Get to grips with your weather goals
Skipper’s Cockpit Weather Guide, by Frank Singleton
Frank Singleton, an RYA yachtmaster and former senior forecaster with the Met Office, has written
a practical handbook for making marine weather forecasts using a variety of sources. It expands upon the Yachtmaster and Coastal Skipper weather syllabus.
This spiral-bound, weather-resistant edition is aimed at crew and skippers of all levels and can act as a useful reference guide while at sea so that you know when to make alterations to your passage plan due to changing conditions. The principles of forecasting are handsomely illustrated with colour diagrams, photographs, explanations and bulleted lists.
Skipper’s Cockpit Weather Guide
By Frank Singleton
Adlard Coles, £12.99
ISBN: 978 14729 89031
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