Boating Etiquette

by Queene Hooper Foster

Book Overview

A complete and useful guide to every aspect of boating customs, from yacht-club practices to passing courtesies, from what types of flags to fly and how and where to display them to having or being a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688094570
• ISBN13: 9780688094577
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Hearst Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Gloria Vanderbilt afloat

I will never again use the Yachting Ensign in place of the US Ensign at the stern. Nor will you if you read this book. Boaters, all, please take note.

A must-have for the serious sailor

- What is the proper response to a vessel that allows her fenders to remain adangle after she has left the dock? - Does your burgee fly from the starboard spreader, in the face of nautical tradition? - What is the correct flag arrangement for "dressing ship"? (Yes, they're supposed to droop into the water.)The answers to these and other vital questions in this invaluable guide to the traditions and etiquette of yachts and those who sail them.