Sailing Made Simple

By Shirley H. M. Reekie

Certified sailing instructor Shirley Reekie presents the essentials of boat parts, sailing dynamics, and safety precautions. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0880112786
• ISBN13: 9780880112789
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Leisure Pr
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.3" x 0.5" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Practical common sense instruction

This book is simple and complete covering the following chapters for small boats with numerous illustrations (150+pages): evolution of sailboats, points of sailing, maneuvering, boat parts, knots, and rigging a boat, safetly precautions (capsize), reaching, coming about, and docking, beating, running, and getting out of irons, gybing, use of centerboard, and sailing around a course, heavy and light weather sailing, man-overboard, sailing rules, care, ropework, further knots, racing rules and strategy, board sailing

Very practical. Great for small boats.

One of the very few books that uses both British and North-American sailing expressions - it is bilingual.