Collisions are expensive! Learning, understanding and remembering the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (COLREGs) is essential for anyone venturing onto the water. Leisure boaters, as much as professional mariners, need to know the rules, and a firm understanding is required to pass many nautical exams.
But with the COLREGs stretching to over 12,000 words, this is no small task. This is where Paul Boissier's excellent book comes in.
Paul knows the COLREGs backwards having used them extensively in his career with the Royal Navy from the bridges of submarines and warships which he has commanded, with each giving a rather different perspective on other shipping! He also knows the other side well with his extensive cruising experience, from his early years with his father to now, sailing his own yacht
These experiences mean that he knows and understands the COLREGs from both sides and this gives him the ability to take you through the COLREGs from a mariners' and sailors' perspective. He brings the vital, but dry, document to life, going through it not in order, but by topics which are relevant to the mariner and sailor.
Paul explains the intention of each rule and how it should be applied when at sea. He includes personal anecdotes (not all favourable to him!) which make everything real and tells us how he remembers different aspects of the Regulations through mnemonics and other devices. Finally, each chapter ends with a self-test to reinforce what has been learnt other tests are also available online on the Fernhurst Books' website.
This new edition has been updated with the 2016 changes to the CLOREGS.
Whether you want to increase your confidence, pass an exam, require an on-board reference, or wish to improve your understanding of the nautical rules of the road, this is the ideal book for you.
AUTHOR: Paul Boissier was a senior Admiral in the Royal Navy and has spent much of his professional life at sea in a wide variety of vessels, commanding two submarines and a warship. He is also a very experienced yachtsman and has cruised extensively. Paul was then the Chief Executive of the RNLI.
15 colour photos, 141 diagrams
By:
Paul Boissier
Imprint: Fernhurst Books Limited
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd edition
Dimensions:
Height: 210mm,
Width: 170mm,
Spine: 11mm
Weight: 318g
ISBN: 9781912177158
ISBN 10: 1912177153
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 01 April 2023
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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General/trade
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Undergraduate
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ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified
Foreword; 1 Introduction; 2 Context of the rules: Rules 1-7; 3 How to recognise other vessels by their lights and shapes: Rules 20-31 and 36; 4 Sound signals: Rules 32-35; 5 The manoeuvring rules: Rules 8, 11-19; 6 Narrow channels and fairways, and separation schemes: Rules 9-10; 7 Some examples of collision avoidance; 8 Particular issues for yachts and small boats; 9 Buoyage; 10 Distress signals: Annex IV; 11 International marine VHF channels as used in the UK.
Paul Boissier was a senior Admiral in the Royal Navy and has spent much of his professional life at sea in a wide variety of vessels, commanding two submarines and a warship. He is also a very experienced yachtsman and has cruised extensively. Paul was then the Chief Executive of the RNLI.
Reviews for Learn the Nautical Rules of the Road: The Essential Guide to the Colregs
If you wish to know a great deal more...about the Rules of the Road you should buy this book... (Sailing Today, August 2010) ...one of the most easy to read rule books out there. (Boat Mart, August 2010) Boissier's multiple perspectives...promise a wealth of anecdotes... (Practical Boat Owner, August 2010)
