Stress-Free Mooring is a quick-access, extremely visual on-board practical guide to how to approach mooring and berthing situations in a yacht or motorboat.
Condensing material from the highly successful
Stress-Free Sailing and
Stress-Free Motorboating into a bite-sized book for easy reference, Duncan Wells provides instant guidance to helmsmen seeking to learn how best to get on and off pontoons, jetties and harbour walls in all directions of wind and tide, as well as anchoring and picking up mooring buoys. The techniques are applicable anywhere in the world, on any type and size of boat.
Areas covered include:
- Tying knots and mastering other rope work
- Adapting to different wind and tide configurations
- Springs, bridles and slipped lines
- Rafting up with other boats
- Picking up a mooring buoy
With step-by-step photos, explanatory diagrams and concise hints and tips, helmsmen can have at their fingertips the answers they need to all manner of mooring problems.
About the Author
Duncan Wells is an RYA instructor and sailing school principal. He has written for many leading boating magazines in the UK and the US. The author of the bestselling
Stress-Free Sailing and
Stress-Free Motorboating, he lives in the UK, in Buckinghamshire. He is also the creator of MOB Lifesavers.