Volume 1
Cruising under sail

John Rousmaniere demonstrates navigation, sailing and seamanship skills with detailed explanations and action replays. Covers basic navigation, sail handling and trim, anchoring & docking, steering & boat handling, safety, knots.
72 mins.

Volume 2
Heavy weather sailing

Covers modern techniques, boat & crew preparation, storm tactics, heaving to, drogue deployment, sail trimming and shortening.

55 mins.

Volume 3
Safety at sea

Covers proven techniques & equipment for avoiding and handling nautical emergencies. Boat and crew preparation, going aloft in a boatswains chair, man overboard equipment demonstrations, heaving to, use of flares, life raft inflation, US government regulations.

Volume 4
Navigation

Covers dead reckoning pilotage, GPS instruments with detailed close ups of how objects appear on the chart and water in good or bad visibility. Teaches chart & compass, GPS, radar for navigating & collision avoidance, navigation rules, fog and night time navigation, tacking & plotting bearings.

70 mins.

Volume 5
Day sailors, sailing and racing

Learn to sail the keel daysailing boats and small keel sail boats. Covers getting underway, boat handling, introduction to racing, steering, tacking, gybing, sail shape and trim, life jacket use, crew organisation, spinnaker, essential racing skills, navigation rules, man overboard rescue.

75 mins.

Complete set, volumes 1 - 5

Amberley Marine

A complete astro-navigation training programme with powerful graphics, making it easy to understand the celestial sphere whilst live action shows you how to check, adjust and use a sextant. Includes worked examples demonstrating each stage of taking and plotting a sight. 80 practice exercises plus plotting forms and glossary of terms. An excellent self-tuition tool.

Running time: 52 mins

The latest training aid in the range of interactive marine training software. Incorporates the latest video and computer modelling techniques and is a must for any motorboat owner or aspiring skipper wishing to expand their knowledge and confidence, especially those wishing to progress through the RYA training scheme through Day Skipper and onwards. This software can be installed on a PC or laptop, or run directly from the disc via a DVD-Rom.

RRP £49.95 OUR PRICE £39.95

Covers the basics of celestial navigation, Sextant, lat. & long., GMT, zenith distance and navigating any where in the world.
120 min.

William F. Buckley
A unique program on celestial navigation by this well known personality. Theory and practice of celestial navigation are simply and clearly explained. Using computer graphics, it covers GP, GHA and GMT.
USA film.
39 mins

Navigation Made Simple - John Goode's Masterclass

This DVD shows how to cross the Channel using more traditional navigation skills - for safety it is necessary to have a basic understanding as a back up to GPS. A basic knowledge of charts, tidal streams and heights is assumed.

Passage Planning, Course Shaping, Dealing with Errors, Shipping Lanes, Making Landfall. The popular Solent to Cherbourg route is used, but the basic techniques have general relevance.

Other DVDs in this series - Inshore Navigation and Practical Pilotage

Amberley Marine

Based on the RYA Practical Syllabus, comprehensively covers the sailing basics allowing you to become a competent crew member, or skipper a cruising yacht on a short passage in daylight and decent weather.

Setting sails, winches & cleats, basic sailing, leaving a mooring under sail, starting an engine, handling under power, coming alongside - a crews job, anchoring, man overboard, reefing, rules & regulations.

Don Street

A popular feature in Sailing Quarterly video magazine in the 90's to help make sailing easier, safer and more fun. Don's advise is as timeless as ever. DVD 1 includes single line docking, anti-chafe gear, snubber lines, getting off when aground, knots and whipping, sail repair, mainsail repair, mainsail furlers, cruising with kids and safety on deck. Don rounds off with his favourite places in the Grenadines.

Don Street

A popular feature in Sailing Quarterly video magazine in the 90's to help make sailing easier, safer and more fun. Don's advise is as timeless as ever. DVD 2 includes preparing for and dealing with heavy weather, cleating lines, tying sheets, the value of the Lighterman's Hitch, jibe prevention, sail stops and coastal navigation. Don also shares two more of his favourite cruising grounds: undiscovered Venezuela and the incomparable soutwest coast of Ireland.

