Auxiliary Sail Vessel Operations

Initially created as a course curriculum for classes in sail vessel operations at the Maine Maritime Academy, this work has been developed to provide a firm foundation for men and women working toward earning U.S. Coast Guard licenses to operate auxiliary-powered sailing yachts and vessels. The book addresses seamanship aboard sailing vessels, relevant hydrodynamic and aerodynamic theory, basic and advanced sailing maneuvers, planning and managing for crew and vessel safety, meteorology for sailors, heavy-weather sailing, emergencies at sea, and vessel administration as related to Coast Guard rules and regulations. Designed to accompany the sailor as a study guide and point of reference, the work, in both theory and practice, calls attention to the myriad constant and critical elements of professional yacht and vessel management.

"This book began as a curriculum for a course of the same name at the Maine Maritime Academy, in Castine, Maine. ... [It is] a text that is written specifically for the sailor who is working his or her way up from the recreational level of sailing to the professional."--from Acknowledgments and Introduction.

Special edition of the Federal Register, containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect ... with ancillaries.

The Code of Federal Regulations is the codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government.

For all its soul-stirring romance, the tall-ship renaissance has a tragic side, and professional mariner and maritime scholar Parrott explores it in this groundbreaking reconstruction of five controversial sea disasters of the past half century. 45 photos. 5 maps.