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Quick Reference for Skippers

The Skipper's Pocketbook : A Pocket Database for the Busy Skipper

by Sara Hopkinson, Basil Mosenthal

Publisher: Fernhurst Books Limited

Paperback ISBN: 9781917801027 4 Nov 2025 209 x 101 x 6 (mm) 130g

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A pocket database containing everything a busy skipper or their crew needs to know but might find hard to remember. It's easy to take for granted how much a skipper needs to know: navigation, how to pilot the boat into a new harbour, using the radio, checking the engine, keeping an eye out for things that need repair, monitoring the weather, feeding the crew and much, much more!

This pocketbook is designed as an aide-memoire with checklists to make life easier for busy skippers and a must-have reference for first-time skippers. It should also prove an invaluable reference book for the RYA Yachtmaster and other RYA course syllabi.

The book has been helping skippers for over 25 years and has been edited and thoroughly updated by Yachtmaster Instructor and Examiner, Sara Hopkinson. It has been streamlined to focus on the key things a skipper needs to know, making it quicker to find what you need.