Small Ships Manual

Description: Small Ships Manual is a practical study guide for Master, Mates, Coxswain and MED3 certificates. Richly illustrated with over 150 colour plates, it is a must read for any heading out beyond the 2 mile coastal limit. Small Ships Manual chapters include:

• International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at sea.
• Compass.
• Chartwork.
• Radar.
• Care and use of anchors.
• Meteterology.
• Barometer.
• Management of Vessels in Heavy Weather.
• Survival at Sea.

Snapper Secrets Volume 3

Description: Snapper Secrets 3 (152 pages) by Steve Cooper is newly updated. It doesn't matter where you are chasing snapper, Steve tells you how to catch them, where to go and when the best time is! Most of the pictures are less than 12 months old and there are plenty of interviews and tips from marine scientists and snapper experts! Steve Cooper is an angling writer based in Geelong, Victoria. He has regular fishing columns in both 'The Weekly Times' and the 'Melbourne Herald Sun'. With more than a dozen fishing books to his credit, Steve is an experienced, credible and readable writer. Steve has been catching snapper for more than 35 years in Australia and New Zealand. His fascination with the habits and mannerisms of Big Red will soon become apparent to anyone who reads this book. His knowledge of the techniques and places to catch snapper is immense, yet he continues to learn more about them. Version 3 of 'Snapper Secrets' has been revised to bring to readers Steve's latest insights into angling for Big Red. New photos liberally illustrate the text and motivate readers, and new GPS marks have been added highlighting snapper hotspots all around Australia. Whether you are chasing those big head turning bruisers in Spencer Gulf, pinkies in Port Phillip or Squire in northern New South Wales, 'Snapper Secrets 3' tells you how, where and when.

Splicing Handbook

Description: Splicing Handbook (146 pages) is the only book devoted completely to splicing today's ropes. The Splicing Handbook second edition is a fully illustrated, step-by-step guide that has been expanded and enhanced and now covers wire splices and splices in Spectra and Kevlar ropes as well as Dacron braid and traditional three-strand. The Splicing Handbook includes every splice project a boater will ever need.

The Waterproof Guide of Fishing Knots

Description: The Waterproof Guide of Fishing Knots is a useful guide for all fishing knots. Illustrated with step by step instructions. Chapters include:

• Clinch Knots.
• Centauri Knot.
• Palomar Knot.
• Uni Knot Line Joiner.
• Float Stop Knot.
• Dropper Loops.
• Surgeons End Loop.
• Spider Hitch.
• Figure Eight Knot.