Motorboating: Start To Finish: Beginner to Advanced: The Perfect Guide to Sailing with Power

By Barry Pickthall

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 step-by-step guide is packed with information and easy-to-follow illustrations. A complete reference for every level of tender, RIB, fishing boat, motor cruiser or sportsboat driver, this book is ideal whether you are a beginner and need a straightforward guide, or are taking your sport to the next level and looking for the professional tips that will help you improve your speed, skill, safety and enjoyment on the water.

Information and advice are included on basic principles, going to sea, boat handling and safety at sea. A great read to learn, develop and refresh your boating skills.

A version of this title specifically for iPad/tablet devices is also available. Please see “Motorboating: Start To Finish (For Tablet Devices)”.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Fernhurst Books
• Release date: Jan 12, 2010
• ISBN: 9781118315545

Barry Pickthall

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. His entertaining dialogue takes audiences alongside some of the biggest names in the sport including America’s Cup icons Dennis Conner, Ted Turner, Russell Coutts and Sir Ben Ainslie; round the world sailors Sir Francis Chichester, Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, Sir Chay Blyth, Dame Ellen McCarthur and Tony Bullimore; and Olympic medallists Paul Elvstrom, Rodney Pattisson and Shirley Robertson. Pickthall is also a qualified sailing instructor – having graduated from one of the first courses held at the UKSA.

Reviews for Motorboating

[myvi1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

A Good book with everything you need to know, only one problem I found P249/250 the description of the markers is
the same one should read port and the other starboard, shame but still worth the read