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All Weather Yachtsman by Peter Haward

Yacht delivery skippers who spend the greater part of the year at sea in small craft have to accept the likelihood of encountering bad weather, particularly during winter. Weather-wise enough to avoid gales to a degree, there are times when riding out a bad blow cannot be avoided. It is this depth of experience which has enabled the author to make a special study of yachts (motor and sail) in heavy weather, sometimes in severe gales.

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Heavy Weather Sailing by Michael William Carr

Now, for the first time in paperback, an all-time nautical classic-the standard work on seamanship under gale conditions. With more than 100,000 English-language copies and six translated editions, it has thrilled, sobered, and instructed sailors worldwide.

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Weather Predicting Simplified by Michael William Carr

Weather charts are becoming ever more available to mariners, outdoorspeople, and amateur weather buffs--not only on the Weather Channel and local TV broadcasts, but from weatherfax receivers, from single sideband radios connected to laptop computers, and now from the National Weather Service's website at ww.nws.noaa.gov/. This book teaches how to interpret all this wonderful weather imagery to make your own weather forecasts. Not a weather textbook in the traditional sense, but a graphically driven examination of clouds and jetstream patterns that accompany highs, lows, ridges, and troughs.

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