sequences how to handle a yacht, with just enough theory to explain the principles. Ideal for the RYA Day Skipper and Coastal Skipper practical courses.

240x171mm 120 b/w photos. 54 diag. 96p Pb

RRP £12.95 OUR PRICE £10.45

by Roger Siminoff

Roger Siminoff shares the wisdom and experience that he has learned the hard way - years on the water. 100 tips and short essays on boating and seamanship. Suitable for all boaters - power or sail, beginner or experienced. Practical advice on safety aboard, rescue drills, anchoring and docking, night boating, heavy weather, rules of the road, navigation, maintenance, VHF prototcol.

192pp, paperback, US publication

by Captain Michael and Frances Howorth

This is the essential manual for every large yacht captain and all those aspiring to become one. It outlines the correct protocol for keeping watch to STCW-95 standards and the procedures to be followed on the bridge of every superyacht. It caters specifically to the needs and requirements of large yachts and the professional crews that man them. Fully compliant with ISM procedures stipulated by the IMO.

96pp, 30 colour photos, paperback

by Michael Cargal

Everything a castaway needs to know to survive in a liferaft and get rescued as quickly as possible. Fascinating reading at home, the book is essential at sea. Filled with useful experience from the author's twenty years as a captain, it draws on the latest research in equipment, techniques and emergency medicine.

182pp, illustrations, hardback

by Peter Nielsen

This 16-panel, foldout guide provides fast, easy-to-follow instructions for safe and efficient anchoring. Printed in full colour on hinged, heavily laminated, waterproof stock, this tough resource holds its own even in rough weather.

If you are ever caught in a strong wind at sea, here is the information you need, packaged for instant access and on-board use. This guide from foremost seamanship expert John Rousmaniere is a security blanket for all sailors.

This laminated fold-out guide provides remarkably thorough coverage of its topic in a durable, weatherproof, convenient, instantly accessible and highly graphic format.

By C. Husich
66th Ed.

The classic US reference and widely-used textbook revised and expanded once again. Completely updated with new charts, photos and illustrations. Latest advances in marine electronics, communication and radar. Over 1,500 colour photos, charts and illustrations. This is the “bible” of seamanship and navigation for leisure sailors everywhere.

Hb. 927pp, 8"x11" 1,500 photos charts and illustrations

by Ken Endean

Many of the recommended techniques used in offshore voyaging - such as lying to a sea anchor or trailing warps - are not suitable when close to land. In this highly practical guide, filled with helpful tips, real-time techniques and sound advice borne of years of first hand experience, Ken Endean explains the phenomena of rough water and shows how a good understanding of coastal sea conditions and careful passage planning should enable boaters to avoid the roughest areas, seek shelter underway and thereby reduce passage times.

He includes advice on: coastal winds and waves, shallow water and shoaling, swells and currents, tides and currents in conflict, estuary effects, bars and banks, when to take the long way, how to read the surface, getting into harbour safely, making the most of smooth water, and much more.

Paperback, 160pp, photos and chartlets throughout, 246x189mm.

RRP £16.99, OUR PRICE £13.99

by Alain Poiraud, Achim Ginsberg-Klemmt, Erika Ginsberg-Klemmt

A modern, authoritative anchoring guide for sailors and powerboaters

Based on original engineering analysis, and with contributions from such international anchoring experts as Alain Fraysse and Chuck Hawley, 'The Complete Anchoring Handbook' emphasises the proven best gear and methods for anchoring safely in any situation with any boat, sail or power. Here's everything you need to know, from the basics to the most advanced techniques.

Paperback, 256pp.

by Jon Winge

The main dangers encountered at sea are fire; taking on water; running aground; losing power, mast or rudder; man overboard; becoming lost; and extreme weather. How to deal with each one is addressed in this book using brief descriptions and easily understandable photos and illustrations. In addition to these subjects, it is essential that everyone on board had a good understanding of first aid, GMDSS, flares and signals, all of which are presented as a handy reference in this book.

Paperback, spiral boud, 24pp, 2009.

