'Date, time, wind, waves, pressure, temperature, and cloud cover.
Like pilots, roofers and mountain climbers, mariners are obsessed
with the weather, immersed in it as part of their daily calculus .
. . Make good decisions, mariners are fond of saying. If there were
a corollary to this, it might offer: When the weather gods show you
their cards, don't miss them' Weather can be the difference between
life and death for a sailor, something Captain Elliot Rappaport
knows very well, having spent almost his whole adult life at sea. A
professional ship's captain, with over thirty years of experience
sailing traditional vessels, 'tall ships', Captain Rappaport has
travelled around 100,000 sea miles, in all four hemispheres, and
spent a great many hours watching the weather unfold. In Reading
the Glass he shares all he has learned about the weather at sea,
gives us an inside look at the world of seafaring, a vocation much
more than a job, and shares some hard-won mariner's wisdom: if you
are headed for Greenland in July, expect at least one storm, and
wait until after Christmas to sail to New Zealand's South Island;
pack $3000-worth of fruit and veg for a two-month journey at sea;
and the most valuable member of the crew is first of all the
engineer, and secondly the cook! Reading the Glass is a gorgeous
blend of drily funny stories of life on a ship, the history of
seafaring, stories of explorers, discoveries, epic storms, and the
science of weather.
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