Complete Guide to Boating and Seamanship: Powerboats - Canoeing and Kayaking - Fishing Boats - Navigation - Water Sports - Fishing - Water Survival - Electronics - Boating Safety - First Aid For Boaters

Complete Guide to Boating and Seamanship: Powerboats - Canoeing and Kayaking - Fishing Boats - Navigation - Water Sports - Fishing - Water Survival - Electronics - Boating Safety - First Aid For Boaters

by Vin T. Sparano
Complete Guide to Boating and Seamanship: Powerboats - Canoeing and Kayaking - Fishing Boats - Navigation - Water Sports - Fishing - Water Survival - Electronics - Boating Safety - First Aid For Boaters

Complete Guide to Boating and Seamanship: Powerboats - Canoeing and Kayaking - Fishing Boats - Navigation - Water Sports - Fishing - Water Survival - Electronics - Boating Safety - First Aid For Boaters

by Vin T. Sparano

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Overview

The most complete boating instruction book ever to be published.
 
From the author of the award-winning Complete Outdoors Encyclopedia, this volume will prove to be the most indispensable guide for anyone interested in boating and seamanship. This monumental guide to being safe on the water is produced in full color, featuring more than 600 photographs, diagrams, and illustrations. This complete resource offers in-depth coverage of hull design, canoes and kayaks, boat construction, motors, trailers, boat maintenance, preparing for winter storage or spring launching, boating electronics, anchors and moorings, safety procedures, avoiding seasickness, and first-aid advice. Coverage of seamanship extends to include all nautical skills from knot tying to dead reckoning. The book also details in-depth navigation and complete U.S. Coast Guard regulations.
 
Complete Guide to Boating and Seamanship clearly explains and illustrates the most successful techniques for skippering any vessel—from kayak to offshore powerboat. This book is a must-have reference guide for both novice and experienced sailors and boaters, as well as any person planning to be on the water— whether freshwater or marine—for the first time.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780594918080
Publisher: Rizzoli
Publication date: 03/14/2017
Pages: 336
Product dimensions: 7.30(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Vin T. Sparano is the author of Complete Outdoors Encyclopedia. He is editor emeritus of Outdoor Life and has written and edited eighteen books about the outdoors. In 2009, Sparano was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Fisherman’s Conservation Association, and in 2013 he was inducted into the Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame.

Table of Contents

Preface 8

Section 1 Boating Design and Construction 10

Hull Design-Displacement Hulls

Planing Hulls

Multiple Hulls

Boat Construction-Wood

Aluminum

Fiberglass

Fabric

Section 2 Boats for Outdoor Recreation 28

Boats For Fishing-Boats for Sheltered Waters

Float-Trip Boats

Offshore Outboard-Powered Boats

Boats for Open Waters

The Sportfisherman

Boats for Hunting-Float Hunting

Duckboats

Boats for Camping-Camping with Small Boats

Family Runabouts

Houseboats and Cruisers

Kayaks and Canoes-Paddling a Kayak

Fishing Kayaks

Ins and Outs of Canoes

Unswamping a Canoe

Paddleboards

Personal Watercr Aft (Jet Skis)

Water Sports-Water Siding

Wakeboarding

Ski Aids for the Young Beginner

Tubing

Section 3 Outfitting Your Boat 66

Marine Motors-Outboard

Electrics

Inboard (Gasoline)

Diesel

Stern Drive

Jet Drive

Boating Electronics-Depthsounders

Marine Radios

Global Positioning System (GPS)

Radar

EPIRB Anchors, Moorings, And Ropes-How to Set a Mooring

Boat Knots

Anchor Lines and Strength

Boat Trailers-Choosing a Trailer

Loading Your Boat and Trailer

Trailer Maintenance

On the Road and Launching

Preparing For Winter Storage

Preparing For Spring Launching

Section 4 Boating Safety and Tips 98

Safe Boating-Basic Tool Kit

Spare Parts All-Purpose Kit

Safe Boating Procedures

Small Boat, Big Water

Coast Guard-Approved Equipment

Navigation Lights

Loading Your Boat

Small-Boat Navigation-Global Positioning Systems, Latitude, and Longitude

Magnetic North

Dead Reckoning

Fixes

Prudent Navigator

Handling Wind, Weather, and Water-How to Forecast Weather

Lightning and Your Boat

Get Ready for Hurricanes

Man Overboard!

Why Boats Sink

Why Boats Blow Up

Section 5 Fishing Basics for Boaters 120

Spinning-The Reel

The Rod

Fly Fishing-The Reel

The Rod

Baitcasting-The Reel

The Rod

Flipping

Spin Casting-The Reel

The Rod

Conventional Tackle for Saltwater Trolling and Casting-Trolling Reels

Trolling Rods

Casting and Boat Reels

Casting and Boat Rods

Kite Fishing

How to Set Drag

Lines-Braided Fishing Lines

Fly Lines

Fishhooks-Hook Wire She

Shank Length

Hook Characteristics

Artificial Lures-Plugs

Spoons

Spinners

Buzz Baits

Jigs

Plastic Lures

Pork Rind

Flies

Natural Freshwater Baits-Big Shiners for Big Bass

Natural Saltwater Baits

How To Catch Bait And Keep It Fresh-Worms

Sea Worms

Minnows

Crayfish

Frogs

Terminal-Rig Accessories

Knots

Avoiding Line Twist-Open-Face Spinning Reel

Revolving-Spool Reel

Spincast Reel

Care and Repair of Fishing Tackle-Care of Rods

Care of Lines

Care of Reels

Care of Tackle Accessories

Rod-Wrapping Tricks of the Trade

Selecting the Tip Top and Other Guides

Selecting Rod Ferrules

Spacing of Rod Guides

Estimating Fish Weight

Easy Fish Release-10 Tips for Proper Catch and Release

Fishing by the Birds-Frigates

Blue-Footed Boobies

Petrels

Shearwaters

Pelicans

Seagulls

Terns

Gannets

Water Temperature and Fish

Section 6 Freshwater Game Fish 218

Section 7 Saltwater Game Fish 248

Section 8 Cooking Techniques 278

From Hook to Table

Field Care and Dressing of Fish

How to Fillet Fish

Smoking Your Fish

How to Freeze Fish

Section 9 Survival 292

Planning Ahead

Preparing a Survival Kit-Boating Survival Kit

Sustenance-Making Potable Water

Surviving the Cold

Surviving the Heat and Sun-Intense Sunlight and Heat

Dealing With Dangerous WATER-Rivers and Streams

Rapids

Surviving in Cold Water

Section 10 First Aid for Boaters 304

Emergency Medical Treatment-Bleeding

Artificial Respiration

Choking

Bites and Poisonous Plants-Snakebites

Coping with Bugs

Bee Stings

Chigger and Tick Bites

Spider and Scorpion Bites

Poison Ivy, Poison Oak, and Poison Sumac

Sunburn

Surviving Heat and Cold-Sunstroke

Hypothermia

Frostbite

Sun and Eyes

Sprains

Other Injuries-Eye Injuries or Foreign Body in Eye

Cuts Abrasions, and Bruises

Puncture Wounds

Fishhook Removal

Illness-Appendicitis

Diarrhea

Toothache

First-Aid Kit

Index 326

Acknowledgments and Photography Credits 334

About the Author 336

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