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STUDENT NAUTICAL STENCILPlastic, 180mm x 100mm, provided with a strong, "kitbagproof" wallet.
This very useful stencil is for the quick and neat production of technical marine drawings, alongside notes taken by a student during "chalk and talk".
We think that the Nautical Template is very good value when compared to prices outside New Zealand and for overseas buyers it is light and small enough to be delivered airmail at letterpost rates.
NZ$17.00 + delivery.
DAY SKIPPER, Including Pilotage & Navigation.By Pat Langley-Price & Philip Ouvry. Hbk, 160mm x 240mm, 218 pages. Monochrome photographs and drawings with exercise chart provided.
This Day Skipper book is a clear and simple introduction to pilotage, navigation and general boatwork for anyone intending to make coastal passages in a small boat. This Third Edition covers all the theory and practical aspects of the RYA Day Skipper Certificate. Practical situations have been simulated and a full-scale practice chart has been provided for use with the navigation exercises in the book so that the reader can practice the basics of navigation ashore. There is a test paper in the back with answers.
Was NZ$65.00 + delivery.
Now NZ$35.00 + delivery.
CAPTAIN'S QUICK GUIDES, thirteen guides namely: Rules of the Road and Running Light Patterns; Knots, Splices and Line Handling; Using GPS; Using VHF and SSB Radio; Emergencies On Board; Sail Trim and Rig Handling; Onboard Weather Forecasting; Heavy Weather Sailing; Boat Handling Under Power; How to Rad a Nautical Chart; Anchoring; Diesel Engine Care and Repair; Emergency First Aid on Board.
By Well-known marine experts including John Rousmaniere, Bob Sweet, Charlie Wing, Bill Gladstone, Nigel Calder.
Laminated, folded charts, fully open 430mm x 470mm, each one 16 panels, full colour illustrations.
These are excellent publications for students preparing for exams as well as for practical sailors at sea in their vessels. The lamination means that the guides are fully waterproof and the absence of any spiral or other forms of binding means that the panels will not corrode or become separated.
The illustrations and narrative descriptions have been carefully distilled so as to include the body of knowledge needed by a small-craft mariner and by a student for nautical exams.
The inclusion of line-handling in the Knots and Splices guide is a first and is very useful. The Radio and GPS guides could in most cases be used as the operator's instructions, as an improvement on the average handbook.
Later additions to the series of Emergencies On Board and Heavy Weather Sailing offer practical, useful guidance. Both are in a check-list format that would suit someone wanting to act quickly and decisively in a difficult situation.
Rules of the Road and Running Light Patterns
NZ$23.00 + delivery.
Knots, Splices and Line Handling
NZ$23.00 + delivery.
Using GPS
NZ$23.00 + delivery.
Using VHF and SSB Radio
NZ$23.00 + delivery.
Emergencies On Board
NZ$23.00 + delivery.
Sail Trim and Rig Tuning
NZ$23.00 + delivery.
Onboard Weather Forecasting
NZ$23.00 + delivery.
Heavy Weather Sailing
NZ$23.00 + delivery.
Boat handling Under Power
NZ$23.00 + delivery.
How to Read a Nautical Chart
NZ$23.00 + delivery.
Anchoring
NZ$23.00 + delivery.
Diesel Engine Care and Repair
NZ$23.00 + delivery.
Emergency First Aid on Board
NZ$23.00 + delivery.
YACHTMASTER FOR SAIL & POWER, A Complete Guide for the RYA Coastal and Offshore Yachtmaster Certificate.By Alison Noice. Hbk, 180mm x 255mm, 229 pages, full colour drawings.
This is a major reference book for anyone following the RYA Coastal Skipper/Yachtmaster Offshore course. It includes all the elements of the revised Yachtmaster course, plus:
- Chartwork – including useful worked examples,
- Electronic navigation – how to use the latest technology for safe navigation: radar, electronic chart plotting and GPS,
- Pilotage – buoyage fully explained and illustrated,
- Communications – current maritime communications including GMDSS,
- Weather – the elements of meteorology, weather sources and forecasts,
- Safety and survival – all the new SOLAS regulations,
- Stability and buoyancy – the principles simply explained.
NZ$65.00 + delivery.
YACHTMASTER EXERCISES FOR SAIL & POWERBy Alison Noice. pbk, 170mm x 245mm, 106 pages, full colour drawings.
This companion volume to Yachtmaster for Sail & Power by the same author contains practice questions and test papers for students working towards their RYA Coastal Skipper/Yachtmaster Offshore certificates - whether sail or power.
A free practice chart is provided, which together with extracts from tide tables, almanacs and pilotage notes, enables students to work on real sailing scenarios and plot their own courses without the need for any other material.
Invaluable as a revision aid for all RYA Yachtmaster candidates, it is also ideal practice for anyone wanting to brush up on their navigation skills.
