Author: Ken TextorPublisher: Sheridan House, Inc.
ISBN: 9780924486814
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Editor Ken Textor is a writer and sailing enthusiast.
Author: Felix Marks
Author: Ivar Dedekam
Author: Charles MasonA Manual of Sail Trim
Author: Stuart H. WalkerPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393032963
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A guide for racing covers the principles of sail trim, crew movement techniques, maneuvers, and control systems, and gives advice on adjusting to special conditions.
Learn to Sail with Captain Sailnator
Author: Alexander MeyerPublisher: Alexander Meyer
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
This ebook is designed as preparation for a practical sailing course or as an accompaniment to it. It is also excellent for people who are returning to sailing and want to freshen up their knowledge. For those who have just started it helps to understand how sailing works and is also suitable to introduce family members, partners and friends in this wonderful sport. All the important sailing manoeuvres are explained comprehensively and easy to understand. After reading this ebook you will visit your practical sailing course well prepared. There you can concentrate on the actually important matter, already knowing some of the theory: Sailing The ebook contains 144 coloured images showing the important sailing manoeuvres step by step. On additional 75 black and white images the nautical knots are explained. So before you buy the ebook please download a free sample and have a look if your ebook-reader shows all details on the images correctly.
Author: Bill GladstoneLearning to Sail
Author: H. A. CalahanPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486149587
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
One of the best guides ever written for the novice sailor. Expert coverage of boat selection, mooring, knots, bending and hoisting sail, much more. 111 black-and-white figures.
RYA Sail Trim Handbook (G-G99)
Author: Royal Yachting AssociationPublisher: Royal Yachting Association
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The digital edition of the RYA Sail Trim Handbook for Cruisers is crammed with useful tips and pointers on one of the fundamentals of good seamanship: sail trim. The book focuses more on the needs of the cruising sailor as opposed to the out-and-out racer. After all, a well-trimmed cruising yacht will be better balanced, easier to handle, and will sail more comfortably. Sail trim can be bewildering to the novice but the RYA Sail Trim Handbook talks you through the subject in an informative yet entertaining manner. This eBook is further enhanced by a range of clear, well thought-out illustrations. Chapters include: How Sails Work Jibs & Genoas Spinnakers Reefing Sailing Upwind Heavy Weather Sailing Trade Wind Sailing Ultimately this book will have you itching to get back afloat and tinkering with the trim of your sails. This book takes advantage of Google's accessibility features (https://support.google.com/accessibility/android/answer/6006564?hl=en-GB).
Cruising Catamarans Made Easy
Author: American SailingPublisher: American Sailing
ISBN: 0982102542
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Do you want to try sailing with two hulls because you’ve heard it’s twice the fun of sailing on one? ASA’s Cruising Catamarans Made Easy book will set you off on the right course. As the textbook for ASA114, the Cruising Catamaran standard, this volume examines the differences between monohulls and catamarans, introduces the language of multihulls, and prepares sailors for the nuances of handling a cruising catamaran under sail and under power.
