by Malcolm McKeag

This book gives advice to first time buyers of sailing cruisers, and indeed to second, third or the many-time buyer too. Advice is given on recommended pro-formas for a Bill of Sale between two private individuals, to the latest regulations and practice on registration, customs and tax documentation, and the ever-increasing European bureaucracy.

128pp 40 colour photographs (paperback. 2nd edition

by Robert Avis
2nd Ed.

Whether you are buying a boat for the first time or thinking of changing your present craft, this book will help you through the process - not only the decision-making, but also the bureaucracy that increasingly affects today's boat owner, from the Boat Safety Scheme to the Recreational Craft Directive.

104pp, full colour throughout, Pb.

RRP £12.99 OUR PRICE 310.45

By Joe Glanfield

This RYA book explodes the myth that the crew are not as important as the helm; it confirms that the team is a vital ingredient to any crewed boat. If you want to sail faster, smarter and win races, this book will take you there. How to choose a winning team, set goals, event preparation, technique, and more. 'Things don't come to those who wait'

Pb.108p numerous colour photos.

By J. Evans
2007

The RYA Catamaran Handbook guides you through all you need to know from choosing a catamaran, why to sail a cat, rigging, trailing, points of sailing, trapezing, maintenance and an introduction into the world of catamaran racing.

Pb. 136pp 265x195mm colour photos throughout.

CURRENTLY OUT OF STOCK

RYA Desk diary, A5 size, in a stylish tan leather cover.
Special 2012 Olympic edition.

Includes useful dates and contacts, 2012 tide tables and interesting maritime information. Week-to-view appointment diary, handy A5 size.

Tan cover with gold leaf edging.

A5 size, hardback.

Special RYA 2012 Olympic edition.

Compact and packed full of useful information, tide tables, and world maps, as well as ample space for you to record your own activities.

Tan cover with gold leaf edging.

175mm x 90mm, hardback.

By C. Slade
2nd Ed.
2008

All vital aspects of seamanship are included, from estimated positions and tide tables to meteorology and maydays. Through full colour illustrations, this book follows the RYA Yachtmaster syllabus and includes recent developments in electronic chart plotting and GPS.

Questions range from the beginner to advanced.

Two training charts included.

Pb. 126pp 297x210mm Colour photos, illus. 2 training charts

by Tim Bartlett

Whether you are studying navigation as part of an RYA course or just want to know more about the art of navigation, this book is highly recommended.

This is the new official reference book for the RYA Cruising Scheme, suitable for both Day Skipper and Yachtmaster students. Using full colour illustrations throughout, it follows the newly-revised syllabus including recent developments in electronic chart plotting and GPS.

Paperback, 172pp

By Paul Glatzel
2nd Ed.
2009

Essential for everybody new to powerboating, this title includes types of boat; safety and planning, incorporating boat equipment and skippers responsibilities; launch recovery; boat handling; towing on the water, and collision regulations.

A relaxed, easy to follow text, combined with lots of colour photographs and diagrams.

Pb. 140pp 245x170mm

Techniques for those instructing in powerboats. Includes the advanced course.

Updated in 2008, this edition contains all up-to-date information required before embarking on the Powerboat Instructor course.

Paperback, 170pp, CD included

Easy to follow text and beautifully detailed colour illustrations enable the reader to develop the knowledge and confidence required by all diesel engine boat owners.

The official course book for the RYA One-day Diesel Engine Course, it is also an invaluable reference book. Includes CD-ROM Suck, Squeeze, Bang, Blow. Nick Ealey of Sea Start gives expert instruction as he takes you step by step through maintenance, fault finding and top tips.
Paperback, 96pp

by Tim Bartlett

This guide explains how to use short range radios to contact coastguards and other boats. It constitutes essential background reading for a VHF course.

Paperback, colour illustrations, 90pp, 2006.

This is a new edition of the popular RYA Weather Handbook for the southern hemisphere

In this title, expert sailor Chris Tibbs reveals the complexities of the weather. The book is packed with valuable advice on how to understand weather maps, modify them for local conditions and improve their accuracy.

