Yachting Start to Finish - From Beginner to Advanced: the Perfect Guide to Improving Your Yachting Skills

This easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide takes you through the basic principles, preparing to sail, your first sail and safety at sea. It includes advice on choosing and buying a yacht, essential equipment, boat handling, tides, weather and navigation, all taken from the courses delivered by the UK's biggest sailing school, the UKSA.

About the author

Barry Pickthall is a respected sports writer and photographer and has been covering all aspects of sailing and boating for the past 35 years, 20 of them as a yachting correspondent to The Times newspaper. He has been covering the international stage for the past 4 decades from the Olympics to America's Cup and Round the World Races. Barry is also a qualified sailing instructor - having graduated from one of the first courses held at the UKSA.

Summary

This easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide takes you through the basic principles, preparing to sail, your first sail and safety at sea. It includes advice on choosing and buying a yacht, essential equipment, boat handling, tides, weather and navigation, all taken from the courses delivered by the UK’s biggest sailing school, the UKSA.

Product details

• Authors: Barry Pickthall
• Publisher: Fernhurst Books Limited
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9781912177271
• ISBN: 978-1-912177-27-1
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 196 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 382 g
• Illustrations: 236 Diagrams; 167 Halftones, color
• Series: Boating Start to Finish; Boating Start to Finish
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > General, dictionaries, handbooks, yearbooks, history; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Mechanical engineering, production engineering