High quality laminated safety book, designed for cockpit use, with practical advice.

Spiral bound

By C. Wing
2008
US book to study for the US qualification.
Includes CD with every possible question and answer on Coast Guard exams
Covers all popular Coast Guard captain's licenses
Simulate Coast Guard exams with the AutoExam CD software
Replaces or augments classroom instruction costing hundreds of dollars

Pb. 832pp includes CD.

by F & M Howorth

What you need in your 'grab bag' to enable survival if your boat sinks and you take to the life raft. A small book by two hugely experienced sailors - a good idea to read it before the event!

96pp, paperback

RRP £9.99 OUR PRICE £8.99

The five secrets of heavy weather sailing - by Hal Roth

In this clear, prescriptive handbook, Roth provides a logical and coherent analysis of storms. He outlines a five point gale strategy and discusses all aspects of:

- Reefing, heaving-to, lying a-hull, and running off
- Trailing a drogue from the stern or streaming a sea anchor from the bow
- Storm wave formation, travel and behaviour
- Storm tactics near shore and in harbour
- How to avoid storms, how to prepare for one you can't avoid, how to cope with fear and uncertainty, and why you should be confident that you and your boat can handle what comes

Hal Roth shows that all the tactics can work and have proved themselves. The trick is to integrate them into a flexible strategy that adapts to the storm, to your boat, and to circumstances. Roth's simple, authoritative analysis is just what this debate needs.

Hardback, 288pp, photos and diagrams throughout, 2009

RRP £19.99, OUR PRICE £15.99

2nd Ed.
By Tom Cunliffe

How to cope with everything the weather can throw at you. Plus coverage of the RYA Basic Sea Survival Course: emergencies, launching a liferaft.

244x185mm 96p 111 b/w photos 59 diag. Pb

RRP £12.95 OUR PRICE £10.45

By P. Bruce
2008

The book brings a wealth of expert advice including accounts from Peter Cook and Larry and Lyn Pardey of yachts, both sail and power, overtaken by extreme weather.

Techniques for coping with heavy seas are explored and a new section on storm sails has been added. A new chapter on Seeking Shelter gives advice on how to anchor, moor and go alongside during a storm, advises against simply dashing for harbour without any thought as to its suitability or safety once there. Seasickness remedies proposed, analysis of meteorological conditions leading up to a storm.

Ideal for crews of any size contemplating voyages out of sight of land anywhere in the world, whether racing or cruising. It gives a clear message of the sort of preparations required.

Hb. 246x171mm 304pp Colour photos and diag. throughout

RRP £35.00 OUR PRICE £28.99

Using Sea Anchors and Drogues
by Earl Hinz
2nd Ed.

Sea anchors and drogues have provided another method of combating threatening seas. This book is a classic, the last word on the subject which is of great concern to leisure sailors and professionals alike. In depth advice and analysis of all aspects of choosing and deploying a sea anchor or drogue.

Paperback, 176pp 226x150mm b/w photos & line drawings.

RRP £15.99 OUR PRICE £12.99

by D Von Haeften

Being caught out in a gale is every sailor's nightmare. This book explains how bad weather develops, how to avoid it and how to survive if that weather can't be avoided.

192pp, 65 line drawings, paperback

RRP £11.99 OUR PRICE £9.99

by Ivar Dedekam

A full colour, highly illustrated guide to seamanship.

This book covers knots, docking the boat and anchoring, all illustrated in Ivar Dedekam’s distinctive style and backed up with clear and simple text.

These skills are imperative to keep a boat safe and make cruising as enjoyable as possible and covers all the key topics for managing a boat and being safe on board (e.g. ropework, mooring, manoeuvring in harbour, anchoring) for cruising boats worldwide.

Paperback, colour diagrams, 90pp.

RRP £16.99, OUR PRICE £13.99

by Nigel Calder, John Rousmaniere, Bill Gladstone, Robert Sweet, Peter Nielsen, Charlie Wing, Richard Clinchy

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 accessibly and effectively.

224pp, paperback, full colour, 2007.

