- Publisher: Adlard Coles
- Year: 2021
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 128pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 209x148mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.2kg
- ISBN: 9781472982001
- Product code: 538745
101 Tips for Stress-Free Sailing
New Paperback Illustrated
Postscript summary
In addition to general tips, including gauging the weather and completing a departure checklist, this compact volume offers safety information and practical advice on topics such as mooring, navigating and sailing in difficult conditions.
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Here are the answers to all your boating questions and dilemmas. This book is packed with 101 essential punchy sailing tips for sailors to read before and during sailing for a stress-free, enjoyable time at sea, from expert sailing instructor, Duncan Wells. In this accessible, easy-to-absorb handbook, Duncan will share his tried-and-tested techniques and advice on sail setting, mooring, anchoring, navigation, sailing in heavy weather and more.
Step-by-step photographs, diagrams and clear instructions will guide you through each tip, and this book is perfect to dip in for help with a particular sailing problem.
In this book, Duncan will tell you all about how to:
* Calculate the speed of the tide by eye
* Follow the rule of the road
* Calibrate the depth sounder
* Calculate the displacement speed of your hull
* Reef early for an easy life
* Use the chart plotter to calculate when to tack
* Pick up buoys from the cockpit
* Look after your zips
And many, many more!
This new title in Duncan Wells' popular Stress-Free mini-series will be a godsend to all boaters looking for tips, hints and solutions to everyday boating problems, and will complement Stress-Free Sailing and Stress-Free Navigation.
Step-by-step photographs, diagrams and clear instructions will guide you through each tip, and this book is perfect to dip in for help with a particular sailing problem.
In this book, Duncan will tell you all about how to:
* Calculate the speed of the tide by eye
* Follow the rule of the road
* Calibrate the depth sounder
* Calculate the displacement speed of your hull
* Reef early for an easy life
* Use the chart plotter to calculate when to tack
* Pick up buoys from the cockpit
* Look after your zips
And many, many more!
This new title in Duncan Wells' popular Stress-Free mini-series will be a godsend to all boaters looking for tips, hints and solutions to everyday boating problems, and will complement Stress-Free Sailing and Stress-Free Navigation.
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