Getting Afloat: All You Need to Know About Sailing Small Boats
No. of pages 80
Published: 1999
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This book is part of a book series called All You Need To Know About .
There are 80 pages in this book. This book was published 1999 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC .
For almost all of 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 Learning to Sail, Learning the Rule of the Road, Learning to Crew, The Powerboater's Guide, Getting Afloat and Test Yourself on the Rule of the Road.
This book has the following chapters: How to start sailing; sailing schools and clubs; rigging and launching small boats; how boats sail; starting to race; the racing rules made easy; types of dinghy; all about ropes and knots; what a chart tells you; buoys and what they mean; the effect of the tide; understanding the weather; exploring in a dinghy; sailor's language; flags.
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