- Macmillan Reeds Nautical Almanac 2004
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This is an annual compendium of navigational data for UK yachtsmen. This edition continues the Almanac's tradition of year-on-year improvement, expansion and presentation of all the data required for safe navigation. The coverage includes the entire European Atlantic area - the UK, Ireland and the European coastline from the tip of Denmark right down to Gibraltar and has four-colour port plans and illustrations throughout. The Royal Yachting Association use it as source information for training publications and courses, while the RNLI carry it as a standard publication aboard all-weather lifeboats. The Almanac provides the yachtsman with all the data required to navigate Atlantic waters. Divided into 25 areas it provides heavily illustrated and detailed harbour, marina, coastal and tidal information. With data gathered from many different sources, including its own network of over 200 local agents, the Almanac is rigorously checked and updated very year to ensure it is both safe and fully informative.
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Details - RYA: Navigation Handbook
A book to ensure that all sailors feel safe and confident at sea. Teaches how to know what is likely to happen weather-wise over the next few hours and days ahead.
Essential for anyone taking a RYA course or those who just want to understand the weather a little better. This book is full of practical and useful advice on how to understand weather maps, modify them for local conditions and by adding your own observations, improve on their accuracy.
Written by a sailor for sailors, the RYA Weather Handbook explains the complexities of the weather using full colour diagrams and illustrations throughout.
Written to complement the RYA Dayskipper and Coastal Skipper/Yachtmaster syllabi, this book is highly recommended for anyone taking one of these courses.
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Details - RYA: Weather Handbook
A book to ensure that all sailors feel safe and confident at sea. Teaches how to know what is likely to happen weather-wise over the next few hours and days ahead.
Essential for anyone taking an RYA course or those who just want to understand the weather a little better. This book is full of practical and useful advice on how to understand weather maps, modify them for local conditions and by adding your own observations, improve on their accuracy.
Written by a sailor for sailors, the RYA Weather Handbook explains the complexities of the weather using full colour diagrams and illustrations throughout.
Written to complement the RYA Dayskipper and Coastal Skipper/Yachtmaster syllabi, this book is highly recommended for anyone taking one of these courses.
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Details - Taking on the World by Ellen MacArthur
In February 2001 24-year-old Ellen MacArthur completed the Vendee Globe, the world's toughest race. As the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe singlehanded and as the fastest woman to ever have done so, her achievement was remarkable. But how had a young woman from landlocked Derbyshire come to find a new home among the waves? In "Taking on the World" Ellen tells her story, from saving pennies to buy her first boat through sailing round Britain as a teenager, to sailing the Vendee Globe itself. Enthralling and inspiring in equal measure, it shows how courage, passion and determination can overcome all obstacles - and how one young woman made her dreams come true.
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Details - The RYA Book of Buying Your First Sailing Cruiser
The moment you buy your first sailing cruiser is one that will always be special. This book sets out to ensure the experience is a happy one. And for the second, third or many-time buyer too, there is much advice and practical help here too, from recommended pro-formas for a Bill of Sale between two private individuals, to the latest regulations and practice on registration, customs and tax documentation. This second edition updated with new photographs, now in colour, and with up-to-date advice, should prove invaluable for anyone pursuing their dream of buying a sailing cruiser.
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