RYA Powerboat Handbook
Written to support the RYA National Powerboat Scheme. The author Paul Glatzel is an RYA Powerboat Instructor and an RYA Powerboat Trainer.
Paul Glatzel is an RYA Powerboat Trainer based in Poole. He has driven powerboats since his youth and as time allows sails both yachts and dinghies. He combines instructing at his school with writing extensively for a variety of powerboating magazines and websites.
Suitable for powerboaters, this title covers the syllabus of the RYA Powerboating Scheme with easy-to-follow text, photographs and diagrams. It provides important information to all those thinking of going to sea.
Product details
Title: RYA Powerboat Handbook
By: Paul Glatzel
Publisher: RYA
Publication Date: 27/01/2005
Pages: 128
RYA Product Code: G13
ISBN-10: 0901501999
ISBN-13: 9780901501998
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- RYA Powerboat Handbook 2nd Ed.
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When preparing for the Powerboat Level 2 course, “the best book is the RYA Powerboat Handbook.”
Endorsed by class 1 world powerboater Steve Curtis, this RYA Powerboat Handbook is a good way to introduce anyone to the sport of powerboating.
The book covers many aspects of the sport including parts of a boat, difficult conditions, collision regulations, navigation and life saving signals.
Written in a clear manner, even the dark not so easy to understand art of propeller size and pitch is explained, together with associated propeller problems such as cavitation and ventilation.
Safety and planing, slipway launching, boat handling, knots and rescue procedures are tackled in a seamanlike way, in a form that any newcomer to powerboats wouldn’t find difficult to appreciate.
All in all, a good buy for beginners and experts alike.
Given that this is a RYA book you would expect a good factual concise tutorial . A good common sense starter including the very important how to manouver the thing in confined spaces .
If you have other RYA books with weather and navigation etc you may find a fair bit of repetition – but for the powerboater a good overall instructional read – for the price of a fraction of a session at sea .