Your First Sailboat
How to Find and Sail the Right Boat for You
Published on 16. August 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-07-142216-1 (ISBN)
Description
The Comprehensive Sailing Start-Up Resource
Can a keelboat tip over?Can I take a centerboard boat onto open water?How can I determine what boat I want?Once I do, what's a fair price to pay for it?Should I buy it new or used?How can I tell the difference between a used boat and one that's used up?Now that I have it, how can I start sailing quickly and safely?
Your First Sailboat is the first book to answer all your questions about selecting, buying, maintaining, and using your first boat. This user-friendly guide covers issues that other books ignore, including how to choose between a trailer sailer, daysailer, raceboat, cruiser, or multihull; what hull material is best for your first boat; whether to buy new or used; where to shop; how to judge quality and condition; where to keep your new boat; and what to do about gear, loans, insurance, and annual maintenance. Special features of this all-in-one handbook include:
A descriptive buying guide to 75 recommended sailboats of all types and sizes, from daysailers to racers, cruisers, and multihullsA decision tree to guide you to your ideal starter boatComplete instructions on how to care for and sail your boat as well as how to acquire it
Straightforward and fun, Your First Sailboat gives you just what you need to stop asking questions and start sailing. Everything else is optional. Save time. Save money. This book omits everything you don't need to know.
Can a keelboat tip over?Can I take a centerboard boat onto open water?How can I determine what boat I want?Once I do, what's a fair price to pay for it?Should I buy it new or used?How can I tell the difference between a used boat and one that's used up?Now that I have it, how can I start sailing quickly and safely?
Your First Sailboat is the first book to answer all your questions about selecting, buying, maintaining, and using your first boat. This user-friendly guide covers issues that other books ignore, including how to choose between a trailer sailer, daysailer, raceboat, cruiser, or multihull; what hull material is best for your first boat; whether to buy new or used; where to shop; how to judge quality and condition; where to keep your new boat; and what to do about gear, loans, insurance, and annual maintenance. Special features of this all-in-one handbook include:
A descriptive buying guide to 75 recommended sailboats of all types and sizes, from daysailers to racers, cruisers, and multihullsA decision tree to guide you to your ideal starter boatComplete instructions on how to care for and sail your boat as well as how to acquire it
Straightforward and fun, Your First Sailboat gives you just what you need to stop asking questions and start sailing. Everything else is optional. Save time. Save money. This book omits everything you don't need to know.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Illustrations
50 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 185 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
472 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-142216-1 (9780071422161)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
E-Book
06/2004
1st Edition
McGraw-Hill Education
€37.69
Available for download
Person
Dan Spurr was for 12 years the editor of Practical Sailor newsletter, the Consumer Reports of sailing and one of the most respected boating publications, noted among other things for its new and used boat reviews, which have been published in book form as Practical Boat Buying. He is a former senior editor of Cruising World magazine and author of two highly regarded IM boating books as well as two critically acclaimed books of narrative nonfiction. He bought and refurbished his first fiberglass sailboat (a Pearson Vanguard) in the 1960s, and has since renovated three other boats including his current C & C 41. He is now the editor of Professional Boatbuilder magazine. AUTHOR HOMETOWN: Bozeman, Montana
Content
Introduction: So You Want to Buy a Sailboat?Part 1. Buying and Equipping Your First Sailboat1. What Kind of Boat Should I Buy?2. First-Time Sailor's Survival Guide3. How Big Should My First Boat Be and What Should It Be Built Of?4. From Whom Should I Buy?5. New or Used?6. How Do I Know If a Used Boat Is Used Up?7. How Do I Recognize Quality?8. Where Can I Keep My Boat?9. What Will It Cost Me?10. What Equipment Do I Need?Part 2. Handling Your First Sailboat11. How Do I Get My Boat In and Out of the Water?12. How Do I Tie My Boat to the Dock?13. All the Knots You'll Ever Need14. How Do I Attach the Sails?15. How Do I Attach Sheets and Halyards? (And By the Way, What Are They?)16. How Do I Leave the Dock?17. How Do I Raise the Sails?18. How Do I Turn?19. How Do I Stop?20. What If the Boat Heels?21. What If the Boat Flips?22. How Do I Come Back to the Dock?Part 3. Maintaining Your First Sailboat23. How Do I Take Care of This Thing?24. What If I Hit Something?Part 4. Navigation25. How Do I Know Where I Am?26. How Do I Know Where I'm Going?27. How Do I Steer a Course?28. Currents Keep Screwing Me Up29. How Fast Can I Go?30. What If It Gets Dark?31. What If It Gets Foggy?Part 5. Worst-Case Scenarios32. Despite What You Say, What If I Still Get Lost?33. What If the Mast Falls Down?34. What If the Boat Starts to Sink?35. What If the Boat Does Sink?36. What If Someone Gets Hurt or Falls Overboard?37. What If the Engine Won't Start?38. What If the Wind Stops Blowing?39. How Do I Know When It's Time for My Next Boat?The Sailboat GuideResourcesIndexIllustration Credits