Dinghy Sailing Start to Finish
From Beginner to Advanced: the Perfect Guide to Improving Your Sailing Skills
2nd Edition
Published on 1. December 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
184 pages
978-1-912621-07-1 (ISBN)
Description
Dinghy Sailing Start to Finish is the perfect book for you if you are new to sailing, or if you are an experienced dinghy sailor wanting to broaden your skills and develop your techniques. You will enjoy your dinghy sailing more with greater knowledge.
This easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide takes you through the basic principles, preparing to sail, your first sail, advanced sailing and the basics of racing. It includes advice on choosing a dinghy, essential gear, sailing manoeuvres, tides, wind and weather, all taken from the courses delivered by the UK's biggest sailing school, the UKSA.
This book is accessible to all levels, giving those new to sailing straightforward advice, and showing experienced sailors how to take their sailing to the next level with tips on how to sail faster and safer. It covers single-handed and double-handed dinghies and catamarans.
This book is packed with hundreds of illustrations and photographs, and is a great way to learn, develop and refresh your sailing skills.
This easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide takes you through the basic principles, preparing to sail, your first sail, advanced sailing and the basics of racing. It includes advice on choosing a dinghy, essential gear, sailing manoeuvres, tides, wind and weather, all taken from the courses delivered by the UK's biggest sailing school, the UKSA.
This book is accessible to all levels, giving those new to sailing straightforward advice, and showing experienced sailors how to take their sailing to the next level with tips on how to sail faster and safer. It covers single-handed and double-handed dinghies and catamarans.
This book is packed with hundreds of illustrations and photographs, and is a great way to learn, develop and refresh your sailing skills.
More details
Series
Edition
2nd New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Leamington Spa
United Kingdom
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
142 Illustrations, color; 217 Halftones, color
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 190 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
348 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-912621-07-1 (9781912621071)
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Additional editions
Barry Pickthall
Dinghy Sailing Start to Finish
From Beginner to Advanced: The Perfect Guide to Improving Your Sailing Skills
E-Book
01/2021
Fernhurst Books Limited
€16.31
Available for download
Previous edition
Book
02/2009
1st Edition
Wiley
€19.90
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Person
Barry Pickthall is a respected sportswriter and photographer and has been covering all aspects of sailing and boating for the past 35 years, 20 of them as a yachting correspondent to The Times newspaper. He has been covering the international stage for the past 4 decades from the Olympics to America's Cup and Round the World Races. Barry is also a qualified sailing instructor - having graduated from one of the first courses held at the UKSA.
Content
GETTING STARTED; BASIC PRINCIPLES: Parts of the boat, The rig, The science of sailing, Points of sail, Choosing a dinghy, Transporting dinghies, Knots, ropes and running rigging, Essential gear; PREPARING TO SAIL: What to wear, Rigging the boat, Launching, Rules of the road, Wind and tides, Telltale signs of the weather; FIRST SAIL: Balance, sail, trim, Tacking, Trim, Sailing downwind, Gybing, Capsize and recovery, Returning to shore; ADVANCED SAILING: Trapezing, Tacking, Spinnaker handling, Asymmetric spinnakers, Catamarans, Tuning, Heavy weather sailing; BASICS OF RACING: The start, Around the course; Glossary of terms; Acknowledgements