
Your First Sailboat
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Content
- Cover page
- Your First Sailboat
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Introduction So You Want to Buy a Sailboat
- Part One Buying and Equipping Your First Sailboat
- 1 What Kind of Boat Should I Buy?
- 2 First-Time Sailor's Survival Guide
- 3 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 Two Handling Your First Sailboat
- 11 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 Need
- 14 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 Three Maintaining Your First Sailboat
- 23 How Do I Take Care of This Thing?
- 24 What If I Hit Something?
- Part Four Navigation
- 25 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 Up
- 29 How Fast Can I Go?
- 30 What If It Gets Dark?
- 31 What If It Gets Foggy?
- Part Five Worst-Case Scenarios
- 32 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 Guide
- Resources
- Index
- Illustration Credits
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