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Barry Pickthall

Motorboating Start to Finish

From Beginner to Advanced: the Perfect Guide to Improving Your Motorboating Skills

Barry Pickthall

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Fernhurst Books Limited
01 May 2023

Navigation & seamanship; Sports training & coaching; Surfing, windsurfing, water skiing; Boating; Motor & power boating & cruising

Series: Boating Start to Finish

Motorboating Start to Finish is the perfect book for you if you are new to motorboating and need to learn the basics, or if you are experienced, but wish to broaden your skills and develop your techniques.

This easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide takes you through the basic principles, preparing to go to sea, your first voyage and safety at sea. It includes advice on choosing and buying a motorboat, essential equipment, boat handling, tides, weather and navigation, all taken from courses delivered by the UK's biggest sailing school, the UKSA.

This book is accessible to all levels, giving those new to motorboating straightforward advice, and showing experienced powerboaters how to take the sport to the next level with professional tips that will help improve speed, skill, safety and enjoyment. It is a complete reference for every level of tender, RIB, fishing boat, motor cruiser or sportsboat driver.

This book is packed with hundreds of illustrations and photographs, and is a great way to learn, develop and refresh your powerboating skills.

AUTHOR: Barry Pickthall is a respected sports writer and photographer and has been covering all aspects of sailing and boating for the past 35 years, 20 of them as a yachting correspondent to The Times newspaper. He has been covering the international stage for the past 4 decades from the Olympics to America's Cup and Round the World Races. Barry is also a qualified sailing instructor - having graduated from one of the first courses held at the UKSA.

158 colour photos, 194 diagrams

By: Barry Pickthall
Imprint: Fernhurst Books Limited
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd edition
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 338g
ISBN: 9781912177288
ISBN 10: 1912177285
Series: Boating Start to Finish
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 01 May 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Barry Pickthall is a respected sports writer and photographer and has been covering all aspects of sailing and boating for the past 35 years, 20 of them as a yachting correspondent to The Times newspaper. He has been covering the international stage for the past 4 decades from the Olympics to America's Cup and Round the World Races. Barry is also a qualified sailing instructor – having graduated from one of the first courses held at the UKSA.

Reviews for Motorboating Start to Finish: From Beginner to Advanced: the Perfect Guide to Improving Your Motorboating Skills

Motorboating Start to Finish is the perfect book if you are new to motorboating and need to learn the basics, or if you are experienced, but wish to broaden your skills and techniques. (Motorboat Owner)