Publisher's Synopsis
This revised seamanship manual is a useful reference book for anyone taking navigation examinations or intending to put to sea in a boat of any description.;It contains additional chapters on clothing, feeding afloat and legal matters while extensive changes have been made to the chapters on safety, navigation and communications. Fifty new diagrams have been included.;Dick Hewitt was captain of the Navy sailing team and editor of the magazine Motor Boat and Yachting from 1972-1979. Tim Lees-Spalding joined the Navy in 1939 and has since sailed all over the world.