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Table of Contents - HTML | PDF

Introduction - HTML | PDF

Queen's Birthday Storm - PDF

There were classic warning signs to let cruisers know of a high-risk potential in the days before the Queen's Birthday Storm hit. If you want to find out more, download this PDF file excerpted from Mariner's Weather Handbook.

Onboard Prediction - HTML | PDF

The section on onboard prediction covers the basics of predicting the weather without outside assistance from government weather sources. This excerpt is from the end of the chapter and deals with allowing for gust factors, using sea state to predict the weather, and how to analyze data from other yachts.

Tropical Cyclones-Dangerous Semicircle - HTML | PDF

There are over 38 pages and 35 illustrations dealing with the subject of tropical storms. Hopefully, if you follow the advice given, you will not need to worry about tropical storm tactics. But if you do run into a problem you will want to know how to tell the dangerous from the navigable semi-circles of the storm system. These two pages are just the beginning of this section, but they will give you a feel for how the book is engineered.