By Michael Huck

A look at the phenomenon of ligtening and an approach to safety and prevention.

Low cost equipment that can reduce the possibility of a strike, proper grounding and safety precautions to protect the vessel and crew in the event of a strike. Secondary effects of lightening - adverse effects on installed equipment.

80p illus.

At Close Quarters Under Power
By Bill Johnson
2011
Manoeuvring a yacht under engine at close quarters in a marina close to other (expensive!) boats can be a daunting prospect for the inexperienced skipper - but it has to be done in order to take your boat off a pontoon to go sailing, and to berth her after a day on the water. Throw in fast flowing tides, and unpredictable wind which might blow from the bow or beam or stern, and the exercise becomes even more of a lottery - even for the experienced boat handler.

Laid out in a very clear way, with one manoeuvre per page and in a handy wiro format for use when at the helm, this is the ideal teach yourself guide, and the perfect on-board aide memoire.

Pb. 150x210mm 128pp spiral bound

RRP £14.99 OUR PRICE £11.99

by Jeff Toghill

This is the perfect handbook to equip coastal and offshore sailors, as well as motorboaters, with the practical skills and experience to survive life-threatening situations at sea.

Whether you are one mile offshore or a hundred, all seafarers need the skills and knowledge to be able to ride out a storm at sea. This manual explains the essential techniques and tactics needed for survival.

No seafarer should be without it!

Hardback and slipcase

by Tom Cunliffe

A very comprehensive and practical guide to all aspects of seamanship. Essential for anyone taking the RYA Day Skipper or RYA Yachtmaster courses and a must have for anyone who goes to sea.

By B. Gladstone

The North U Cruising and Seamanship workbook helps you to develop practical problem solving skills for a broad array of real life problems and challenges. Includes chapters on sail trim, anchoring, navigation and much more.

Pb 125pp

By T. Cunliffe
2000
Part 1 - celestial navigation - fixing your position by sextant. Part 2 The world's weather systems and how to use them to your advantage. Hurricanes and typhoons are analysed - with the emphasis on avoiding them! Part 3 explains what you actually do out at sea. It covers gathering information, making plans, what to take, how to run watch systems, and the delight of making long passages.

Pb. 96pp

RRP £14.99 OUR PRICE £11.99

The Essentials of Single-handed Sailing.
By Tristan Jones

This course on single handed sailing is a highly personal perspective on both the science and the art of this ultimate challenge. This book gives the novice and the experienced sailor alike invaluble information and advice, simply and with humour.

229x149mm 226p illus. Pb

By J. Smith

Helps streamline tasks and maximise efficiency, safety and pleasure

228x154mm 240p 33 draw. Pb

By Sir Peter Johnson

This book helps the modern flag user to get things right, both ashore and afloat. It covers ensigns, signalling, special ensigns, burgees. Correct hoisting and usage are clearly detailed.

Hb colour 256pp 260x260mm

by Malcolm Pearson

The Reed's Skipper's Handbook, now in its 6th edition, has been a bestseller since first publication. A handy pocket size, it is an aide-memoire of everything a boater would need to know at sea. Packed with a wide range of information in a concise form it is frequently recommended by Yachtmaster Instructors as a quick reference guide and as a revision aid for anyone taking their Day Skipper and Yachtmaster certificates. The 6th edition has been expanded with helpful new material on boat handling, tides, ropework and general seamanship.

Reed's Skipper's Handbook is a must for anyone going to sea in any size of boat - be they novice or old hand.

6th edition 2010, 200pp, full colour, paperback, 160x100 mm.

2006

By Marshall

The author is an accomplished naval architect and he shows how to select and modify a boat for heavy weather, understand, track and evade storm systems; prepare for a storm in a harbour, coastal waters and offshore. Offers ocean tested techniques together with practical advice on surviving worst case scenarios.
Hb

US Coast Guard Auxillary Association
2007
The U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary has an excellent reputation as the largest public boating educator in the US, providing seamanship courses to 100,000 -150,000 students each year
Approved by the National Association of State Boating Law Administrators
Packed with 600 full-color illustrations and photographs

Pb. 464pp

RRP £15.99 OUR PRICE £13.99

by M Baddham and R Robinson

The seagoing experience of the editors and the wisdom of hundreds of contributors. It took millions of sea miles to develop the insights shared here.