Don Street
Learn tying knots the easy way  on DVD with instructions and colorful commentary from one of the worlds most experienced sailors. Don Street is a famous sailing author of instructional books and magazine articles plus popular Caribbean yachting guides and charts. Until his recent retirement, he had been sailing the Caribbean since 1953 aboard his engineless 45 foot yawl, Iolaire. In this unique and outstanding program Don teaches the knots and their applications so you know when and how to use them. He shows tying knots at normal speed and then cuts to slow motion close-ups.

By T. Cunliffe
2004
Instruction for Yachtmasters and Dayskippers, de-mystifies electronic navigation under sail and power. Seamless save-all techniques for when the electronics fail. Guidance on choosing a plotter. Electronics in an integrated navigation plan, position, datums and plotting with confidence, electronic tidal heights, using GPS to offset tidal streams, safe use of waypoints and routes, and much more.

Hundreds of tips from the team of experts. Includes a 30 minute sailing cruise packed with practical tips.
Topics covered include rules of the road, docking, electrolysis and current flow, emergencies, lightning protection, plumbing, radar even fishing.

Over 3 hours film

WAS £19.00 NOW £9.99

Lin and Larry Pardey

Shot in the Pittwater (north of Sydney) and at Freemantle as well as at their home in New Zealand, this DVD incorporates the best ideas from their highly praised videos 'Cruising with Lin and Larry Pardy' and 'Care and Feeding of Sailing Crew'. Re-edited, re-mastered and supplemented with new information. They share ideas and hints to make your boat safer, easier to handle and more enjoyable to use.

US DVD

Lin and Larry Pardy

So you feel confident with cruising local waters - before crossing oceans, join Lin and Larry on board Taleisin as they show you how to prepare for offshore voyaging. Then join them on a classic trade wind passage across the Indian Ocean.
This DVD incorporates the best ideas from their videos 'Voyaging, Hints for Upgrading Your Cruising Boat' and 'Cruising Coral Seas'.Re-edited, re-mastered and supplemented with more material.

US DVD

Garmin eTrex and eTrex Summit

This step by step DVD takes you from an introduction to GPS right through all the features of your Garmin eTrex and eTrex summit, including advanced features and functions.

We can supply a very wide range of GPS instruction DVDs that are specific to the GPS model that you may have. Maunfacturers covered include Apelco, Eagle, Furuno, Garmin, Lowrance, Magellan and Northstar.

These DVDs take you right through from a basic introduction to GPS, right through the features of the model including advanced features. Please order here and email 'sales@sailingbooks.co.uk' to specify the maunfacturer and model required. Please allow 10 days for delivery.

We are able to supply instruction DVDs for a wide range of Radars. Manufacturers covered include Furuno, Koden, Raymarine and SI-Tex. All features and functions from basic to advanced are covered. Please order here and email 'sales@sailingbooks.co.uk' the specific model and manufacturer required. Please allow 10 days for delivery.

We can supply instruction DVDs for a wide range of Plotters from Furuno, Garmin, Lowrance, SI-Tex, and Standard Horizon. All features and functions are covered from basic to advanced. Please order here and confirm the specific model and manufacturer required. Please allow 10 days for delivery.

We are able to supply a wide range of instruction DVDs for Fishfinders. Manufacturers covered include Apelco, Furuno, Garmin, Hummingbird, Interphase, Lowrance, Raymarine, SI-Tex, Simrad and Cobra. All features from the basic to advanced are covered. Please order here and email 'sales@sailingbooks.co.uk' confirm the model and manufacturer required.

Contents include: Triage (What to do first) - Airway / Breathing / Circulation checks - Resuscitation - Shock - Hypothermia (Cold) - Hyperthermia (Hot) - Bleeding - Broken Bones - Burns (Including Chemical) - Head & Face injuries - Serious Illness - Seeking Help - First Aid Kit contents.

Produced using a combination of live action and stunning electronic graphics the viewer is guided effortlessly through all the procedures.

Taking the test for the International Certificate of Competence - Motorboat.
This film follows an actual test, the practical exercises, discussion with the examiner and questions/answers.
Made with the Plymouth Sailing and Power School

Taking the test for the International Certificate of Competence - Sail

Made with the Plymouth Sailing School

The film follows an actual test and gives the viewer a chance to see exactly what the test involves. It follows the practical exercises, the discussion with the examiner and the questions and answer section to allow you to see whether you could pass the test.

