The Practical Encyclopedia of Boating

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"Vigor is one of the finest boating writers of our time."—Cruising World

Boating encompasses an impressive array of disciplines, and every sailor or powerboater worth his or her salt is, by turns, a seaman, navigator, mechanic, electrician, painter, carpenter, meteorologist, medic, cook, and even, on occasion, a diplomat. Which is why it is so surprising that, until now, there has been no single-source reference to which a mariner could turn for practical, up-to-date information in all these areas.

The Practical Encyclopedia of Boating is the first guide to all practical—and many theoretical—aspects of recreational boating under sail and power. From seamanship to maintenance, navigation to boat design and construction, nautical lore and esoterica to the science of how things work, this handy reference gives sailors and powerboaters quick access to just the right amount of information needed to answer most questions and solve most problems.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments | Introduction

A

Abandoning Ship | Accidental Circling | Accidents on Board | Adhesives | Air Masses | Air Pressure on Sails | Albatrosses | Alternators | Aluminum Hulls | America's Cup | Amp-Hour Ratings | Anchors, Anchoring | Anchoring Rights | Anchor Types | Antifouling Paints | Apparent Wind

B

Backstaff | Bahamian Moor | Balanced Helm | Ballast Ratios | Ballast Taboo | Barometer | Barge Hazards | Barrier Coats | Battens in Sails | Battery Choices | Battery Needs | Beam-to-Length Ratio | Beaufort Scale | Berths | Bilge | Bilge Pumps | Binoculars | Black Box Theory | Blisters in GRP | Block and Tackle | Block Sizes | Boarding Ladders | Boat | Booms | Borers | Bosun's Chair | Bottom Painting | Bower and Kedge | Brake and Shaft Horsepower | Brightwork | Broaching To | Bulwarks | Buoyage Systems | Buys Ballot's Law

C

Calling for Help | Capsize | Capsize Screening | Castaways | Catching Water | Cavitation | Centerboards | Center of Buoyancy | Center of Effort | Center of Gravity | Chafe | Chain | Chain Locker | Chain Stoppers | Chart Datums | Charts | Chart Scales | Chart Stowage | Checking a Battery | Chines | Choosing a Boat | Circles of Position | Circumnavigation | Cleats | Clouds | Coast Guard | Cockpit Drains | Cockpits | Code Flags | Coiling Line | Coin Under Mast | Collision Bearings | Collision Regulations | Color at Sea | Color Blindness | Commissioning | Companionway Formula | Compass Bearings | Compass Courses | Compass Tests | Compass Types | Complex Lights | Computers | Cooking Afloat | Coral Reefs | Coriolis Force | Counting Seconds | Course Corrections | Cranking Ratings | Crew Overboard | Cruising Anchors | Cruising Boat Size | Cruising Lifestyle | Currents

D

Dacron | Danger Angles | Danger at Sea | Danger Bearings | Dead Reckoning | Deadrise | Delivery Trips | Depth-Finders | Depth-Sounders | Deviation Cards | Diesel Engines | Diesel Fuel | Diesel Maintenance | Diesel Smoke | Dinghies | Dinghy Capacities | Dinghy Life | Dinghy Oars | Dipping Lights | Direction | Displacement | Displacement Ratio | Distance Logs | Distance Off | Distress Signals | Dockage Costs | Docking | Dock Lines | Dodger | Doldrums | Downburst | Dragging Anchor | Drinking Seawater | Drogue | Drowned Outboard Motors | Dry Rot

E

Eating Plankton | Echo Pilotage | Electrical Bonding | Electrical Wiring | Emergency Navigation | Emergency Position-Indicating Radio Beacon | Engine Life | Engine Oil | Enlarging Plans | EPIRBs | Epoxy | Estimated Position | Estimating Angles | Exhaust Line

F

Faint Lights | Fathometer | Fathoms | Fear | Fenders | Fetch | Fiberglass | Fiddles | Fighting Currents | Figure-Eight Method | Figureheads | Fire on Board | First Aid | Fisherman Anchors | Fishing Boats | Fixes | Flags | Flare | Flotation | Flotsam and Jetsam | Fog Prediction | Fog Types | Fouling Sheets | Foul-Weather Gear | Four-Point Bearings | Freak Waves | Freeboard | Freeing Anchors | Fuel Capacity | Fuel Consumption | Fuel Economy | Fuel Weight

G

Gaff Mainsails | Gales at Sea | Galley Placement | Galvanic Corrosion | Gasoline Dangers | Gelcoat | Gimballed Stoves | GPS | Green Flash | Groundings

H

Hallucinations | Halyards | Handy-Billies | Harnesses | Hatches | Hauling Out | Headroom | Heads | Headsails | Heaters | Heaving Lines | Heaving To | Heavy Weather | Height of Eye | HELP Posture | Hobbyhorsing | Holding Power | Holding Tanks | Horse Latitudes | Horsepower | Horseshoe Buoys | Hull Colors | Hull Costs | Hull Shapes | Hull Trim | Hurricane Areas | Hurricane Tactics | Hydrofoils | Hypothermia

