Essentials of Seamanship for Cruising by Watney, John - 1980

Secaucus, New Jersey: Chartwell Books. Fine 1980. Hardcover. Tite, fresh prtg full blue cloth binding, unclipped shiny DJ NrFine /Fine; not marked-in, clearance or discard. Usually mails within 12 hours, full buyer protection, refund -- our business is founded on your satisfaction. ; 8 x 10.25 in.; 168 pages; A useful classic for the family skipper managing a crew, May 17, 2003 Reviewer: Rich Kokoska (Mansfield Center, CT United States) - I was surprised at how fresh this book still is 23 years after its publication date. It emphasizes the basics of seamanship for amateurs sailing under-35 foot fiberglass keelboats, without wasting print on the special problems of antique wooden vessels or electro-furling moneysailers. Most of us will relate to the hardware and rigging illustrated in the photos because most of us are still sailing boats exactly like these. Though written for a British audience it deals with typically European sailing problems in a universal fashion; the discussion of docking or mooring in tidal surge areas, a necessary tedium found in most British books, was general enough to be useful for sailors in, say, Atlantic Canada. Each chapter focuses on how a couple or family would split duties and what each crew member should do as other operations take place, a unique format that makes this older book a must for the bookshelf of the family skipper struggling to sort out the process of sailing with crew. .