This book provides step-by-step illustrated instructions from the basic sailing skills of sailing to more advanced navigation tips. It also gives guidelines on buying and maintaining a sailing boat and information on boat types, plotting sailing courses and safety procedures.
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A practical guide to a wonderful sport
"There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats". With those words in The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame summed up the lure of sailing. This book is a practical guide to a wonderful sport, and I hope it also reflects the joy of being afloat.
"There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats". With those words in The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame summed up the lure of sailing. This book is a practical guide to a wonderful sport, and I hope it also reflects the joy of being afloat.
Readers with questions or comments are welcome to contact me by e-mail.
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Steve Sleight, a former Royal Yachting Association coach and instructor at the UK's National Sailing Centre, has taught all levels of craft and ability and is a successful racing yachtsman and British National Champion. An experienced author and broadcaster, he lives in Cowes and races his own boat.
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62 of 63 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
As the title suggests, this truly is complete. Like the majority of people, my only trips on water came from ferries on a channel crossing! Last year I decided that I wanted to try sailing and bought this book to have some sort of knowledge of the suject before turning up for my course. It proved to be very worth while. As a student on a competant crew members course, I found myself getting stuck in with weather forecasting, navigation and general boat skills (skills that were required for day-skippers). This book is pact with a lot of factual information both in, simple to understand writing and informative and colourful pictures and diagrams. Whether you are a dinghy sailor or an aspiring blue water cruiser, this book will help you to broaden your knowledge base on the subject. I am now about to embark on my coastal skippers course and this still remains my only sailing reference manual, I have not completed any shore-based courses as I have not felt it necessary. I would definitely recommend this to anyone wishing to take up sailing as a hobby, sport or pastime. "ventis secundis"
45 of 46 people found the following review helpful
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Coming back into sailing after many years, we looked for a book to help brush up our skills and chose The Complete Sailing Manual. It has become well thumbed. The book provides detailed information on every type of sailing from small dinghys to larger cruising yachts in a most informative manner. There are lots of diagrams and pictures to illustrate the points being made. It is also written in such a way that you can read it from cover to cover, or dip into it as circumstances dictate. It has been avidly read by all, from aged 10 to aged 78! The author also responded very promptly to email enquiries when we were considering the purchase of a yacht. A book which comes highly recommended
42 of 43 people found the following review helpful
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Having recently developed an interest in sailing I wanted to find out the basics and develop an idea of what is involved before taking it any further. This book I have found to be excellent in covering a wide range of information and I feel that I can now approach the subject with some idea of what is involved without having sailed before. I would recomend this book to anyone as an excellent starting point as well as being useful I should imagine for someone involved in the sport already.
24 of 25 people found the following review helpful
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In my opinion this book is awesome. I recently decided to take up sailing so purchased this book. It is very clearly set out. They author is very informative without trying to baffle you. It is simple to read with excellent diagrams. Would suit adults or children.
I think this is the essential read for anyone taking up sailing !
I think this is the essential read for anyone taking up sailing !
24 of 25 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I have a home library full of "water-orientated" subjects and was incredibly impressed when I first read this book ~ I honestly believe that I would have to bundle five or six of my previous sailing books together to even approach the amount of knowledge contained within this one volume.
A never-ending source of pertinent and fascinating info. for the newcomer AND for the experienced cruising "boattie".
A never-ending source of pertinent and fascinating info. for the newcomer AND for the experienced cruising "boattie".
22 of 23 people found the following review helpful
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Don't let the Dorling Kindersley tag put you off. This book is first rate, up to date, clearly laid out, excellently illustrated, and well written. And it's good value for money, too. True, it's not a dense specialist work on some particular aspect of sailing, but I certainly recommend it as a really good all-round work, like The Handbook of Sailing by Bob Bond.
