This text has been developedto provide a firm foundation for men and women working toward earning US CoastGuard licenses to operate auxiliary-powered sailing yachts and vessels. Initially created as a course curriculum for classes in sailvessel operations at the Maine Maritime Academy, thisrevised and updated second edition contains new material on bridge resourcemanagement, risk assessment, safety aloft, and more. Designed to accompany thesailor as a study guide and point of reference, it calls attention to themyriad constant and critical elements of professional yacht and vesselmanagement in both theory and practice. Subjects covered include seamanshipaboard sailing vessels, relevant hydrodynamic and aerodynamic theory, basic andadvanced sailing maneuvers, planning and managing for crew and vessel safety, meteorology for sailors, heavy-weather sailing, emergencies at sea, and vesseladministration as related to Coast Guard rules and regulations
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'Hailstorm Over Truk Lagoon' remains the authoritative reference book about the US Navy carrier raid of 17/18 February 1944 on the Japanese naval and supply base Truk, in the East Caroline Islands. This edition presented here adds later information and pictures to the book, and corrects errors. . . . The new discoveries and other changes, as well as new information made it necessary to issue a revised edition of 'Hailstorm over Truk Lagoon.' The text of this edition has been generally updated to 1990. New finds, observations or conditions seen at the popular wrecks during my diving visit in spring 1991 have been incorporated. All this is part of the ongoing research about Truk.Ó From the Foreword
