Product Description

This quick reference guide contains all the navigational information and practical seamanship needed by skippers or crew. The accessible and concise presentation makes it ideal for instant reference at sea, and its splashproof pages and spiral binding enable it to stand up to the demanding marine environment. Invaluable for experienced sailors as an aide-memoire, as well as for beginners and RYA students, it covers a wide range of topics such as seamarks, buoyage, pilotage, lights, boat handling, anchoring and mooring, ropes & knots, heavy weather sailing, man overboard, grounding, fire aboard, distress signals and VHF radio. 'A brilliant aide-memoire or instant revision for exams' Kelvin Hughes 'An ideal companion above or below decks' Practical Boat Owner 'A handy reference...one of the most comprehensive guides that I have seen' Lifeboat 'A lot of good information...a useful aid to have on board' Gaffers Log

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #24041 in Books
• Published on: 2007-08-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 24 pages

About the Author
Bo Streiffert is a Swedish yachtsman with 50 years varied sailing experience including time spent in the Royal Swedish Navy as a navigation officer on torpedo boats. It was while he was an instructor on training ships, when still in his 20s, that he came up with the idea of the Skipper's Cockpit Guide and produced the first outline in a booklet which he used to teach the young people on his courses.

Customer Reviews

Excellent
What can I say? Well I can say that almost everything you will need for basic navigation is contained in this little book.

This is the type of book that you will have on board and will probably be flicking thru eventhough you know everything that is in it. Somehow it condenses all the essentials you need to know and exactly those that you need to revise for your boating/yachting journeys.

Excellent illustrated checklist/summary
This is the ideal cockpit guide, it's concise and excellently illustrated in colour. It covers almost all of things a skipper might want to review before setting out, and in just 24 spiral-bound, laminated pages. Thoroughly recommended.

Skippers cockpit guide
Very compact,well illustrated, contains a lot of information on 'memory intensive' data,eg. signals, ship recognition by lights. Should provide a handy reference in respect of this.
Some other subjects covered provide basic learning material for non competant crew and may provide valuable revision for a experienced skipper.