Reeds Maritime Flag Handbook 3rd edition: The Comprehensive Pocket Guide: Reeds Handbooks
Autor Miranda Delmar-Morganen Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 noi 2022
Concise but comprehensive, it includes:
- National maritime flags
- Special ensigns, jacks, burgees, official and defence flags, and code flags
- Yacht club burgees
- Signal flags (including naval codes, distress signals and racing codes)
- Flag etiquette and usage (from positions to salutes to timing and more)
Expanded and updated for its third edition, the book now includes masthead burgees, as well as new advice on changing rules in European waters and beyond, and more information on the use of and etiquette surrounding local, regional and other unofficial flags.
If you have ever put to sea wondering about the different types of flag, how they are made up, and the dos and don'ts as well as traditions and myths of flying flags then this will be both a fascinating read and a useful on-board guide.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781472994455
ISBN-10: 1472994450
Pagini: 176
Ilustrații: Full colour illustrations throughout
Dimensiuni: 100 x 160 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Ediția:3. Auflage
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Reeds
Seria Reeds Handbooks
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1472994450
Pagini: 176
Ilustrații: Full colour illustrations throughout
Dimensiuni: 100 x 160 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Ediția:3. Auflage
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Reeds
Seria Reeds Handbooks
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Cuprins
1. What is a flag? (How it is made, shapes, parts, proportions, sizes, securing)
2. Types of flag (ensigns, jacks, burgees, other flags, defence and official flags, code flags)
3. International code of signals (naval codes, distress signals, racing code flags)
4. Flag etiquette (the law, hoisting times, lowering, approaching a foreign harbour, positions, salutes and more)
5. International yacht club burgees
6. National maritime flags
Glossary
Appendix 1: Yacht clubs using a special ensign
Appendix 2: Selected two-code signals
Appendix 3: Useful flag websites
Appendix 4: Overseas territories, departments, crown dependencies or special administrative regions
Index
2. Types of flag (ensigns, jacks, burgees, other flags, defence and official flags, code flags)
3. International code of signals (naval codes, distress signals, racing code flags)
4. Flag etiquette (the law, hoisting times, lowering, approaching a foreign harbour, positions, salutes and more)
5. International yacht club burgees
6. National maritime flags
Glossary
Appendix 1: Yacht clubs using a special ensign
Appendix 2: Selected two-code signals
Appendix 3: Useful flag websites
Appendix 4: Overseas territories, departments, crown dependencies or special administrative regions
Index
Recenzii
A great little guide... Reeds Maritime Flag Handbook makes for fascinating reading and would serve as a handy reference on the bridge of any vessel.
A cheerful and colourful little book intended to provide crews of yachts, motorboats and other small craft, with a ready reference.
A concise useful reference tool to have to hand when cruising.
There is a difference, for instance, between the use of flags on land, and on sea. Curious? Well, read the book! ... It is a comprehensive little reference book; very useful to have aboard.
A cheerful and colourful little book intended to provide crews of yachts, motorboats and other small craft, with a ready reference.
A concise useful reference tool to have to hand when cruising.
There is a difference, for instance, between the use of flags on land, and on sea. Curious? Well, read the book! ... It is a comprehensive little reference book; very useful to have aboard.
Notă biografică
Miranda Delmar-Morgan has sailed for most of her life, professionally for over ten years. She currently sails in European waters both in a professional capacity, and cruising on her own boat. She is the author of Reeds Marine Distance Tables and Reeds Maritime Flag Handbook, and is also a regular contributor to Yachting Monthly.