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Author : R. M. Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (296 download)
Download or read book A Lifting Sail for Small Boats written by R. M. Brown and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. Hyatt Verrill
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Book of the Sailboat: How to rig, sail and handle small boats written by A. Hyatt Verrill and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A. Hyatt Verrill's 'The Book of the Sailboat: How to rig, sail and handle small boats' is a comprehensive guide that delves into the intricate world of sailing. Verrill meticulously describes the process of rigging, sailing, and maneuvering small boats, providing readers with a detailed understanding of the mechanics behind this age-old pastime. Written in a clear and concise manner, the book is accessible to both beginners and seasoned sailors alike, making it a valuable resource in the literary landscape of sailing guides. Verrill's attention to detail and practical advice make this book a must-read for anyone looking to enhance their sailing skills. A. Hyatt Verrill, a renowned explorer and author with a passion for the sea, draws from his own experiences to offer invaluable insights in 'The Book of the Sailboat'. His expertise in sailing and intimate knowledge of small boats shines through in this book, establishing him as a leading authority in the field of sailing literature. Verrill's passion for sailing is evident in his writing, inspiring readers to embark on their own sailing adventures. For sailing enthusiasts and novices alike, 'The Book of the Sailboat' is a definitive guide that offers valuable tips and techniques for mastering the art of sailing. Verrill's expertise and passion for the subject make this book an essential addition to any sailor's library, providing a wealth of knowledge to enhance their seafaring journeys.
Author : David L. Nichols
Publisher : Breakaway Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Working Guide to Traditional Small-Boat Sails written by David L. Nichols and published by Breakaway Books. This book was released on 2014-06-09 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make your modern sailboat look (and work) like a salty classic. The Golden Age of Sail is long past, sadly, and much of its lore is nearly extinct. Sailboats now almost uniformly use the Bermudan sloop rig—a triangular jib and a triangular mainsail. But that rig evolved mainly to meet esoteric yacht-racing measurement rules. It is not necessarily the most efficient or effective rig. This book lets sailors rediscover the practical advantages—and the aesthetic delights—of such configurations as the sprit sail, the gaff sail, the lug sail, and the gunter rig. It also includes valuable information on marlinspike work like rope-whipping and eye-splicing; and tips on converting your modern sailboat to a traditional rig. ______________________ Some reviews: “This will become the classic book on traditional rigs for small boats. . . . A concise and thorough compendium on using low-cost and efficient traditional rigs, the kind that not only look better but work better on small boats than their modern counterparts.” —Gary Blankenship, Duckworks Magazine “The ‘traditional’ rigs here are the kind you’ll find on the clinker plywood designs of Iain Oughtred and the like; rigs with polyester sails and running rigging. Tufnol blocks and stainless steel shackles. ‘Modern traditional boats’, if you’ll forgive the phrase. Similarly, there’s a nice mix of old and new the manner the material is presented: old in the cleanliness of the page design; new in the extensive use of colour close-up photographs to illustrate details of the rigs. Highly recommended.” —Water Craft Magazine "Mr. Nichols does an excellent job of explaining the fundamentals in terms that are useful to old salts looking to tweak their rigs, builders trying to figure out what's next, and admirers of traditional design." —Good Old Boat
Author : George Buehler
Publisher : Booklocker.com
ISBN 13 : 9781614344728
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (447 download)
Download or read book The Troller Yacht Book written by George Buehler and published by Booklocker.com. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 21st-century update of yacht designer Buehler's popular guide to fuel-efficient and safe offshore cruising powerboats is loaded with detailed information about cruising design theory, building, and outfitting.
Author : Philip C. Bolger
Publisher : H. H. Payson
ISBN 13 : 9781887222013
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (22 download)
Download or read book 100 Small Boat Rigs written by Philip C. Bolger and published by H. H. Payson. This book was released on 1995-06-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Gerard Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)
Download or read book How Sails are Made and Handled written by Charles Gerard Davis and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harold Payson
Publisher : Wooden Boat Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781934982082
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Instant Boats written by Harold Payson and published by Wooden Boat Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to build simple, well-designed plywood boats without a complicated building jig, featuring complete scaled-down plans for five easily-built boats designed by Phil Bolger. From a small punt to a 31' daysailer with a schooner rig. The step-by-step example being a 12' double-ended sailing skiff.
