An Excellent Classic Powerboating Book | Getting Started in Powerboating

Best starter book I have found for the small cruiser. | Getting Started in Powerboating | Bob Armstrong

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	• Getting Started in Powerboating Bob Armstrong International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, 1995 - 224 pages average customer review:based on 9 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Too much technical, not enough practical information.

I am a beginner with a new (used) boat. I expected a book a "how to" book on getting started - a book for beginners with basic safety, operating, and mechanical information.

Though this book gives some great technical information about how boats float, the different types of hulls and drive mechanisms, how to handle some difficult docking and other situations, it is not a book for a novice.

If you're just getting started I would look elsewhere.

An Excellent Classic Powerboating Book

An excellent book that gives you a basic understanding of hull types, engine types, boat opeartion, docking, anchoring, safety and more. I still refer to this book on a regular basis. It should be one of the books on your shelf if you are serious about being a good, safe Captain.

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Best starter book I have found for the small cruiser.

I was moving up from just playing around on a lake in an old 18 ft deck boat, to purchase a 26 ft cabin cruiser for bay and ILW. Knowing there was a lot I needed to know to make this transition, I started reading books. This was the fourth book I bought, and the most useful by far. It clearly explained things I needed to know before making a boat purchase, and afterwards gave me the practical info I needed to stay out of trouble. It is no substitue for basic boating safety course material, but adds depth to the reasons behind the rules (and the likelyhood that the other guy is following them). For me, just its practical explainations of how boats handle in wind when docking was worth the price alone. By far the best book I have seen for someone buying a boat in the small cruiser (22 - 35 foot) range.

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Getting Started in Powerboating

This book is very informative for the beginning boater. It expresses new concepts in terms the novice can understand. It covers all the basics and some advanced elements.

perfect book for power boating

If you love power boating, this book is for you!

Getting Started in Powerboating is a friendly beginner's guide that concentrates on what you need to know when you first take the helm. This second edition includes a revised gallery of good powerboats, new material on basic safety, preparations to go offshore, and improved illustrations of tricky maneuvers.

Getting Started in Powerboating covers all powerboats--big and small; single-engine, twin-engine, outboard, and sterndrive; trailerable and non-trailerable; fast planing hulls and slow but seaworthy displacement hulls; and everything in between. It can help you decide what kind of boat is right for you, and it describes fully the characteristic handling and behavior of each type.

Bob Armstrong tells you how to dock any boat under any conditions of wind, current, and crowding, and how to leave a slip with a minimum of fuss. He explains how to handle docklines, how to execute close-quarters maneuvers, how to anchor, run inlets, adjust trim for a better ride, and cope with heavy weather. He offers hints for judging the quality of a boat, tips for quick mastery of a boat you've never handled before, and an expert's views on the types of powerboats available--from runabouts to motoryachts to houseboats, jetboats, and catamarans--and what to expect from each.

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