50 Ways to Improve Your PowerBoat Driving. 50 способов улучшить вождение моторной лодки

Издание на английском языке.
This is a book about practical powerboat driving in boats large and small, operating at speeds between 20 and 100 knots. It is about techniques that can only be picked up from experience - practical ways to make your driving safer, easier and better, whatever the conditions.
This book starts where most other books finish. You may have learnt the important basics of powerboat driving, but now it's time to see how to translate these basics into practical handling techniques that you can use to give a better ride and have a smoother passage. With the help of this book, readers will pick up expert tips such as

Contents
The basics
1 The time factor
2 Safety margins
3 Reactions and response times
4 Concentration
5 Before you leave
Fast boat design
6 Depth of vee
7 The benefit of steps
8 The effect of beam
9 Spray rails and chines
10 Catamarans and trimarans
Understanding your boat
11 What keeps your boat stable?
12 The benefits of RIBs
13 Make sure you can see
14 Setting up outboards
15 Flaps and interceptors
16 Propellers
17 Propulsion response
18 Torque reaction
19 Engine response
The primary controls
20 Separate throttle and gear levers
21 The throttle is the key
22 Throttle response
23 Types of steering
24 The effect of steering on trim
The secondary controls
25 Power trim
26 Power trim for surface drives
27 Setting up the flaps
28 Heeling into the wind
29 The benefits of 2-speed gearboxes
30 Ballasting
31 Balancing the boat
Driving the boat
32 Reading the waves
33 Driving in head seas
34 With the waves on the beam
35 Coping with following seas
36 Expect the unexpected
37 Porpoising
Coping with extremes
38 Driving on the edge
39 Spinning out
40 Broaching
41 Night driving
42 Fog driving
43 Coming off the plane
Tactics and navigation
44 Fine-tuning the chart
45 Navigation preparation
46 Visual navigation
47 Tacking to increase the wavelength
48 Taking the longer route
49 Electronic navigation
50 Anticipating the waves