Skipper Tips for Every Day: 365 ways to get the most from your sailing
365 tips, tricks, hints and cheats relating to all areas of practical seamanship—a daily ready-reckoner to improve skills in boat handling, navigation, living aboard and repairs.

Give this book a year and it will make you a better sailor as 365 experienced sailors share the wisdom of their experience, revealing invaluable suggestions you won't get taught on many sailing courses.

Their tips cover the entire breadth of topics relating to practical seamanship, with smart advice, time-saving cheats and ingenious solutions to common problems involving boat handling (from rigging and sails to anchoring and mooring), navigation, and living aboard (including cooking and water supply), along with thrifty hints for simple maintenance and repairs (plus winterizing), and customizing the boat.

Ideal for brushing up on a single topic or dipping into when needed, this book is particularly useful to new sailors and Day Skipper students. This isn't a book of secret knowledge, so all sailors—at any level—will benefit from learning something new from the experience of others.

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Skipper Tips for Every Day: 365 ways to get the most from your sailing
365 tips, tricks, hints and cheats relating to all areas of practical seamanship—a daily ready-reckoner to improve skills in boat handling, navigation, living aboard and repairs.

Give this book a year and it will make you a better sailor as 365 experienced sailors share the wisdom of their experience, revealing invaluable suggestions you won't get taught on many sailing courses.

Their tips cover the entire breadth of topics relating to practical seamanship, with smart advice, time-saving cheats and ingenious solutions to common problems involving boat handling (from rigging and sails to anchoring and mooring), navigation, and living aboard (including cooking and water supply), along with thrifty hints for simple maintenance and repairs (plus winterizing), and customizing the boat.

Ideal for brushing up on a single topic or dipping into when needed, this book is particularly useful to new sailors and Day Skipper students. This isn't a book of secret knowledge, so all sailors—at any level—will benefit from learning something new from the experience of others.

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Skipper Tips for Every Day: 365 ways to get the most from your sailing

Skipper Tips for Every Day: 365 ways to get the most from your sailing

by Fridtjof Gunkel
Skipper Tips for Every Day: 365 ways to get the most from your sailing

Skipper Tips for Every Day: 365 ways to get the most from your sailing

by Fridtjof Gunkel

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365 tips, tricks, hints and cheats relating to all areas of practical seamanship—a daily ready-reckoner to improve skills in boat handling, navigation, living aboard and repairs.

Give this book a year and it will make you a better sailor as 365 experienced sailors share the wisdom of their experience, revealing invaluable suggestions you won't get taught on many sailing courses.

Their tips cover the entire breadth of topics relating to practical seamanship, with smart advice, time-saving cheats and ingenious solutions to common problems involving boat handling (from rigging and sails to anchoring and mooring), navigation, and living aboard (including cooking and water supply), along with thrifty hints for simple maintenance and repairs (plus winterizing), and customizing the boat.

Ideal for brushing up on a single topic or dipping into when needed, this book is particularly useful to new sailors and Day Skipper students. This isn't a book of secret knowledge, so all sailors—at any level—will benefit from learning something new from the experience of others.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781472980564
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Publication date: 01/12/2021
Pages: 208
Product dimensions: 5.35(w) x 7.52(h) x 0.45(d)

About the Author

Fridtjof Gunkel has written extensively for Yacht magazine in his native Germany.

Table of Contents

1. Anchoring and mooring

2. Sailing from the cockpit

3. Deck layout

4. Boat handling

5. Rigs and sails

6. Stowage and security

7. Living aboard

8. Maintenance, repairs and winterising

9. Miscellaneous advice

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