Sea Kayaker's Pocket Guide

The Sea Kayaker's Pocket Guide is an indispensable field reference, a portable, packable tool offering quick access to no-frills advice on paddling, weather, navigation, safety, technique, repairs, and first aid. Need to know the quickest and driest way to launch through a building surf? The best way to make a channel crossing in the fog? Want to know how to take a bearing, time the tide for an easy ride home, deal with high winds, fix a broken paddle, treat a sore shoulder, or paddle at night? Can't remember the best knot to secure your kayak to the roof rack? Sea Kayaker's Pocket Guide provides answers and advice to these and nearly 100 other situations likely to confront a sea kayaker at some point--clearly illustrated, concisely and succinctly written by longtime sea kayaking instructor and author Shelley Johnson. Topics are listed under major headings in spread-by-spread displays that provide information the way a reader needs it--quickly.