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Book of the Week- RYA Passage Planning

by Rob Tickner on 19 Nov 2011
Passage planning - one of the secrets of successful sailing SW

Planning, planning, planning. One of the great arts of seamanship. No sea voyage, whether long or short, offshore or within sight of land, should go ahead without adequate planning and this book is your perfect companion to help you prepare thoroughly before setting off.

RYA Passage Planning will take you through all you need to know and allow you to work through some examples of different passages. This will show you what you might need to think about on the range of different journeys you may undertake. The essential facts and methods are split into three sections:

1. Getting down to basics
2. The essential first steps
3. Putting it into practice

Written by Royal National Lifesaving Institution (RNLI) Sea Safety Manager Peter Chennell, this book will help you make passage planning routine. It is packed full of useful information on where to find the relevant planning sources and will prove to be a useful companion to all who take their recreation afloat.

It also might help to reduce the number of rescues that the RNLI or our own Australian rescue organisations have to make!

This book is available at Boat Books Australia:


Boat Books Sydney
31 Albany Street
Crows Nest NSW 2065
Phone: (02) 9439 1133
boatbooks@boatbooks-aust.com.au
Store Hours: Monday to Friday: 9.00am - 5:30pm
Saturday: 9.00am - 2:00pm

Boat Books Melbourne
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melbourne@boatbooks-aust.com.au
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...or you can buy it online by http://www.boatbooks-aust.com.au!clicking_here.

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