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Boat Docking - Close Quarters Maneuvering for Small Craft
By Charles T. Low
Almost any boater can handle their boat reasonably well in open waters.
The real crunch comes when its time to bring the craft into a pier or wharf.
Boat Docking may be a small volume, but it contains a wealth of information
on docking and undocking a boat. Detailed procedures covering a wide
variety of situations are followed by a thorough explanation of the forces
and effects of wind, current, and propellor action. Even experienced
skippers can learn from this book.
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Sailor's Multihull Guide - Third Edition
The Multihull Bible. Loaded with how to information on chartering,
buying, building, owning and sailing multihulls. Contains over 150
boats in full 2 page layouts. Exciting color photos of sail and power
multihulls plus great gear and services. Thousands of multihull buyers,
builders, designers, dealers, brokers and equipment & service suppliers
around the world depend on this resource.
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Cruising in Catamarans
by Charles E. Canetr, AMS
The author has 32 years experience sailing, surveying and critiquing
over 1000 multihulls. He has logged over 100,000 miles under sail
in multihulls and thousands more in monohulls. He has 15 years of
full time liveaboard experience. This book contains numerous aids,
forms, and graphs to help you compare cruising boats, not matter how many
hulls they have. The most information about comparing, selecting
and sailing cruising catamarans ever assembled in one volume.
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Get Rid of Boat Odors
By Peggie Hall
Does your boat have that "boat smell" down below? Are you embarrassed
to ask guests aboard? Does your holding tank vent still smell like that
chili you served last Labor Day? You need this book!
Peggie Hall, well known marine sanitation expert known as “The Head
Mistress” has finally put it all in print. Get Rid of Boat Odors is the
penultimate achievement of Peggie's career, and the only published guide
to all aspects of marine sanitation: toilets, holding tanks, hoses, and
all the various ways they can stink up your boat.
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The Cruising K.I S.S. (Keep it Simple System) Cookbook
By Corinne Kanter
Corinne is one of the most widely read nautical culinary authors among
the boating and yachting community. Her 15 years of live-aboard cruising
experience and 20 years writing her cooking columns steeled her to create
the ultimate cookbook for the cruising community. Her 15 years of full-time
liveaboard adventures and travel earned her the title” the Waterway Hostess
With The Mostess.
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