Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-342) and index.

Anchor Weight 253 -- Sail Area 254 -- Sailboat Engines 254 -- Sailboat Handling 255 -- Sailboat Rigs 255 -- Sail Cloth 257 -- Sailing in Gusts 258 -- Sailing on Friday 258 -- Sails and "Lift" 259 -- Saloon 259 -- Salvage 260 -- Sandpaper 260 -- Scope for Anchors 261 -- Scudding 262 -- Sculling 263 -- Scurvy 263 -- Sea Anchors 264 -- Seacocks 264 -- Seakindliness 265 -- Sea, Land Breezes 266 -- Sealants 267 -- Seamanship 267 -- Seasickness 268 -- Seaworthiness 269 -- Self-Steering 269 -- Selling a Boat 271 -- Sentinels 271 -- Setting Anchors 272 -- Sextants 272 -- Sheet Sizes 273 -- "She" Is for Ships 274 -- Ship's Log 274 -- Shrouds and Stays 275 -- Single-Handed Sailboats 276 -- Single-Handed Sailing 276 -- Skegs 277 -- Skid Fins 278 -- Slack and Stand 278 -- Slips Versus Moorings 278 -- Smart Regulators 279 -- Solar Panels 279 -- Soundings 280 -- Sound Signals 281 -- Speed Limits 281 -- Speed of Boats 282 -- Speed Trials 283 -- Splicing Line 283 -- Spreaders 287 -- Stability 288 -- Stability Limits 289 -- Stainless Steel 290 -- Stanchions 290 -- Starter Draw 291 -- Steel Hulls 291 -- Steering Systems 292 -- Stern Anchoring 292 -- Stern Drives 292 -- Stern Glands 293 -- Stove Fuels 294 -- Sun Exposure 295 -- Surveyors 296 -- Synthetic Fibers 296 -- Tacking 297 -- Tacking Downwind 297 -- Tanks 298 -- Teak Finishes 299 -- Through-Hulls 299 -- Thunder and Lightning 300 -- Tidal Streams 301 -- Tidal Waves 301 -- Tides 301 -- Tillers 302 -- Time Signals 304 -- Time Zones 304 -- Tonnages 305 -- Tools 305 -- Torque 306 -- Towing 306 -- Towing Drogues 307 -- Trade Winds 308 -- Traffic Schemes 310 -- Trailerboats 311 -- Trim Tabs 311 -- Trysails 311 -- Turnbuckles 312 -- Twelfths Rule 313 -- Twin Screws 313 -- Unlucky Colors 314 -- Unlucky Names 314 -- Varnish Details 315 -- Varnishing 315 --

Abandoning Ship 3 -- Accidental Circling 3 -- Accidents on Board 4 -- Adhesives 6 -- Air Masses 7 -- Air Pressure on Sails 7 -- Albatrosses 8 -- Alternators 8 -- Aluminum Hulls 10 -- America's Cup 10 -- Amp-Hour Ratings 11 -- Anchoring Rights 11 -- Anchors, Anchoring 12 -- Anchor Types 12 -- Antifouling Paints 13 -- Apparent Wind 14 -- Backstaff 15 -- Bahamian Moor 16 -- Balanced Helm 16 -- Ballast Ratios 17 -- Ballast Taboo 17 -- Barge Hazards 17 -- Barometer 18 -- Barrier Coats 20 -- Battens in Sails 20 -- Battery Choices 21 -- Battery Needs 22 -- Beam-to-Length Ratio 22 -- Beaufort Scale 23 -- Berths 25 -- Bilge 25 -- Bilge Pumps 26 -- Binoculars 27 -- Black Box Theory 27 -- Blisters in GRP 28 -- Block and Tackle 28 -- Block Sizes 30 -- Boarding Ladders 30 -- Boat 30 -- Booms 31 -- Borers 31 -- Bosun's Chair 31 -- Bottom Painting 33 -- Bower and Kedge 33 -- Brake and Shaft Horsepower 34 -- Brightwork 34 -- Broaching To 35 -- Bulwarks 35 -- Buoyage Systems 36 -- Buys Ballot's Law 41 -- Calling for Help 42 -- Capsize 43 -- Capsize Screening 44 -- Castaways 46 -- Catching Water 46 -- Cavitation 47 -- Centerboards 47 -- Center of Buoyancy 49 -- Center of Effort 49 -- Center of Gravity 50 -- Chafe 51 -- Chain 51 -- Chain Locker 52 -- Chain Stoppers 52 -- Chart Datums 53 -- Charts 53 -- Chart Scales 54 -- Chart Stowage 55 -- Checking a Battery 55 -- Chines 56 -- Choosing a Boat 57 -- Circles of Position 57 -- Circumnavigation 58 -- Cleats 58 -- Clouds 59 -- Coast Guard 64 -- Cockpit Drains 65 -- Cockpits 66 -- Code Flags 66 -- Coiling Line 67 -- Coin Under Mast 67 -- Collision Bearings 68 -- Collision Regulations 69 -- Color at Sea 69 -- Color Blindness 69 -- Commissioning 70 -- Companionway Formula 70 -- Compass Bearings 71 -- Compass Courses 71 -- Compass Tests 72 -- Compass Types 73 -- Complex Lights 74 -- Computers 75 -- Cooking Afloat 75 -- Coral Reefs 76 -- Coriolis Force 77 -- Counting Seconds 77 -- Course Corrections 77 -- Cranking Ratings 78 -- Crew Overboard 79 -- Cruising Anchors 79 -- Cruising Boat Size 80 -- Cruising Lifestyle 81 -- Currents 81 -- Dacron 81 -- Danger Angles 81 -- Danger at Sea 82 -- Danger Bearings 83 -- Dead Reckoning 83 -- Deadrise 85 -- Delivery Trips 85 -- Depth-Finders 85 -- Depth-Sounders 85 -- Deviation Cards 86 -- Diesel Engines 87 -- Diesel Fuel 88 -- Diesel Maintenance 89 -- Diesel Smoke 89 -- Dinghies 90 -- Dinghy Capacities 90 -- Dinghy Life 91 -- Dinghy Oars 91 -- Dipping Lights 92 -- Direction 93 -- Displacement 94 -- Displacement Ratio 94 -- Distance Logs 94 -- Distance Off 95 -- Distress Signals 95 -- Dockage Costs 96 -- Docking 97 -- Dock Lines 98 -- Dodger 99 -- Doldrums 99 -- Downburst 99 -- Dragging Anchor 100 -- Drinking Seawater 101 -- Drogue 101 -- Downed Outboard Motors 102 -- Dry Rot 103 -- Eating Plankton 103 -- Echo Pilotage 104 -- Electrical Bonding 104 -- Electrical Wiring 106 -- Electronic Charts 108 -- Emergency Navigation 108 -- Emergency Position-Indicating Radio Beacon 109 -- Engine Life 109 -- Engine Oil 110 -- Enlarging Plans 110 -- EPIRBs 111 -- Epoxy 112 -- Estimated Position 112 -- Estimating Angles 112 -- Exhaust Line 113 -- Faint Lights 114 -- Fathometers 114 -- Fathoms 114 -- Fear 114 -- Fenders 115 -- Fetch 116 -- Fiberglass 116 -- Fiddles 117 -- Fighting Currents 118 -- Figure-Eight Method 119 -- Figureheads 120 -- Fire on Board 121 -- First Aid 122 -- Fisherman Anchor 122 -- Fishing Boats 123 -- Fixes 123 -- Flags 124 -- Flare 125 -- Flotation 126 -- Flotsam and Jetsam 126 -- Fog Prediction 127 -- Fog Types 127 -- Fouling Sheets 128 -- Foul-Weather Gear 128 -- Four-Point Bearings 129 -- Freak Waves 130 -- Freeboard 130 -- Freeing Anchors 131 -- Fuel Capacity 132 -- Fuel Consumption 132 -- Fuel Economy 133 -- Fuel Weight 134 -- Gaff Mainsails 135 -- Gales at Sea 136 -- Galley Placement 136 -- Galvanic Corrosion 137 -- Gasoline Dangers 138 -- Gelcoat 139 -- Gimballed Stoves 140 -- GPS 140 -- Green Flash 141 -- Groundings 141 -- Hallucinations 142 -- Halyards 143 -- Handy-Billies 143 -- Harnesses 144 -- Hatches 145 -- Hauling Out 145 -- Headroom 146 -- Heads 146 -- Headsails 147 -- Heaters 148 -- Heaving Lines 149 -- Heaving To 150 -- Heavy Weather 151 -- Height of Eye 151 -- HELP Posture 152 -- Hobbyhorsing 152 -- Holding Power 153 -- Holding Tanks 153 -- Horse Latitudes 154 -- Horsepower 155 -- Horseshoe Buoys 155 -- Hull Colors 156 -- Hull Costs 156 -- Hull Shapes 156 -- Hull Trim 158 -- Hurricane Areas 158 -- Hurricane Tactics 159 -- Hydrofoils 160 -- Hypothermia 160 -- Iceboxes 161 -- Ice Damage 161 -- Inertia 162 -- Isobars 162 -- Jacklines 163 -- Jet Drives 164 -- Jet Streams 164 -- Jib Numbers 