Barry Pickthall

Yachting: Start To Finish (For Tablet Devices)

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Yachting is the perfect book for you if you are new to sailing, or if you are an experienced sailor wanting to broaden your skills and develop your techniques.
This easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide takes you through the world of knots, navigation and heavy-weather sailing. This book is accessible to all levels, giving those new to sailing straightforward advice, and shows experienced sailors how to take their sailing to the next level with professional tips on how to sail faster and safer.
Advice is included on basic principles, preparing to sail, your first sail and safety at sea, 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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165 printed pages
Original publication
2009
Publication year
2009
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Quotes

  • Lena Gorbachevahas quoted9 years ago
    This is the no-go zone and extends about 45° either side of the oncoming wind direction.
  • Lena Gorbachevahas quoted9 years ago
    Close reaching: 50-80° from the wind
    Sails are eased out. Crew continue to balance the boat.
    Beam reach: 90° from the wind
    Sails are eased halfway
    out, and crew continue
    to balance the boat.
    Broad reach: 120-160° from the wind
    The fastest point of sailing. Sails
    eased three-quarters out.
    Training run: 170° from the wind
    The safest a
  • Lena Gorbachevahas quoted9 years ago
    hulls with integral keel and rudder to much more efficient wide beam, light displacement forms with all manner of keel and rudder configurations

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