Seamanship is a skill as ancient as mankind, defined as the exercising of knowledge necessary to navigate, maintain and operate a vessel, to which i add the word safely. Specialist books may go into more detail, but this book puts it all in one place, and i wouldnt substitute this book for instruction from an experienced hand. This handbook provides the safest, most efficient methods, techniques, and informational guidance possible to navigate boats in maritime environments and situations. This course will give you the essential knowledge needed when youre afloat, from navigation to safety and seamanship to passage planning. Sailboat navigation from the annapolis book of seamanship 5 video series by john rousmaniere based on his famous instructional book. It is used for hawsers, towlines, and for lightrunning rigging and guntackle falls. The lay of the line is the term used to describe the manner in which the line has been twisted. Navigation, being one form of the study of mathematics and astronomy, has been written about from the beginning. The book looks in detail at how to prepare a ship for ice conditions.
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