Pass Your Day Skipper
Since the first edition was published, Pass Your Day Skipper has helped thousands of students through their shore-based Day Skipper course. Concise and comprehensive, this crammer covers all the essentials of the RYA syllabus, arranged in bite-size chunks to make revision easier and brought fully up to date in this seventh edition.
Throughout, the theory is set in a practical seagoing perspective, and helpful hints on exam tactics are provided. Each section is enlivened with Mike Peyton’s best-loved cartoons, offering both clarity and humour. The new edition has been revised to reflect syllabus updates and developments in electronic navigation, including new material on chart plotters, satellite positioning, weather information and safety equipment.
The guide covers:
- Electronic navigation and chartwork
- Tides and tidal streams
- Pilotage
- Weather – systems, local conditions and coping with bad weather
- Anchoring, mooring and ropework
- Passage planning
- Safety – SOLAS, radio distress, man overboard and first aid
Table of Contents
- Nautical terms and sailing theory
- Navigation
- Charts
- Compasses
- Measuring direction and distance
- Tides
- Pilotage
- The IALA buoyage system
- Chartwork
- Electronic navigation
- Weather
- Anchoring
- Mooring
- Passage planning
- The rule of the road
- Ropework
- Safety
About the Authors
David Fairhall has enjoyed sailing for over 50 years in everything from Dragons to Thames barges. He has raced offshore and made several ocean deliveries, and now sails from Maldon on the East Coast where he lives.
Peter Rodgers has sailed his own cruising boats for many years and has done three Fastnet Races, two as navigator. He passed his Yachtmaster Offshore before electronics took over the chart table, but has a keen interest in the benefits and limitations of modern navigation technology.
Mike Peyton was the world’s best-known nautical cartoonist. He wrote and illustrated numerous books and contributed thousands of cartoons to yachting magazines over many years.
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Pass Your Day Skipper
Since the first edition was published, Pass Your Day Skipper has helped thousands of students through their shore-based Day Skipper course. Concise and comprehensive, this crammer covers all the essentials of the RYA syllabus, arranged in bite-size chunks to make revision easier and brought fully up to date in this seventh edition.
Throughout, the theory is set in a practical seagoing perspective, and helpful hints on exam tactics are provided. Each section is enlivened with Mike Peyton’s best-loved cartoons, offering both clarity and humour. The new edition has been revised to reflect syllabus updates and developments in electronic navigation, including new material on chart plotters, satellite positioning, weather information and safety equipment.
The guide covers:
- Electronic navigation and chartwork
- Tides and tidal streams
- Pilotage
- Weather – systems, local conditions and coping with bad weather
- Anchoring, mooring and ropework
- Passage planning
- Safety – SOLAS, radio distress, man overboard and first aid
Table of Contents
- Nautical terms and sailing theory
- Navigation
- Charts
- Compasses
- Measuring direction and distance
- Tides
- Pilotage
- The IALA buoyage system
- Chartwork
- Electronic navigation
- Weather
- Anchoring
- Mooring
- Passage planning
- The rule of the road
- Ropework
- Safety
About the Authors
David Fairhall has enjoyed sailing for over 50 years in everything from Dragons to Thames barges. He has raced offshore and made several ocean deliveries, and now sails from Maldon on the East Coast where he lives.
Peter Rodgers has sailed his own cruising boats for many years and has done three Fastnet Races, two as navigator. He passed his Yachtmaster Offshore before electronics took over the chart table, but has a keen interest in the benefits and limitations of modern navigation technology.
Mike Peyton was the world’s best-known nautical cartoonist. He wrote and illustrated numerous books and contributed thousands of cartoons to yachting magazines over many years.
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Since the first edition was published, Pass Your Day Skipper has helped thousands of students through their shore-based Day Skipper course. Concise and comprehensive, this crammer covers all the essentials of the RYA syllabus, arranged in bite-size chunks to make revision easier and brought fully up to date in this seventh edition.
Throughout, the theory is set in a practical seagoing perspective, and helpful hints on exam tactics are provided. Each section is enlivened with Mike Peyton’s best-loved cartoons, offering both clarity and humour. The new edition has been revised to reflect syllabus updates and developments in electronic navigation, including new material on chart plotters, satellite positioning, weather information and safety equipment.
The guide covers:
- Electronic navigation and chartwork
- Tides and tidal streams
- Pilotage
- Weather – systems, local conditions and coping with bad weather
- Anchoring, mooring and ropework
- Passage planning
- Safety – SOLAS, radio distress, man overboard and first aid
Table of Contents
- Nautical terms and sailing theory
- Navigation
- Charts
- Compasses
- Measuring direction and distance
- Tides
- Pilotage
- The IALA buoyage system
- Chartwork
- Electronic navigation
- Weather
- Anchoring
- Mooring
- Passage planning
- The rule of the road
- Ropework
- Safety
About the Authors
David Fairhall has enjoyed sailing for over 50 years in everything from Dragons to Thames barges. He has raced offshore and made several ocean deliveries, and now sails from Maldon on the East Coast where he lives.
Peter Rodgers has sailed his own cruising boats for many years and has done three Fastnet Races, two as navigator. He passed his Yachtmaster Offshore before electronics took over the chart table, but has a keen interest in the benefits and limitations of modern navigation technology.
Mike Peyton was the world’s best-known nautical cartoonist. He wrote and illustrated numerous books and contributed thousands of cartoons to yachting magazines over many years.
