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Barry Pickthall

Dinghy Sailing Start to Finish

From Beginner to Advanced: the Perfect Guide to Improving Your Sailing Skills

Barry Pickthall

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Fernhurst Books Limited
01 May 2023

Sailing

Series: Boating Start to Finish

Dinghy Sailing Start to Finish is the perfect book for you if you are new to sailing, or if you are an experienced dinghy sailor wanting to broaden your skills and develop your techniques. You will enjoy your dinghy sailing more with greater knowledge.

This easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide takes you through the basic principles, preparing to sail, your first sail, advanced sailing and the basics of racing. It includes advice on choosing a dinghy, essential gear, sailing manoeuvres, tides, wind and weather, all taken from the courses delivered by the UK's biggest sailing school, the UKSA.

This book is accessible to all levels, giving those new to sailing straightforward advice, and showing experienced sailors how to take their sailing to the next level with tips on how to sail faster and safer. It covers single-handed and double-handed dinghies and catamarans.

This book is packed with hundreds of illustrations and photographs, and is a great way to learn, develop and refresh your sailing skills.

AUTHOR: Barry Pickthall is a respected sportswriter and photographer and has been covering all aspects of sailing and boating for the past 35 years, 20 of them as a yachting correspondent to The Times newspaper. He has been covering the international stage for the past 4 decades from the Olympics to America's Cup and Round the World Races. Barry is also a qualified sailing instructor having graduated from one of the first courses held at the UKSA.

206 colour photos, 171 diagrams

By: Barry Pickthall
Imprint: Fernhurst Books Limited
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd New edition
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 510g
ISBN: 9781912621071
ISBN 10: 191262107X
Series: Boating Start to Finish
Pages: 184
Publication Date: 01 May 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Barry Pickthall is a respected sportswriter and photographer and has been covering all aspects of sailing and boating for the past 35 years, 20 of them as a yachting correspondent to The Times newspaper. He has been covering the international stage for the past 4 decades from the Olympics to America's Cup and Round the World Races. Barry is also a qualified sailing instructor – having graduated from one of the first courses held at the UKSA.

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Dinghy Sailing Start to Finish

From Beginner to Advanced: the Perfect Guide to Improving Your Sailing Skills

Barry Pickthall

$42.99

Paperback

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