We invite all enthusiasts of the old-time sailing to have a look into this publication. This is a volume about the handling of the square-rigged ships, a truly magnificent ships seeming alive to the people, having no engine and depending solely on their sails. The book was written by the prominent expert in the field, taking readers around the world through the oceans. The narrative text of the book is absolutely perfect and so gripping.

He shares the real dangers associated with sailing the ocean and tells his readers what the expression to "know the ropes" means. Of course, handling of such vessels is not something that you can learn by reading - you need to do this yourself. But, getting such practice nowadays is a task next to impossible. The author of this book made an excellent attempt to acquaint the interested readers with the basics of sailing giving them a sort of introduction to a huge and complex subject.

According to the author, there are two fundamental skills which any ship master shall possess, namely to duly understand the ship and be able to look after her including all the sails and tackle, gear and rigging, and to sail intelligently, knowing the behavior or the main currents and winds of the ocean. This requires experience and the content of the book will give you something to start from.

The first three decades of the LNG industry, i.e. until the end of the 1990s, were dominated by base load projects with long-term sale and purchase and associated shipping contracts, typically of 20 years duration. With such arrangements the project partners had an equity share or knowledge in all facets of the project, from gas gathering to gas distribution, including shipping.

Furthermore, their technical staff had a detailed knowledge and familiarity with all the individual sections of the contractual chain. By the end of the 20th century, however, a short-term or "spot" market was starting to develop within the industry. In this market LNG vessels are hired on "spot" and "short-term" charters, with the charterer often having little or no knowledge of the history of such vessels. This has led to charterers and buyers and sellers of the cargoes drawing upon their oil industry experience and insisting on vetting these vessels prior to accepting them.

This has occasionally raised questions about aspects of the vessels' operation and maintenance that partners in the original long-term projects had previously understood and accepted. One area, unique to the LNG trade, in which this has occurred is the maximum, operationally acceptable, gas concentration to be found in the insulation spaces of the cargo containment system of the membrane-type liquefied natural gas carriers, particularly those of older design.

Hello and welcome to “Marine Surveying and Engineering Fundamentals”. What will you get out this course? First of all, of course, a fundamental knowledge and understanding of marine engineering. Apart from that, you will get to know the essential marine surveying responsibilities as this is a must-know prior to commencement of any related activity.

In addition, we addressed many types of technical assessments and surveys to make you have a good coverage and better idea of what you should expect in your work. This course is for professionals who are interested in working in the world of today’s marine engineering, people in need for a good introduction to the topic of marine surveying before pursuing further education in the subject field.

Moreover, it will be very beneficial to the students and engineers who want to improve their knowledge of different parts of the vessel in general. Considering the number of areas covered by the authors of this course, this one is definitely and highly recommended.

Through the naval history, the sailors acquired the perfect understanding of the rope handling, still unmatched by any other group of people from any other industry. That is why it is deservedly considered reasonable to associate the most significant knots with the nautical practices.

For sure, they formed an integral part of the sailing. Of course, there were textbooks available onboard ships, with their content studied with both admiration and skepticism. It was quite quickly realized by the experienced sailors that many of those publications were full of inconsistencies and errors, making the suggested methods impractical.

As a result, the seamen were left uncertain about what to trust and began to view the available instructions with significant disdain. The main intention of the authors of this book is to provide seamen with the clear, understandable and easy-to-follow reference to the ropes and ropework.

The author of this volume has included pretty standard application circuits accompanied by the circuits that were intentionally designed by the author. Each of the included circuits was assembled and subsequently fully tested by the author as the content of this publication was developed. Upon completion of the book, each circuit was reassembled in order to enable the author to check for errors.

The efforts of the author eventually resulted in this brilliant text expected to be of great practical use to all people making their steps in the magic world of electronics. It shall be noted that all reasonable care was exercised when preparing this book; however, the variations in component tolerances as well as in the construction methods might sometimes cause the obtained results to differ from those provided in the pages of the book.

That is the reason why the author and Radio Shack should not be held responsible for the suitability of the text contents for all possible applications, since this is outside the author’s control to track over the use to which the info in this book is put.

Consider this scenario – a bomb threat on the bridge of your vessel. What would you do? Unfortunately, we now live in the time when terror almost routinely includes the use of explosives, threatening commerce, threatening property, and threatening human lives. In this program, we will look into the threat posed by explosives, and preventive measures to minimize that threat. Searching the ship effectively, confronting the explosive device, and the effective planning and response are the integral parts of this training.

Ships are extremely vulnerable to a saboteur using explosives. He poses a different security threat than a stowaway or hostage taker as he will most likely try to remain anonymous and undetected. The explosive threat can be directed against a ship of a particular nationality for political reasons, against a policies or property of a particular shipping company, to sabotage or compromise a sensitive cargo, or to protest a grievance or issue.

The availability of explosive materials makes them extremely attractive for terrorists. As we can see from horrifying headlines, it is often very difficult to stop a terrorist, especially when he is willing to commit suicide to fulfill the mission. Still, there are sensible precautions that crews can take to help prevent explosive attack. First, they have to lock and seal any potentially vulnerable compartments, and watch for any signs of tampering, be especially alert to unusual objects in unexpected places, not touch any suspicious objects or packages – report them immediately…

Here is the animated cursor scheme which can be used on any personal computer by anyone who loves sea life.

The set of cursors presented to your attention includes following ones - a sailboat, boats keep out, brass dividers, inflatable life jacket, fluxgate compass, mobile VHF, parallel rule, sea binoculars, sextant, the lighthouse, VHF, winch, wind indicator, wing on wing, as well as the yachtsman's anchor.

This small software pack will let you get your desktop or laptop easily personalized so that you enjoy having a nice cursor instead of a standard electronic arrow.

This book on structural engineering is intended to provide industry with a well-balanced and seamless treatment of the established classic methods of analysis and modern computer-based techniques for the engineering structure design and conceptualizing. The principle goal of the volume is to foster a better understanding of the structural behavior on the basis of the problem-solving experience for the students of various fields of engineering who have exposed to fundamental concepts of mechanics.

While most of the other books on the same subject are mainly focusing in the manual analysis methods and their application to the idealized and simple structure, this one encourages students to duly develop their intuition connected with the structural behavior. The approach applied by the authors of the title will assist in the development of such type of intuition through presentation of the realistic and extensive problems together with the numerous case studies and computer simulation, allowing for the exploration of how the mechanical structures are responding to the changes in their physical parameters of geometry.

The content of the book has been found to be sufficiently comprehensive to be used for the students from elementary to high levels. The chapters have been organized by structural types and feature nine hundred figures and informative graphs.