An invaluable primer for new crew before going to sea, and a handy pocket-sized aide-memoire for experienced crew when under sail.

Yachting Life

There's lots of good advice on anchoring, picking up moorings, rafting up, and mooring to harbour walls...The MOB recovery procedure is the most succinctly explained I've ever seen.

- Dick Durham, Yachting Monthly

Will help new crew learn the ropes, and there's plenty of useful info inside for experience sailors too.

Practical Boat Owner

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An ideal Christmas gift for he (or she) who must obey

Sailing Today

If you are contemplating your first sea passage on a friend's or relation's boat, then get a copy and read, learn and inwardly digest. If you are that friend or relation, give your prospective novice shipmate a copy to read before you set sail.

Cruising Association Magazine

The Reeds Crew Handbook is proving a useful guide for experienced and novice crew alike. Both an aide-memoire for old hands and an ideal introduction for skippers to hand to new and aspiring crew, it gives them all the essential knowledge they need to undertake the tasks traditionally handled by crew aboard any size of yacht, including:• Steering (both with a tiller and a wheel)• Raising, dropping and reefing a sail• Boat handling (using tide, wind, etc)• Handling lines (throwing, coiling, lassoing, etc)• Tying up a boat on a pontoon and against a quay wall• Attaching bow and stern lines and springs• Handling an anchor• Using the radio• Basic first aid• Essential knotsPresented in bite-sized topics in a very accessible and undaunting fashion, and packed with colour illustrations to guide crew through each task, Reeds Crew Handbook is an invaluable primer for new crew before going to sea, and a handy pocket-sized aide-memoire for experienced crew when under sail.
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The Reeds Crew Handbook equips new and aspiring crew with all the essential knowledge they need to undertake the tasks traditionally handled by crew aboard any size of yacht. It is the ideal primer or aide-memoire for anyone going on a flotilla or charter holiday, or sailing aboard a friend's yacht for the weekend.
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Reeds Crew Handbook is the ideal primer or aide-memoire for new crew, and for anyone going on a flotilla or charter holiday, or sailing aboard a friend's yacht for the weekend.
Crew handbook in the same handy pocket format as the bestselling Reeds Skipper's Handbook (over 150,000 copies sold!)
The Reeds Handbooks are handy pocket-sized quick reference guides for all sailors, whether skipper or crew. These useful aide-memoires distil essential information that every seafarer needs to know in a concise and quick to read form with clear illustrations.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781408155714
Publisert
2012-10-11
Utgiver
Vendor
Thomas Reed Publications
Vekt
154 gr
Høyde
160 mm
Bredde
100 mm
Aldersnivå
P, XV, 06, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
160

Forfatter

Biographical note

A Cambridge-educated engineer, Bill Johnson swapped his career for long distance sailing. He stopped logging miles sailed somewhere around 50,000. A sailing instructor for ten years, focusing on the RYA courses from beginner to Yachtmaster level, Bill's strength is in explaining tricky subjects in a clear engaging way.