Before doing the shorebased course I purchased a number of titles I'd be happy to recommend.
1. Cunliffe's excellent "The Complete Yachtmaster" covers all the basics in a cursory manner.
2. RYA's "Navigation handbook" (way better than Manley's Practical Navigation and than the various titles I tried from the library) added quite a lot more on that front.
3. RYA's "Weather handbook" added stacks.... but I'd consider it a bare minimum on that side of things. Our tutor had an impressive collection of titles (literally dozens) that would have allowed you to get further into the subject.
4. Campbell's outstanding "A Yachtsman's Complete Guide to the Collision Rules": knocks spots off all the other guides I found by showing how all the various bits tie together.
I also got the RYA book on the European Waterways regulations and the RYA VHF Handbook... and Admiralty Chart 5011 for all the symbols and abbreviations... but found quite a few other books at the library without which further bookstore visits might have been necessary.
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