Offshore Sailing: 200 Essential Passagemaking Tips
- Description
- Product Details
- About the Author
- Table of Contents
- Cutting Lines Fouled Underwater
- Supports for Cockpit Structures
- Test-Fire Flares
- Reel Out Spools
- Cotter Pins in Clevis Pins
- Mainsail Reefing
- Dissimilar Metals
- Avoid the Toilet Seat Toss
- Berth Cushions
- Carbon Monoxide Detector
- Yacht Inventory Database
- Uninterruptible Power Source
- Charging Profiles
- Laser Pointer
- Engine Wiring
- Lightning
- Engine Beds
- Removing the Prop Shaft from the Engine Coupling
- Copper Alloys
- Maintenance Log
- Evacuation by Helicopter
- Overall Effect of Adding Weight to a Vessel
- Seasickness
- Deck Log Entries
- Binoculars
- Bow Rollers and Chocks
- Provisioning Quantities
- Cabbage and the Crunch
- The $8,179.95 Bread-Baking Machine
- Abdicating the Galley
- Garbage
- Salad Dressings
- You Can't Always Get What You Want
- Rig
- Prescriptions for Medication
- Security
- Photographs of the Boat
- Cellular Telephones
- General
- Miscellanea
- Making a Tight Turn
- Backing to Starboard
- Departing a Dock by Backing Out
ISBN-13: 9780071374248
Media Type: Hardcover
Publisher: McGraw Hill LLC
Publication Date: 11-28-2001
Pages: 256
Product Dimensions: 9.00(w) x 9.60(h) x 0.60(d)
Bill Seifert was a project engineer at Tartan Marine Company, materials manager at Tillotson Pearson Inc., and a project manager at Alden Yachts. In 1991, he started his own yacht management company. He does prerace seaworthiness inspections for the Marion - Bermuda Race. Dan Spurr was the editor of Practical Sailor newsletter for twelve years. A former senior editor for Cruising World, he is the author of Heart of Glass: Fiberglass Boats and the Men Who Made Them, Spurr's Boatbook: Upgrading the Cruising Sailboat, and Yacht Style, among other books. Dan Spurr was for 12 years the editor of Practical Sailor newsletter, the “Consumer Reports” of sailing and one of the most respected boating publications, noted among other things for its new and used boat reviews, which have been published in book form as Practical Boat Buying. He is a former senior editor of Cruising World magazine and author of two highly regarded IM boating books as well as two critically acclaimed books of narrative nonfiction. He bought and refurbished his first fiberglass sailboat (a Pearson Vanguard) in the 1960s, and has since renovated three other boats including his current C & C 41. He is now the editor of Professional Boatbuilder magazine. AUTHOR HOMETOWN: Bozeman, Montana
Table of Contents
Author's Note on Origins
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Countdown to Offshore Sailing
Chapter 1. A Safe Deck
Crew Safety