Spis treści:
WEATHER FORECASTS
1. When to go to sea
2. Negotiating with the weather
3. Weather in the fourth dimension
4. The limitations of forecasts
5. Questioning the forecast
6. Evolving weather
7. You get what you pay for
8. Weather from coast stations
INTERPRETING THE FORECASTS
9. Recording the weather
10. Reading between the lines
11. The meaning of "later"
12. The speed of the weather
13. Pinning down the windstrength
14. The language of forecasters
15. Forecasting wave height
FINE-TUNING THE FORECAST
16. Fine-tuning factors
17. Inconsistencies in the forecast
18. When the airflow is broken
19. When the wind is off the land
20. Winds around and over islands
21. Winds parallel to the shore
22. Sea breezes
THE WIND AND THE SEA
23. The Beaufort scale
24. The effect of wind on the tides
25. Tides and waves
26. Wave refraction
27. Wave heights
28. The effect of depth on sea conditions
29. Identifying dangerous sea conditions
30. What makes a wave break
31. Fetch and time
LOCAL WEATHER CONDITIONS
32. Radiation fog
33. Advection fog
34. When will the fog clear?
35. Drizzle
36. Gusts
37. Squalls
38. Thunderstorms
39. Avoiding thunderstorms
40. Line squalls and waterspouts
41. The message from the clouds
42. Clouds in a warm front
TACTICS AND SHORT-TERM CHANGES
43. Deepening depressions
44. Secondary lows
45. Using satellite information
46. Running for shelter
47. Weather tactics
48. Coastal tactics
49. Weather routing
50. Weather lore

Oprawa miękka.
96 stron.
Format:135x215mm.
ISBN 978-0-7136-8268-7