Sailing: A Beginner's Guide

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Paperback
2007
$14.14

Sailing: A Beginner's Guide takes the reader step by step from his or her first sail to an almost intuitive mastery of small boat handling. The delightful drawings combined with the author's appealing writing style successfully explain topics in manageable double page spreads. The book unravels the mysteries of reading the wind, guides the reader through his or her first tenuous steps aboard, and then beyond to navigation, safety, seamanship and even trailering, conveying the magic as well as the nuts and bolts of sailing. It is a gentle introduction for those who are just starting out, and will provide many evocative images for those who already sail. It's all here, more successfully captured then ever before in one book. Inspirational for novice and old hand alike. 'An excellent introduction...a remarkable work' Practical Boat Owner 'Streets ahead of the rest...highly recommended for beginners of all ages' Guernsey Press

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Sailing: A Beginner's Guide takes the reader step by step from his or her first sail to an almost intuitive mastery of small boat handling. The delightful drawings combined with the author's appealing writing style successfully explain topics in manageable double page spreads. The book unravels the mysteries of reading the wind, guides the reader through his or her first tenuous steps aboard, and then beyond to navigation, safety, seamanship and even trailering, conveying the magic as well as the nuts and bolts of sailing. It is a gentle introduction for those who are just starting out, and will provide many evocative images for those who already sail. It's all here, more successfully captured then ever before in one book. Inspirational for novice and old hand alike. 'An excellent introduction...a remarkable work' Practical Boat Owner 'Streets ahead of the rest...highly recommended for beginners of all ages' Guernsey Press

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
Publisher: Adlard Coles Nautical
Published: 01 May 2007
ISBN 10: 0713683538
ISBN 13: 9780713683530
Book Overview: An inspiring introduction to all aspects of sailing for beginners of all ages Extremely popular since first publication Appealing writing style and beautiful illustrations convey the magic of learning to sail New topic on each double page spread teaches the reader in manageable steps Now reissued with a new cover

Media Reviews

'The delightful drawings and appealing writing style successfully explain topics in manageable double page spreads. Inspirational for novice and old hand alike.' Yachting Life (May 2007)

Author Bio

David Seidman went to sea at the age of nine in a wooden cement-mixing trough with a sheet for a sail and a broom handle as a mast, and has never really returned. He has sailed up the Amazon, down the Yangtze, and around the Caribbean. Formerly an advertising copywriter and creative director, he is now a writer, columnist and editor for boating magazines in Britain and the USA.