Large 12mo; 200 pages; blue cloth boards, title lettered in dark blue on spine and front cover. The fourth edition, with new chapters on piloting, international code, latitude sight, propeller data, and a formula for quick and simple compass corrections. Illustrated with five plates of photos of wonderful 1930s motor boats, and hundreds of diagrams, small photos, charts etc. This copy with slight soiling to binding, and light foxing to endpapers and a few pages at the beginning and end. Scarce edition of one of the bibles of boating.

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Titre: Power Boat Hand Book. Piloting, Boat Handling and Seamanship
�diteur: New York: The Rudder Publishing Co.
Date de parution: 1937
Reliure: Hardcover
�dition: 4th Edition
�tat de l'article: Good
�tat de la jaquette: No Jacket

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