Things I Wish I'd Known Before I Started Sailing

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Overview

There are many frustrated sailors out there and with the baby boomers starting to retire many finally have the freedom to indulge their sailing dreams. This book is intended to guide them.

Aimed at sailboat owners of all kinds, this reference book contains 200 entries packed with solid practical advice and valuable tips. Each entry is categorized alphabetically and prefaced by an arresting statement such as "People always lie about how fast their boats are." The reference format offers the readers opportunity to open the book at any page and browse endlessly. Cartoons by SAIL Magazine cartoonist Tom Payne enliven the text. A comprehensive appendix covers some 50 technical topics.

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Overview

There are many frustrated sailors out there and with the baby boomers starting to retire many finally have the freedom to indulge their sailing dreams. This book is intended to guide them.

Aimed at sailboat owners of all kinds, this reference book contains 200 entries packed with solid practical advice and valuable tips. Each entry is categorized alphabetically and prefaced by an arresting statement such as "People always lie about how fast their boats are." The reference format offers the readers opportunity to open the book at any page and browse endlessly. Cartoons by SAIL Magazine cartoonist Tom Payne enliven the text. A comprehensive appendix covers some 50 technical topics.

Editorial Reviews

Good Old Boat
This book is easy to read. It imparts some very valuable information in a fun package.
Latitudes & Attitudes
This is a great reference book for those just entering the world of sailing, and entertaining.
Sailing
...it is always interesting and very readable.
Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal
It's fun to page through and you just might learn a thing or two.
The Ensign
Filled with practical advice, this book is a winner.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781574092110
  • Publisher: Sheridan House, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 8/28/2005
  • Pages: 208
  • Sales rank: 308,675
  • Product dimensions: 5.98 (w) x 8.94 (h) x 0.52 (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi
Foreword xiii
Introduction xv
A1
Advice
Anchoring
Astern gear
Autopilots
Avoiding collisions
B5
Balanced helm
Basic requirements
Battens
Berthing
Bilge pumps
Binoculars
Boat categories
Boat choice
Boat design
Boat dimensions
Boat size
Boatyards
Bottom paint
Brotherhood of sail
Building a boat
Bulwarks
Bunks
C20
Capsize
Carbon monoxide
Chartering
Cleats
Climbing the mast
Coast Guard powers
Cockpits
Common sense
Compasses
Compromises
Cooking at sea
Cooking with alcohol
Crew overboard
Crew problems
Cruising bliss
Cruising costs
Cruising dreams
Currents
D35
Danger
Dinghies
Direction-finding radio
Dismasting
Displacement
Documentation
Downwind sailing
Drinking seawater
Drowning
E43
Electrolysis
Emergency gear
Engine power
Engines, accessibility
Engines, bleeding
Engines, clean fuel
Engines, fuel consumption
Engines, gasoline
Engines, life expectancy
Engines, operating
Engines, runaway
Engines, surveying
Engines, tools
Engines, unnecessary
Engines, unreliable
F56
Fear
Fog
Forecasting weather
Freak waves
Freshwater supplies
G61
GPS
Grounding
H63
Hallucinations
Headroom
Hidden mysteries
Hobbyhorsing
Holding value
Hypothermia
I-K69
Ice on board
Inertia
Keel design
Knots
L72
Leaks
Learning the ropes
Learning to sail
Leeway
Lies
Life rafts
Lifelines
Lightning
Log books
Luck
M82
Maintenance
Maintenance, teak
Messing about
Mildew and mold
Moorings
N86
Nautical mile
Navigation aids
Navigation difficulties
Navigation lights
Night sailing
Non-essentials
O91
Obsession
Osmosis
Overhangs
P94
Performance
Pets
Plankton
Pollution
Prices
Privacy
Propellers
R101
Racing
Radar
Radar reflectors
Rain
Reefing
Relative speeds
Renaming a boat
Repainting
Responsibility
Rigging
Right of way
Rigs
Running lights
Running rigging
S114
Safety harnesses
Sail materials
Sailing on Friday
Sailing skill
Salvage
Sculling
Sea monsters
Seacocks
Seakindliness
Seasickness
Seaworthiness
Seaworthy sterns
Selling
Signal mirrors
Simple solutions
Singlehanders
Singlehanding
Slip fees
Souls
Speed
Spinnakers
Splicing
Stability
Stability, tenderness
Stainless steel
Steering
Storm tactics
Surveyors
T139
Teak and varnish
Tenders
Tides
Towing
Trade winds
Trysails
U-V145
Unlucky names
Upgrading
Ventilation
Voices from the sea
Voyaging
W149
Watchkeeping
Water
Watertight bulkheads
Wave heights
Weather helm
Who's in charge?
Wind at mast height
Wind strength
Windlass
Women sailors
Wooden boats
Writing about sailing
Y-Z160
Yacht clubs
Yacht definition
Yachting gear
Zinc blocks
Appendix
Some useful tables and formulas I wish I'd known about 165
Books I wish someone had told me to read 183

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