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Stress-free motorboating : single and short-handed techniques / Duncan Wells.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wells, Duncan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motorboats--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Motorboats.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (162 pages) : color illustrations, photographs
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : Adlard Coles Nautical, 2017.
- Summary:
- Stress-Free Motorboating is a practical guide aimed at simplifying the challenges of motorboat handling for short-handed crews or individuals. It covers essential topics such as docking, mooring, anchoring, navigation, safety protocols, and weather considerations. The book offers step-by-step techniques to ease common tasks, supplemented with QR codes linking to instructional videos for visual learning. Written for both beginners and seasoned boaters, it addresses the needs of older individuals or those transitioning from sailing to motorboating. The author combines personal anecdotes with expert advice, emphasizing confidence-building strategies and practical solutions to improve the boating experience. The book is designed to be approachable and accessible, catering to a wide audience including families, retirees, and young enthusiasts. Generated by AI.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- PREFACE
- 1 INTRODUCTION AND PHILOSOPHY
- 2 SKILLS AND DISCIPLINES
- Rope
- Attaching to the dock
- Knots
- The boathook
- Sharing a cleat
- Keep a clean head
- 3 ENGINES
- Dealing with breakdowns
- Alarms
- Fuel consumption and economy
- 4 CONTROLLING THE BOAT
- Types of propulsion
- What can you expect?
- How to make your boat go sideways
- Turning the boat 180° in its own length
- 5 THE BERTH
- Fixings to the shore
- Which side to moor
- Neighbours
- Fenders
- Mooring warps
- Positioning
- Prevailing wind
- 6 GETTING OFF THE BERTH
- Fendering
- Grip
- Everything handled from on board
- Slipping a long line
- Finger berth
- Measuring wind speed
- 7 GETTING ON TO THE BERTH
- The approach
- Ring moorings or hooped cleats
- Rafting up
- 8 MOORING BUOYS
- Picking up the buoy from alongside
- Types of buoy
- Approach and pick-up
- Slipping the mooring
- 9 ANCHORING
- Coding the cable
- Anchoring essentials
- Ground tackle
- How much scope to allow?
- Some quick tips for anchoring success
- 10 RIVERS AND CANALS
- Current
- Bank effect
- Getting on and off a pontoon
- Getting on to the dock
- Tell other boats what you are doing
- Colregs: IRPCS
- 11 WEATHER
- Weather scenarios
- What the clouds mean
- Frontal systems
- Things that affect you
- How wind affects the water
- Moon phases
- 12 NAVIGATION
- Speed limits
- GPS and paper charts
- Etiquette
- 13 SAFETY AND MOB STRATEGY
- Lifejackets
- Man overboard
- 14 SEASICKNESS
- What is seasickness?
- Preventative measures
- 15 EPILOGUE
- INDEX.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 14, 2017).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 1-4729-4730-4
- OCLC:
- 974590624
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