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Sailing: A Guide to Handling, Equipping, Maintaining and Buying the Small Sailboat
Sailing A Guide to Handling Equipping Maintaining and Buying the Small Sailboat Author:William N. Wallace This book is a comprehensive guide to the art and sport of sailing. It describes sailboats, rigging, and equipment, explains the principles of wind and tides; and provides the basic information on deck seamanship and sailing techniques. Fully illustrated with diagrams and color photographs---many by the famed yachting photographer, Morris R... more »osenfeld.
Chapters include information on what makes a sailboat go, right-of-way rules, tides and currents, anchors and anchoring, sailing at night, capsizing, distress, racing, buying a boat and the language of sailing.« less