165 -- Jumping Lights 165 -- Junk Rigs 165 -- Jury Rigs 166 -- Kayaks as Tenders 167 -- Keels 167 -- Knots 168 -- Lateen Rig 171 -- Latitude, Longitude 171 -- Lead Lines 172 -- Lead Percentage 172 -- Leaks 173 -- Leeboards 174 -- Lee Helm 174 -- Leeway 174 -- Length-to-Beam Ratio 175 -- Life Jackets 176 -- Lifelines 178 -- Life Rafts 178 -- Lifesling System 179 -- Lighthouses 180 -- Lightning Protection 180 -- Lights at Anchor 181 -- Lightweight Anchors 181 -- Lines of Position 182 -- Lines Plans 183 -- Locating Batteries 184 -- Locks 184 -- Lookouts 184 -- Lubber Line 185 -- Lying Ahull 185 -- Mainsail Slides 186 -- Making Fast 186 -- Man Overboard 187 -- Marine Operators 187 -- Masts 187 -- Mast Steps 188 -- Mast Vibration 189 -- Mayday Calls 189 -- Miles 190 -- Mooring 190 -- Motorsailers 192 -- Multihulls 193 -- Navigation Lights 194 -- Net Tonnage 197 -- New Anchors 197 -- Nighttime Boating 198 -- Noises in Fog 199 -- Nonskid Surfaces 199 -- Nylon Line 199 -- Ocean Currents 200 -- Ocean Temperatures 201 -- Ocean Voyaging 201 -- Ocean Water 203 -- Oil Bags 203 -- Osmosis 203 -- Outboard Motors 203 -- Overhangs 204 -- Overloading 205 -- Paint Amounts 205 -- Painting Time 205 -- Paints 206 -- Pan-Pan Calls 207 -- Passages, Gangways 207 -- Piloting 207 -- Pitchpoling 208 -- Planing 209 -- Planking 210 -- Plankton 211 -- Plastics 213 -- Plow Anchors 213 -- Plunging Breakers 214 -- Polypropylene 215 -- Polyurethane Paint 215 -- Pooping Seas 216 -- Portholes 216 -- Powerboat Engines 217 -- Preventers 217 -- Privacy 218 -- Propeller Advances 219 -- Propeller Drag 220 -- Propeller Facts 220 -- Propeller Fouling 221 -- Propeller Options 221 -- Propeller Thrust 222 -- Propeller Vibration 223 -- Propeller Walk 223 -- Provisioning 224 -- Pulling Power 225 -- Purchases 225 -- Purifying Water 226 -- Quadrant 227 -- Quarantine 227 -- Quarter Berths 228 -- Quick-Stop Method 228 -- Radar Reflectors 229 -- Radar Sets 230 -- Radio Direction Finders 231 -- Radio Transmitters 231 -- Rafting Up 232 -- Ranges 232 -- RDF Sets 233 -- Reciprocal Bearings 234 -- Reefing 234 -- Reefing Options 234 -- Refrigeration 235 -- Registration 236 -- Renaming a Boat 237 -- Resins for Boats 238 -- Resistance 239 -- Rhumb Lines 239 -- Rigging Sizes 240 -- Rigging Tension 241 -- Right of Way 241 -- Rodes 242 -- Rogue Waves 243 -- Roller-Furling and Roller-Reefing Headsails 243 -- Roll Times 244 -- Rope Strength 244 -- Rope Stretch 245 -- Rope Versus Line 246 -- Rudder Loss 246 -- Rudders 247 -- Rules of the Road 249 -- Rum Punch 251 -- Running Inlets 251 -- Running Off 252 -- Safe Anchorage 253 -- Safe

Ventilation 316 -- Voices in the Night 317 -- Wasted Fuel 317 -- Watchkeeping 317 -- Watermakers 318 -- Water Needs 319 -- Waterplane Area 319 -- Waterproof Clothes 320 -- Waterspouts 320 -- Watertight Bulkheads 321 -- Wave Height 321 -- Waves 322 -- Waves in Gales 323 -- Weather Fronts 324 -- Weather Helm 325 -- Weather Information 325 -- Wheel Turns 326 -- Whistling 326 -- Winches 327 -- Wind and Altitude 328 -- Wind Generators 329 -- Windlasses 329 -- Wind Systems 330 -- Winterizing 331 -- Wire Terminals 331 -- Wooden Hulls 333 -- Wooden Spars 334 -- Xebecs 334 -- Yacht Definition 334 -- Yacht Design 335 -- Your Performance 337 -- Zinc Anodes 338.