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"You name it, it's in here. . . .This book is both informative and entertaining." --Latitudes & Attitudes "Thumbing through The Practical Encyclopedia of Boating is much like grabbing a stool next to the old salt in your yacht club, except you don't have to buy him a drink." --Soundings The Practical Encyclopedia of Boating is the first guide to all practical--and many theoretical--aspects of recreational boating under sail and power. From seamanship to maintenance, navigation to boat design and construction, nautical lore and esoterica to the science of how things work, this handy reference gives sailors and powerboaters quick access to just the right amount of information needed to answer most questions and solve most problems.

John Vigor has been sailing for more than 40 yearsin boats ranging from 11 to 72 feet, logging 15,000 miles of ocean voyaging. He is the author of seven nautical books, and contributes articlesto Cruising World, SAIL, and Yachting Monthly.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
A
Abandoning Ship
Accidental Circling
Accidents on Board
Adhesives Air Masses
Air Pressure on Sails
Albatrosses Alternators
Aluminum Hulls
America''s Cup
Amp-Hour Ratings
Anchors, Anchoring
Anchoring Rights
Anchor Types
Antifouling Paints
Apparent Wind
B
Backstaff Bahamian Moor
Balanced Helm
Ballast Taboo Barometer
Barge Hazards
Barrier Coats Battens in Sails Battery Choices
Battery Needs Beam-to-Length Ratio
Beaufort Scale
Berths Bilge
Bilge Pumps
Binoculars
Black Box Theory Blisters in GRP
Block and Tackle
Block Sizes Boarding Ladders
Boat Booms Borers
Bosun''s Chair
Bottom Painting Bower and Kedge
Brake and Shaft Horsepower
Brightwork
Broaching To Bulwarks
Buoyage Systems
Buys Ballot''s Law
C
Calling for Help
Capsize Capsize Screening
Castaways Catching Water
Cavitation Centerboards
Center of Buoyancy
Center of Effort
Center of Gravity
Chafe Chain
Chain Locker
Chain Stoppers
Chart Datums
Charts Chart Scales
Chart Stowage
Checking a Battery
Chines Choosing a Boat
Circles of Position
Circumnavigation Cleats Clouds
Coast Guard Cockpit Drains
Cockpits Code Flags
Coiling Line Coin Under Mast Collision Bearings
Collision Regulations
Color at Sea
Color Blindness
Commissioning Companionway Formula
Compass Bearings
Compass Courses
Compass Tests
Compass Types
Complex Lights
Computers Cooking Afloat
Coral Reefs Coriolis Force
Counting Seconds Course Corrections
Cranking Ratings
Crew Overboard
Cruising Anchors
Cruising Boat Size
Cruising Lifestyle
Currents
D
Dacron Danger Angles
Danger at Sea
Danger Bearings
Dead Reckoning
Deadrise Delivery Trips
Depth-Finders
Depth-Sounders
Deviation Cards
Diesel Engines
Diesel Fuel
Diesel Maintenance
Diesel Smoke
Dinghies
Dinghy Capacities
Dinghy Life
Dinghy Oars
Dipping Lights
Direction Displacement
Displacement Ratio
Distance Logs
Distance Off
Distress Signals
Dockage Costs
Docking Dock Lines
Dodger Doldrums
Downburst
Dragging Anchor
Drinking Seawater
Drogue
Drowned Outboard Motors
Dry Rot
E
Eating Plankton
Echo Pilotage
Electrical Bonding
Electrical Wiring
Emergency Navigation
Emergency Position-Indicating Radio Beacon
Engine Life
Engine Oil
Enlarging Plans EPIRBs
Epoxy Estimated Position
Estimating Angles
Exhaust Line
F
Faint Lights
Fathometer
Fathoms Fear Fenders
Fetch Fiberglass
Fiddles Fighting Currents
Figure-Eight Method
Figureheads Fire on Board
First Aid Fisherman Anchors
Fishing Boats
Fixes Flags
Flare Flotation
Flotsam and Jetsam
Fog Prediction
Fog Types
Fouling Sheets
Foul-Weather Gear
Four-Point Bearings
Freak Waves
Freeboard Freeing Anchors
Fuel Capacity
Fuel Consumption
Fuel Economy
Fuel Weight
G
Gaff Mainsails
Gales at Sea
Galley Placement
Galvanic Corrosion
Gasoline Dangers
Gelcoat
Gimballed Stoves GPS
Green Flash Groundings
H
Hallucinations
Halyards
Handy-Billies
Harnesses Hatches
Hauling Out
Headroom Heads
Headsails
Heaters Heaving Lines
Heaving To Heavy Weather
Height of Eye
Help Posture
Hobbyhorsing
Holding Power
Holding Tanks
Horse Latitudes
Horsepower Horseshoe Buoys
Hull Colors
Hull Costs
Hull Shapes
Hull Trim
Hurricane Areas
Hurricane Tactics
Hydrofoils
Hypothermia
I
Iceboxes
Ice Damage
Inertia
Isobars
J
Jacklines Jet Drives
Jet Streams
Jib Numbers
Jumping Lights
Junk Rigs
Jury Rigs
K
Kayaks as Tenders
Keels Knots
L
Lateen Rig
Latitude, Longitude
Lead Lines
Lead Percentage
Leaks Leeboards
Lee Helm
Leeway
Length-to-Beam Ratio
Life Jackets Lifelines
Life Rafts
Lifesling System
Lighthouses
Lightning Protection
Lights at Anchor
Lightweight Anchors
Lines of Position
Lines Plans
Locating Batteries
Locks Lookouts
Lubber Line
Lying Ahull
M
Mainsail Slides
Making Fast
Man Overboard
Marine Operators Masts
Mast Steps
Mast Vibration
Mayday Calls Miles
Mooring Motorsailers
Multihulls
N
Navigation Lights
Net Tonnage
New Anchors
Nighttime Boating
Noises in Fog
Nonskid Surfaces
Nylon Line
O
Ocean Currents
Ocean Temperatures
Ocean Voyaging
Ocean Water
Oil Bags
Osmosis
Outboard Motors
Overhangs
Overloading
P
Paint Amounts
Painting Time
Paints Pan-
Pan Calls
Passages, Gangways
Piloting
Pitchpoling
Planing
Planking
Plankton
Plastics
Plow Anchors
Plunging Breakers
Polypropylene
Polyurethane Paint
Pooping Seas
Portholes
Powerboat Engines
Preventers Privacy
Propeller Advances
Propeller Drag
Propeller Facts
Propeller Fouling
Propeller Options
Propeller Thrust
Propeller Vibration
Propeller Walk
Provisioning Pulling
Power Purchases
Purifying Water
Q
Quadrant
Quarantine
Quarter Berths
Quick-Stop Method
R
Radar Reflectors
Radar Sets
Radio Transmitters
Rafting Up
Ranges RDF Sets
Reciprocal Bearings
Reefing Reefing Options
Refrigeration
Registration
Renaming a Boat
Resins for Boats
Resistance Rhumb Lines
Rigging Tension
Right of Way
Rigging Sizes Rodes
Rogue Waves
Roller-Furling and Roller-
Reefing Headsails
Roll Times
Rope Strength
Rope Stretch
Rope Versus Line
Rudder Loss Rudders
Rules of the Road
Rum Punch
Running Inlets
Running Off
S
Safe Anchorage
Safe Anchor Weight
Sail Area
Sail
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