Whether out for an afternoon’s sail or embarking on a long offshore passage, there is always an element of chance and uncertainty about being at sea. To be responsible for the wellbeing of both crew and vessel, a good skipper needs to know their limitations and ensure they are operating well within the margins of safety.
Safe Skipper is a practical and thought provoking guide for yacht skippers of all levels of experience, full of invaluable advice and tips on how to reduce to the minimum the risks of mishaps and equipment failure at sea. There’s a wide range of information on seamanship, preparation, seaworthiness, gear, boat handling, leadership, teamwork, watch keeping, communications, navigation, weather and emergency procedures, all delivered in a highly practical, lively, non-preachy fashion.
Included throughout are useful checklists, box-outs and case studies of accidents and their causes, with survivors’ testimonials and explanations of how disasters were avoided, or could have been, all of which provides valuable lessons for everyone who goes to sea.
- ISBN10 1472909143
- ISBN13 9781472909145
- Publish Date 26 February 2015 (first published 1 January 2015)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 22 September 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint Adlard Coles Nautical
- Format Paperback
- Pages 192
- Language English