RYA Weather Handbook is essential reading for anyone taking an RYA course, particularly within the RYA Dayskipper and Yachtmaster syllabi, or those just wishing to have a deeper knowledge of the weather and feel safer at sea.

Paperback, 116 pages.

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 M. Rushall

Mark Rushall is one of the sport's top tacticians and coaches. Easy to follow diagrams and colour photos help you through each section. 'it breaks down the race to tell you exactly what to think about, how and when to do it, and most importantly, why you should be doing it!'

by Alan Williams
2008
The complete guide to Optimist sailing. Part of the RYA racing series and a brilliant book to get youngsters interested and involved in sailing and racing. The Optimist is one of the best-known children’s classes. Chapters include choosing and setting up the boat and rig; basic and advanced sailing; mark rounding, and clothing. Lots of highly informative top tips also from well known sailors and coaches.The author has worked as an Optimist coach at both national and international level.

Pb., 270pp.

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 A. Simpson

This title presents all the essential information you need to operate a small boat at sea. Easy to follow text combined with precise illustrations will leave you feeling confident in your boating skills, allowing you time to catch bigger and better fish!

What type of boat?
Inboard/outboard engines.
Planing and safety.
Boat handling.
Navigation.
Wind and waves.
Emergencies.
Running repairs.

Pb.

Following on from RYA Intermediate Windsurfing, this book is the ideal companion for those who are about to progress to the next level in the increasingly popular sport of windsurfing.

Carve gybes, water starts and advanced planing techniques broken down and simplified by the RYA’s Fastfwd coaching formula.

Through full colour illustrations and clear descriptions, RYA Advanced Windsurfing covers all the information required by the more experienced windsurfer hoping to improve their technique.

Paperback, 124pp

by Paul Goodison

The most up-to-date book on this very popular class. Lots of colour photographs and illustrations make the book a must for anyone interested in Lasers.

Detailed chapters on manoeuvring, upwind and downwind technique, care and maintenance, body weight and nutrition and sailing theory.

Paperback

By C. Myatt

This book is full of puzzles, quizzes, activities and games to play when on passage or in harbour. It will test your cruising knowledge, teach you some new things and avoid boredom. It aims to make cruising more fun.

Children aged 7 - 12 years

Designed for the cruising sailor. Sections include the usual logging pages, as well as IALA buoyage information; international code flags; plotting essentials and common abbreviations for nautical terms. These logging pages also include space to enter the weather forecast at the time of voyage.

Hardback, leather-effect cover.

Included in the RYA logbook series, this RYA Power Logbook is ideal for the cruising boater. Sections include the usual logging pages, as well as IALA buoyage; international code flags; plotting essentials (which incorporates dead reckoning and estimated position); and common abbreviations for nautical terms. Unique to the RYA, these logging pages also include space to enter the weather forecast at the time of voyage.

HB 128pp

Contains all the really useful knots that any boater needs to know. This book is compact enough to fit in your pocket and because of its design stays open, allowing you to use both hands to practise tying your knots.

Paperback, spiral bound, 18pp, 105mm x 150mm.

By Graham Moody

Whether it’s personal watercraft, motor or sail boats, racing or cruising, the RYA Boat Buyers’ Handbook is written to assist either first time buyers or experienced traders buy their ideal boat regardless of whether it is new or secondhand.

This book consists of 72 pages filled with wonderful diagrams and photographs which really brings the book to life and takes any reader step by step all the way through the complex process of buying your own boat.
Chapters include:
- objectives of ownership
- boat types
- building materials
- equipment
- finding and inspecting and
- the final inspection and making an offer

Pb. 72p

By G. Perry and S. Judkins
2008
The first section deals with rope construction and maintenance, moving on to the basic knots which are essential to all boating activities. The authors then delve into blocks and tackles, lashings and bindings, splicing, and finally they move on to the more advanced, decorative knots.

Pb. 230pp

By J. Evans
2009

This title provides key advice for people wanting to get into this industry, whether they are looking for a gap year past time or hoping to start a new career. Chapters include what the work is like; what the responsibilities are; how to get a job, and personal experiences & case histories.

Hb. spiral bound. 200pp 210x250mm colour photos throughout

By J. Evans
2009

Essential for anyone beginning, or wanting to further their racing experience.

