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Published to celebrate the life of Mike Peyton, 'the world's
greatest yachting cartoonist', this second edition features
personal tributes from some 12 other successful and well-known
sailors (including Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, Sir Ben Ainslie and Tom
Cunliffe). They all recognise Mike's observational talent and
comment on how sailors see themselves (or their friends) in his
cartoons. Along with 80 of his incomparable cartoons, Mike Peyton
recounts how he became a yachting cartoonist and his fifty years of
sailing. So as well as chuckling at the cartoons themselves there
is the opportunity to learn from Peyton's 50 years of experience of
sailing different boats, meeting a variety of sailors, and getting
into - and out of - some truly hilarious situations.
Now in its sixth edition, this must-have guide for aspiring
Yachtmasters covers the essentials of the RYA syllabus and provides
new tips on exam tactics. Since the first edition was published,
Pass Your Yachtmaster has helped thousands of students through
their shore-based and practical Yachtmaster 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 sixth edition. Throughout, the
theory is set in a practical seagoing perspective, and helpful
hints on exam tactics are provided too. And to relieve the tension
of all that swotting, each section is enlivened with Mike Peyton's
best-loved cartoons. "A wealth of information, simply laid
out."--Cruising
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 too.
And to relieve the tension of all that studying, each section is
enlivened with Mike Peyton's best-loved cartoons. The new edition
has been updated throughout to reflect changes to the syllabus and
the latest developments around electronic navigation, including
updated sections on chart plotters, satellite positions, weather
information and safety equipment. The revision guide covers:
-Electronic navigation and chartwork -Tides and tidal streams
-Pilotage -Weather - the weather system, local weather and coping
with bad weather -Anchoring, mooring and ropework -Passage planning
-Safety - SOLAS, radio distress, man overboard and first aid
This is a wonderful cherry-picked collection of humiliating
misadventures from the enduringly popular Confessional column of
Yachting Monthly magazine. For over 25 years, yachtsmen have
clamoured to tell the world about their most embarrassing exploits
and their most shameful blunders, and the cream of the crop are
collected together here in the hope that the rest of us can learn
from their mistakes instead of our own - or at least have a good
laugh at their expense! Shipwrecks, strandings, mutiny, getting
locked in the lavatory...you couldn't make them up. Counted among
the contributors are no less than four former editors of Yachting
Monthly, which goes to prove that worse things really do happen at
sea! Accompanied by cartoons from the inimitable Mike Peyton, this
collection deserves a place at every bunkside.
Describing any war as average is a strange expression, and there is
certainly nothing average about this fascinating memoir from author
and cartoonist Mike Peyton. Like thousasnds of others he gave an
incorrect age to get into the army, worried that the war would be
over before he could join in. Once in, he fought in the Western
Desert until taken prisoner and transported first to Italy and then
to Germany. In Germany he saw the Allied bombing of Dresden. He was
initially sympathetic towards those in the city, but this was
accompanied by the thought that it serves the bastards right. He
escaped and walked East, eventually joining up with the Russian Red
Army and fighting with them for the rest of his war.During his
average war, Mike Peyton drew his first cartoon, and others, for a
wall newspaper in a German prisoner of war camp. After the war, he
enrolled at Manchester Art School, helped by one of his officers in
the Western Desert being on the board of examiners. He became a
cartoonist, sailing instructor and charter boat skipper - which
gave him much material for his world famous sailing cartoons.
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