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Pass Your Day Skipper

7th edition

Authors:	David Fairhall, Mike Peyton and Peter Rodgers
Published:	2023
Size:	210 × 148 × 7 mm

£14⁹⁹

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Compact RYA Day Skipper Revision Guide

A clear and updated RYA Day Skipper study guide by Fairhall, Rodgers and Peyton, covering navigation, tides, pilotage, weather, safety and electronic chartwork.

Since the first edition was published, Pass Your Day Skipper has helped thousands of students through their shore-based Day Skipper course. Concise and comprehensive, this crammer covers all the essentials of the RYA syllabus, arranged in bite-size chunks to make revision easier and brought fully up to date in this seventh edition.

Throughout, the theory is set in a practical seagoing perspective, and helpful hints on exam tactics are provided. Each section is enlivened with Mike Peyton’s best-loved cartoons, offering both clarity and humour. The new edition has been revised to reflect syllabus updates and developments in electronic navigation, including new material on chart plotters, satellite positioning, weather information and safety equipment.

The guide covers:

Electronic navigation and chartwork
Tides and tidal streams
Pilotage
Weather – systems, local conditions and coping with bad weather
Anchoring, mooring and ropework
Passage planning
Safety – SOLAS, radio distress, man overboard and first aid

Nautical terms and sailing theory
Navigation
Charts
Compasses
Measuring direction and distance
Tides
Pilotage
The IALA buoyage system
Chartwork
Electronic navigation
Weather
Anchoring
Mooring
Passage planning
The rule of the road
Ropework
Safety

About the Authors

David Fairhall has enjoyed sailing for over 50 years in everything from Dragons to Thames barges. He has raced offshore and made several ocean deliveries, and now sails from Maldon on the East Coast where he lives.

Peter Rodgers has sailed his own cruising boats for many years and has done three Fastnet Races, two as navigator. He passed his Yachtmaster Offshore before electronics took over the chart table, but has a keen interest in the benefits and limitations of modern navigation technology.

Mike Peyton was the world’s best-known nautical cartoonist. He wrote and illustrated numerous books and contributed thousands of cartoons to yachting magazines over many years.