5lb!! BOATING in AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND Sailing Yacht

Please note softcover novel under this book, for purpose of scale.

For this is a huge book!

5lb, 543 pages.

Contents
Introduction 8
Our contributors 9
Acknowledgements 11

1. Buying a boat 13
Seek some experience - Power or sail? - Types of power boats-
Types of sailing boats - Boatbuilding - Construction - Second-
hand - Survey - Classifieds - Where to buy - Equipment and
running costs - Hire purchase - Insurance.

2. Basic safety and seamanshi p 42
The skipper's duties - Fundamental safety equipment - Lifejackets
and buoyancy vests - Pumps and bailers - Steering rules - Lights -
Fire precautions - Watching the weather - Handling bad weather -
Sea anchors - Capsize - Man overboard - First aid - Buoys -
Running aground - Anchoring - Docking - Knotting and splicing -
Ropes and lines - Clothing - Food - Rowing and sculling-
Behaviour and etiquette - Towing - Distress signals - Planning
a voyage.

3. Simple pilotage and navigation 79
The Compass - Charts - Equipment - Variation and deviation -
Plotting a course - Compass fixes - Fix from a single object -
Running fix - Leading lights and markers - Eye, ear and instinct -
High speed navigation - Under sail.

4. The weather 98
Global systems - Weather map - Australian conditions -
Depressions - Cold fronts - Anticyclones - Thunderstorms.-
Cyclones - Waves - Clouds - Warning services.

5. Sailing dinghies 115
Australian types - New Zealand developments - Learning to sail -
Design progress - Design characteristics - Spars and fittings -
Mast sections, booms and spinnaker poles - Mast fittings - Rigging
and swaging - Spar maintenance - Deck and hull fittings - Hulls -
Timber selection - Lofting - Glues and fastenings - Finishes and
maintenance - Rudders and centreboards.

6. Keel yacht 170
Design - Rule influences - Spars - Mast sections and fittings -
Trends in offshore rigs - Deck fittings - Spar maintenance -
Wire and rod rigging - Rigging screws and terminals - Winches -
Winch handles - Winch maintenance - Fibreglass yacht building -
Interiors - Auxiliary motor - Electrical systems - Ground tackle -
Maintenance.

7. Multihulls 211
Development - Catamaran shapes - Catamaran rigs - Quest Ill's
wing mast - Tuning basic catamaran rigs - Catamaran sailing techniques -
Multihull design - Offshore catamarans - Construction -
Accommodation - Auxiliary engine - Centreboards and rudders -
Rigs - Rating rule - Handling at sea - Offshore sails.

8. Sails 235
Jibs - High aspect - Low aspect - Overlapping genoas -
Trimming and sheeting jibs - Mainsails - Shapes - Trimming-
Wool tufts - Mast bend - Battens - Spinnakers - 'Flatties' -
Parachutes - Reaching spinnakers - Trimming - Spinnaker staysails -
Tallboy - Big boy - Running staysail.

9. Tuning and techiques 261
Aerodynamics of rigs - Wool tufts - Sail curvatures - Sail twist-
Dinghy tuning - Choice of spars - Boom vangs - Sail controls -
Sheet tensions - Rudders and tillers - Insnore yachts - Hull
fairness - Keel yacht mast bend - Feel in the helm - Yacht sail trim -
Ocean racing hull and rig trends - Ocean racing tuning and sail trim -
Helmsmanship - Crew selection - Ocean racing tactics - Light weather
sailing techniques - Heavy weather sailing techniques - Crewing -
Balance upwind and down - T;r-apezing - Spinnaker handling and
trim - Race preparation.

10. Racing tactics and rules 297
The start - First five minutes - Next 15 minutes - Windward mark -
Reaching and downwind tactics - The finish - Using the rules at
the start and to windward - The rules in mark-rounding and running -
Protests.

11. Cruising yachts 309
Cruising hull design - Sail balance and self steering - Fitting-out
for cruising - Interior layout - Water and fuel- Engine - Putting
to sea - Communications and victualling - Heavy weather handling-
Customs and quarantine.

12. Powerboating 346
Hull shapes - Car toppers, runabouts, half-cabin cruisers - Choice
of engine - Fibreglass construction - Deck fittings - Navigation lights -
Propellers - Handling - Mooring and docking - Boat-testing -
Ski-boat driving - Seamanship.

13. Inboard cruisers 381
Displacement or planing hull? - Deep vee - Porpoising - Seakeeping-
Appearance - Layout - Cruiser building - Choosing the engine -
Installation - Propeller shaft - Reduction gearing - Propellers -
Cooling - Exhaust - Electrical - Electrolysis - Instruments - Steering -
Trim tabs - Safety equipment - Fire precautions.

14. The inboard engine 416
Installation - Maintenance - Trouble shooting - Yacht auxiliary.

15. The outboard engine 421
Choice of horsepower - Second-hand - Installation - Balance and
trim - Propeller selection - Instruments - Steering - Fuel - Fuel tanks -
Spark plugs - Carburettor - Batteries - Cooling system - Maintenance -
Trouble shooting - CD ignition - Combustion efficiency -
Exhaust silencing.

16. Powerboat racing 455
Classes and rules - How to start racing - Champions of the sport -
New Zealand speedboats - N .Z. offshore powerboat racing - Jet race
boats.

17. Building Your Own boat 471
Choosing a design - Materials and methods - Steel - Ferro cement -
Tools - Making stem and frames - Building the jig - Framing-
Planking - Sheathing - Glues - Fastenings - Avoid corrosion and
erOSion.

18. Mooring and slipping 491
Laying a permanent mooring - Slipping your vessel.

19. Communications and 495
electronics."'
Radio coast stations - Radio telephone equipment - Installation -
Suppressing interference - Maintenance - Tables, small ships' service
schedules, frequencies, limited coast stations, and weather forecasts -
Radio licensing requirements - Radar - Automatic pilots - Logs and
speedometers - Wind instruments - Radio direction finding - Echo
sounders.

Glossary Appendices Index 526