UK Holidays - The European Waterways: A User's Guide

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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 797.1094 EAN: 9781574091762 ISBN: 157409176X Label: Sheridan House Manufacturer: Sheridan House Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 192 Publication Date: 2003-11-01 Publisher: Sheridan House Studio: Sheridan House
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Editorial Reviews: Anyone unaccustomed to the bewildering array of European waterway signs, symbols, rules, and regulations will find this book a blessing. Marian Martin demystifies this new world for the visitor, eliminating the potential for problems arising from being unfamiliar or unprepared. The book explains: ideal ports of entry to the continental waterways what the various waterway signs and symbols mean European and UK rules and regulations permits and documents required and where to obtain them how much to budget for mooring and fuel costs techniques for coping with lift bridges and swing bridges, circular locks, fast fall locks, canal elevators and tunnels how to moor alongside commercial barges, coping with one-way systems and giant barges, mooring and cruising equipment for the waterways, and more... An essential on-board manual for anyone planning to cruise European waterways, this second edition also features new material written expressly for American sailors considering a voyage through Europe.