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Boating Fun Book Contents
 Boating Fun combines fun, crafts and activities with science
experiments and conservation.
To give you some idea we have listed the chapter headings and some of the
contents from each chapter.
Table of Contents...
Getting To Know Your Boat
Lifesaving equipment
Keeping a daily log
Some rules of the road
Three useful knots
Handling Your Boat
You can do it!
How to start and stop the engine
How to anchor the boat
 Safety And Communication
Hand held flares and rockets
The VHF radio
Rescue time
Navigating And Finding Your Way
Steer by your own compass
Tides and currents
Planning a trip with the tides
Weather
Observing weather and weather maps
Reading weather maps
The weathr forecast
Wind directions
Keeping Records
Sketch journal
Photo journal
 Sealife And Marine Conservation
Plankton
Parts of a fish and dissecting a fish
Seahorses and sharks
Marine mammals
Seashore code
Using your data to make a difference
Be a tidy boatie
Be An Ocean Scientist
Experimenting with messages in a bottle
Making a secchi disc
Making a seascope
Seashore secrets at night
Using binoculars
Fun Afloat
Personal nameplates
Rat sandwich
Food for Italian pirates
Boating Fun - Activities and Science for Boating Families
Written by Mike and
Dee Pignéguy
Illustrated by Richard Gunther
Published by Reed Children's Books
First Printed 2004
ISBN 1-86948-505-X
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