Navigation Made Simple by John Goode

Putting the theory of navigation into practice. John shows how his famous 'fast and simple' piloting techniques can be as dependable as GPS to guide you through inshore tidal waters safely. After a detailed explanation of his logical concepts, John shows how they can be applied in unfamiliar tidal waters to keep a plot that will guide you past busy shipping channels and unmarked shallows.

Other DVDS in the series - Practical Pilotage and Crossing the Channel

Amberley Marine

Learn to predict the weather - energy transfer, gas law, sea breezes, fronts, depressions, convergence/divergence, global winds etc. Excellent self-tuition tool.

By T. Cunliffe

Aboard his own boat, Tom Cunliffe demonstrates all the everyday knots and some rare ones too. Expert rigger Peter Martin unravels the mysteries of splicing. State of the art and traditional knots, bowlines, sheet bends, stopper knots, turns and hitches, coiling and stowing. Using light lines and heafty ropes, securing to posts and winch barrels, use of jammers, docklines.

95 minutes

by The Academy of Maritime Training

This DVD examines some 30 different types of knots, bends and splices, and covers braided as well as three-strand rope, plus splicing to wire and splicing to chain.

Clear explanations and step-by-step footage make mastering each knot, bend or splice easy, while examples of common applications aboard your boat will show both novices and the experienced alike how to get the most out of their new-found skills.

Made in association with the RNLI's Sea Safety Initiative, in an attempt to reduce the 1500 odd lifeboat launches annually in aid of yachts suffering mechanical problems. Contents include first principles, basic checks and maintenance, controls, lubrication, fuel and cooling systems, air, exhausts, electrics, turbos, gearboxes, couplings and spare parts.
42 minutes.

by Amberley Marine

This DVD covers all the basics you will need to be a competent crew member, or to skipper a motorboat on short passages in daylight and in decent weather.
Based on the RYA practical syllabus.

60 minutes running time, PAL colour format.

An excellent film intended to help your outboard live up to expectations by helping you to understand how it works and how to look after it.

Covers: The Basic Engine - The Two-stroke cycle - The Four-stroke cycle - Valves - The Fuel System - The Ignition System - Kill and Stop switches - The Cooling System - Lubrication - Starters & Electrics - Transmission - Undrowning.

45 minutes

Practical Boat Owner DVD
Improve your Practical Cruising Skills
This DVD includes tips and techniques that are not commonly taught at sailing schools. Topics include - Get the best from your headsail, The Jester Story (about the boat that did so much for short-handed sailing), Safety Checks, Simple solutions with springs to get in and out of a berth, How to set up your rig, how to lift and shift weights with minimal physical effort.

Navigation Made Simple - John Goode's Masterclass

Essential viewing for those taking the RYA Coastal Skipper, YAchtmaster or Instructor exams.
The skill of skippering a boat in confined waters. Skippering a family yacht in the busy waters of the Solent, see how to cope with everything from entering large commercial ports and small harbours to clearing submerged obstructions and creeping up narrow tidal creeks - by day or night.

Other DVDS in the series - Inshore Navigation, Crossing the Channel

An Easy Guide to Electronic Chartwork

This DVD shows you how to get the best out of your chart plotting software in a user-friendly way. No off-putting techno speak; just experienced yachtsmen demonstrating how your laptop can become a simple but powerful tool to help you navigate in a professional way.

This DVD shows you how to get the most out of your chart plotting software in a user friendly way without off putting techno speak. This DVD blends traditional approaches with modern technology.

40 minutes

RYA approved instructors demonstrate best practice. Expert demonstrations and computer graphics are employed to accelerate the learning curve.
Planning, Weather and Pilotage
Knots Chartwork
Anchors and Non-MArina Moorings

Sailing with Confidence
Close-Quarters Handling

Part of a series of Practical Yachtsman DVDs.

Understanding the Dynamics - how to manage the forces affecting the boat and use of the rudder, warps, wind and tide.
Preparation and Teamwork
Essential Techniques - Leaving, close quarters manoeuvres,
Finishing Touches

51 minutes

Academy of Maritime Training

This DVD follows a couple about to set sail in the spectacular Whitsunday Islands, as they navigate their way past the common pitfalls often encountered by those chartering on their own for the very first time.

Shot in High Definition video in both PAL and NTSC formats, this DVD explores topics such anchoring, navigation, boat handling, mooring, radio procedures, heavy weather, reefing sails, boat systems and more, imparting essential information to first timers before they take to the helm.

