Stapleton's Powerboat Bible: The Complete Guide to Selection, Seamanship, and Cruising

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How to Select, Outfit, and Operate a Boat for Coastwise Cruising or Long-Distance Voyaging.

Stapleton's Powerboat Bible is the equivalent of talking with dozens of experts: naval architects, boatbuilders, maintenance and repair professionals, dealers and brokers, bankers, insurance agents, plus experienced powerboat owners and skippers. For more than thirty years, Sid Stapleton has traveled all over the world in a wide variety of powerboats and motor yachts. The accumulated wisdom he presents in this book will make your voyage a relaxing adventure instead of a nerve-racking, expensive ordeal. With Stapleton's Powerboat Bible you get practical, no-nonsense information on:

• Shopping for, buying, financing, and insuring the right boat for you.
  
• Choosing the equipment you need, from GPS receivers to water makers and anchors to medical kits.
  
• Navigating and communicating.
  
• Boat handling in routine and emergency situations.
  
• Seamanship in coastal waters and offshore.
  
• Long-distance and international voyaging.
  
• And much more.

Stapleton's Powerboat Bible will prepare you for the challenges and excitement of the cruising life.

About the Author:

Sid Stapleton (Winston-Salem, NC) has been a powerboat cruiser and marine journalist for 30 years and is a longtime contributing editor for Motor Boating & Sailing magazine. In 1993 through 1994, he voyaged from Maine to Alaska via the Panama Canal in a Grand Banks 49, a voyage of some 15,000 miles.

Stapleton's Powerboat Bible: The Complete Guide to Selection, Seamanship, and Cruising