Motor Boating Basics

✍ Scribed by Jon Mendez

• Publisher: Adlard Coles
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 225
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title
Contents
Introduction
Essential Skills
how to
Use the Right Knot
Lasso a Cleat
Coil Mooring Lines
Tie up Your Boat
Use a Lifejacket Properly
License and Use a Vhf Radio
Set Your anchor
Anchor Safely
Retrieve a Man Overboard
Pick up a Mooring Buoy
Pick up a Mooring Buoy Solo
Use a Lock
Boat Maintenance
how to
Antifoul a Boat
Polish a Boat
Change anodes on an Outdrive
Clean Teak
Replace Fuel Filters
Navigation
how to
Set up Your Chartplotter
Create a Route on a Plotter
Follow a Route on your Plotter
Use Pilotage
Set up a Radar
Boat Handling
how to
Hold Your Boat Steady
Turn in a Tight Space
Turn a Single-Engined Boat in a Tight Space
Turn a Twin-Engined Boat using only one Engine
Berth a Twin-Engined Boat using only one Engine
Move a Boat Sideways
Ferry Glide
Use Prop Walk to your advantage
Drive to Windward
Drive Downwind
Drive in a Beam Sea
Throttle and Trim your Engine
Make Fast Turns Safely
Drive in Rough Water
Drive an Ips Boat Better
Berthing
how to
Leave a Dock
Berth in Windy Conditions
Leave a Windy Berth
Berth Single-Handed
Leave a Berth Solo
Back into a Berth in a Single-Engined Boat
Come alongside in a Single-Engined Boat
Back into a Berth
Dock a Single Shaftdrive Boat
Use a Bow Thruster Effectively
Leave a Berth in a Single-Engined Boat
Berth an Ips Boat
Tie up a Big Boat
Raft up to another Boat
Use Pile Moorings
Index
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