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This book is about learning to sail. It follows the techniques perfected at the world-famous Annapolis Sailing School, where thousands of people just like you have learned to take tiller in hand and harness the wind. You'll learn your way around a boat--what its parts are called, what they do, and how to use them to ride the wind wherever you want to go.Read this book, spend some time on a boat, and practice your new skills, and pretty soon you'll
be a sailor, one of a select group of people who think there's nothing finer than hiking out to windward in a close-hauled dinghy--racing against friends or a neighboring sailing club, or alone and just for the fun of it.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Your Boat
Balancing the Boat
Sails and Masts
Rigging
Rudders, Centerboards, and Daggerboards
Rigging Checklist
Safe and Sound
What to Take
What to Wear
Safety Checklist
Underway
Finding the Wind
Preparing to Leave the Dock
Finding the Correct Tack
Leaving the Dock
Steering and Sail Trim
Steering
Trimming the Sails
How Does Wind Power Your Sails?
Locating the Edge of the No-sail Zone
Points of Sail, or "Where Am I in Relation to the Wind?"
The Three Main Points of Sail
More Points of Sail
Trimming and the Points of Sail
What Does a Telltale Tell?
Turning Around
Coming About
Jibing
Tacking Upwind, Jibing Downwind
How Not to Go Full Circle and Other Hints
Heeling
Emergencies
Capsizing
"Crew Overboard!"
Thunderstorms
Lightning
Fog
Practice for the Unexpected
Coming Home and Other Topics
Sailing to a Mooring
Docking
Beaching Your Boat
Paddling
Putting Your Boat to Bed
Tides and Currents
Nautical Rules of the Road
"What Kind of Boat is That?"
Modern Sailing
What Next?
Appendix: Trailering
Glossary/Index
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