Skills & Techniques Guides

This quick reference guide contains all the navigational information and practical seamanship needed by skippers or crew. The accessible and concise presentation makes it ideal for instant reference at sea, and its splashproof pages and spiral binding enable it to stand up to the demanding marine environment. Invaluable for experienced sailors as an aide-memoire, as well as for beginners and RYA students, i...

If you are doing an RYA course or are simply seeking to gain a greater understanding of the weather, this edition of the RYA Weather Handbook (which covers the Northern and Southern Hemispheres) is full of practical and useful information, on aspects such as theory, weather charts, clouds, predicting the wind, and the technology used in sourcing meteorological information.

This handy book for the leisure user is a quick-reference guide to radio procedures (including Urgency, Safety, and Distress messaging); installing and maintaining a VHF radio; the licensing requirements, and GMDSS including Navtex.

The Navigation Handbook from the Royal Yachting Association is the recommended text for anyone doing the RYA Day Skipper Shorebased course and a core text for the RYA Coastal Skipper and Yachtmaster Offshore Shorebased course sail or power. It is also ideal for anyone who wants to learn more about navigation.

RYA Day Skipper Practical Course Notes is designed to accompany the RYA Day Skipper Practical Course held at sailing centres around the world. It also provides a wealth of valuable information to all those going to sea.

The RYA Yachtmaster qualification is the pinnacle of yacht training. Anyone seeking to gain an RYA Yachtmaster Certificate of Competence requires a broad theoretical knowledge base and a high level of practical skill.

This is an essential guide to tying knots, covering the 10 knots everyone should know, plus coiling and throwing a rope and whipping (stopping the end unravelling).

Ask any group of students attending an SRC course why they want to learn to use a marine VHF radio, and the overwhelming majority are likely to reply ’safety’. Probe a little deeper, and most of them will probably say that they want it mainly to be able to call for help.

This new edition of the best selling RYA Navigation Exercises is the official and recommended book for RYA Day Skipper, Yachtmaster and the Basic 2-Day Navigation and Safety Course and contains everything you will need to help answer the questions in this book. It is the only book that uses the new RYA Training Charts used for all RYA Training Courses and it comes with 2 Training Charts: RYA training chart ...

Although written and illustrated specifically with the boating fraternity in mind, the content of RYA Knots Splices and Ropework is applicable to a much wider readership. Structured to guide everyone from a complete beginner to a seasoned sailor step-by-step through simple knots onto the advances knotting skills required to make a Turk’s Head and Star Knot.

RYA Passage Planning will provide you with the essential facts and methods that you need for your own journeys. Beginning with a systematic, step-by-step procedure on how to start your passage planning and what factors you should be considering, the book takes you ny way of scenarios through how you might plan a variety of voyages, and provides useful checklists and forms to help with the process.

The first edition (0953195619 which went out of print Spring 2007) rapidly became a standard text for sea kayakers. This new edition builds on that success. There are numerous improvements in the explanations and GPS is covered in more detail, reflecting the increased availability and usage of electronic navigational aids. Full use is made of colour photos, diagrams, maps and charts, further enhancing the r...

Following on from his hugely successful book Sea Kayak, Gordon Brown brings his vast experience and unique style to this latest publication Sea Kayak Safety and Rescue.

Bryan Willis' Racing Rules Companion is the invaluable pocket reference guide to the essentials of the racing rules, updated for the latest 2021-2024 Racing Rules of Sailing.

The undisputed market leader in sailing guides, this fully revised and updated sailing manual answers questions about any sailing situation - with thorough coverage of all aspects of sailing and boat ownership.

A clear introduction to the world of knots, from the practical to the decorative. Illustrated step-by-step instructions on how to master over 50 knots. Step-by-step instructions to tying over 50 knots from the essential to the decorative. A practical guide for sailers, moutaineers and campers as well as those who would like to try their hand at more decorative knots.

'What a fun book! Reading Sea Fever is enticing and intriguing, like watching floating treasure bob past your nose.' Tristram Gooley, author of The Natural Navigator

Motor Boating Basics is the ultimate collection of visually clear and straightforward 'how-to' guides on all aspects of motor boat handling and ownership, designed to make motor boating as accessible as possible for even the newest enthusiasts. Each chapter follows the same helpful format covering a topic, with an introduction followed by six simple, illustrated steps to show you exactly what you need to do...