This comprehensive handbook covers all key aspects of boating, including seamanship, navigation, safety procedures, engines, electrics, meteorology and regulations. Written in a clear, accessible style and fully updated to reflect current practices, it is ideal for beginners building confidence as well as experienced skippers needing a reliable onboard reference.

Compact and easy to use, the Reeds Skipper’s Handbook is an indispensable companion for coastal cruising, training and everyday boating.

Key Features

• Covers seamanship, navigation and safety

• Includes engines, electrics and meteorology

• Updated eighth edition

• Clear diagrams and practical explanations

• Suitable for sailing and motor vessels

• Ideal for learning, refresher use or onboard reference

If you are doing an RYA course or are simply seeking to gain a greater understanding of the weather, this edition of the RYA Weather Handbook (which covers the Northern and Southern Hemispheres) is full of practical and useful information, on aspects such as theory, weather charts, clouds, predicting the wind, and the technology used in sourcing meteorological information.

This edition provides more information than ever before about where to obtain forecasts, the growing use of technology in forecasting weather and obtaining up-to-date information, and in particular monitoring the tell-tale signs around you for any indication that the weather may not be doing what was forecast.

The areas that have been substantially updated and enhanced with additional content are:

• Tropical weather (hurricanes, cyclones and sailing in the tropics)
• Climate change
• New technology

The illustrations have also been completely modernised and the look and feel of the layout has benefitted from an overall redesign, making even the most complicated subject easily understandable.

”Mediterranean Weather Handbook for Sailors” is an indispensable reference providing a general understanding of the various phenomena concurring to determine weather in the Mediterranean as well as useful forecasting aids. It is written for sailors, not meteorologists- theory is kept to a minimum, while every effort is made to provide clear interpretative tools that are helpful in understanding actual weather and forecasting. Roberto Ritossa is a meteorology expert and this handbook is a result of many years research on Mediterranean weather patterns.

This second edition includes details of new and changed websites that offer meteorological services. Throughout the graphics have been improved and for some sections additional illustrations have been added.

“Roberto Ritossa has produced an excellent weather text book for those who choose to sail in the Mediterranean. Although it claims to be ‘written for sailors, not meteorologists’ there is more than enough essential theory to satisfy the keenest of amateur meteorologists. I would certainly buy a copy if I were to ever plan to return to the Mediterranean, as a sailor.” – IG, Cruising.

‘This little book contains a plethora of useful information, and should be on the book shelf of every Mediterranean sailor.’ Flying Fish, The Journal of the Ocean Cruising Club.

It provides dedicated pages for recording positions, courses, speeds, weather conditions, engine hours and navigational notes, helping skippers maintain an accurate record of each passage. The logical layout makes it easy to use underway, while also serving as a valuable reference for voyage planning and record keeping.

Ideal for day sailing, coastal cruising and longer passages, this logbook is a practical essential for any skipper.

50 loose-leaf pages in a strong PVC cover, ring bound for easy refill.