Author : Alexander Meyer
Publisher : Alexander Meyer
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Learn to Sail with Captain Sailnator written by Alexander Meyer and published by Alexander Meyer. This book was released on 2015-03-23 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ebook is designed as preparation for a practical sailing course or as an accompaniment to it. It is also excellent for people who are returning to sailing and want to freshen up their knowledge. For those who have just started it helps to understand how sailing works and is also suitable to introduce family members, partners and friends in this wonderful sport. All the important sailing manoeuvres are explained comprehensively and easy to understand. After reading this ebook you will visit your practical sailing course well prepared. There you can concentrate on the actually important matter, already knowing some of the theory: Sailing The ebook contains 144 coloured images showing the important sailing manoeuvres step by step. On additional 75 black and white images the nautical knots are explained. So before you buy the ebook please download a free sample and have a look if your ebook-reader shows all details on the images correctly.
Author : Edward Frederick Knight
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Small-boat Sailing written by Edward Frederick Knight and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Dellenbaugh
Publisher : Sports Illustrated Books
ISBN 13 : 9780452262720
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (627 download)
Download or read book Sports Illustrated Small-boat Sailing written by David Dellenbaugh and published by Sports Illustrated Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sports illustrated winner's circle books." Discusses the basics of small-boat sailing with diagrams and photos
Author : Edward Frederick Knight
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Small-boat Sailing written by Edward Frederick Knight and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Derek Van Loan
Publisher : Paradise Cay Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780939837700
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (377 download)
Download or read book The Chinese Sailing Rig written by Derek Van Loan and published by Paradise Cay Publications. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chinese Sailing Rig: Design and Build Your Own Junk Rig is a stem-to-stern guide for the Western sailor who wants to junk rig any hull. Words and drawings clearly explain in detail concepts that have been successfully used for millenia in the Orient. Using Western materials and techniques, Derek walks the amateur designer/builder through all the steps to successfully junk rig their hull of choice. The emphasis is on adaptation of the Chinese rig to Western hulls. Clear and concise, The Chinese Sailing Rig does in a small book what others have attempted in much larger volumes. This edition is an update of the original that has been selling worldwide since 1981. "Van Loan squeezes into a small paperback what Hasler and McLeod did in a large hardback. Van Loan manages to get a lot of information over remarkably well." Classic Boat"Offers good basic instruction for fitting a junk rig to a boat of your choice...this book will, most importantly, help to keep it simple." Robin Blain; Hon. Sec. Junk Rig Association
Author : Ahmed John Kenealy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Boat Sailing in Fair Weather and Foul written by Ahmed John Kenealy and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Leather
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780071556507
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (565 download)
Download or read book Spritsails and Lugsails written by John Leather and published by . This book was released on 1989-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Fleming Day
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book On Yacht Sailing written by Thomas Fleming Day and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Yacht Sailing is a book by Thomas Fleming Day. This edition provides a simple treatise for beginners concerning the art of handling small yachts and boats.
