Yachting Start to Finish
From Beginner to Advanced: the Perfect Guide to Improving Your Yachting Skills
2nd Edition
Published on 8. March 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-1-912177-27-1 (ISBN)
Description
Yachting Start to Finish is the perfect book for you if you are new to sailing, or if you are an experienced sailor wanting to broaden your skills and develop your techniques. This easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide takes you through the basic principles, preparing to sail, your first sail and safety at sea. It includes advice on choosing and buying a yacht, essential equipment, boat handling, tides, weather and navigation, 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 professional tips on how to sail faster and safer. It covers day keelboats and cruising yachts. This book is packed with hundreds of illustrations and photographs, and is a great way to learn, develop and refresh your sailing skills.
Reviews / Votes
"A heavily illustrated guide covering all the basic aspects of going cruising from the vagaries of navigation to the technicalities of mooring up... nicely illustrated and well written." (Sailing Today)More details
Series
Edition
2nd New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Leamington Spa
United Kingdom
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
236 Diagrams; 167 Halftones, color
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
380 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-912177-27-1 (9781912177271)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Barry Pickthall
Yachting Start to Finish
From Beginner to Advanced: The Perfect Guide to Improving Your Yachting Skills
E-Book
04/2019
Fernhurst Books Limited
€16.31
Available for download
Previous edition
Book
09/2009
1st Edition
Wiley
€19.90
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Person
Barry Pickthall is a respected sports writer 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 science of sailing, Points of sail, Choosing a yacht, Buying a yacht, Transporting and launching keelboats, The rig, Knots, ropes and running rigging; PREPARING TO SAIL: What to wear, Essential equipment, Getting onboard from dinghy and dock, Rules of the road, Bending on sails, roller furling and reefing; FIRST SAIL: Boat handling under power - mooring and anchoring, Balance, sail, trim, Tides and weather, Basics of navigation, Radio etiquette; SAFETY AT SEA; Glossary of terms; Acknowledgements