The bestselling pocket-sized reference guide to everything a boater needs to know at sea.

The Reeds Skipper’s Handbook is the essential pocket-sized reference to everything you need to know at sea, packed with a wide range of information in a concise and quick to read form. A useful aide-memoire for all sailors and powerboaters, it is also frequently recommended by instructors as a revision aid for anyone taking their Day Skipper and Yachtmaster certificates. Now in its revised and updated 8th edition, it covers: - Essential navigation skills, manual and electronic - Tides, tidal streams and curves - The rules of the road, and buoyage - Safety and distress - Communications - Weather - Anchoring and mooring - Sails and wind - Knots, bends and hitches - Inland waterways/CEVNI It also includes handy facts, figures, formulae and tables for instant reference, including an at-a-glance guide to International Port Traffic Signals. Over 100,000 boaters worldwide have a copy of the invaluable Reeds Skipper’s Handbook in their pocket, on the chart table or on their shelf at home. It is a must for anyone going to sea, whether skipper or crew.

"A terrific little volume" - Motorboat & Yachting

"A brilliant guide for beginners and an excellent refresher for more advanced skippers... a top rate book" - Waterstones

"From the beginning, it contained everything a boater would need to know when going to sea, and it imparted this stream of information in a concise, easy-to-navigate way, in a handy pocket-sized book" - Sailing

"Everything you would need to know when going to sea in a yacht or small boat... a humdinger of a little book" - Nautical magazine