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Confident Powerboating Stu Reininger

Confident Powerboating By Stu Reininger

Confident Powerboating by Stu Reininger


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Summary

A guide to handling and avoiding powerboat problems and emergencies. This title addresses your safety concerns, providing a guide to avoiding problems, coping with difficult situations, and responding to emergencies. It also contains anecdotes of problems encountered and resolved (or not).

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Confident Powerboating by Stu Reininger

A practical how-to guide to handling andavoiding powerboat problems andemergencies

With no secondary method of propulsion, poorerstability profiles, and enough speed to getthemselves into trouble fast, powerboats are far moresusceptible to emergencies than sailboats. ConfidentPowerboating addresses your safety concerns, providing a detailed guide to avoidingproblems, coping with difficult situations, and respondingto emergencies effectively. Also, each section containsseveral anecdotes of problems encountered andresolved (or not).

About Stu Reininger

Stuart Reininger is a marine consultant and contributing editor to MotorBoating magazine, for which he performs and writes boat tests and monthly columns on boat handling and seamanship. Previously, he served as senior editor of Boating (for seven years), Power & Motoryacht, and Marine Log magazines. Holder of a USCG 100-ton (offshore) Masters license for 31 years, he worked for 15 years as a world-wide delivery skipper and has performed seven transatlantic crossings. He has also worked as a marine surveyor, a charter captain, and a master of ferries and other commercial vessels all over the east coast. A member of Boating Writers International, Reininger consistently wins awards at the organizations annual meeting in Miami. He lives aboard his power cruiser Tall Tales on the east coast wherever the sun shines and it doesnt snow.

Table of Contents

Make Docking EasyNo Sweat on Open WaterConfidence in rough weatherRunning Inlets SecurelyMaintaining Your Poise in Fog and DarknessAnchoring and Rafting with AssuranceTowing Without TensionStaying Cool in EmergenciesFirst Rule of Boating: Keep the Water on the OutsideAbandoning Ship (You'll Be Ok)

Additional information

CIN0071482571VG
9780071482578
0071482571
Confident Powerboating by Stu Reininger
Used - Very Good
Paperback
International Marine Publishing Co
20080616
192
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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