The Complete Yachtmaster: Sailing, Seamanship and Navigation for the Modern Yacht Skipper by Tom Cunliffe -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Contents INTRODUCTION 1 THE SKIPPER 2 THE THEORY OF SAILING

Sails

3 EFFICIENT SAILING

Shaping the headsail Shaping the mainsail Sail combinations Hull balance Shortening sail Cruising chutes

4 BASIC SEAMANSHIP UNDER SAIL

Tacking Gybing Poling out a genoa Painless sail reduction Heaving to Reefing Single-line reefing In-mast mainsails In-boom mainsails Headsail changes

5 BOAT HANDLING UNDER SAIL

No brakes Wind awareness Tide awareness Sailing slowly Mooring under sail Anchoring Berthing

6 BOAT HANDLING UNDER POWER

Pivoting Blowing off Rudder effect Propeller effects Moving ahead The set piece short turn Motoring astern Berthing Coming alongside Leaving an alongside berth Bow thrusters

7 ROPES AND ROPEWORK

Types of rope Wire halyards Knots, splices and whippings Eyes and ends Rope handling Tying up Coming alongside Towing Towing with the dinghy

8 ANCHORING

Holding ground Types of anchor Types of cable Weighting the cable Selecting an anchorage Laying an anchor Weighing anchor Fouled anchors Anchoring stern- or bow-to Kedging off Storm anchoring

9 YACHT ENGINES

Basic maintenance Trouble shooting Fuel problems

10 SAILING IN HEAVY WEATHER

Preparing the boat Sails Steering in waves Survival tactics

11 NAVIGATION – AN INTRODUCTION 12 CHARTS, PUBLICATIONS AND CHART TABLE TOOLS

Latitude, longitude and the globe Chart projections Direction Scale and passage requirements Chart symbols Other information on the chart Chart datums Yachting charts Electronic charts Chart corrections The Nautical Almanac Pilot books and sailing directions Chart table tools

13 AIDS TO NAVIGATION

Lighthouses Offshore marks Inshore marks

14 TIDAL HEIGHTS

Tide tables Times Secondary ports Tidal definitions Intermediate tidal heights Tidal curves Non-astronomical factors in tide movements The essence of a tidal height question Using tidal height calculations safely

15 TIDAL STREAMS

Tidal gates Tide-induced sea states Information on tidal streams

16 TRADITIONAL NAVIGATIONAL INPUTS

The compass Variation Deviation Heeling error Local magnetic anomalies Compass dip The log Depth

17 THE ESTIMATED POSITION

Leeway Plotted vectors The tide vector The echo sounder Plotting The log book

18 CLASSICAL POSITION FIXING

The eyeball fix and the position line Sources of position line Preplotting and use of ship’s heading The running fix Evaluation of fixes

19 SATELLITES AND RADAR

Global Positioning System Chart datums Beyond the fix Electronic chart plotters Marine computers Radar

20 COURSE SHAPING

Course to steer at the turn of the tide The longer passage Leeway Cross-tide sailing with GPS

21 NAVIGATIONAL STRATEGY

Wind, tide, light and darkness Wind shifts Beating in water free of currents The favoured tack Unpredicted wind shifts Anticipated wind shifts Beating in a cross-current Beating in a cross-tide Tacking downwind

22 PASSAGE PLANNING

Charts and overall distances Alternative destinations Waypoints Waypoint lists Passage planning with chart plotters Weather Tidal streams Traffic Separation Schemes (TSS) Tidal heights Daylight Fuel Courses to steer Tactics and strategy Pilotage plan

23 PILOTAGE

Safe track Piloting with a plotter Forward planning

24 PASSAGE NAVIGATION

The passage plan The passage without electronics The same passage using GPS and a paper chart The passage with a plotter

25 DOMESTICS OF A PASSAGE

Food Sleep Warmth Space Seasickness

26 FOG

Maintain your plot Fog seamanship Fog tactics

27 COLLISION AVOIDANCE IN POOR VISIBILITY

Responsibility for lookout AIS Digital radar Display options Simple collision avoidance MARPA Top tips for radar collision avoidance

28 TACTICS AND NAVIGATION IN HEAVY WEATHER

Navigation in poor conditions

29 DAMAGE CONTROL

Tool kits and spare parts Fire prevention and fighting Jury rigs Ropes around the propeller Steering failure Dismasting

30 EMERGENCIES

Lifeboat rescue Helicopter rescue First on the scene Taking to the liferaft Pyrotechnics

31 MAN OVERBOARD

The reach-turn-reach Crash stop Bringing the casualty aboard Search and rescue

32 WEATHER

The frontal depression Mutually exclusive air masses Air circulation Depression formation Depression tracks Frontal anatomy Occlusions Secondary depressions Locating a low-pressure centre Wind strengths in depressions Cyclonic winds Depressions in the southern hemisphere High pressure Fog Sea breezes Significant local winds

APPENDIX: STABILITY IN SAILING YACHTS

The GZ curve

Acknowledgements eCopyright

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