Chapman Piloting & Seamanship 69th Edition

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With more than 3 million copies sold, Chapman remains the boating book of record and the essential reference no sailor or powerboater should be without.Chapman Piloting & Seamanship is the undisputed "bible of boating"--the one complete reference all boaters trust to be comprehensive and up-to-date. It addresses the best traditions of seamanship with cutting-edge practices, gear, and technology. This edition covers everything a boater needs to know including: • Understanding boat design--the advantages and possible disadvantages of various hull shapes and constructions, • Operating marine engines--gasoline or diesel, outboard, inboard, or sterndrive--to make your boat do what you want it to do, • Combining electronic navigation techniques (including GPS chart plotters and radar) with the time-tested techniques of chart-and-compass piloting, • Safety equipment, practices, and regulations, including the latest advice on life jackets and recovering a person overboard, • Sailing theory and sail-handling systems, • The latest information on anchor designs, rope, hardware, communications on the water, plus a knots primer, • Weather, tides, and aids to navigation, • Techniques and regulations for boating on rivers, lakes, coastal waters, and offshore, • Maintaining the boat and its gear and engine(s), right down to the increasing use of ethanol in fuel and how to guard against fuel tank and engine damage, and much more.