Maritime Essays
by Richard Sorokin
No.1 - Water: The Magic & Unique Substance. |
No.2 - Anchors and Ground Tackle: Discusses the many different anchors used today. |
No.3 - Boat or Ship -that is the question. A short discussion of nomenclature. |
No.4 - Christopher Columbus -A discussion of what he really knew and what he accomplished. |
No.5 - Floatation -Why things float. |
No.6 - How It Began: Beginning of man's life afloat. |
No.7 - Hulls: Discusses the many different types of hulls. |
No.8 - Maritime Communication: Short history of communications at sea. |
No.9 - Marlinspike Seamanship. |
No.10 - Navigation Art or Science? A short history and a list of current aids to navigation. |
No.11 - Ropes and Lines. How they are used and named. |
No.12 - Weather -What you must know to understand weather. |
No.13 - How Planes Fly and Boats Sail Into The Wind -The physics of flying and sailing. |
No.14 - Henry the Navigator, Prince of Explorers. A bit of early history of the sea. |
No.15 - Our Navy: Why and when it stared. |
No.16 - Nautical Charts: What's to be found on the charts. |
No.17 - Compass: How it works. |
No.18 - Where am I Going ????? -Short history, covers magnetic and gyroscope compasses. |
No.19 - Body Temperature: How we deal with our body temperature. |
No.20 - What's in a name? Where some knot names come from. |
No.21 - Life's Liquid: The importance of water. |
No.22 - The Metric System of Measurement History and short explanations. |
No. 23 Navigation Lines of Latitude and Longitude. |
No.24 - Which Way -Getting about on a ship. |
No.25 - What's a Knot? History and explanation. |
No.26 - Port and Starboard: Source. |
No.27 - Is Action Necessary? |
No.28 - Rules of the Road: Rules at sea, basics. |
No.29 - Reading the Clouds -Names of the clouds. |
No.30 - POSH: History of the word. |
No.31 - Lookouts & How they report. |
No.32 - Sailing Ships -Types. |
No.33 - Mechanical Propulsion At Sea. |
No.34 - Static Electricity. |
No.35 - Rope. |
No.36 - The Barometer. |
No.37 - How Fast is Fast? |
No.38 - Books: Nautical book list and explanation. |
No.39 - Chart Projection |
No.40 - Tides. |
No.41 - Body Temperature. |
No.42 - Boat Building. |
No.43 - Simple Machines. |
No.44 - Anchoring. |
No. 45 - Force. |
No. 46 - The Greatest Discovery. |
No. 47 - The Magic Genie. |
No. 48 - Traffic Signals on the Water.> |
No. 49 - Steering. |
No. 50 - Sail Boat Racing. |
No. 51 - Eating at Sea. |
No. 52 - How Important Are We? |
No. 53 - Sightings At Sea. |
No. 54 - Food and Civilization. |
No. 55 - History of Government. |
No. 56 - Energy. |
No. 57 - Change and Knowledge. |
No. 58 - Water at Sea. |