Boating 101: Essential Lessons for Boaters

by Roger Siminoff

No boater should leave the dock without reading this unique guide to the basics of boating. Roger Siminoff's decades of experience are boiled down into valuable, even life-saving advice on safety... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0071343296
• ISBN13: 9780071343299
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: International Marine Publishing
• Length: 213 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 7.1"

Customer Reviews

Great Quick Read Summary of Boating Basics

This book is easy to understand and quick to read. It has basic boating information that new boaters would find very useful. We found the sections on anchoring and docking very useful. Now when we go to a Boating Safety course we will be armed with the basics already.

Great book for those completely new to boating.

The title says it all... It was easy to read and the author answers alot of questions you might be too embarrassed to ask.

Great summary of what you REALLY need to know!

You can wade through several 200+ page books and get some of the information contained in this one, but this book gives you what you really need to know (and the information is a lot easier to discern than from those big books). So many beginner's books don't really deal with what you have to know, such as docking, anchoring, rules of the road, reading a chart, use of the radio, heavy weather, etc. This is not a "how to sail book." But sailors, like all boaters, must know the knowledge of seamanship contained in this book to be safe and enjoy themselves and unfortunately many on the water do not. I've sailed for many years, have taken several classes, etc. and this is the book I recommend to everyone new to boating or for a review.

Covers Everything

I took my wife and kids to Tortola this past winter, and bareboat charted a sail boat. I had read through many books on boating, but this one was by far the best. It gave me all the knowledge to enjoy my boating experience without getting into the usual trouble a amatuer would find themselves in. I would recommend this book to anyone, definatley worth the price

Boating 101

I was looking for an easy to follow boating book for my husband and older son. Then I found Siminoff's Boating 101 and quickly learned that even I could follow the text just reading through it in the bookstore. My husband was especially concerned about anchoring and in the various lakes we go to in New Jersey and now with some clues he got from this book, boating and staying out over a few nights is very comfortable for us and has become something we really enjoy. Thank you.