An A-Z of sailing terms  -  Ian Dear

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Handy and authoritative, this invaluable guide deserves a place on every sailor's bookshelf. Abridged from the acclaimed Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea, An A-Z of Sailing Terms provides detailed explanations of nearly 1,500 sailing terms, covering everything from "booby-hatch" and "growler" to "jack in the basket" and "throat seizing."
Included are entries on navigational and meteorological subjects, weather lore, sailing expressions, and catch phrases--"to the bitter end," for example, is a sailing ...
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1992 Uitgever: Oxford University Press 216 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0192861476 ISBN-13: 9780192861474