A Yachtsman's Guide to Tides - A Collection of Historical Boating Articles on How to Read Tides and Currents, (Paperback)

This volume contains a collection of classic articles on sailing yachts, covering topics including reading tides and currents, racing, tuning and maintaining yachts, and much more.

Drawn from classic maritime publications (often spanning the early to mid-20th century), this volume is an invaluable guide to traditional and technical methods of understanding the sea's vertical and horizontal movements. It provides the knowledge necessary to calculate depths, determine slack water, and utilize currents to your advantage, skills which remain foundational to safe seamanship.

The articles include:

• Elements of Yacht Sailing and Cruising
• How to Sail
• Piloting, Seamanship and Small Boat Handling
• The Complete Yachtsman
• Sailing to Win
• Tuning Up Small Racing Boats

Carefully selected for a modern readership, these timeless articles will be of considerable utility to anyone with a practical interest in yacht sailing.