"Seamanship Secrets"

This book includes 185 tips and techniques for better navigation, cruise planning, and boat handling under power or sail.  Distilled from the vast accumulated lore of seamanship and navigation, here are the absolute essentials.  Even in the age of electronic navigation you need to know how to manually operate your boat through any situation.  The author served 23 years in the U.S. Coast Guard as a navigator, instructor, search-and-rescue coxswain and ship's conning officer. 

Paperback.  326 pages.