Annapolis Book of Seamanship

The Get Ready Series

Item:  Advanced Blue Water Cruising Hal Sutphen is well known as a sailor, author, boat tester, instructor, contributing editor, and currently educational director for the Cruising Rally Assn. This book has evolved as an in-depth supplement to the hundreds of...  ... $23.95 Product Code 4904 Product Details... Availability: Quantity:

Item:  Captain's Quick Guides-Emergencies On Board This are handy, laminated, folded, (like those city maps you’ve seen) guides to Heavy Weather Sailing and On Board Emergencies. If it has been too long since you have read about these things, you can probably get up and running...  ... $8.95 Product Code 5516 Product Details... Availability: Quantity:

Item:  Captain's Quick Guides-Heavy Weather Sailing This are handy, laminated, folded, (like those city maps you’ve seen) guides to Heavy Weather Sailing and On Board Emergencies. If it has been too long since you have read about these things, you can probably get up and running...  ... $8.95 Product Code 5517 Product Details... Availability: Quantity:

Item:  Captain's Quick Guides-Read a Nautical Chart This are handy, laminated, folded, (like those city maps you’ve seen) guides to Heavy Weather Sailing and On Board Emergencies. If it has been too long since you have read about these things, you can probably get up and running...  ... $8.95 Product Code 5518 Product Details... Availability: Quantity:

Item:  Chart Number 1 Chart No. 1 is the international guide for the interpretation of chart symbols and abbreviations (see the discussion in Chart Trainer II at left). This is an indispensable book to have on board any vessel, because its...  ... $10.95 Product Code 5917 Product Details... Availability: Quantity:

Item:  Complete Para-AnchorSet-up This is a must for any boater who ventures off-shore. This superb video gives boaters essential information about para-anchors: how to connect para-anchors on a variety of boats, the differences between low and high impact...  ... $24.95 Product Code $2312 Product Details... Availability: Quantity:

Item:  Doggy on Deck Want to take your best buddy cruising? You can! Whether you're taking your trawler out for the weekend or planning a circumnavigation in your sloop, Doggy on Deck will answer all your questions about sailing with...  ... $16.95 Product Code 2312 Product Details... Availability: Quantity:

Item:  Experiment In Survival George Sigler was a Navy pilot who flew his A-3 jet in Vietnam and later flew - you could almost say barnstormed - it in Europe. Never a stickler for regulations, he set out to establish the world's record for the longest non-stop...  ... $12.95 Product Code 5102 Product Details... Availability: Quantity:

Item:  Handling Storms at Sea Few subjects are of more universal concern among sailors, and few incite more disagreement. Some experts advocate heaving-to, while some say you should run off. Some say you should lie to a sea anchor over the bow, while others argue...  ... $24.95 Product Code 4203 Product Details... Availability: Quantity:

Item:  Heavy Weather Avoidance and Route Design Prediction of upcoming weather is best done with 500 mb upper air charts. Wind information at this 500 mb (18,000 feet) level which is the lower level of the jet stream, has the most pronounced effect of weather at the surface.  ... $39.95 Product Code 4410 Product Details... Availability: Quantity:

Item:  Heavy Weather Tactics Well known author and recognized expert in offshore safety Earl Hinz sets out the operating principles, design details and tactics of use for both sea anchors and drogues applied to sail and powerboats up to 100 feet...  ... $19.95 Product Code 7902 Product Details... Availability: Quantity:

Item:  International Code Signals Published by the U.S. Naval Hydrographic Office, this book contains all types of signals used in international waters. Mediums include radio, semaphore, flashing light, voice, and signal flags. Standard messages are listed and cross-referenced.  ... $13.50 Product Code 5914 Product Details... Availability: Quantity:

Item:  Mariner's Weather Handbook This book is as much an encyclopedia of weather as the Dashews’ other book is for cruising. It was engineered from the beginning to be more than just a book. It is skillfully designed with quick reference checklists...  ... $63.95 Product Code 6311 Product Details... Availability:

Item:  Modern Marine Weather Textbook A new, comprehensive text on how to take weather into account for the plan­ning and navigation of voyages, local or global, using the latest technologies as well as the time-honored skills of...  ... $34.95 Product Code 4421 Product Details... Availability: Quantity:

Item:  Modern Marine Weather Workbook A new, comprehensive text on how to take weather into account for the plan­ning and navigation of voyages, local or global, using the latest technologies as well as the time-honored skills of...  ... $16.95 Product Code 9009 Product Details... Availability: Quantity:

Item:  Offshore Cruising Encyclopedia The first edition of this reference was such an important addition to our collective knowledge about the art and science of sailing that it was compared with Chapman’s and Bowditch. Having been through five...  ... $80.95 Product Code 6307 Product Details... Availability:

