national bareboat navigation instruction

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Bareboat Cruising (Keelboat Certification Series), ...

United States Sailing Association, 2002

A bareboat charter provides you with the opportunity to sail a boat on your own in an oarea of your choice. As a vacation, a bareboat charter offers the thrill of using your siling skills, exploring new or favorite waters and spending time with friends and family. Of course, any venture that inolves moving people, supplies and equipment over time and space requires planning.Having the basics covered will ensure the foundations of a pleasant ...

Passage Making: The National Standard for Quality Sailing Instruction (The Certification Series) (The ...

1 review
Tom Cunliffe

U.S. Sailing Association, 2000

passage making for dummies...
What I really like about the USSA certification series is how much information they pack into a very readable, high retention format (like a good Dummies book). Well edited text, a lot of very informative graphics and a good layout with just the right amount of white/gray space makes then very easy to scan and digest. While they are obviously intended to be used in conjunction with face to ...

Coastal Navigation: The National Standard for Quality Sailing Instruction (The Certification Series)

1 review
Tom Cunliffe

U.S. Sailing Association, 1999

Good for Non-Map readers
If you don't know how to read a chart, this book is for you. It has comprehensive information necessary to learn about coastal navigation. Not a good replacement for actually being on the water and seeing the things charts show but a good book for the basics.

Basic Cruising (U.S. Sailing Certification)

2 reviews
Diana B. Jessie

U.S. Sailing Association, 1995

The Second Book Use for US Sailing Certification
I've taught sailing for 16 years and the US Sailing books are the best series of books I've had the pleasure to use. This book is second of the US Sailing textbooks for the learning to sail and mastering keelboats, and is usually associated with a course of the same name. I strongly recommend the complete series, and the sailing program for any new sailor who wishes to learn to sail using ...

As Shadows Fall

1 review
Grace Anne chaefer

GASLight Publishing L.L.C., 2007

Travel back in time!
Reviewed by Mary Simmons for Reader Views (8/06) Change can be a frightening aspect of life. When you have to pick up and move, start fresh in a new, unknown place, it can be a daunting time even in today's world. As author Grace Anne Schaefer proposes in her second book of the `People of the Frozen Earth' series, these same fears and emotions were in the hearts of the semi-nomadic tribes ...