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9780764122569

Improve Your Sailing IQ

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  • ISBN13:

    9780764122569

  • ISBN10:

    0764122568

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-02-01
  • Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Inc
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Summary

Few sailors can claim they have nothing more to learn about sailing, and this innovative book will help them all sharpen their skills. Improve Your Sailing IQ offers advice to sailors at every skill level, giving them the chance to dream their way through countless hours on the water. It will also help them discover just how knowledgeable they actually are about the sport. Here is valuable and simple-to-digest instruction on all aspects of sailing from one of the sport's top instructional writers. He introduces each situation in an easy question-and-answer format, posing a problem, allowing readers to work through it, then providing an expert answer. Readers improve their sailing skill simply by thinking about the details of sailing and working out hypothetical problems. Instruction has never been this easyor this much fun!

Table of Contents

Introduction 6(8)
The Boat and Equipment
8(14)
Fundamentals
22(22)
Sailing Upwind
44(14)
Sailing Offwind and Downwind
58(14)
Advanced Skills
72(18)
Cruising Skills
90(18)
Racing Skills
108(18)
Glossary and Index 126

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