PrefaceBoat Handling Under Power--Bob SweetSail Trim and Rig Tuning--Bill GladstoneUsing Nautical Charts--Bob SweetUsing GPS--Bob SweetUsing VHF and SSB Radios--Bob SweetRules of the Road and Running Light Patterns--Charlie WingKnots, Splices, and Line Handling--Charlie WingAnchoring--Peter NielsenOnboard Weather Forecasting--Bob SweetHeavy Weather Sailing--John RousmaniereDiesel Engine Care and Repair--Nigel CalderEmergencies On Board--John RousmaniereEmergency First Aid On Board--Richard ClinchyContributorsIndex
Niger Calder is the author of Marine Diesel Engines (1987, 1991)
and Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual (1989, 1995), the
success of which has made him the most sought-after marine how-to
writer in the U.S. and U.K. He has published more than 800 magazine
articles in SAIL, Cruising World, Ocean Navigator, Yachting World,
etc., and lectures on cruising to sell-out crowds. He is also the
author of The Cruising Guide to The Northwest Caribbean (IM, 1991)
and Cuba: A Cruising Guide (Imray, 1996). He will be testing his
newest ideas with his family during a six-month cruise to the
Caribbean and South America this winter.
John Rousmaniere is a national authority on sailing and seamanship,
a household name among boaters, and a first-rate writer by any
standard. He is the author of 18 books, including Fastnet, Force 10
(W.W. Norton), which has sold nearly 100,000 copies since 1980, and
The Annapolis Book of Seamanship (Simon & Schuster), which is
considered the standard work on seamanship under sail and has sold
250,000 copies since 1983. His other titles include a history of
yachting, The Golden Pastime (W.W. Norton), two histories of the
America's Cup race, and a history of the yacht America. He wrote
the navigation section of the Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia and
compiled the Illustrated Dictionary of Boating Terms (W.W. Norton,
1998). He has written the histories of institutions such as
Columbia University, The Equitable Life Assurance Company, and the
law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell. He lectures at Safety-at-Sea
seminars across the country, writes a column on seamanship for the
online magazine SailNet (www.sailnet.com), and regularly publishes
articles in the boating press. He has been interviewed on the
Learning Channel, A&E, and CNN. He has sailed more than 35,000
miles, including three Atlantic crossings. He holds a master's in
history from Columbia University and a Master of Divinity degree
from Union Theological. HOMETOWN: Stamford, CT
Bill Gladstone is the director of North U, a division of North
Sails, Inc. North Sails has become the world leader in sailmaking
through an ongoing commitment to making sails faster, lighter and
longer lasting. North Sails produces more cruising sails to higher
standards of performance and durability than any other sailmaker in
the world. The company also provides sailing courses through its
popular North U. instructional seminars. These courses emphasize
practical, proven techniques used by today's leading sailors.
Hometown: Madison, CT
Bob Sweet has more than 30 years of experience in the technology
and electronics markets and 30 years of boating experience. He has
held engineering and senior executive management positions with a
number of companies including GTE, Harris, ABA Industries,
Inframetrics and Elbit Systems - the last three at the President
and CEO level. He has both BS and MS degrees in electrical
engineering from Penn State. He started his career as a radar and
communications system engineer and, throughout his career, gained
extensive experience with GPS including managing a corporate
business unit that developed major portions of GPS for the Air
Force. More recently, Bob was instrumental in the boating education
for the Power Squadrons in Southeastern New England. HOMETOWN: East
Falmouth, MA
Peter Nielsen,editor of SAIL Magazine, was previously editor of
Yachting Monthly magazine in the UK. An experienced sailor who has
cruised and raced worldwide, he is also the author Sailpower: Trim
& Techniques for Cruising Sailors (2004). Hometown: Marblehead,
MA
Charlie Wing received his Ph.D. in oceanography from MIT, where he
later worked as a research scientist. Since then his career has
been explaining how things work--teaching physics at Bowdoin
College, founding Americas first two do-it-yourself house-building
schools (the Shelter Institute and Cornerstone), hosting a PBS
series on energy conservation, and writing a dozen top-selling
books on home building, home maintenance, and remodeling. Wing
lived aboard a cruising sailboat for six years, during which time
he wrote the first edition of this book on a solar-powered
Macintosh computer. He is the author of four other IM books.
Richard A. Clinchy, III, PhD, EMT-P, has been involved in emergency
medical services in either a full-time or volunteer capacity for
over 40 years. Dr. Clinchy provides training assistance or
train-the-trainer programs for services or military units wishing
to implement the FAST1 intraosseous device. He has been involved in
EMS education, consulting, lecturing and provision of emergency
care in North and South America, the Caribbean, Europe, Asia,
Africa and Australia. From 1991 to 2004, he was founder and
chairman of The American College of Prehospital Medicine. He is the
developer of the Dive/First Responder network, a former
professional firefighter and public safety officer, a certified
hyperbaric technologist, a paramedic, a member of the National
Association of EMS Physicians, a member and former board member of
the Special Operations Medical Association, author of over 150
published articles, author, principal author or lead editor of
seven books on diving and/or emergency medicine, and author of the
emergency medical care chapter of the most recent edition of the
NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration) Diving
Manual. He received the National Leadership Award from the National
Association of EMTs in 1988, and was that organizations
Instructor/Coordinator of the Year in 1989. He is a fellow of The
Explorers Club, a member of The Camp Fire Club of America, and
Chief of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliarys Department of Education as
well as Deputy Director of its National Marketing Group. Hometown:
Navarre, FL
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