Dinghy Sailing Start to Finish: From Beginner to Advanced: The Perfect Guide to Improving your Sailing Skills
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.
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Dinghy Sailing Start to Finish: From Beginner to Advanced: The Perfect Guide to Improving your Sailing Skills
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.
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Dinghy Sailing Start to Finish: From Beginner to Advanced: The Perfect Guide to Improving your Sailing Skills

Dinghy Sailing Start to Finish: From Beginner to Advanced: The Perfect Guide to Improving your Sailing Skills

by Barry Pickthall
Dinghy Sailing Start to Finish: From Beginner to Advanced: The Perfect Guide to Improving your Sailing Skills

Dinghy Sailing Start to Finish: From Beginner to Advanced: The Perfect Guide to Improving your Sailing Skills

by Barry Pickthall

Paperback(2nd ed.)

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781912621071
Publisher: Fernhurst Books
Publication date: 01/01/2021
Series: Boating Start to Finish , #1
Edition description: 2nd ed.
Pages: 184
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 7.75(h) x (d)

About the Author

Barry Pickthall is a respected sports writer 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.

Table of Contents

Getting started 6

1 Basic principles 8

Parts of the boat 10

The rig 12

The science of sailing 14

Points of sail 18

Choosing a dinghy 20

Transporting dinghies 30

Knots & ropes 36

Essential gear 42

2 Preparing to sail 44

What to wear 46

Rigging the boat 52

Launching 58

Rules of the road 62

Wind and tides 66

Telltale signs of the weather 70

3 First sail 88

Balance, sail, trim 90

Tacking 96

Trim 100

Sailing downwind 101

Gybing 102

Capsize and recovery 106

Returning to shore 110

4 Advanced sailing 114

Trapezing 116

Tacking 120

Symmetric spinnakers 124

Asymmetric spinnakers 130

Catamarans 132

Tuning 138

Heavy weather sailing 148

5 Basics of racing 158

The start 160

Around the course 166

6 Glossary of terms 177

Acknowledgements 184

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