Staying Put!: The Art of Anchoring - Brossura

Fagan, Brian M.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0963463527 ISBN 13: 9780963463524

Casa editrice: Motorbooks Intl, 2001

Riassunto

Anchoring is a key skill for yachtsmen and motor boaters. Indeed, anchoring may be the only way to prevent a boat being blown onto the rocks. No wonder so many pubs are called “Hope and Anchor”!

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L'autore:

Brian Fagan has been sailing since he was eight years old and learned his sailing in Britain's North Sea and English Channel. Since 1967, he has been a Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. During the past thirty years, he has sailed thousands of miles in Europe, Mediterranean waters, the Caribbean, and along the Pacific coast. He is the author of several well know sailing books. He describes himself as a devotee of ample scope and good shelter - and of a good night's sleep as a result.

Dalla quarta di copertina:

Staying Put is the kind of book that lives on your cabin bookshelf, ever more dog-eared from repeated use. This is a basic treatise on one of seamanship's basic arts - that of anchoring, the skill that causes skippers of all levels of experience more worry than any other.

The author approaches anchoring as an art, not as an arcane science, replacing common sense with sound judgement and careful observation. From the selection of ground tackle to basic anchoring techniques, from what to do when you drag to mooring in Mediterranean harbors - everything is here. This is a book you read, digest, and then refer to again and again as you gain practical experience for yourself. Staying Put will appeal not only to expert skippers but to beginners, sailing school and instructors, and charter companies - to sailors and powerboaters alike - all those who practice the art of anchoring and worry about,well...staying put!

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• Editore: Motorbooks Intl
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0963463527
• ISBN 13: 9780963463524
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 112