Learning to Sail
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This vintage book is a complete and accessible guide to sailing. Designed especially for the 'landlubber', this volume provides just enough information to enable anyone to take out a small boat and... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0486407284
ISBN13:9780486407289
Release Date:May 1999
Publisher:Dover Publications
Length:346 Pages
Weight:1.25 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.4" x 8.6"
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The best "How to" learning to sail book ever written!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
I learned to sail in a 19 foot "Lightning" class sailboat holding this book in my left hand and the tiller in my right hand, while alone in the boat. His homey, unsophisticated descriptions, conveyed the feeling that H. A. Calahan was in the cockpit with me every step of the way. This gave me the confidence to learn the "ropes". In successive chapters he tells you how to buy a boat, how to handle the boat, "17 ways to get into trouble" followed in the next chapter by "17 ways to get out of trouble" with simple easily understood descriptions. There are also many other chapters on subjects essential for safe, trouble-free boating. I subsequently took the basic knowledge acquired from Mr. Calahan and proceeded to successfully sail in many exotic parts of the world and meet and interact with interesting people in the sailing community. Reading this book changed and enriched the lives of my whole family.
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