NZ$60.00 + delivery.
THE SKIPPER'S POCKETBOOK.By Basil Mosenthal. Paperback, 100mm x 210mm, 100 pages, full colour drawings.
Thsi book is a pocket database. It contains everything the busy skipper finds hard to remember.
NZ$33.00 + delivery.
REED'S MARINE ENGINEERING SERIESMOTOR ENGINEERING KNOWLDEGE FOR MARINE ENGINEERS
By T D Morton CEng, FIMarE, MIMechE & L Jackson BSC, CEng, FIMarE, FRINA Revised by A S Prince MEd, CEng, FIMarE Pbk, 140mm x 210mm, 299 pages, monochome drawings.
This book is a companion to General Engineering Knowledge Vol 8 in the same series and is a specific examination guide for the syllabuses of Motor Engineering Knowledge for the Second and First Class Marine Engineer's Motor Certificates and Motor Endorsements. It is also useful for students on BTEC and SCOTVEC engineering courses.
Subjects covered include basic cycles, indicator diagrams, starting and reversing systems, cylinders, pistons, crackshafts and deflections, medium speed diesel engines, governors, control, waste heat systems, and crankase explosions.
Also included are typical exam questions for practice.
NZ$90.00 + delivery.
REED'S MARINE ENGINEERING SERIESAPPLIED MECHANICS FOR ENGINEERS.
By W Embleton OBE Ceng, FIMarE, MIMechE Revised by L Jackson Bsc,CEng, FIMarE, FRINA Pbk 140mm x 210mm 663 pages, monochrome drawings.
This book covers the syllabuses in Applied Mechanics for all classes of the Marine Engineers' Cerfticates of Competency of the Department of Transport. It will also be useful to students on BTEC and SCOTVEC engineering courses.
Basic principles are dealt with, beginning at a fairly elementary stage. Each chapter has fully worked examples interwoven into the text, test examples are set at the end of each chapter, and some typical exam questions are included. the prefix 'f' is used to indacte those parts of the text, and some test examples, which are of class 1 standard.
NZ$110.00 + delivery.
REED'S MARINE ENGINEERING SERIESADVANCED ELECTROTECHNOLOGY FOR ENGINEERS.
By Edmund G. R. Krall. Pbk 140mm x 210mm, 664 pages, monochrome drawings.
This book is a companion to Volume 6 (Basic Electrotechnology for Engineers) and covers more aspects of the theory of Electrotechnology. The syllabus followed is close to that of Electrical Engineering for Marine Engineer Cadets (Phase 3) of the Alternative Training Scheme and covers more fully the requirements of the Department of Trade syllabuses of Electrotechnology for First and Second Class Marine Engineers.
It anticipates future extensions of these syllabuses and deals with Brushless A.C. Generators, Excitation Systems for marine alternators and semiconductor theory relating to the diode, transistor and the thyristor. It will also be of great value to students studying for the Extra First Class Engineers Certificate.
Numerous fully-worked problems are included in the text. Text examples and typical examination questions are privided - with solutions - for the student to attempt on his own. The subject matter has been treated in the order and in the manner in which it would be taught at a college and this book is thus complementary to lecture notes taken at such a college. It is for this reason that a.c. and d.c. theory is progressed simultaneously and the student is encouraged to advance his "electronics" knowledge at the same time as the individual a.c. machines are studied.
NZ$110.00 + delivery.
REED'S MARINE ENGINEERING SERIESGENERAL ENGINEERING KNOWLEDGE FOR MARINE ENGINEERS.
By Leslie Jackson & Thomas D. Morton. Pbk 140mm x 210mm, 519 pages, monochrome drawings.
This eighth volume of Reed's Marine Engineering Series prepares students for the Department of Transport Certificates of Competency in General Engineering Knowledge. It also covers the syllabus for Engineer cadet courses in the subject. The syllabus and principles involved are virtually the same for all examinations but questions set in Class One require the most detailed answers.
The book follows the same pattern as the other volumes in this series which has proved so successful: emphasis on basic principles, extensive illustrations, worked examples included in the text, practice examples at the end of each chapter and specimen exam questions at the end.
NZ$110.00 + delivery.
REED'S MARINE ENGINEERING SERIESSTEAM ENGINEERING KNOWLEDGE FOR MARINE ENGINEERS.
By Thomas D. Morton. Pbk 140mm x 210mm, 293 pages, monochrome drawings.
This volume is a companion to Volume 8 in the Reed's Marine Engineering Series and is based on the Department of Transport syllabus for Engineering Knowledge for the Class 2 and Class 1 Engineers' Steam Certificates and Steam Endorsements.
Subjects covered include;
In addition there is a selection of questions of the type set in the examinations for Class 2 and Class 1
NZ$90.00 + delivery.
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