I

Iceboxes | Ice Damage | Inertia | Isobars

J

Jacklines | Jet Drives | Jet Streams | Jib Numbers | Jumping Lights | Junk Rigs | Jury Rigs

K

Kayaks as Tenders | Keels | Knots

L

Lateen Rig | Latitude, Longitude | Lead Lines | Lead Percentage | Leaks | Leeboards | Lee Helm | Leeway | Length-to-Beam Ratio | Life Jackets | Lifelines | Life Rafts | Lifesling System | Lighthouses | Lightning Protection | Lights at Anchor | Lightweight Anchors | Lines of Position | Lines Plans | Locating Batteries | Locks | Lookouts | Lubber Line | Lying Ahull

M

Mainsail Slides | Making Fast | Man Overboard | Marine Operators | Masts | Mast Steps | Mast Vibration | Mayday Calls | Miles | Mooring | Motorsailers | Multihulls

N

Navigation Lights | Net Tonnage | New Anchors | Nighttime Boating | Noises in Fog | Nonskid Surfaces | Nylon Line

O

Ocean Currents | Ocean Temperatures | Ocean Voyaging | Ocean Water | Oil Bags | Osmosis | Outboard Motors | Overhangs | Overloading

P

Paint Amounts | Painting Time | Paints | Pan-Pan Calls | Passages, Gangways | Piloting | Pitchpoling | Planing | Planking | Plankton | Plastics | Plow Anchors | Plunging Breakers | Polypropylene | Polyurethane Paint | Pooping Seas | Portholes | Powerboat Engines | Preventers | Privacy | Propeller Advances | Propeller Drag | Propeller Facts | Propeller Fouling | Propeller Options | Propeller Thrust | Propeller Vibration | Propeller Walk | Provisioning | Pulling Power | Purchases | Purifying Water

Q

Quadrant | Quarantine | Quarter Berths | Quick-Stop Method

R

Radar Reflectors | Radar Sets | Radio Transmitters | Rafting Up | Ranges | RDF Sets | Reciprocal | Bearings | Reefing | Reefing Options | Refrigeration | Registration | Renaming a Boat | Resins for Boats | Resistance | Rhumb Lines | Rigging Tension | Right of Way | Rigging Sizes | Rodes | Rogue Waves | Roller-Furling and Roller-Reefing Headsails | Roll Times | Rope Strength | Rope Stretch | Rope Versus Line | Rudder Loss | Rudders | Rules of the Road | Rum Punch | Running Inlets | Running Off

S

Safe Anchorage | Safe Anchor Weight | Sail Area | Sailboat Engines | Sailboat Handling | Sailboat Rigs | Sail Cloth | Sailing in Gusts | Sailing on Friday | Sails and "Lift" | Saloon | Salvage | Sandpaper | Scope for Anchors | Scudding | Sculling | Scurvy | Sea Anchors | Seacocks | Seakindliness | Sea, Land Breezes | Sealants | Seamanship | Seasickness | Seaworthiness | Self-Steering | Selling a Boat | Sentinels | Setting Anchors | Sextants | "She" Is for Ships | Sheet Sizes | A Ship's Log | Shrouds and Stays | Single-Handed Sailboats | Single-Handed Sailing | Skegs | Skid Fins | Slack and Stand | Slips Versus Moorings | Smart Regulators | Solar Panels | Soundings | Sound Signals | Speed Limits | Speed of Boats | Speed Trials | Splicing Line | Spreaders | Stability | Stability Limits | Stainless Steel | Stanchions | Starter Draw | Steel Hulls | Steering Systems | Stern Anchoring | Stern Drives | Stern Glands | Stove Fuels | Sun Exposure | Surveyors | Synthetic Fibers

T

Tacking | Tacking Downwind | Tanks | Teak Finishes | Through-Hulls | Thunder and Lightning | Tidal Streams | Tidal Waves | Tides | Tillers | Time Signals | Time Zones | Tonnages | Tools | Torque | Towing | Towing Drogues | Trade Winds | Traffic Schemes | Trailerboats | Trim Tabs | Trysails | Turnbuckles | Twelfths Rule | Twin Screws

U

Unlucky Colors | Unlucky Names

V

Varnish Details | Varnishing | Ventilation | Voices in the Night

W

Wasted Fuel | Watchkeeping | Watermakers | Water Needs | Waterplane Area | Waterproof Clothes | Waterspouts | Watertight Bulkheads | Wave Height | Waves | Waves in Gales | Weather Fronts | Weather Helm | Weather Information | Wheel Turns | Whistling | Winches | Wind and Altitude | Wind Generators | Windlasses | Wind Systems | Winterizing | Wire Terminals | Wooden Hulls | Wooden Spars

X - Z

Xebecs | Yacht Definition | Yacht Design | Your Performance | Zinc Anodes

Bibliography | Index

The Practical Encyclopedia of Boating