Safety and Security at Sea is concerned with the safe operation of ships and consequently with preventing errors and oversights.

Ship structures can be extremely large, and their structural arrangements are often complex and of a considerable variety.

This interesting volume is easily accessible to those with little or no knowledge of the building and uses of boats, whether ancient or modern.

This textbook covers ship construction techniques and methods for all classes of Merchant Navy marine deck and engineering Certificates of Competency (CoC) as well as Undergraduate students studying Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.

From the Loft Floor to the Sea is photographer and designer Christian Topf's exhaustive visual and verbal journal of the building of the 68ft Pilot Cutter Pellew, by Luke Powell and his team in Cornwall. She is the largest traditional wooden sailing boat to be built in the UK for decades – and at 360 large-format colour pages, this is probably the largest and most gorgeous book ever to record the process.

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