This is intended for those buying a motor cruiser for the first time or for those thinking of changing their present craft. It is intended to help them through the process, not only the decision making but the bureaucracy that increasingly affects today's boat owner, from the Boat Safety Scheme to the Recreational Craft Directive and the official registration.

This handy book for the leisure user is a quick-reference guide to radio procedures (including Urgency, Safety, and Distress messaging); installing and maintaining a VHF radio; the licensing requirements, and GMDSS including Navtex.

It also features useful extras, including prowords, the phonetic alphabet and numerals, and two sample Distress Procedure Cards for vessels with and without DSC.

Chapters include:

GMDSS
Radio Procedures
Installation and Maintenance, and
Licensing

The look and feel of the layout has benefitted from an overall redesign, making even the most complicated subject easily understandable. This makes the RYA Handy Guide to Marine Radio an even more user friendly aid to marine radio usage than ever before.

The RYA Safety Boat Handbook aims to provide up to date advice to anyone providing Safety Boat back up. It outlines all the practical techniques, expert advice and tips needed by Safety Boat crew. The format makes it quick and easy to use and ensures that every aspect of good Safety Boat management is covered. Contents include: Safety Boat checklist, recovering people from the water, crew and equipment, first aid, recovering dinghies, windsurfs, kayaks, canoes and kite surfers, solving entrapment, leeshore rescues, towing, laying marks. Written to accompany the RYA Safety Boat Course.

RYA Competent Crew Skills is the official companion for the RYA’s popular Competent Crew Course. RYA Competent Crew Skills is the official companion for the RYA’s popular Competent Crew Course. Over 12,000 people, with no sailing experience, successfully complete the course every year. This book has been written using the experience of hundreds of experienced instructors. The techniques shown are tried and tested and suitable for most types of cruisers. It is designed to assist you in understanding new concepts and in particular to help you remember some of the unique terminology that is used in the world of boating. It is an excellent starting point for those undertaking their first boating experience in order to make sense of the first few days on board or as a handy reference book for those returning to the sport after time away from it.

To be safe at sea you must know the rules. This book explains the rules and regulations with footnotes to help you interpret them correctly.

This is the very special, 40th anniversary edition of this incredibly popular and useful title. No boater should take to the seas without a good idea of what's in store weather-wise. This book includes a number of ways in which an accurate weather forecast can be obtained - from the internet to telephone and fax services and radio announcements. For this edition, the RYA have included up-to-date Navtex information and marine observation sites in the UK, an example of a plotted chart, as well as charts of sea areas, which are now in full colour.

This is the official syllabus and logbook for learning to sail dinghies, keelboats, and multihulls through the RYA National Sailing Scheme. This fourth edition has been updated to include the RYA's exciting new SAILfoiling courses. This publication is essential for everyone working their way through the RYA National Sailing Scheme, from Start Sailing to Advanced Racing. It is the world's leading small-boat sailing scheme, with over 80,000 people annually taking part in one of the many courses on offer. All of the courses featured are available at RYA Recognised Training Centres worldwide.

The legal ins-and-outs of buying a new boat. Includes basic legal principles, statutory protection, construction of a new yacht, insurance and registration. No one should buy a new yacht before reading this book.

A comprehensive guide to the law for the individual yachtsman. From ownership to registration, buying and selling a yacht, insurance liability to others and trailing in the UK and abroad.

Essential reading for anyone taking the Day Skipper Shorebased course- the beginners course in navigation, safety and seamanship. Covers all aspects of the syllabus including new developments in electronic navigation equipment and techniques.