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Great book for a day skipper looking to firm up their understanding of the basics of sailing. This book is great at taking complex elements and making them relatively easy to understand
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The Complete Sailor: Learning the Art of Sailing
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The Complete Sailor takes the reader from the first sail to a mastery of small-boat handling. Weaving his writing around 600 drawings by noted marine illustrator Kelly Mulford, David Seidman has created a book in which each double-page spread invites the eye and communicates volumes of information. The Complete Sailor goes beyond other learn-to-sail books to cover navigation, boat design, and seamanship. Encyclopedic in scope yet warm in style, it conveys the magic as well as the techniques of sailing. Among the other topics covered: anchoring, ropework, rigging, weather, fog, squalls, currents and tides, rules of the road, trailering, and working the winds. The book is a gentle introduction for those just starting out, and a guide to new horizons for those who already sail.
208 pages, Paperback
First published March 22,1995
This edition
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208 pages, Paperback
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March 1, 1995 by International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
- ISBN
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9780070571310
- ASIN
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0070571317
- Language
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English
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I got this book because I had started sailing by trial and error, and I wanted to find out what I was doing right, and what I should do differently. What a gem of a book. This is a thin book, but the amount of clear and simple detailed information is incredible.
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Nice primer
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Lots of small insights and invaluable learnings. A few chapters (trailer sailing etc.) not so applicable that left me feeling lost. Otherwise glad I read.
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I received this book after taking a sailing class. I have not actually read through the entire book from beginning to end, but have found it to be a great resource and something I often refer to before going sailing when it's been a while since my last trip. A great book that I will keep on my shelf for many years to come.
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Excellent intro to sailing with lots of great illustrations. A lot of good information.
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This is a great book for an introduction to sailing- the standard issue manual for Seattle's Center for Wooden Boats SAILNOW program.
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A great beginner's book about sailing. Line drawings and sketches that a child could understand, but they are very professionally drawn, complete, and pleasing to look at. Most of my questions were answered right there. It is well-written, at times even poetic. This guy really loves sailing and boats. A friend is going to start teaching me this weekend, and I can't wait to learn how to sail! I feel like I have as much as I need to get started from this book alone. (I read several others, this is by far the best.)
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