With weather conditions continually evolving, skippers need to factor forecast data into every passage plan and be prepared to modify it if the situation changes. This spiral-bound instant reference guide will help you draw the most relevant weather information from a variety of sources, understand and apply broader forecast data to your location and your anticipated route, and know when and how to make those necessary alterations.In clear, practical language, and with diagrams, photographs, explanations and bulleted lists, the book is also a useful primer or overview for RYA Coastal Skipper and Yachtmaster Offshore students by following the contents of the course:- Basic terms / the Beaufort Scale- Air masses- Cloud types- Weather patterns associated with pressure and frontal systems- Sources of weather information- Interpret a shipping forecast, weatherfax and weather satellite information- Land and sea breezes- Sea fog- Use of a barometer as a forecasting aidAs a reference before sa
