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Boating 101: Essential Lessons for Boaters
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Boater's Guide to Lake Powell
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Everyday Knots: For Fishermen, Boaters, Climbers, Crafters, and Household Use
This beautifully illustrated, full-color guide unties the mysteries of more than eighty knots. Using incredibly clear photographs and diagrams , as well as straightforward, easy-to-follow instructions, any reader can master knots for fishing, boating, climbing, crafts, household uses, and more. Climbers will feel safer knowing they have tied the perfect Water or Tape knot. Home decorators will enjoy trying their hand at the beautiful and elaborate Chinese Cloverleaf. Fishermen will fight big fish with more confidence. There are overhand knots, figure eight knots, bowlines and sheet bends, crossing knots, and more. There is even fascinating "knot lore." Whether for practical use or just for fun, this is a great place to start knotting, so grab a piece of rope, sit back, and enjoy! .
Price: $3.37
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Boater's Pocket Reference: Your Comprehensive Resource for Boats and Boating
Boater's Pocket Reference offers handy, how-to-do-it information and reference facts, figures, formulas, graphs, and tables about boating in a resource small enough to fit in your pocket. This pint-size (3" x 5" x 1")guide is a virtual bible of boating. 800 fascinating fact filled pages with information on: Boating terminology, design, construction methods and materials. Regulations: US/Canada, Navigation Rules: Intl/US/Canada. Seamanship: maneuvering, docking anchoring. Piloting and Navigation: charts, position plotting, GPS, chartplotters, radar, sonar. Knots. Weather. Engines. Propellers. Electrical. Communications: VHF, SSB, and Satellite. Trailering. General reference and conversion tables, plus more....
Price: $14.95
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Boater101: A Full-Reference Guide to Boating Basics
A fun, informative way to learn about boating safety and environmental awareness, the Boater101 course, which includes this book, is approved by the National Association of State Boating Law Administrators and recognized by the U.S. Coast Guard as acceptable to the Recreational Boating Safety Program. Included are expert information from Marine University on boating safety and terminology, boat designs and classifications, boat motors, water activities, registration/numbering/documentation, boating required/recommended safety equipment, trailering, pre-departure preparation, U.S. aids to navigation, navigation tips, lines and knots, safety issues, weather, tides, rules of the road;, anchoring, docking/mooring, boating under the influence, aquatic nuisance species, disposal of toxic substances, proper garbage/waste disposal, state regulations, glossary, index, and boat operations checklist, float plan and pre-departure checklist..
Price: $12.95
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Chapman 101 Things Every Boater Needs to Know (Chapman)
With the exalted title of “Captain” comes a big responsibility: the comfort and safety of everyone on board. This means being proactive: even if you think you anticipate all the possibilities, using common sense and avoiding unnecessary risks, it’s crucial to have a Plan B in place if something goes wrong. Chapman 101 Things Every Boater Needs to Know is all about that alternative strategy. It offers time- and experience-tested solutions to some of the most common problems all boaters encounter, whether at the dock or on the water. From having enough fuel for the trip to fixing a leaky hose, from dealing with a dead battery at sea to handling chart-plotter troubles, this is advice that may get you, your crew, and your passengers out of a bad situation or—even better—prevent you from getting into a tight spot in the first place. .
Price: $10.51
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Boat Green: 50 Steps Boaters Can Take to Save Our Waters
Recreational boating is a pastime enjoyed by millions Yet the waters and marine environment that boaters so love are in serious jeopardy from pollution, resource mismanagement, and misunderstanding. Boaters can help change that. Although a relatively small part of the problem of marine environmental degradation, recreational boaters can be a huge part of the solution, writes Clyde W. Ford, an avid boater of over twenty years, whose encounters with polluted waters galvanized him to explore workable solutions. Boat Green provides a host of environmentally sound boating practices, based on scientific research and practical boating experience. In this book, boaters will learn ways to: - Reduce vessel operation and maintenance costs
- Improve vessels performance
- Increase safety and health of vessel operators and crew
- Increase awareness of marine issues
- Enhance enjoyment of the marine environment
All of these steps will help lessen the impact of recreational boating on the marine environment. These are practical solutions that have been field-tested and refined on actual vessels cruising the Pacific Northwest waters. Boat Green is an essential guide for recreational boaters and for all those concerned about protecting the marine environment. Clyde W. Ford is the executive director of EcoMarine Institute and author of nine books, including the award-winning The Long Mile and the Charlie Noble series of contemporary nautical suspense novels. Ford enjoys cruising the waters of the Inside Passage aboard his single-engine biodiesel trawler. .
Price: $8.96
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MexWX: Mexico Weather for Boaters
MexWX: Mexico Weather for Boaters covers Baja, the Sea of Cortez and the Pacific coast of Mexico. How to plan your boating itinerary to take advantage of weather patterns; What local WX phenomenon to watch out for (Screaming Blue Northers, Elefantes, Chubascos); How to use your boat s radios and computers to receive those important WX forecasts in Mexican waters even by email when offshore; Summering Over in the Tropics; Hurricane Season & Hurricane Holes; Tactics for the Gulf of Tehuantepec & Papagallo; fully indexed. Updated, expanded 3rd edition (early 2008) packs more facts, new photos and improved graphics into this concise publication; includes a handy new quick-reference Frequency Guide for VHF, Ham, SSB, WX-fax and Internet. Author Capt. Pat Rains picks up the WX and brings it right to your boat in Pacific Mexico. MexWX is a must-have reference for recreational sportfishers, motoryachts, trailer-boat skippers and all cruising sailors who visit Mexican waters..
Price: $24.95
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