GLENANS WEATHER FORECASTING: A MANUAL FOR YACHTSMEN by CENTRE NAUTIQUE DES GL�©NANS ISBN 13: 9780715379110

Hardback. Good.

Hardback. Very Good.

David & Charles, 1980. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good - in Very Good DJ. Top edges of text block dusty. Lightly spotted throughout.. Hardback in dust wrapper ). Physically 7½” x 5” (0.4 kg); 192pp; Index; Bibliography; A Manual for Yachtsmen. A concise book, it introduces yachtsmen to the fundamentals of weather, enabling them to interpret the details of shipping forecasts, such as the General Synopsis, and relate them to their own immediate locality. It emphasises too the importance of observation, but the sailor’s eye is only at its sharpest, and his ability to make deductions at its best, when he has full understanding, for instance, of the movements of air masses, these invisible slopes in the sky along which winds flow. ISBN: 0715379119 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer… Read More