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Piloting, Seamanship & Small Boat Handling


Year: 1974
Language: english
Author: Chapman C.F.
Genre: Manual
Publisher: Hearst Marine Books
Edition: 5
ISBN: 0-91099-021-2
Format: PDF
Quality: Scanned pages
Pages count: 640
Description: You stand watching the compass, listening for a buoy, keeping your boat moving slowly through the fog. Or, you watch someone come into your harbor and pick up his mooring during a rainy squall. You talk to a Coast Guard chief about boat handling. You watch the smooth handling of a cruiser backing into a slip at a marina, with the U.S. Power Squadron ensign as a sign. All of these things mean "expert boat handling," and that is a high skill. Yet, how do you pin it all down to one book? One book... all these persons learned how to handle a boat by reading a book?
If you could have watched the midshipmen aboard a frigate nearly two hundred years ago — were they studying books, learning to navigate with pieces of paper? The truth is, they were. At the same time they were working with their hands.
Of all the practical skills in the world, requiring a hand that feels the bubbling water as it vibrates the tiller, ears that are sensitive to gongs, bells, horns, and the dampness in the wind, some strength of fingers to make an eye-splice — of all the practical skills there are, boating needs books perhaps the most.
Half a century ago this book first saw the light — as pickups from magazine articles, as a sort of scrapbook, as the beginning of a course in boat operation. It has grown, changed, been revised, been re-edited and rewritten. In the same way that the skills of the sailor grow by experience, the pages of "Piloting, Seamanship and Small Boat Handling" have grown from the experiences of the readers, the practical lore of the countless teachers who have used the book as a text, and the expertise of the various writers and contributing editors who have been a part of it.
Perhaps fifteen million persons owe some part of their boating knowledge to "the blue book," as Chapman's is often called. It is impossible to estimate how many boats have had a copy aboard. It is even impossible to say precisely "the blue book is fifty years old," for a small volume, with a slightly different title, first came out fifty-five years ago in a green binding. So let us say "half a century ago."
Yet in certain ways, it truly goes back to the days of sailing ships and midshipmen. In some of the early volumes, for example, can be found a memo of advice to deck officers of Cunard liners, and they had to have experience under sail. Some of the maxims of the sea and of weather are five centuries old.
So — when you stand with a copy of Chapman's in your hand, a part of this book is as old as the wind that ruffles its pages or the knots and hitches you teach your son.

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