Dinghy Sailing Start to Finish - Barry Pickthall

Dinghy Sailing Start to Finish

From Beginner to Advanced: the Perfect Guide to Improving Your Sailing Skills

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
184 Seiten
2020 | 2nd New edition
Fernhurst Books Limited (Verlag)
978-1-912621-07-1 (ISBN)
21,15 inkl. MwSt
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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Boating Start to Finish
Zusatzinfo 142 Illustrations, color; 217 Halftones, color
Verlagsort Leamington Spa
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 197 mm
Gewicht 510 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Sport Segeln / Tauchen / Wassersport
ISBN-10 1-912621-07-X / 191262107X
ISBN-13 978-1-912621-07-1 / 9781912621071
Zustand Neuware
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