Seamanship Secrets: 185 Tips & Techniques for Better Navigation, Cruise Planning, and Boat Handling Under Power or Sail Kindle Edition

Excellent Book! Tons of knowledge well organized and simple to find or retrieve. I have been boating since I was a boy with my Dad who learned from his Dad. I've always owned boats, made my living on boats and ships and have lived aboard most of my adult life. I've learned a thing or two over these years most importantly, Never Stop Learning! Even if youre re-learnkng stuff you forgot. I have learned better, easier way to do things I'd been doing the hard way for ever! It's better to know what I don't know but know where to find the answers! This book, like Chapmans is a new "go to" book along with "The Craft of Sail" by Ian Adkins. Greatest primer on sailing. If you want to teach someone to sail without confusing them, this is The Book.

This is a great book for a beginning sailor or motor boater, providing an easily read and accessed reference of basic boating skills and some less than basic "secrets" to effective seamanship. Sure, the other more established and well known references such as Chapman's "Piloting and Seamanship" and Rousmaniere's "The Annapolis Book of Seamanship" are more comprehensive and complete, but they're HUGE volumes that are not easy to keep aboard for quick reference. This author clearly knows his stuff (having been a captain and in USCG for many years) and provides a number of hints and instruction that will help a beginner gain needed boating skills quickly while still providing some new information for more seasoned sailors.

This is a good book -- well enough written, engaging and thoroughly informative across a broad range of boating-related areas. I'd be willing to wager that any reader will learn at least one new idea, trick or technique. Definitely worth reading, if you care about your boating skills and safety... and you should!That said, there aren't really many "secrets" or "tricks" here. If you're a boater and this book winds up being cover-to-cover new information to you, you never should have been on the water in the first place -- and you should thank your lucky stars you ever managed to return to port. The idea that I may be sharing the water with someone who doesn't know most of what's contained in this book is rather uncomfortable. Maybe I know more than I like to think I do, but there really wasn't much new information here; in fact, I would suggest this book as a good first read for someone considering taking the giant plunge that is "buying a boat."Bottom line, buy this book and enjoy reading it. Learning something new and useful is -always- a good thing, and reinforcing what you already understood is not the worst idea in the world. However, don't expect 185 "A HA!" moments; figure on maybe five or six, unless you're a newb. If you *are* a newb (or considering becoming one), buy this book and enjoy a good, approachable (if a bit information-dense) introduction to nearly every aspect of boating. Feel free to skip the section on sextants, though, until you're ready to cross a sea. : )

Very enjoyable easy read.. A lot of good information and a good book to have and keep on the boat...

Excellent book that should be read by every sailor. I’ve included it in my reference library

This book is a must-have for your boating library. Lots of great tips and concepts presented in an easy-to-understand format.

Wide-ranging exposition of all major aspects of serious marine voyaging. I am an experienced transocean sailor and found several nuggets I did not know. Excellent overall, altho’ sometimes I found the author’s tone like a salesman . . . .

This book is crammed full of useful information, and still manages to be enjoyable to read.I will definitely keep this on board to use as a quick reference.

It's American but there are some neat tricks to discover.

Ce livre est truffé d'une quantité incroyable d'informations. L'auteur maîtrise parfaitement le sujet et sait comment en faire profiter ses lecteurs. Un livre à lire impérativement.

Has everything and more. Easy to read and follow. Highly recommended. A must read for every sailor in every situation.

great book filled with good tips to improve on sailing knowledge, also has the basic info. very complete

In the book no secrets about seamanship are revealed - only basic tips/hints are given, which one usually learns during preparing for the license... I was quite disappointed with the content...