320pp, paperback, US publication

185 Tips and Technbiques for Better Navigation, Cruise Planning and Boat Handling Under Power or Sail
By J. Jamieson
2009

Includes shortcut solutions that work when standard techniques fail.

Pb. 336pp

RRP £14.99 OUR PRICE £11.99

By F & M. Howorth
2005
The definitive book on sea survival for anyone aboard a yacht of any size. Aimed at yachtsmen who are likely to proceed out of sight of land, this is the first modern book to tackle the subject from a small craft point of view.

233x156mm 224p Pb.

RRP £17.99 OUR PRICE £14.99

By K. Colwell

Designed to complement the RYA Sea Survival Course and the ISAF Offshore Course.

RYA Sea Survival Handbook will teach you all you need to know about preparing to go to sea, emergency procedures, safety equipment, life-saving signals, handling heavy weather and choosing the most suitable life jacket or buoyancy aid.

by J Vigor

A guide to essential features, gear and handling. John Vigor's unique questionnaire is the tailor made way to answer the question "is my boat seaworthy?"

240pp, US publication

2005

BoatU.S is the largest organization in America, with 550,000 members and 250,000 marine insurance policy holders who receive Seaworthy magazine. BoatU.S. will promote this book through its member magazine and Seaworthy.
120 dramatic photos comprise a compelling gallery of horrors unique in the boating literature and make this book newsworthy.

Hb 288pp

RRP £14.99 OUR PRICE £12.99

by Alastair Buchan

This is a practical guide for the solo sailor or shorthanded crew, for manoeuvers, short passages and ocean crossings. Full colour photographs and illustrations throughout, by an experienced solo sailor.

144pp, paperback, 2006 edition.

RRP £14.99 OUR PRICE £11.99

by Peter Crowther

This is the story of yacht 'Galway Blazer' and Peter Crowther's love affair with the boat. It includes exciting narrative, relating adventures during many classic single-handed events and is interspersed with practical advice for would-be lone sailors. 'Galway Blazer' is, alas, no more. She sank in the Atlantic, after structural damage occurred in heavy weather. The story of this sinking and Peter Crowther's mid-Atlantic rescue are of course included.

144pp, 33 b/w photos, 6 line drawings, laminated boards

By Frank Mulville

This book tells you what you need to know about boat preparation, your stores and how to prepare yourself for a long solo voyage.

'.. a unique insight into single handed sailing' Motor Boat & Yachting

192p illus. Pb

by Bo Streiffert

This quick reference guide contains all the navigational information and practical seamanship needed by a skipper. Its accessible and concise presentation makes it ideal for instant reference at sea, and its splashproof pages and wiro binding enable it to stand up to the marine environment. Invaluable for experienced sailors as an aide memoire, as well as for beginners and students.

24pp, colour throughout, spiral bound, 2007.

RRP £9.99 OUR PRICE £8.99

by Tony Meisel

How to resolve any crisis at sea. A handy waterproof guide that provides solutions to a range of nautical emergencies for coastal and offshore sailors. Arranged in topics, it uses flow diagrams and charts to guide you quickly through the most appropriate course of action.

Procedures include: broken boom, collision, dismasting, engine failure, fog, holing, heavy weather, lightening strikes, man overboard, medical emergencies, and much more.

224pp, 200 diagrams, paperback & plastic cover

RRP £14.99 OUR PRICE £11.99

By H. Donal
2008

An invaluable quick cockpit reference. Packed with practical accessible advice on the most common emergencies requiring rapid action, it covers:
Storm tactics, Man overboard,
Gear failure, Fire, Dismasting
Sinking, First aid, and much more

Pb. Spiral Bound, laminated 26pp

RRP £9.99 OUR PRICE £7.99

by Richard Crooks

This book covers the practical syllabus a student skipper needs to pass advanced sailing exams. It is also designed to be kept on board as a coaching guide covering common situations that may trip up even the most experienced skipper. It covers the practical side of yacht cruising: how to be a better skipper, berth the yacht, handle under sail, recover an MOB, navigate and make and carry out safe and efficient passages.
All the key technical topics for the sailor with essential data in an accessible format.
Perfect for exam preparation with revision and test sections,
illustrated with charts and diagrams.