32 of 34 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Hardcover
Complete Sailing Manual by Steve Sleight is, without any doubt, the most extensive and complete "how to sail" manual for beginners. It's a good reminder for information concerning simple, but indispensable things in dinghies. For more advancing sailing it's chapter about "sailing in regatta dinghies" is a little incomplete and vague, as it would have to have close details on high performance dinghy classes. This look upon high perfomance dinghy classes would be very helpfull to people who sail in suck kind of boats, because books regarding those kind of boats are quite rare or hard to find. For example the trapeze chapter lacks of diagrams or information regarding regatta and tactic data. The rigging systems also lacks of variety: the systems showned in this book are very few, for there are inumerous dinghies with inumerous rigging system.
The begginer section is very well constructed and illustrated, with diagrams and self-explainatory pictures. I recommend this book to persons who began to sail.
I myself used this book to search for informations that I've forgot, and I actually learnt various things with it. I've particulary enjoyed Hellen MacArthur's prologue.
Overall, this is an exelent book! With simple language, well written : good all-round work (but lacking on particular aspects of sailing!). My English isn't very good, so I ask for pardon in that matter! Buy the book!
The begginer section is very well constructed and illustrated, with diagrams and self-explainatory pictures. I recommend this book to persons who began to sail.
I myself used this book to search for informations that I've forgot, and I actually learnt various things with it. I've particulary enjoyed Hellen MacArthur's prologue.
Overall, this is an exelent book! With simple language, well written : good all-round work (but lacking on particular aspects of sailing!). My English isn't very good, so I ask for pardon in that matter! Buy the book!
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
By "funkkk"
Format:Hardcover
A very complete manual, has everything you need to know about sailling. Very usefull information and accessible language for amateurs. Very good ilustrations. Is edited in many languages (i've seen it in portuguese, french and english). Topics in this book are covered extensively enough to let you know the essential, and shortly enough to leave you with the desire of experimenting.
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great book!
excellent book,covers so much and easy to access.would recommend to anyone with an interest in sailing. Bought this as a gift and it has been very well received .
Published 20 months ago by morag
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'Complete' it is!!!
Such a comprehensive guide to sailing! When the title says 'complete' it really is true!
Everything you need to know about sailing found in a book is found in this one... Read more
Everything you need to know about sailing found in a book is found in this one... Read more
Published on 25 Oct 2010 by Steven
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great!
fantastic covers all aspects of sailing very simple to follow and a pleasant read no minor details forgotton
Published on 25 Sep 2010 by jen
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Complete guide to Sailing
Arrived on schedule and is very informative. There's a large section on dinghy sailing which isn't what I thought I needed but it is informative and useful nonetheless. Read more
Published on 13 July 2010 by carlg
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Sailing in Practice
We now have a Norwegian and English Edition of this excellent book.
This book is a very good learning tool and covers a host of safety critical and interesting subjects
This book is a very good learning tool and covers a host of safety critical and interesting subjects
Published on 9 Jun 2010 by Charles E. Jeffrey
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from beginer to expert
An excellent book for any person taking up sailing or a referance book for experienced people it realy is a complete sailing manual
Published on 3 Nov 2009 by sue
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Fairly Comprehensive manual
This book is fairly comprehensive, going in to the aspects of sailing fairly well and covers many of the key elements in fairly clear steps. Read more
Published on 15 Sep 2009 by Luis Silva
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Very useful guide to sailing
I used this book to introduce myself to sailing terminology & technique and I've been very pleased with the amount of information and illustrations included. Read more
Published on 20 July 2009 by Mr. A. Pappas
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Good All-Rounder
I bought this book for my parents after they purchased their first sailing boat. They had some knowledge from owning a speed boat but wanted a concise book that covered the basics... Read more
Published on 7 Feb 2009 by Ms. Sarah Harwood
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Suitable for beginners
This book would be ideal for beginners but really isn't suitable for anyone with any degree of sailing experience.
Published on 6 Dec 2007 by Mr. R. Kidd
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