Learning to Sail: In Dinghies or Yachts: A No-Nonsense Guide for Beginners of All Ages
Ebook
Overview
For anyone learning to sail in either dinghies or yachts, this book is easy to read with lively colour illustrations. Now in a larger format, this is a no-nonsense guide for beginners of all ages and is valuable as a back-up to sailing courses or for anyone learning to sail with a friend. It covers how to start sailing, the different kinds of boats you will sail in, various parts of a boat, rigging and launching a dinghy, getting going in a yacht, how a boat sails, handling ropes and tying knots, the effect of the tide, the weather, living aboard a yacht and what is on a chart.
'A useful first introduction' The Little Ship
'An ideal book for the absolute beginner... a no-nonsense primer' Kelvin Hughes
For anyone learning to sail in either dinghies or yachts, this book is easy to read with lively colour illustrations. This is a no-nonsense guide for beginners of all ages and is valuable as a back-up to sailing courses or for anyone learning to sail with a friend.
Suitable for beginners of all ages
Covers dinghies as well as yachts
This edition benefits from a larger format and new photographs
Ideal book to accompany sailing school courses or for flotilla holidays
Written by a bestselling author
- Title: Learning to Sail: In Dinghies or Yachts
- Author: Basil Mosenthal
- Publisher: Adlard Coles
- Print Publication Date: 2009
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 80
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781408197905, 9781408131145, 1408131145, 1408197901
- Resource ID: LLS:9781408197905
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T09:57:36Z
For almost all his life, Basil Mosenthal has sailed all over the world. The author of several bestselling books for Adlard Coles Nautical, he has a talent for explaining, very simply, subjects that may at first seem rather complicated. Recent books include Young Sailor, Learn to Navigate, Learning the Rule of the Road, The Powerboater's Guide, Learning to Crew, Getting Afloat, Test Yourself on the Rule of the Road.