A Sailor's Guide to Wind, Waves and Tides

book summary

There are few situations in which one is more continually aware of wind and weather than at sea. The smaller the craft, the more intimate is that awareness. This book describes, in reasonably simple terms, the origins and development of weather systems and their effect at sea, the nature of waves and tides and the behaviour of vessels in sea conditions. The causes of the weather of different altitudes and the general global ciruculation of prevailing winds and currents are fully explained...