Published: March 2025
Shiphandling, The Beautiful Game provides a resource on managing the fundamentals, from momentum and inertia, turns, and arranging assist tugs to anchoring and mooring. The book covers common challenges, such as navigation in restricted visibility or in channels, turning in confined waters and ports, maintaining situational awareness and avoiding the distractions that have become more common with advances in technology. The authors combine technical analysis with less formal anecdotes and recollections from their decades of experience at sea as pilots.
Topics include:
- Ensuring situational awareness
- Safer operations
- Stress management
- Bridge resource management
- Communication
Shiphandling, The Beautiful Game is an asset and a must-have for all seafarers and vessels.