Paperback, 80pp

RRP £9.95 OUR PRICE £8.99

The Art of Anchoring

By Brian Fagan

Everyone who cruises will need to anchor. This little book covers all the angles and turns anchoring into an art form! essential reading.

215x135mm 112p 30 diag & photos Pb

RRP £8.99 OUR PRICE £7.99

by Richard Aarons

The Small Boat Seamanship Manual contains all the information found in the US Coast Guard's official 1,200-page training manual, giving you access to the highest standards of seamanship practiced and perfected by professional mariners.

In addition to in-depth coverage of boat handling and navigation, you'll find instructions for dealing with extreme situations, including search and rescue, towing, firefighting, vessel flood management, righting capsized boats, and manoeuvering in heavy surf.

480pp, paperback

by Lin & Larry Pardey
3rd Ed. 2008

“There is only one storm tactic that has the ability to sap the power of breaking seas,” they explain. With clear and concise diagrams, they proceed to show how heaving-to works and how modern of yachts can be made to heave-to, whether with sail power or a sea anchor. This technique can be used to effect repairs, to steady a vessel for outside assistance. A series of user-friendly checklists to help from selecting the perfect offshore boat, fitting and encountering the first storms at sea. Since writing the previous edition of Storm Tactics Handbook, Lin and Larry have sailed an additional 35,000 miles. With insights gained from these recent voyages, they have fully revised and expanded this text by more than 40 percent, including nine completely new chapters. New material includes: Lessons from Cape Horn, An interview with the late Sir Peter Blake, on storm survival and heaving-to, Heaving-to using a Galerider on 55-foot Morgan’s Cloud, Adding rudder protection stops, Discussions on avoiding chafe, building and using storm staysails, choosing storm gear, deploying para-anchors, avoiding the worst areas of cyclonic storms etc.

Pb 176pp

by William Burr

This book shows how to defend your boat from hurricanes and other storms. These proven strategies will protect your boat against the effects of storm surges, high winds, torrential rain, and other hazards. Using the handy preparation checklists and sample storm-prep plans, you'll learn how to be ready whenever a storm threatens, whether your boat is in a slip, on a mooring, at anchor, in dry storage, or on a trailer.

Paperback, 160pp, US publication, 2006

By J. Coote Revised by P.Gelder
2nd Ed

Every year hundreds of yachts are lost at sea. Here are tales of collisions, fire, capsize, dismastings, severe storms, including the loss of Pete Goss's Team Philips catamaran in 2000.

These tales carry valuble lessons which the survivors have been able to pass on for those who wish to avoid a similar fate.

'Required reading for anyone going offshore' Classic Boat.

234x156mm 320p Pb

RRP £14.99 OUR PRICE £11.99

Test Your Navigation and Seamanship Skills and Learn from Expert Answers
Yachting Monthly
by Bill Anderson, Chris Beeson

Following in the Yachting Monthly paperback series (Confessions, Further Confessions, etc) this book is based on a popular run of articles over the last eight years in Yachting Monthly in which navigational and seamanship problems are posed and the highly respected author (former RYA Training Manager) gives his opinion on the best way to resolve the problem. And if there are several ways of dealing with it he airs them all.

Paperback, 96 pages. 216x138 mm.
Illustrated in colour throughout. 2009.

by Tom Cunliffe
2010

Among the wealth of advice there are hints on how to judge distance at sea or tell if the tide is turned, how to steer clear of rocks and ensure you come alongside safely and in style. These are the sort of practical tips that are learned over many years at sea and don’t feature in the syllabus of yachting qualifications.

PB 112pp, 2010.

RRP £11.99, OUR PRICE £9.99