Packed with the most up to date racing scenarios, information and tips, this book is a real gem for all budding racing sailors.

Pb. 196pp colour photos and diag. throughout

By A. Simpson
2009

The ideal reference point for all boaters and their boat electrics.
Chapters include the basic theory of electricity; different types of batteries; engine start systems; circuit protection & monitoring, and engine charging & primary circuits.

Pb.96pp colour photos and diag.

By Peter Chennell
2011
RYA Passage Planning will take you through all you need to know and show some examples of different passages. This will show you what you should think about on the range of different journeys you may undertake. The essential facts and methods are split into three sections:

Getting down to basics
The essential first steps
Putting it into practice

Pb. 210x170mm 72pp

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 D. McClary
2009
The cruising sailor's practical guide and the perfect companion for anyone who uses a boat to go fishing.

Author Dick McClary offers valuable advice from tackle, rods and reels; fishing techniques, and selecting the right lures and knots.

Packed with full colour illustrations and photographs throughout to complement highly informative text.

Pb.114pp colour photos and diag.

This personal logbook is perfect for all boaters who voyage on a number of boats. Within it, there is space to record the distance of journeys, the maximum wind strength and the capacity in which the voyage was sailed.

Also included are ‘season summaries’ to allow at-a-glance mileage recording and vessel names.

Ideal for the progressing boater, and unique to the RYA, this logbook includes some information and pre-exam requirements for RYA Coastal Skipper, Yachtmaster® Offshore and Ocean certificates of competence.

Hardback, 128pp

by Patrick Jolly

Focusing on the two main race courses in the Solent, this publication clearly shows, through text and chart illustrations, wind and tide direction for each wind segment on each race course. Separated into three sections - the first two covering each race course and the third for the glossary, where clear explanations to the jargon used throughout this title can be found.

Spiral Bound, Waterproof Paper, 40pp.

By Claudia Myatt

RYA Go Green! is a well illustrated, easy to read book aimed at promoting environmental awareness to youngsters while taking them on a thoroughly enjoyable adventure on all the UK’s waterways and shorelines.

This book also highlights the problems some of our wildlife experiences due to polluted waterways and beaches.

7 - 12 year ages

Pb. 104pp 297x210mm Colour diagrams throughout

by Simon Jinks

The RYA's complete guide to motor cruising. Whichever boat you choose and for whatever purpose; fishing, cruising the coast, inland waterways and rivers, the basic operation works on the principles set down in this book. The book is designed to both complement RYA motor cruising courses, and to be an invaluable reference book for all motor boat skippers and crew.

Well written and superbly illustrated with in-depth information and advice.

124pp, paperback, 2004

By Tim Bartlett

Guides the reader through the basic steps of navigation so that they can learn to navigate successfully. It is therefore an absolute must for everybody, whether studying for the RYA Basic Navigation Course, or merely looking to refresh their knowledge.

Chapters include the purpose of navigation; measuring direction and distance; tides and buoys; pilotage and passage planning.

Paperback, 80pp, 2010.

by Trevor Lewis

The Racing Rules Explained is the complete guide to understanding the Racing Rules of sailing.

Written by Trevor Lewis, the RYA Racing Rules Committee Chairman and an acknowledged rules expert.

Paperback, 230pp, 262mm x 197mm. Published 2010.

By T. Bartlett
2009

This book covers the basics of astro navigation, right up to how to use the more complex formulas involved in the art. It is an ideal progression from any basic navigation book.

Pb. 245x175mm Colour photos and illus.

It is a requirement in most European countries that boaters hold the International Certificate of Competence (ICC) when using both the coastal and inland waterways.

The International Certificate of Competence Handbook explains the ICC in great detail– what it is, why it came about, who it applies to, and the requirements for all boaters to obtain one.
The International Regulations to Prevent Collisions at Sea are briefly touched on, and the content of the ICC test is explained in great detail.

Paperback, 80pp, colour diagrams.

This title is an ideal reference guide for all coaches of Optimist sailors. Durable and relatively easy to handle, the Optimist is the perfect introduction for any child new to the sport of sailing, and there is a huge international fleet providing high level competition.

