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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 797.12403
EAN: 9780393046496
ISBN: 0393046494
Label: W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 168
Publication Date: 1998-06
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Sales Rank: 781456
Studio: W. W. Norton & Company
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
This is a guide to the language of boating and the sea. Here are the defined terms that today's sailors rely on to make their way safely across the waters of the world.
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
For a small book, this dictionary covers a lot. Unfortunately, many of the definitions use terms that are not themselves defined elsewhere in the dictionary, breaking a reasonable and inviolate rule that definitions should give a clear, freestanding explanation. Spending a little time to cross-reference the definitions themselves, to see that they are also in the text would be welcome. Some definitions are so short as to be useless to anyone who is not already an "old salt." The illustrations ... Read More
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Thanks for taking my return. The book was not well written.
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A very good book. The only critical thing I would say is that it lacks boat building terms and does not use WoodenBoat magazine as one of its many fine references. I saw the book advertised in the WoodenBoat catalog and assumed it would help in my new boat building project. I am still looking for a resource. It still has 2000 other terms. Not bad.
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I have this book and it is a good book. Just the right size too. Not too big. The production is high gloss boards which protect the book from water splashes. The customer who wrote about the author reviewing his own book is out to lunch. There is a limit of 1000 words per review AND the author simply added 2 different reviews of his book for two different sources. Both reviews were very positive. The author was not dishonest, and he could have been. He signed his reviews. This unconscious reviewer ... Read More
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You suck for writing your own "customer" reviews (three of them no less). I bought your book anyway though.
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