COMPLETE YACHTMASTER

Edition: 2021

Publisher: Bloomsbury

Imprint: Adlard Coles

Language: English

Format: Hardback

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

The Complete Yachtmaster has been a bestseller since first publication and has established itself as the standard reference for Yachtmaster students as well as skippers of all levels of experience.

In this fully revised and up-to-date 10th edition, Tom Cunliffe brings together all the essentials of modern cruising in one volume. He presents an analysis of a good skipper, the theory and practice of sailing and sail trim, the art of seamanship, accurate navigation including chart plotters and PCs, understanding meteorology, heavy weather preparation, understanding yacht stability and coping with emergencies.

The Complete Yachtmaster builds knowledge as it builds sailing confidence, guiding examination candidates as authoritatively and reassuringly through the RYA syllabus as a sea pilot bringing a ship safely to harbour. Required reading for all skippers and budding skippers, both on board or in the classroom.

'A gem, distilled from decades of experience' Yachting Monthly

'Cunliffe's competence and authority radiate from the pages... thoroughly recommended' Little Ship Club

'There are all too few authors who not only know their subject but can write well about it. Tom Cunliffe is one' Cruising

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Introduction
2. The skipper
3. The theory of sailing
4. Efficient sailing
5. Basic seamanship under sail
6. Boat handling under sail
7. Boat handling under power
8. Ropes and ropework
9. Anchoring
10. Yacht engines
11. Sailing in heavy weather
12. Navigation – an introduction
13. Charts, publications and chart table tools
14. Aids to navigation
15. Tidal heights
16. Tidal streams
17. Traditional navigational inputs
18. The estimated position
19. Classical position fixing
20. Satellites and radar
21. Course shaping
22. Navigational strategy
23. Passage planning
24. Pilotage
25. Passage navigation
26. Domestics of a passage
27. Fog
28. Collision avoidance in poor visibility
29. Tactics and navigation in heavy weather
30. Damage control
31. Emergencies
32. Man overboard
33. Weather

Appendix: stability in sailing yachts
Index