Boater's Pocket Reference: Your Comprehensive Resource for Boats and Boating800 pages, 435 illustrations, 94 photographs, index. Handy, fact-filled new boating guide offers, how-to-do-it information and reference facts, figures, formulas, graphs, and tables about boating in a book small enough (about 3 x 5 x 1) to fit in your pocket. This book is for everyone who wants to enjoy being a better, safer, and more responsible boater. If you are new to boating this book is filled with information you need to know. If you are an experienced boater this book can act as a great reference and memory jogger. |
Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS | 11 |
Boat Types Design and Construction | 17 |
Hull Shapes | 25 |
Recreational Boats | 55 |
Chapter 2 | 73 |
Rules for Boat Operation | 80 |
Chapter 3 | 92 |
Environmental Regulations | 100 |
Severe Weather | 410 |
Wind and Waves | 419 |
Chapter 8 | 424 |
Weather Tables and Charts | 428 |
Mechanical | 443 |
Engines | 448 |
Engine Maintenance and Troubleshooting 474 Propellers | 480 |
Sample Logs And Checklists | 486 |
Navigation Rules ColRegs | 115 |
Conduct of Vessels in Sight of One Another | 123 |
Lights and Shapes | 130 |
sels Under Oars Rule 25 | 136 |
Chapter 4 | 149 |
Sailing | 174 |
Anchors and Anchoring | 186 |
Boat Operating and Seamanship | 198 |
Special Situations | 211 |
Checklists | 217 |
Piloting and Navigation | 227 |
The Compass | 242 |
Electronic Navigation Equipment | 255 |
Aids to Navigation | 296 |
Tides and Tidal Currents | 335 |
Navigation Tables | 343 |
Ropes Lines and Knots | 371 |
Reference Tables for Rope | 400 |
Chapter 7 | 405 |
Electrical | 499 |
Electrical Cabling | 514 |
Electrical Systems | 534 |
AC Systems | 549 |
Bonding and Corrosion | 561 |
Chapter 10 | 573 |
Types of Marine Communications Equipment 573 TwoWay Broadcast Communications | 574 |
PointtoPoint Communications | 588 |
Boat Trailering | 605 |
Trailer Operation | 616 |
Chapter 12 | 626 |
Conversion Tables | 655 |
Chapter 13 | 672 |
Boating Organizations and Publications | 679 |
Phone Numbers | 688 |
Glossary | 707 |
Chapter 15 | 708 |
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Common terms and phrases
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