Product Description

Yachtmaster for Sail and Power is a major reference book which will prove invaluable for anyone following the RYA Coastal Skipper/Yachtmaster Offshore course. Right up to date with new developments, it includes all the elements of the revised Yachtmaster course: * Chartwork - including useful worked examples * Electronic navigation - how to use the latest technology for safe navigation: radar, electronic chart plotting and GPS * Pilotage - buoyage fully explained and illustrated * Communications - information on current maritime communications including GMDSS * Weather - the elements of meteorology, weather sources and forecasts * Safety and survival - all the new SOLAS regulations detailed * Stability and buoyancy - the principles simply explained. With its refreshingly practical approach, no one enrolling for the RYA Yachtmaster course whether for sail or power can afford to be without this lively, helpful study guide to compliment the course and assist with exam preparation.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #86941 in Books
• Published on: 2004-11-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 288 pages

About the Author
Alison Noice is a Yachtmaster Instructor and Examiner and an Examiner of Yachtmaster Instructors. She now trains and examines Radio Instructors, runs short courses in radar, VHF radio and first aid, teaches Day Skipper and Yachtmaster theory courses and examines Yachtmaster Offshore candidates. Amazingly she still finds time to sail for pleasure in her much-loved Sigma 33.

Customer Reviews

Excellent Source of Yachtmaster Info
This is by far the best source of easily digestible information covering the entire yachtmaster syllabus. Together with the Yachtmaster Exercise book, this is essential preparatory reading and exercises for those wishing to take the yachtmaster exam. I used these books as a refresher and they were able to blow away the cobwebs and prepare me fully for the vagaries of secondary ports and tidal streams etc. Highly recommended.

The Best Yachtmaster Book
I have a number of Yachtmaster books and even a course on CD, but Alison Noice's book is by far the best source of information, clearly written, well illustrated and with a few exercises just to make you think.

If you need the knowledge to complete your RYA Yachtmaster or just a sailor who wants to learn more, this is the book to buy. My copy is always by the chart table, just in case.

Note: The front cover picture is incorrect, should be a red cover