Get to grips with your weather goals
Skipper’s Cockpit Weather Guide, by Frank Singleton
Frank Singleton, an RYA yachtmaster and former senior forecaster with the Met Office, has written
a practical handbook for making marine weather forecasts using a variety of sources. It expands upon the Yachtmaster and Coastal Skipper weather syllabus.
This spiral-bound, weather-resistant edition is aimed at crew and skippers of all levels and can act as a useful reference guide while at sea so that you know when to make alterations to your passage plan due to changing conditions. The principles of forecasting are handsomely illustrated with colour diagrams, photographs, explanations and bulleted lists.
Skipper’s Cockpit Weather Guide
By Frank Singleton
Adlard Coles, £12.99
ISBN: 978 14729 89031
Buy this book in the Nautilus Bookshop
While you're there, why not browse the rest of the titles in our unique maritime bookshop, which sells all the books reviewed on these pages.
Buy nowMore Books
Sort out your sextant skills
Reeds Astro Navigation Tables 2025, by Kendall CarterNew year, new astro navigation tables! The latest edition of this popular work gives a calendar showing where useful heavenly bodies will be each day in 2025, as well as guidance to help you practise navigating with your sextant using the sun and stars.
Well-researched history of mass maritime travel
Ocean Liners, by Anthony BurtonThe new title Ocean Liners has a great deal more to it than most books about liners and cruise ships, with plenty of technical content to appeal to an audience of maritime professionals.
Weathering your STCW studies
Meteorology for Seafarers sixth edition, by RM Frampton and PA UttridgeIf you’re looking to understand the practical side of meteorology, this book co-written by a former general secretary of the Marine Society will do the trick.
Thrilling mission to protect the Convoys
Operation Title, by Glyn L EvansDrawing on official records and personal accounts, author Glyn Evans brings the sinking of the Tirpitz to life by focusing on the experiences of one participant, able seaman Robert Paul Evans, making this a more intimate view of a well-known event.