The Complete Day Skipper

Skippering with Confidence Right from the Start

Author:	Tom Cunliffe
Published:	2024
Format:	Hardback, 208 pages
Size:	246 × 189 × 21 mm

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Step-by-Step RYA Day Skipper Guide

Tom Cunliffe’s practical 7th edition guide to the RYA Day Skipper syllabus, offering hands-on instruction in navigation, boat handling, seamanship and safety.

A practical, hands-on manual covering the entire Day Skipper syllabus in a step-by-step learning system designed to get you straight on the water.

As one of Britain's best-known instructors and writers on seamanship, Tom Cunliffe understands the concerns and anxieties of first-time skippers better than most. In this seventh edition of his highly successful manual, he provides the perfect blend of advice, instruction, inspiration and encouragement to support growing experience at sea.

Taking the RYA syllabus as a framework, The Complete Day Skipper begins with yacht handling under power, moves on to boat husbandry and sailing skills, then explores navigation – from steering clear of trouble near home to the practical use of modern electronic navigation systems. Key features include:

An at-sea, hands-on approach infused with helpful tips and common sense
A step-by-step learning system designed to get you straight on to the water
Essential, real-life navigation that wholeheartedly embraces GPS
Cunliffe’s unique emphasis on fuss-free cruising

This seventh edition features updated and expanded sections on navigation, weather forecasting, sails and electronic chart plotters, along with new photographs. Easy to read and down to earth, The Complete Day Skipper is a friendly hand on the shoulder for both novice skippers and more experienced sailors who choose not to venture far afield.

1 What's in a boat
2 Moving the boat
3 First ventures
4 Beginning to sail as a skipper
5 Seamanship
6 Essential navigation theory
7 Practical navigation
8 Arriving in port
9 Etiquette
10 Weather
11 Making the passage
12 Advanced navigation
13 Navigating with an electronic chart plotter
14 Fog
15 Anchoring, mooring and boat handling
16 Emergencies and how to prevent them

About the Author

Tom Cunliffe has many years of experience cruising all round Europe and from the Caribbean to Russia and Brazil to the Arctic. He is an RYA Yachtmaster examiner and a training consultant for Sailing USA – the governing body of yachting in the USA. He is a regular columnist for Sailing Today, Classic Boat and Yachting World in the UK, and SAIL in the USA.