Author Alan Williams provides expert advice for all Optimist coaches, making this title a ‘must’ for the bookshelves in every sailing club.

Paperback.

By D. McClary
2011

Offshore Sailing is exciting and brings adventure, discovery and freedom to those who undertake a long-distanced journey.

Covers the fundamental characteristics of what does and what doesn’t make a good offshore cruising yacht. Practical information on safety, equipment, boat design and sails both for monohulls and multihulled boats. There is also excellent advice on how a skipper can make the journey as comfortable as possible. Chapters include: Crew Comfort, Water Supply & Conservation, Preparing for the Tropics, Self-Steering, The Energy Equation

Pb. 176pp 240x170mm

By Andrew Simpson
2010

Covers the complexities of multihull boating. The book includes valuable information on stability, rigs and sails, construction, engines, mooring and anchoring, spinnakers, handling and, crucially, coping with heavy weather, capsize and emergency situations.

The author of the book, Andrew Simpson, a highly respected yachting journalist with a wide experience of multihull boating.

Pb. 100pp 175x235mm colour photos and diagrams throughout

By Jeremy Evans
2011
Featuring seven experts sailing six popular modern single-handed and twin-crewed dinghies and is for sailors who want to increase their knowledge, understanding, and sailing expertise.

top tips, secrets and advice every dinghy sailor craves, so join the experts on the water and learn…

Preparing your Boat, Self and Crew ; Reading the Wind
Sheeting, Tweaking & Trimming
Points of Sailing and Maximum Speed ; Spinnaker Sailing
Helm Crew Communications
Turning Negatives into Positives
Understanding the Inner Game .

Pb. 245x170mm Colour photos throughout.

By Jeremy Evans
2011

RYA Yacht Sailing Techniques is the comprehensive and essential text to ensure all yacht sailors enjoy their time cruising. It describes and illustrates, in full colour, the skills that are required to manage a yacht under sail or power in favourable conditions.

Pb. 208pp 245x170mm

By Jon Mendez

The 'RYA Day Skipper Handbook Motor' is the companion to the RYA Motor Cruising Day Skipper Course. It covers the elements of the course in simple illustrated steps. It is ideal as the practical guide to aid students on the course, or just as a stand-alone book to guide you through the practical elements of motor boating.

Chapters include: Pilotage, Navigation, Boat work, Boat handling, Marinas, Cruising at speed, Anchoring.

Pb. 91pp Colour diagrams throughout 170x250mm

By A. Newman

RYA Inland Waterways Handbook accompanies the RYA Inland Waterways Helmsman’s Course and chapters include types of boat; rope handling; rules of the road; steerable power; turning; reversing, and propeller and wind effect.

Pb.

by Chris Tibbs

Northern Hemisphere edition

This publication is written by world class sailor and renown sailing meteorologist, Chris Tibbs. With full colour graphics by Sarah Selman, the RYA's Weather Handbook will guide you through the intricacies of weather, explaining how to interpret area weather forecasts, modifying them for local conditions, and by adding observations, improving on their accuracy.

The 'Weather Handbook' is also the new official RYA reference book to accompany the revised Yachtmaster syllabus.

Paperback, 100pp.

2010
The RYA Windsurfing Instructor Manual provides information for anyone attending an instructor course.

Contained within it is guidance on the role of an instructor, top tips on communication skills and teaching techniques and information on centre management and the actual windsurf instructors assessment. It also includes pages to log qualifications and teaching experience gained.

It therefore contains everything that a potential Windsurf instructor would need to know about the qualification.

Paperback, 160pp, 2nd ed. 2010.

By Trevor Lewis

Powerpoint presentation on DVD

This DVD takes an in-depth look at the current Racing Rules and provides scenarios through diagrams to aid Rule interpretation. Ideal for teaching or learning the Racing Rules of sailing.

By P. Johnson
2002

This book brings together all the past and present sailing and boating records, recounts the adventures, the mishaps, dramas and successes.
What constitutes a record?, Ocean records from clipper ships to Ellen MacArthur, Fastest 50m run, 50 knot barrier, sailing firsts, inshore speed records from kite boats, planers and foilers to powerboats.

Pb. 138pp b/w photos. 245x150mm