Tucker Thompson

Great crew work is essential for successful racing - learn the tricks of the trade, this DVD provides a detailed look at each crew position on a modern race boat - bow, mast, pit, jib, trimmer, spinnaker trimmer, mainsail trimmer. Created by racing coach Tucker Thompson.

North U Race & Win Series

Amberley Marine

Topics covered by this DVD include:

First principles, switching on, improving the picture, interpreting the picture, navigating, pilotage, collision avoidance and Arpa.

Running Time: 48 minutes approx.

Amberley Marine

- What rope and when to use it.
- Which knot and how to tie it.
- The mysteries of splicing explained.

This DVD shows how to handle ropes and prolong their useful life on board a boat. Practical tips and techniques are demonstrated by professional riggers.

Running time: 55 minutes approximately.

by Jon Mendez

This DVD takes the viewer through the preparations required to take a RIB or sportsboat out to sea and comprehensively teaches skills such as turning, speeding up and holding station. It also offers guidance on scenarios such as coping with rougher weather and man overboard procedures in a clear and authoritative manner.

The author, Jon Mendez, is a former RYA Chief Powerboat Instructor and now runs his own power school.

by Jon Mendez

An essential aid for anyone new to powerboating, taking a powerboating course or perfecting their boat handling skills.

Step by step on the water instruction - make a plan, the effect of windage, stream, turning, mooring and driving at high speed.

Instructional DVD for US waters

This program covers the US Coast Guard Navigation Rules and regulations, including requirements for navigational lights and day shapes, maneuvering and warning signals, towing and pushing, sounds, distress signals. Step by step lessons on the Rules of the Road.
Aids to Navigation - Jurisdication, Types of aid,s, Types of lights, Fog singnals, Range markers, Light Towers, Types of Buoys, Daybeacons.

This film takes you offshore for on-board instruction in near gale conditions off the rugged North California coast. Covers steering, sail trim, roller reefing, personal protection, storm tactics.

Presented by Peter Bateman, this film helps you to trim sails more effectively and make the boat go faster. Combines graphics with on-board photography.
Covers Genoas, Mainsails and Spinnakers how to view the shape, adjust the shape, trimm to balance the helm, how to make the boat accelerate, get the best boatspeed and pointing ability to windward, how to maximise the spinnaker set for downwind speed and how to control it in heavy weather.
34 mins

T. Widden
America's Cup sailor Tom Widden provides on-the-water instruction on trimming, launching, gybing, dousing and packing. This program demonstrates spinnaker handling for both cruising and racing chutes and provides pointers to crew positions when handling spinnakers and the effect of changing the height and angle of the spinnaker pole. As president of North Sails, he is also a mine of information on sails and rigging.
60 min.

By Lin & Larry Pardey

The DVD version of their book 'Storm Tactics Handbook'. The Pardeys have very well known and slightly controversial views about handling yachts in severe weather, and have several hundred thousand miles under their keels to back up their theory.

Super Seven Tuition pack is a set of DVDs which aim to provide all the knowledge that you need to navigate a boat safely. The DVD footage is 16 hours and is backed up by a set of tuition guidance sheets, a test questionnaire and a Reed's Skippers Pocket Handbook.

This course is produced by Captain Williams, the producer of the Telepilot DVD series of UK pilots.

Amberley Marine

This DVD makes clear all those previously mysterious matters of the electronic chart table, and of course is right up to date. It will help you to get the best from your GPS equipment.

Amberley Marine

Based on the RYA Book of Navigation, includes over 100 practice exercises.
Worldwide Grid, Marine Maps, Direction, Distance, Depth, Dead Reckoning, Tides, Tide Tables, Difference Tables, Tidal Streams, estimating Position, Finding course to steer, Finding position - GPS, Introduction to Waypoint navigation, Traditional methods, Lights, Buoys, Pilotage.

Interactive guide to using nautical charts contains official USCG training footage. How to read, use and interpret charts with segments on aid to navigation, useful knots, capsizing and visual distress signals.
USA made DVD
120 mins.

This is a must for anyone contemplating taking the International Certificate of Competence or any other examination for authority to operate a VHF radio. Includes basic theory, radio procedure, emergency procedure, phonetic alphabet, setting up the radio. It also covers other forms of radio communication such as Inmarsat and SSB. A practical and straightforward guide, for amateurs and professionals alike.

Approx. 48 minutes.