The Practical Mariners Book Of Knowledge 460 Seatested Rules Of Thumb For Almost Every Boating Situation 2nd Edition John Vigor by John Vigor 9780071808286, 9780071808293, 0071808280, 0071808299 instant download after payment.

The Practical Mariner’s Book of Knowledge is either the most useful boating book ever designed to entertain or the most entertaining book ever designed to be useful. In its alphabetical organization that juxtaposes wildly disparate entries, you can read about the derivation of figureheads where you turned to for recommended thicknesses of fiberglass hulls. In between the whimsy, however, is the essence of centuries of seafaring experience distilled into a concise reference for sailors and powerboaters. There may be no substitute for a lifetime of experience, but this book is the next best thing. It should be kept at the navigation station and on every boat.
Inside you will find information that is otherwise scattered through dozens of volumes. If you can't find what you want quickly from the table of contents, there's an exhaustive subject index. If you need more precise data than a rule of thumb can provide, you may very well find it among the 16 appendix tables, which are also indexed.
You'll find rules of thumb for:
Changing a boat's name
Towing the safest way
Burial at sea
Preventing wood rot
Hull thickness
Anchoring rights
Jib size
Curing mast vibration
Time taken for boat tasks
Survival rations