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Inspiration and practical advice to help you escape the daily grind, guiding you through the planning for and enjoyment of the adventure of a lifetime. This essential guide contains information on everything the 21st century blue-water sailor needs to consider, from choosing a boat to crossing oceans, including safety, communications and budgeting.

This easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide takes you through the basic principles, preparing to go to sea, your first voyage and safety at sea. It includes advice on choosing and buying a motorboat, essential equipment, boat handling, tides, weather and navigation, all taken from courses delivered by the UK's biggest sailing school, the UKSA.

This easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide takes you through the basic principles, preparing to sail, your first sail and safety at sea. It includes advice on choosing and buying a yacht, essential equipment, boat handling, tides, weather and navigation, all taken from the courses delivered by the UK's biggest sailing school, the UKSA.

The ultimate crewing manual from a gold medal winning crew. Covering getting started as a crew and team, the particular skills a crew needs and how these can be utilised on the race course, along with the other roles, communication, decision making and execution that are needed during a race. Shows you how you can be the best crew and a great team!

This book shows you everything you need to know about handling a boat alone or short-handed, from choosing a suitable craft to passage planning, manoeuvring, sleep management and watch keeping. Full of photographs and diagrams, this practical book will demonstrate how to operate in coastal, offshore and ocean waters.

A book of training exercises for each element of a sailing race. Each exercise is described, illustrated and explained (the skills you are trying to improve and how to make it harder or easier). It will enable coaches to deliver better training sessions and those without a coach to train themselves, either alone or with groups of other boats.

Learn everything you need to know to sail effectively and get the most out of the UK's most iconic and best-loved dinghy - the Mirror.

The essential guide to the COLREGs for anyone venturing onto the water. Paul Boissier brings the vital, but dry, document to life, going through it not in order, but by topics which are relevant to the mariner and sailor. Paul explains the intention of each rule and how it should be applied when at sea.

Sir Robin Knox-Johnston's views on seamanship and some of his seafaring experiences over the last 50 years.

A step-by-step manual on yacht restoration and repair. A great guide for a complete boat overhaul and useful for those with smaller jobs to do.

Catch the surfing bug with this book that teaches you where to surf, when to surf, and how to surf safely.

A tactical bible for sailboat races from the highly original and multi-championship winning author. Nick Craig, shows you how to develop a strategy and what tactics to adopt on every leg and at every mark of the course.

An introduction to dinghy foiling enabling most competent sailors to get on the foils and fly! It explains how foils work and how to foil.

An A-Z of seamanship skills needed to understand and enjoy catamarans and trimarans to their utmost. Racing and cruising yachts are catered for, as are trailer-able multihulls. Derived from the author's own extensive experience, built on through others sharing their knowledge and illustrated with delightful line drawings.

A pocket database that contains everything a busy skipper needs to know. A bestseller since 1999, it has now been thoroughly updated.

An inspiring personal narrative of a weekend sailor's circumnavigation of Britain in 50 day sails (and 1 night passage).

How to design sailing and power yachts. ¿ Beginning with a rough sketch, Ian Nicolson explains how to draw the boat¿s lines by traditional methods and by computer. ¿ He covers materials and construction techniques, simple calculations, sail plans, deck plans, engines and cabin layouts.

A handy splashproof guide to the navigator's art for yacht and motorboat owners This book tells the navigator how to find out where they are and how to proceed to their destination. Seamanship and navigation are the cornerstones of yacht sailing. This book will cover all the essentials in a small, companion format for easy, onboard use.

The story of one man's search for freedom through sail, his voyage out to St Kilda and his musings on the islanders' sense of freedom.

Handling under sail and power, passage making and crew dynamics: everything a sailing skipper needs to know. Part 1: covers how to assess the boat, her crew and the weather. Part 2: covers boat handling, both under sail and power. All manoeuvres, from man overboard to docking, are covered.