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The yachtsman's weather guide


Year: 1979
Language: english
Author: Ingrid Holford
Genre: Guide
Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold Limited
Edition: First
ISBN: 0-442-25763-5
Format: PDF
Quality: Scanned pages
Pages count: 94
Description: This is a book for everyone who goes afloat and is at the mercy of the weather, in powered or sailing craft, from the smallest dinghy to the largest cruiser. It is written in simple everyday language and combines theory with practical information in a style that will be easily comprehended by all ages.
No do-it-yourself forecast can ever be better than that of a professional meteorologist, who has access to information from all sorts of sources all over the world, but for local detail and emergency amendment, there is no substitute for the weather wisdom of the yachtsman himself This book shows you how to use the information provided by the professionals as well as your own logical reasoning based on elementary physics-to give weather forecasting at its very best.
Illustrated thoughout with 30 diagrams, 30 black and white and 8 color photographs.

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