Item:  Offshore Cruising Guide-DVD At one time or another, every boater usually entertains the idea of sailing off into the sunset, away from boss, bills, troubles and everything else there is to get away from...but, very few actually get to do that.  ... $24.95 Product Code 5526 Product Details... Availability: Quantity:

Item:  Practical Seamanship This book, virtually a graduate course in going to sea, puts you on deck with Dashew, or one of his many and notable contributors, tacking in heavy seas, navigating across a heavily trafficked sea lane, entering a coral lagoon...  ... $63.95 Product Code 6325 Product Details... Availability:

Item:  Sailing ing Heavy Weather-DVD Sailing In Heavy Weather takes you offshore for onboard instruction and a unique, close-up look at sailing in near gale conditions. Featuring Warren Luhrs, John Neal, Steve Dashew and others, this was shot off the rugged Northern...  ... $34.95 Product Code 5528 Product Details... Availability: Quantity:

Item:  Sea Survival Manual What this book offers is not an A-to-Z compendium on survival in extreme conditions, life rafts or desert islands. While it does offer many words on this subject, the book has a "holistic approach" as Steve Callahan writes in his...  ... $19.95 Product Code 5529 Product Details... Availability: Quantity:

Item:  Storm Tactics Handbook In these pages you will find hard-won, carefully distilled information on what constitutes appropriate behavior in a storm. Storm seamanship remains an elusive and uncommon art. The Pardeys have survived gales and...  ... $18.95 Product Code 5793 Product Details... Availability:

Item:  Storm Tactics Handbook-DVD In these pages you will find hard-won, carefully distilled information on what constitutes appropriate behavior in a storm. Storm seamanship remains an elusive and uncommon art. The Pardeys have survived gales and...  ... $24.95 Product Code 5793D Product Details... Availability:

Item:  Surviving the Storm In the tradition of their other works, this volume is as readable as it is long and thorough. This mini-epic is current, with long reports and personal accounts of surviving last year's storms, and of confronting heavy weather in...  ... $63.95 Product Code 6315 Product Details... Availability:

Item:  Survivor Caught in the eye of a hurricane, sudden disaster in the night; attacked by killer whales; shipwrecked in the dead of winter on an Alaskan Island; these are just a few of the adventures described in this book, a boat...  ... $19.95 Product Code 5797 Product Details... Availability: Quantity:

Item:  The Barometer Handbook Frankly, this is one of the most important books to appear in the last few years. If you care anything at all about predicting your own weather, you should read this book. And reading it was a plesant surprise, for it is quite engaging — not nearly as dry  ... $24.95 Product Code 6602 Product Details... Availability: Quantity:

Item:  The Care and Feeding of the Sailing Crew A book that become the preferred resource for cruising and racing sailors— whether they're planning a weekend afloat or a round-the-world voyage. This unique volume covers everything from outfitting a galley to organizing...  ... $21.95 Product Code 2313 Product Details... Availability: Quantity:

Item:  The Drag Device Database (DDDB) A cryptic name to be sure, but DDDB is a fascinating collection of experiences of sailors who have resorted to sea anchors and drogues to survive extremely heavy weather encounters. It separates fact from fiction by extracting...  ... $36.95 Product Code 5788 Product Details... Availability: Quantity:

Item:  The Grab Bag Book Don't be caught at sea without it! The purpose of this unique book is to help you ensure your crew1s survival in a life raft. It outlines the necessary items for the perfect grab bag - categorized for coastal or offshore cruises...  ... $9.95 Product Code 7108 Product Details... Availability: Quantity:

Item:  The Weather Identification Handbook This could be called "the cloud book". It methodically lays out what the different types of clouds there are, and how to iden­tify them, as well as understand how they work. And a handbook it is! You will go to it often to check...  ... $16.95 Product Code 4420 Product Details... Availability: Quantity:

Item:  Using GPS - Quick Guide This is a handy, laminated, folded, (like those city maps you've seen) guide to gps operation on the water. If you don't want to wade through the manual, you can probably get up and running quickly with just the fourteen panels of this guide.  ... $8.95 Product Code 4413 Product Details... Availability: Quantity:

Item:  Using Single Sideband-DVD Sophisticated boaters have come to realize that single sideband radio (SSB) can be a very good thing to have even if you only do coastal cruising. Remember, VHF is only good for about 20 to 25 miles - and that’s a line of sight...  ... $24.95 Product Code 5525 Product Details... Availability: Quantity:

Item:  Weather Predicting Simplified Using this book, an individual having access to weather images from the internet, a single sideband radio, or a weather fax receiver can make their own, remarkably accurate forecasts of local weather. This book is not a...  ... $19.95 Product Code 4408 Product Details... Availability: Quantity:

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