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Dinghy Sailing Start to Finish: From Beginner to Advanced: the Perfect Guide to Improving Your Sailing Skills 2nd New edition [Minkštas viršelis]

  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 184 pages, aukštis x plotis: 197x152 mm, weight: 510 g, 142 Illustrations, color; 217 Halftones, color
  • Serija: Boating Start to Finish
  • Išleidimo metai: 01-Dec-2020
  • Leidėjas: Fernhurst Books Limited
  • ISBN-10: 191262107X
  • ISBN-13: 9781912621071
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 184 pages, aukštis x plotis: 197x152 mm, weight: 510 g, 142 Illustrations, color; 217 Halftones, color
  • Serija: Boating Start to Finish
  • Išleidimo metai: 01-Dec-2020
  • Leidėjas: Fernhurst Books Limited
  • ISBN-10: 191262107X
  • ISBN-13: 9781912621071
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
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.

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 maneuvers, 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.
Getting started 6(2)
1 Basic Principles
8(36)
Parts of the boat
10(2)
The rig
12(2)
The science of sailing
14(4)
Points of sail
18(2)
Choosing a dinghy
20(10)
Transporting dinghies
30(6)
Knots & ropes
36(6)
Essential gear
42(2)
2 Preparing To Sail
44(44)
What to wear
46(6)
Rigging the boat
52(6)
Launching
58(4)
Rules of the road
62(4)
Wind and tides
66(4)
Telltale signs of the weather
70(18)
3 First Sail
88(26)
Balance, sail, trim
90(6)
Tacking
96(4)
Trim
100(1)
Sailing downwind
101(1)
Gybing
102(4)
Capsize and recovery
106(4)
Returning to shore
110(4)
4 Advanced Sailing
114(44)
Trapezing
116(4)
Tacking
120(4)
Symmetric spinnakers
124(6)
Asymmetric spinnakers
130(2)
Catamarans
132(6)
Tuning
138(10)
Heavy weather sailing
148(10)
5 Basics Of Racing
158(19)
The start
160(6)
Around the course
166(11)
6 Glossary Of Terms
177(7)
Acknowledgements 184
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.