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This brand new edition of Stress-Free Sailing is the answer to
single or short-handed crews’ prayers – a step-by-step handbook
addressing the most common sailing situations that anyone cruising
will have to manage. Here you will find clever, highly effective
and successfully tried and tested shorthanded solutions for dealing
with everything from getting off and then back onto the dock in a
variety of wind and tide configurations, sail setting and reefing,
mooring and anchoring, to sailing in heavy weather and new
techniques for man overboard, all clearly illustrated with
straightforward diagrams and sequence photos. 24 QR codes dotted
throughout the book link to online video demonstrations to bring
the techniques to life. As single or short-handers you have to plan
carefully, prepare properly and be able to anticipate. This new
edition is a godsend with its original techniques for coping in
every situation. It is fully revised throughout with new practical
tips and advice on mooring, navigation, anchoring and safety at
sea.
Stress-Free Engine Maintenance is an accessible and practical guide
to understanding what is going on with your boat's engine, how to
look after it, spotting the signs when all is not well, and how to
fix it. Learn how to change a filter and impeller, how to ensure
the engine doesn't overheat, and much more. This visual and
jargon-free book covers all the essentials for looking after your
engine, in one place, including: - Basic principles of how an
engine works - Fuel, cooling and air systems - Engine electrical
systems - Gearboxes and drives - Checklists (e.g. before starting
and once running) - Most common causes of breakdown -
Troubleshooting Like the other titles in Duncan Wells' bestselling
'Stress-Free' series, the information is presented in an
accessible, manageable way, with the use of diagrams, quick
reference tables, box features, QR videos, clear explanations, top
tips and checklists, making maintenance and basic repair of your
engine straightforward, and with minimum stress. There are also
plenty of amusing anecdotes and useful lessons learned. If you find
the prospect of fixing anything to do with the engine daunting,
then this is the book for you. Stress-Free Engine Maintenance is a
key addition to any boat's bookshelf, ready to remind the skipper
how to deal with problems and keep everything running smoothly.
Here are the answers to all your boating questions and dilemmas.
This book is packed with 101 essential punchy sailing tips for
sailors to read before and during sailing for a stress-free,
enjoyable time at sea, from expert sailing instructor, Duncan
Wells. In this accessible, easy-to-absorb handbook, Duncan will
share his tried-and-tested techniques and advice on sail setting,
mooring, anchoring, navigation, sailing in heavy weather and more.
Step-by-step photographs, diagrams and clear instructions will
guide you through each tip, and this book is perfect to dip in for
help with a particular sailing problem. In this book, Duncan will
tell you all about how to: * Calculate the speed of the tide by eye
* Follow the rule of the road * Calibrate the depth sounder *
Calculate the displacement speed of your hull * Reef early for an
easy life * Use the chart plotter to calculate when to tack * Pick
up buoys from the cockpit * Look after your zips And many, many
more! This new title in Duncan Wells' popular Stress-Free
mini-series will be a godsend to all boaters looking for tips,
hints and solutions to everyday boating problems, and will
complement Stress-Free Sailing and Stress-Free Navigation.
Allen Carr's hundred-cigarettes-a-day addiction drove him to
despair, but after countless attempts to quit he disovered what the
world had been waiting for - the EASY WAY TO STOP SMOKING. Now
recognised as the world's leading expert on helping smokers to
quit, Allen Carr's informative, no scare tactics methods and
techniques are a revelation for those desperate to kick the habit.
Stress-free Motorboating is the answer to all single- or
short-handed crews' prayers. Highly illustrated with step-by-step
photographs, this highly practical handbook tackles the most common
motorboating scenarios anyone will ever have to manage, whether
cruising along a river or around the coast. The author covers
groundbreaking and dependable procedures for getting off (and then
back on to) a berth, anchoring, picking up mooring buoys,
boat-handling in tides, fast-flowing rivers, managing locks and
even picking up a man overboard. QR codes link to helpful
instructional action videos to clarify the procedurees, and
invaluable advice is given about fuel monitoring, engine care and
maintenance - in fact all the essential issues that affect
motorboats. Whether you're aboard a 60-foot displacement cruiser,
crossing the Channel or pottering along a river or coast,
Stress-Free Motorboating will make life aboard that much easier -
and with less stress comes more enjoyment for everyone.
Stress-Free Mooring is a quick-access, extremely visual on-board
practical guide to how to approach mooring and berthing situations
in a yacht or motorboat. Condensing material from the highly
successful Stress-Free Sailing and Stress-Free Motorboating into a
bite-sized book for easy reference, Duncan Wells provides instant
guidance to helmsmen seeking to learn how best to get on and off
pontoons, jetties and harbour walls in all directions of wind and
tide, as well as anchoring and picking up mooring buoys. The
techniques are applicable anywhere in the world, on any type and
size of boat. Areas covered include: Tying knots and mastering
other rope work Adapting to different wind and tide configurations
Casting off from a dock Springs, bridles and slipped lines Coming
alongside a berth Rafting up with other boats Anchoring Picking up
a mooring buoy With step-by-step photos, explanatory diagrams and
concise hints and tips, helmsmen can have at their fingertips the
answers they need to all manner of mooring problems.
You might think stress-free navigation sounds like an impossible
paradox. But it need not be. All boaters, whether under sail or
under power, need to be able to navigate safely on the water - both
to keep themselves and their crew out of trouble and to avoid
endangering others. Yet navigation has often been presented almost
as a black art - complicated, full of tricky maths, and with alien
concepts to get your head around. Step in `Mr Stress-Free': having
in his previous books presented techniques for sailing and
motorboating in an accessible, manageable fashion, Duncan Wells now
turns his attention to navigation. He makes concepts easy to
understand and the practice of navigation perfectly achievable for
all - with minimum stress. The book covers the basic introductory
elements clearly and simply for novices, and progresses through
more advanced techniques for experienced navigators, so that there
is something for everyone, whatever their skill level. Diagrams,
quick-reference tables and flowcharts, explanatory step-by-step
photographs, box features, top tips and QR codes - giving access to
explanatory videos - are all features that have been much
appreciated by readers of Duncan's other top-selling titles.
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