BOOK COVER: Sailors' Secrets
Softcover, 7½"x9½"
320 pgs., illus.
Price: $19.95 plus s&h.

Instructive, humorous, biting, and challenging, Sailors' Secrets can be opened anywhere and enjoyed. Its wide-ranging chapters cover routine maintenance, understanding weather, safety at sea, storm strategies, piloting, engine troubleshooting, gear and outfitting, and simple solutions to complex problems.

Here are over 1,000 tips, suggestions, evaluations, pieces of advice, and quotations on all aspects of seamanship, culled from the experiences of the editors and the wisdom of contributors: the nautical equivalent of an editors' forum, distilling over 300 voices into a salty brew offering simple solutions to complex problems.