Overview

Between these covers is the essence of centuries of seafaring experience, distilled into a concise, alphabetically organized reference for sailors and powerboaters. You'll find rules of thumb for hull thickness, bottom paint coverage, estimating distances, when to hoist and lower flags, predicting weather, which colors are unlucky, rope size and strength, anchoring rights, making a rum punch, and a lot more. This is either the most useful boating book ever designed to entertain or the most entertaining book ever designed to be useful. Open it to any page and browse awhile. You'll see.

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9780070674752

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Some of the stuff in this 242-page volume is useful...all of it is snake-eye fascinating. Boating Opening [this book] is...like opening a can of salty nuts. I can't resist just a little more before putting it away. Dockside Vigor successfully combines fun and function in a dictionary-style resource that is eminently readable...[It] is tough to put down. Lakeland Boating

Some of the stuff in this 242-page volume is useful...all of it is snake-eye fascinating. Boating Opening [this book] is...like opening a can of salty nuts. I can't resist just a little more before putting it away. Dockside Vigor successfully combines fun and function in a dictionary-style resource that is eminently readable...[It] is tough to put down. Lakeland Boating

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John Vigor (Bellingham, WA), a journalist for 35 years and former managing editor of Sea Magazine, has sailed more than 15,000 ocean miles. He is the author of The Practical Mariner's Book of Knowledge (IM, 1994).

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