Under Way: The A-Z Guide to Safe and Successful Seamanship By Bill Beavis An alphabetically arranged information source for the lockers and bookshelves of all sailing enthusiasts, providing the essential knowledge of day-to-day aspects of seamanship. ISBN-13: 9780718870157 Specifications: 245x170mm, 160pp, Hardback with b&w illustrations Price: £12.50 • US$27.50 Publication: July 1978 Order this Title Now

About this Book

Every years more and more people are taking up sailing. Boats of all shapes and sizes, manned by one-man or family-size crews, turn the world's waterways into colourful sights at weekends; single-handed crossings over vast distances, or around the world, are now almost commonplace, despite the awesome hazards that the sea can offer.

There is one requirement that all these sailors, whether experienced or not, must share if they are to avoid disaster at sea, or on any waterway. It is a knowledge of the day-to-day aspects of seamanship, and that is what this book provides. In an A-Z form it lists the basic information about seamanship that all modern sailors need, and covers topics as diverse as towing, salvage, clearing a fouled anchor or propeller, leaks, 'man overboard', raising and lowering a mast, going aground, precautions in fog, anchoring in heavy weather, rescue, and many more.

Where applicable, each subject is accompanied by clear, step-by-step drawings - over 180 in all. The author has written the book in an easy-to-read and understandable style, so that in any emergency situation the action he recommends can be taken immediately and effectively.

Under Way is an essentially practical book - Bill Beavis had the words "Will the man or woman out there in the boat really need this information?" printed in capital letters over his desk as he decided which headings to include. Well known through the Yorkshire Television series Plain Sailing and his regular articles in Yachting Monthly and Motorboat & Yachting, Bill Beavis is also author of four very successful sailing books. This, his fifth, will surely finds its way into the lockers and onto the shelves of all sailing enthusiasts.

About the Author

Bill Beavis went to sea when he was sixteen as an apprentice in tramp ship company. He has served in a variety of ships from passenger liners to fishing boats, cross channel ferries and light-house tenders, and delivered yachts and harbour craft to all parts of the globe. After working his passage to New Zealand he joined a publishing firm there and discovered an interest in writing about boats. Working his passage back to England he became a staff man on a yachting magazine and later Assistant Editor on Yachting Monthly. He lives with his wife, Maria Elena, and two young children near Lymington, and in between writing books and regular articles for Yachting Monthly and Motorboat & Yachting is building a thirty-two foot boat outside the kitchen window.