Author : Peter Clutterbuck
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472945697
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)
Download or read book The Sea Takes No Prisoners written by Peter Clutterbuck and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a classic real-life story of derring do on the high seas, complete with extreme risk, last-minute ingenuity and many near-misses. Beginning in the 1960s, this book tells of the real life adventures of the author as a boy – a time of boarding schools, long holidays and an unbelievable (to today's parents) amount of freedom and danger. Encouraged by his parents (who lived abroad) to become more independent and self-sufficient, Peter decided to see how far he could get in his family's small open dinghy Calypso. Aged 16, he spent a winter restoring her, before pootling straight out into a force 7 gale and very nearly capsizing, after which he headed back to land to plan even more extreme adventures. Calypso was a Wayfarer, a small (16ft) and very popular class of open dinghy; a boat designed for pottering around coastlines and estuaries during the day. But along with the occasional brave crewmate, Peter managed to sail her across the Channel, through the Bay of Biscay, down the French canals and into the Mediterranean, then up into the North Sea and the Baltic to Oslo, living aboard for three months at a time. These were some of the longest voyages that anyone had ever achieved in an open boat, where (as Peter says) you 'have to be like a tightrope walker, concentrating on balance day and night, fully aware of the consequence of relaxing your vigilance'. He survived huge waves, nine rudder breakages in heavy seas, dismasting, capsizes, and hallucinations caused by sleep deprivation. He also managed it on a tiny budget, working as a farm labourer, hitchhiking everywhere, and at times living on one meal of cereal a day, to save the maximum amount for his boat. Charming, quite British in style, beautifully written and a lovely insight into a seemingly golden time, this is primarily a great read, but will be of huge practical use to anyone wanting to go that bit further in their dinghy. It also includes a lovely Foreword by world-famous yachtsman Brian Thompson.
Author : John Rousmaniere
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451650248
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)
Download or read book The Annapolis Book of Seamanship written by John Rousmaniere and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Completely revised and updated to address changes in technology, this new edition is the definitive guide to the art and science of sailing. Since the publication of the widely hailed first edition in 1983, The Annapolis Book of Seamanship has set the standard by which other books on sailing are measured. Used throughout America as a textbook in sailing schools and Power Squadrons, The Annapolis Book of Seamanship thoroughly and clearly covers the fundamental and advanced skills of modern sailing. This edition of Annapolis is a major overhaul. Over half the book has been revised; old topics and features have been updated, and many new ones have been introduced. The design has been modernized, and many color illustrations have been added. As big and detailed as Annapolis is, the wealth of technical information (including dozens of step-by-step instructions) is presented here in a way that is uniquely readable; it's both useful and easy to use. This is because John Rousmaniere and artist Mark Smith bring to Annapolis decades of experience both as sailors and as professional communicators. Annapolis emphasizes the standard skills and proven methods that eliminate error and confusion, ensure security in emergencies, and allow every sailor more time for enjoyment on the water. Much has changed on the water since 1983 when this book was originally published. Black buoys are now green, the Global Positioning Satellite navigation system (GPS) is almost universally used, new types of anchors and sails have appeared, safety skills and gear are vastly improved, many more women are commanding boats, and catamarans and trimarans are common where only monohulls used to sail. But for all these modern developments, the basic skills and spirit of sailing have not changed at all. Sail trimming, keeping up steerageway, maintaining the dead reckoning plot, heaving-to -- these fundamentals are as important now as ever and receive much attention here. Among the innovations in this edition are: * Basic skills in early chapters: Fundamental sailing and boat-handling skills and gear, which are introduced in chapters 1, 2, and 3. * "Hands On" segments: Three dozen special sections, each devoted to a particular seamanship problem and an expert solution. * More how-to tips: Additional rules of thumb that guide a crew quickly and successfully through seamanship problems. * New coverage of multihulls: Advice on evaluating, anchoring, and handling catamarans and trimarans under sail (including in storms). * More on emergencies: New material on emergencies, safety, and heavy-weather sailing, including a section on preparing a docked boat for a hurricane. * Equipment updates: Expanded coverage of the use and care of modern gear and hardware, including radar, GPS, rescue devices, and asymmetrical spinnakers. * Terminology: Full definition and illustration of major terms when they're first introduced, with alternative language provided in parentheses. * Gender: The use of feminine personal pronouns, which reflect the fact that more women are captaining and sailing boats than ever before. From navigation and seamanship to boat and gear maintenance, from pleasure cruising to heavy-weather sailing, here is the definitive, state-of-the-art guide that provides systematic step-by-step techniques to see you through every situation on deck and in the cockpit.
